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February 2023 - Azure DevOps Blog

Retrospectives: The Hidden Gem Enabling Teams to Thrive – Part 1

February 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 02/28/23
Damon Stoddard
Let me ask you a question. If you asked a world-renowned expert what the single most impactful thing a team could do to improve, what do you think they’d say? I had the opportunity to ask Scott Tannenbaum that question during a recent meeting. Scott is the co-author of the book “Teams that Work”, an evidence-based book outlining the ...

End of support for Azure Pipelines agents running on CentOS 6, Debian 4.9, Fedora 32, Ubuntu 16, macOS 10.14, and older versions

February 22, 2023 Feb 22, 2023 02/22/23
Bohdan Janousek
In the blog post Upgrade of .NET agent for Azure Pipelines, we explained our plan to update the agent implementation from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 6 in order to support newer operating systems. If you run your agents on any operating system supported by .NET 6, then this will be seamless to you. However, if you run the agent on one of the ...

New Boards Hub, Sprint 217 update

February 17, 2023 Feb 17, 2023 02/17/23
Dan Hellem
As noted in the New Boards Hub 216 Update, we turned on the "Try me" banner for New Boards Hub to new set of customers. As expected, it has spurred a fury of feedback that has kept us busy. It will be at least a sprint or more to address the current backlog of issues reported. In the meantime, please keep using the New Boards Hub and report ...

Updated: February patches for Azure DevOps Server

February 14, 2023 Feb 14, 2023 02/14/23
Gloridel Morales
2/17 Update: After installing Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.2 Patch 5 notifications were not getting delivered. To address this issue, we are re-releasing the patch. If you installed Patch 5, you should download and re-install the patch from the link provided in the instructions below. This month, we are releasing fixes that impact our self-...

Customers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 should upgrade the OS on Self-hosted agents

February 3, 2023 Feb 3, 2023 02/3/23
Eric van Wijk
RHEL 6 & .NET Core 3.1 The current versions of the Azure Pipelines agent across all OSes depend on .NET Core 3.1. .NET Core 3.1 no longer ships updates for RHEL 6, including security related patches. We will be updating the .NET Core 3.1 (minor) version to keep it up-to-date for other operating systems. As part of this update we will drop...