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Mar 13, 2025
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Markdown for large text fields (private preview)

Dan Hellem
Dan Hellem

Adding Markdown capabilities to the work item is a long-standing request. We introduced Markdown for comments in early 2024, but due to the rollout of the New Boards Hub, we put the feature on hold. Today, we’re excited to announce a private preview for Markdown support in large text fields! 🎉 🦄 How it works By default, all existing and new work...

Azure & CloudDevOpsCommunity
Mar 11, 2025
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March Patches for Azure DevOps Server

Gloridel Morales
Gloridel Morales

Today we are releasing patches that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly encourage and recommend that all customers use the latest, most secure release of Azure DevOps Server. You can download the latest version of the product, Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 from the Azure DevOps Server download page. The following versions...

Azure DevOps ServerPatches
Mar 11, 2025
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New Boards Hub Update

Dan Hellem
Dan Hellem

We've reached a major milestone in the rollout of New Boards Hub this week by making it the default experience for all organizations and users. While many users can still temporarily switch back if they encounter a blocking issue, our telemetry shows that 97% of users are staying on New Boards without reverting. This is a significant step forward...

DevOpsAzure & CloudCommunity
Feb 28, 2025
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Azure DevOps Basic usage included with GitHub Enterprise

Andrew Brenner
Andrew Brenner

Many customers want to use both GitHub and Azure DevOps together. Until now, unless you purchased Visual Studio subscriptions with GitHub Enterprise, you had to pay separately for both products. With the Sprint 252 release, Azure DevOps Basic usage rights are included with GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Your users access this benefit automatically when ...

DevOpsAdmin & Licensing
Feb 19, 2025
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GitHub Copilot for Azure DevOps users

Dan Hellem
Dan Hellem

Azure DevOps customers frequently ask us when GitHub Copilot will be available to them. What many don’t realize is that GitHub Copilot for Business is already accessible to all customers, including those using Azure DevOps. Even better, much of its powerful functionality is integrated into tools you already use, like Visual Studio and VS Code. In t...

Azure & CloudDevOpsCommunity
Feb 11, 2025
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February Patches for Azure DevOps Server

Gloridel Morales
Gloridel Morales

Update 2/24: We re-released Patch 3 for Azure DevOps Server 2022.2. If you have previously installed the earlier versions of this patch, please update it using the provided link. This re-release addresses an issue causing YAML pipelines to fail. Further details on the issue can be found in the Developer Community. Update 2/13: We have re-released ...

Azure DevOps ServerPatches
Feb 4, 2025
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Full web support for conditional access policies across Azure DevOps and partner web properties

Angel Wong
Angel Wong

We’re happy to announce that we’ve made significant progress in updating our web authentication stack on Azure DevOps services and partner web properties to utilize Microsoft Entra tokens to handle web sessions. By replacing our previous cookies with Entra tokens, we’ve deepened the integration we have with Microsoft Entra ID on our web experience...

Azure & CloudDevOpsUX
Feb 3, 2025
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Update to Azure DevOps Allowed IP addresses

Soo Stahl
Soo Stahl

We are excited to announce some important upgrades to our networking infrastructure that will enhance the performance and reliability of our service. As part of these infrastructure upgrades, we are introducing new IP addresses that you will need to allow list in your firewall configurations. What’s Changing And Why? We are transitioning from the...

Azure & CloudSecurity
Jan 28, 2025
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Upcoming support lifecycle milestones for older on-premises products

Gloridel Morales
Gloridel Morales

Multiple versions of our on-premises product will reach the end of support on October 14, 2025. Customers are encouraged to start planning and deploying upgrades now to ensure that installed products remain supported and secure, and to take advantage of new capabilities offered in successor products. The latest version of our on-premises product is...

Azure DevOps Server
Jan 28, 2025
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Changes to provisioning Azure DevOps projects using the Azure DevOps Demo Generator

Gloridel Morales
Gloridel Morales

The Azure DevOps Demo Generator is a tool that allows you to create projects in your Azure DevOps organization, complete with pre-filled sample content. This includes source code, work items, iterations, service connections, and build and release pipelines, all based on a template you select. Starting February 28, 2025, we are eliminating the need...

DevOpsAzure & Cloud