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New Boards Hub Rollout Expectations
Dec 11, 2024
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New Boards Hub Rollout Expectations

Dan Hellem
Dan Hellem

Although the process may seem slow, we are steadily progressing toward rolling out the New Boards Hub to all customers. Our plan is to deprecate the old Boards experience for all Azure DevOps service users by the end Q1 2025. The rollout is advancing on two fronts. First, we are setting the New Boards Hub as the default experience. Second, for customers who already have the New Boards Hub enabled as the default, we are transitioning groups to exclusively use the New Boards Hub. Removing the option to revert to the old Boards experience. Currently, 60% of customers have the New Boards Hub set as their default ex...

Microsoft DevLabs Extensions
Dec 3, 2024
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Microsoft DevLabs Extensions

Dan Hellem
Dan Hellem

The Microsoft DevLabs publisher was created as a hub for internal teams at Microsoft to channel their passion for Azure DevOps into experimental extensions. These extensions helped address product gaps and fostered innovation, ultimately benefiting Azure DevOps customers via the public marketplace. The challenge Over time, as the original creators of these extensions moved on to other things, many extensions became outdated. This led to several problems: To restore the value of the Microsoft DevLabs publisher, we conducted a review to identify which extensions should be actively maintained and which ne...

Getting the most out of Azure DevOps and GitHub
Nov 19, 2024
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Getting the most out of Azure DevOps and GitHub

Aaron Hallberg
Aaron Hallberg

Microsoft has two very successful DevSecOps products in the market – GitHub and Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps has a large enterprise customer base that loves the highly customizable enterprise-focused planning and tracking capabilities in Azure Boards, the robust continuous delivery capabilities in Azure Pipelines, the manual and exploratory testing capabilities in Azure Test Plans, and the deep integrations across the suite. GitHub is the world’s largest developer community, with over 100M developers. It also serves over 4M organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 100. It’s beloved by developers and at the foref...

Announcing the General Availability of Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) for Azure DevOps
Nov 18, 2024
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Announcing the General Availability of Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) for Azure DevOps

Suraj Guptha Eliza Tarasila
Suraj,
Eliza

We are thrilled to announce that Managed DevOps Pools for Azure DevOps is now generally available! This milestone marks a significant advancement in our mission to improve developer productivity in the CI/CD loop, reduce your cloud bill for ES infra and to reduce the toil associated with creating and maintaining custom CI/CD infrastructure for your pipelines. If you are new to Managed DevOps Pools, you can read about it in the Managed DevOps Pools documentation. Overview Managed DevOps Pools enables dev teams and platform engineering teams to quickly spin up custom DevOps pools that suit their workload’s unique...

November Patches for Azure DevOps Server
Nov 12, 2024
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November 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 of the products have been patched. Check out the links for each version for more details. Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 Patch 2 If you have Azure DevOps Server 2022.2, you should install Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 Patch 2 to have the most secure product experience....

No new Azure DevOps OAuth apps beginning March 2025
Oct 28, 2024
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No new Azure DevOps OAuth apps beginning March 2025

Angel Wong
Angel Wong

Starting March 3, 2025, we will no longer accept new registrations of Azure DevOps OAuth apps. This is the first step we’ll be taking towards our longer-term vision of sunsetting the Azure DevOps OAuth platform. Moving forward, we’ll be publicly advocating all developers that are building applications on top of Azure DevOps REST APIs to explore the Microsoft Identity platform and registering a new Entra application instead. All existing Azure DevOps OAuth apps will continue working until the official end-of-life date, which we will announce in 2025. In the interim, we offer continued support to all current Azure...

Using Entra profile information in Azure DevOps
Oct 24, 2024
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Using Entra profile information in Azure DevOps

Andrew Brenner
Andrew Brenner

We’re excited to announce the ability to use Entra profile information in Azure DevOps. This has been a long-standing feature request from the community (ex. profile, picture, email, and name). Beyond the convenience of configuring profile information in one place and ensuring the accuracy of personal information, using Entra profile information in Azure DevOps provides important security and compliance benefits for Enterprise customers. Today we encourage users in Entra backed organizations to turn on Entra Profile information in Preview Features. When you do, your Azure DevOps profile will become read-only, an...

Introducing Pull Request Annotation for CodeQL and Dependency Scanning in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
Oct 16, 2024
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Introducing Pull Request Annotation for CodeQL and Dependency Scanning in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

Michael Omokoh
Michael Omokoh

In the world of software development, security is paramount. As developers, we strive to write clean, efficient, and most importantly, secure code. GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps has always been at the forefront of providing tools that make it easier to build and release high-quality software. Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature release that will take your code security to the next level: PR (Pull Request) Annotation for CodeQL and Dependency Scanning. PR Annotation - What Does it Mean for You? Pull Request Annotation brings security insights directly into your development workflow. Here’s...

Deprecation of the macOS-12 Hosted Pipeline Image
Oct 1, 2024
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Deprecation of the macOS-12 Hosted Pipeline Image

Eric van Wijk
Eric van Wijk

Update: the retirement date of macOS-12 has been moved to January 8. Azure DevOps is starting the deprecation process for the (Monterey) hosted pilelines image. While the image is being deprecated, you may experience longer queue times during peak usage hours. Deprecation will begin on October 7 and the image will be fully unsupported by January 8, 2025. Pipeline jobs using the image label should be updated to use , or . To raise awareness of the upcoming removal, we will temporarily fail jobs using . Pipeline jobs that are scheduled to run during the brownout periods will fail. The brownouts are scheduled f...