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Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.03.15

March 15, 2019 Mar 15, 2019 03/15/19
Edward Thomson
I've been building tools for Azure DevOps for fifteen years and yes, in case you were wondering, saying that does make me feel old. But more importantly: I'm still learning new things about it that I didn't know. That's why I'm so happy to read all these articles every week. It's not just about the cool things that people are doing, it's also ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.03.08

March 8, 2019 Mar 8, 2019 03/8/19
Edward Thomson
It's been a busy week here on the Azure DevOps team - we've been busy putting the finishing touches on Azure DevOps Server 2019 and getting it out the door. Azure DevOps Server is the new name for Team Foundation Server - so now you can install the very latest version of our on-premises DevOps tools in your data center. While we weren't ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.02.22

February 22, 2019 Feb 22, 2019 02/22/19
Edward Thomson
Here in England, we've got some lovely spring-like weather coming for the weekend. I can't wait to put the computer away, get the grill out and enjoy the sunshine. But before I unplug, I wanted to share with you some of the great articles that I found this week around DevOps. Archie: Easy cross-compilation for busy developers It's not much of...

Welcome to the new DevOps blog!

February 13, 2019 Feb 13, 2019 02/13/19
Anisha Pindoria
And... the new DevOps blog is live! The blog has a new and improved look and functionality - easily share posts, follow authors and a fresh new look! Check it out and let us know what you think!

Announcing launch of Azure Pipelines app for Slack

February 12, 2019 Feb 12, 2019 02/12/19
Atin Bansal
I am excited to announce the availability of the Azure Pipelines app for Slack. If you use Slack, you can use the Azure Pipelines app for Slack to easily monitor the events for your pipelines. Set up and manage subscriptions for completed builds, releases, pending approvals and more from the app and get notifications for these events in your Slack channels.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.02.01

February 1, 2019 Feb 1, 2019 02/1/19
Edward Thomson
It's been a busy week for me, I've been at the fabulous NDC London conference where I had the pleasure of seeing some amazing speakers like Microsoft's very own Seth Juarez, Jon Galloway and Scott Hanselman. The NDC family of conferences are amazing and if there's one in your neck of the woods, I encourage you to check it out. But now I'm on the train back home, so I'm catching up on what I missed in the news this week. Here's some of the great stories that I found.

Updates to Java requirements for TFS Search

February 1, 2019 Feb 1, 2019 02/1/19
Subrahmanya Srinivas
The search feature of Team Foundation Server (TFS) uses Elasticsearch, which depends on Java SE. Until now, Oracle Java SE was the supported version of JRE for TFS search. With the change in Oracle licensing terms, there will be no more “free public Java updates” and users are required to buy a subscription to continue to get JRE updates for commercial use.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.01.25

January 25, 2019 Jan 25, 2019 01/25/19
Edward Thomson
Whew, in addition to the day job, I've been hacking on some open source this week. So I've been thinking a lot about my favorite things about Azure Pipelines that helps out with OSS. So it's been a busy week, and I'm looking forward to the weekend. But first, I wanted to share some of this week's great stories from the community.