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Mar 26, 2025
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New Overlapping Secrets on Azure DevOps OAuth

Angel Wong
Angel Wong

As you may have read, Azure DevOps OAuth apps are due for deprecation in 2026. All developers are encouraged to migrate their applications to use Microsoft Entra ID OAuth, which can access all Azure DevOps APIs and has the added benefit of enhanced security features and long-term investment. Although we are nearing Azure DevOps OAuth’s end-of-life...

Azure & CloudDevOps
Mar 20, 2025
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Introducing Java, JS and Python support in Test Plans

Igor Najdenovski
Igor Najdenovski

We are excited to announce new capabilities in Azure Test Plans that will enhance your testing workflows. This feature is currently available in Public Preview. You can find instructions at the end of the article on how to request it for your Azure DevOps project. With this latest release, we are introducing the ability to associate automated test...

TestDevOps
Mar 18, 2025
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Upcoming Updates for Azure Pipelines Agents Images

Shubham Agarwal Eric van Wijk
Shubham,
Eric

Update: The Ubuntu-20.04 retirement date for Microsoft-hosted agents has been moved to April 30. On Managed DevOps Pools, the ubuntu-20.04 image will be available up to June 30. To ensure our hosted agents in Azure Pipelines are operating in the most secure and up-to-date environments, we continuously update the supported images and phase out ol...

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

Dan Hellem
Dan Hellem

📢 As of April 15th, we are no longer accepting private preview requests. We have enough participants signed up to provide feedback. Keep an eye on the Azure DevOps release notes for the general availability announcement. Adding Markdown capabilities to the work item is a long-standing request. We introduced Markdown for comments in early 2024,...

Azure & CloudDevOpsCommunity
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 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
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
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 cus...

DevOpsAzure & CloudCommunity