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Azure DevOps Demo Generator is now open source

September 26, 2019 Sep 26, 2019 09/26/19

Dave McKinstry

The Azure DevOps Demo Generator is a community operated service that provisions template-based projects inside your Azure DevOps organization. Today we've published the source code for Demo Generator under the MIT License and welcome community participation. We've also enabled the ability to generate and use your own custom templates!

A Deep Dive into Git Performance using Trace2

August 6, 2019 Aug 6, 2019 08/6/19

Jeff Hostetler

A deep dive into using the new Git Trace2 feature to study Git performance problems on very large repos.

Bring your GitHub collaborators to Azure DevOps

July 22, 2019 Jul 22, 2019 07/22/19

Jimson Chalissery [MSFT]

Today we’re announcing the next step in the journey of making Azure DevOps and GitHub work great together. If you are an admin, sign into Azure DevOps with your GitHub identity, and you can now invite your GitHub team members.

Exploring new frontiers for Git push performance

May 15, 2019 May 15, 2019 05/15/19

Derrick Stolee

In previous posts I've talked about performance improvements that our team contributed to the Git community. At Microsoft, we've been pushing Git to its limits with the largest and busiest Git repositories on the planet, improving core Git as we go and sending these improvements back upstream. With Git 2.21.0 and later you can take advantage ...

Signing into Azure DevOps using your GitHub credentials

May 8, 2019 May 8, 2019 05/8/19

Rajesh Ramamurthy (MSFT)

Today, we are enabling developers to sign in with their existing GitHub account to Microsoft online services, on any Microsoft log in page. Using your GitHub credentials, you can now sign in via OAuth anywhere a personal Microsoft account does, including Azure DevOps and Azure.

Introducing Azure Boards to the GitHub Marketplace

May 7, 2019 May 7, 2019 05/7/19

Alex Nichols

While you’ve been able to get started with Azure Boards from azure.com/boards for several months now, the new app in the GitHub Marketplace streamlines the acquisition of the service and configuration of your GitHub repository connections.

What’s new with Azure Pipelines

May 7, 2019 May 7, 2019 05/7/19

Gopinath C H[MSFT]

Today, we are announcing new features for Azure Pipelines, including multi-stage YAML pipelines (for CI and CD), environments and deployment strategies, and Kubernetes support.

Announcing Kubernetes integration for Azure Pipelines

May 6, 2019 May 6, 2019 05/6/19

Gopinath C H[MSFT]

We are announcing new features features designed to help our customers build applications with Docker containers and deploy them to Kubernetes clusters, on all cloud providers and on-premises.

Blocking malicious event-stream and flatmap-stream packages

November 28, 2018 Nov 28, 2018 11/28/18

Buck Hodges

We are making a change to Azure DevOps to block the harmful flatmap-stream 0.1.0 package and the versions of event-stream newer than version 3.3.4 which make use of the flatmap-stream package.

New Advanced Text Editor on the Work Item Form in Azure DevOps

November 12, 2018 Nov 12, 2018 11/12/18

Jessie Somekh

With the Azure DevOps Sprint 143 Update, we’re excited to announce the availability of our new rich text editor on the work item form in Azure Boards. The work item form can be accessed in Azure Boards from the work items hub, boards, backlogs, and queries. This editor is also open source, which means you can check out the roosterjs ...

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