December patches for Azure DevOps Server

Gloridel Morales

This month, we are releasing fixes that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server.

The following will be fixed with this patch:

  • Failures in the “Account Parallelism Sync Analytics Job”.
  • Display of special characters in the IdentityPicker.
  • Test data was not being deleted, causing the database to grow. With this fix, we updated build retention to prevent creating new orphan test data

Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.2 Patch 4

If you have Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.1, you should first update to Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.2. Once on Update 1.2, install Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.2 Patch 4. Check out the release notes for more details.

Verifying Installation

  • Run devops2020.1.2patch4.exe CheckInstall, devops2020.1.2patch4.exe is the file that is downloaded from the link above. The output of the command will either say that the patch has been installed, or that it is not installed.

Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.2 Patch 2

If you have Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.1, you should first update to Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.2. Once on Update 2019.1.2, install Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.2 Patch 2. Check out the release notes for more details.

Verifying Installation

  • Run devops2019.1.2patch2.exe CheckInstall, devops2019.1.2patch2.exe is the file that is downloaded from the link above. The output of the command will either say that the patch has been installed, or that it is not installed.