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Azure DevOps 2023 Q3 Roadmap update
Yesterday, we published updates to our product roadmap. It outlines our plans for the next two quarters, and future investments. The features listed below are a few highlights of what we plan to deliver in Q3. Visit our product roadmap for a complete look at the list of features for Q4. We are excited about the future and the impact the features we plan to deliver will have on our customers' success! Azure Boards For the last several months our team has been focused on collecting feedback about the New Boards Hubs and addressing bugs based on this feedback. This quarter we plan to turn on the New Boards Hubs a...
New Boards Hub Update, Sprint 224
Yet another sprint has come to an end, accompanied by a wave of bug fixes 🌊🪲. Our team's hard work has allowed us to eliminate over 40 New Boards Hub bugs last sprint. With sprint 225, we are ready to activate the "Try the New Boards Hub" message for all organizations. This exciting step will undoubtedly generate another round feedback, which we anticipate, and we expect in dedicating another two or three sprints to address the feedback received. Additionally, we are going to start the process of turning on New Boards Hub as the default experience for those customers in the earlier deployment rings. Notable bugs...
Choose an image for your organization
We’re pleased to announce that you can now choose an image for your Azure DevOps organization and replace the automatically generated image. Learn how to change your organization's image The ability to change an organization’s image has been a long standing feature request in the Developer Community with over 150 votes. Please share your ideas and help us prioritize improvements by sharing and voting on community suggestions. Help us make Azure DevOps a tool you love to use to get things done! Thanks, Andrew Brenner
New Boards Hub Update, Sprint 223
With the risk of sounding repetitive, sprint 223 was dedicated to resolving bugs. Looks like sprint 224 will be much of the same. We continue to make great progress, but we have a little way to go before the New Boards Hub is ready for general availability. Notable bugs fixed We appreciate and need your feedback to ensure the New Boards Hub is successful. Please to email us with any issues you find.
June patches for Azure DevOps Server
This month, we are releasing fixes that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. The following versions of the products have been patched. Check out the links for each version for more details. Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1 Patch 1 If you have Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1, you should install Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1 Patch 1. Release notes Verifying Installation Azure DevOps Server 2022 Patch 4 If you have Azure DevOps Server 2022, you should install Azure DevOps Server 2022 Patch 4. Note: This will be the last patch for Azure DevOps Server 2022. Going forward, you shou...
Updates to Approvals and Checks
Approvals and Checks provide increased security to your YAML pipelines. They allow you to control if a pipeline run is allowed to access a resource. Let's look at an example. Say you develop the FabrikamFiber web app. To deploy a new version of your app, you use a YAML pipeline that uses an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) service connection. Your deployment to production policy requires the app meet some performance criteria. You implemented the policy using an Invoke Azure Function check on the ARM service connection. Your Azure Function can check the performance of the to-be-deployed version of the system against...
The evolution of quality assurance and how Azure Test Plans is driving the future of manual testing
The Deming Prize from Japan is the highest honour in Total Quality Management in the world. Japanese products are known for their superior quality, but it wasn’t always the case. In the 1950s fresh out of defeat in the World War 2, Japan was desperately trying to shift manufacturing from military to civilian products for trade. However the poor quality of the products deterred international buyers. Enter W. Edwards Deming who realised companies should invest in quality assurance (QA) methods that reduce the workload and save costs. This marked the beginning of the iteration development in manufacturing and has no...
Markdown editor for comments (preview)
We are delighted to announce the long-awaited private preview of the new Markdown editor for the work item discussion. This exciting feature empowers you to utilize the Markdown syntax and editor for all future comments. The Markdown editor aligns with the same experience you encounter in other parts of the product, such as Pull Requests. Existing comments You have the option to keep your existing work item comments as they are or convert them individually to Markdown. Our migration process makes a best effort to convert the HTML to Markdown, and in the majority of cases, it works as expected. However, it's imp...
New Boards Hub Update, Sprint 222
This sprint marked another milestone for New Boards. We successfully activated the "Try the New Boards Hub" message for a large chunk of customers. As a result, a greater number of users have had the opportunity to engage with the New Boards Hub and share feedback. Additionally, we have made significant performance improvements in the Recycle bin functionality, which will be implemented shortly after the deployment of sprint 222 releases. Lastly, we made great progress in resolving numerous bugs, see the list of bug fixes below: Notable bugs fixed We appreciate and need your feedback to ensure the New Boards...