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Introducing Work Item Chart Filtering in Azure DevOps Dashboards
We are thrilled to announce the release of Work Item Chart Filtering in Azure DevOps Dashboards. This enhanced filtering streamlines your workflow just a click away. Effortless Filtering for Deeper Insights With this new feature, not only can you hover over a work item chart, but you can also delve deeper into work items by clicking on its segment. The chart will then redirect you to a page where you can view filtered query results. Gone are the days of manual filtering and creating multiple queries to obtain the exact piece of data you need. Dive into your work items and analyze them with a streamlined appro...
Improved Code Coverage Tab Experience
If you’re using Azure DevOps for your CI/CD pipeline, you may be interested in our recent improvements to code coverage testing. Code coverage tests can help you identify areas of your code that are not tested, or not tested enough, and improve the quality of your automated tests and overall code quality. With our recent updates, you can now view code coverage tab by default for all the code coverage formats. Additionally, if you have enabled code coverage policy, you will see comments in the pull request indicating whether or not the policy has been met, including comments about missing test cases or test execu...
October 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 4 Note: If you have Azure DevOps Server 2022, you should first update to Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1 and then install Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1 Patch 4. If you have Azure DevOps 2022 and installed Patch 4, take a look at this post from the Developer Community before you install this patch. If you have Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1, you should install Azure Dev...
Team Work Item Automation Rules (Private Preview)
Customers have been requesting to automate state transitions for a while. Take this request from 2018: “When a User Story contains several child tasks, often developers update the child tasks but not the overall state of the User Story. It would be great to automatically update the state of the User Story according to the state of the child tasks. For example, if one Task is changed to Doing then the User Story should be set to Doing. If all Tasks are in Closed, then the User Story should be Closed.” You can automate this on your own, but it requires web hooks and custom code. However, it really needs to be p...
New Azure DevOps scopes now available for Microsoft Identity OAuth delegated flow apps
We have added new Azure DevOps scopes for delegated OAuth apps on the Microsoft Identity platform, also colloquially known as Azure Active Directory OAuth apps. These new scopes will enable app developers to announce specifically which permissions they are hoping to request from the user in order to perform app duties. They may look familiar as these new scopes are the same ones available via Azure DevOps OAuth today. Previously, was the only scope available for app developers to choose from. This scope gives the app full access to all Azure DevOps APIs, which means it will be able to do anything that the user ...
Achieve Code Consistency: MegaLinter Integration in Azure DevOps
In this blog I present a solution to implement automated linting in Azure DevOps for platform engineers
Managed identity and service principal support for Azure DevOps now in General Availability (GA)
After announcing the release of Managed Identity and Service Principal support in public preview last March, we were overcome by the positive response many of you had. We’re grateful to those who have taken the time to implement a managed identity within your apps and tools. With your help, we’ve collected valuable feature feedback and resolved some hidden bugs to improve the overall performance of this feature, bringing us to today, when we’re happy to announce that the feature is now in General Availability (GA). Some notable GA user-facing updates worth calling out: 1. Set object-level permissions on ser...
New Boards Hub Rollout Update
In July, we provided an overview on the steps for New Boards hub to go GA. In this blog post, we wanted to provide a short update on where things are at and what you can expect over the next couple of months. Roll out schedule So far, the New Boards Hub “on by default” initiative has been enabled for over 30% of the active organizations. We have been enabling one ring at a time, collecting feedback and fixing bugs along the way. About 95% of the users continue to use the new experience. On average we are fixing 25-35 bugs per sprint. Most of the new bugs reported are edge cases that happen under very specifi...
Revolutionizing Requirement Gathering: Azure DevOps Meets Azure OpenAI using Semantic kernel
This blog is a deep dive into the future of requirement gathering. This blog explores how Azure DevOps and Azure OpenAI are joining forces to transform the way we capture project requirements. From automated requirement generation to intelligent analysis, learn how these powerful tools are reshaping the landscape of project management. Stay tuned for an enlightening journey into the world of AI-powered requirement gathering!