DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps
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Admin & Licensing
December 6, 2019Dec 6, 201912/6/19We are rolling out a new tenant policy in Azure DevOps to configure who are allowed to create new Azure DevOps organizations in your company.
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July 22, 2019Jul 22, 201907/22/19Today 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.
June 26, 2019Jun 26, 201906/26/19Auditing for Azure DevOps is now available for all organizations as a Public Preview! A new way to monitor activities and changes throughout Azure DevOps organizations.
May 6, 2019May 6, 201905/6/19We are constantly working to improve our experience end-to-end, including how our products are purchased. In response to feedback from our customers, we are pleased to announce some changes that will simplify how some Azure DevOps services are purchased.
October 23, 2018Oct 23, 201810/23/18Today we are excited to announce that Azure DevOps is now available over Azure ExpressRoute. Customers who typically operate in the government and financial services sectors have requested this support because they want private connections that don’t go over the public Internet for security reasons. ExpressRoute also typically offers them more reliability, faster speeds, and lower latencies than typical Internet connections.
September 27, 2018Sep 27, 201809/27/18Azure DevOps now supports AzureAD (AAD) users accessing organizations that are backed by Microsoft accounts (MSA). For administrators, this means that if your organization uses MSAs for corporate users, new employees can use their AAD credentials for access instead of creating a new MSA identity.
August 8, 2018Aug 8, 201808/8/18On the 24th of July 2018, we notified some customers via e-mail and on this blog about a planned action that we would start taking in relation to the malicious ESLint NPM package incident. This action is now underway.
July 24, 2018Jul 24, 201807/24/18As promised in the Protecting our users from the ESLint NPM package breach blog post last week, we have deployed new REST APIs to allow administrators of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) accounts to centrally revoke Personal Access Tokens (PAT) and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) created by users in their accounts.
July 5, 2018Jul 5, 201807/5/18Today, we’re excited to announce that users with the Stakeholder access level can now be administrators in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). With these upcoming changes, Stakeholders can administer access levels, permissions, and settings – if they have been granted permissions to do so.
April 27, 2018Apr 27, 201804/27/18Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) offers a suite of DevOps capabilities to developers including Source control, Agile planning, Build, Release, Test and more. But until now all these features require the user to first login using a Microsoft Account before they can be used.
Agile
November 19, 2019Nov 19, 201911/19/19Sprint burndown the way you want. Burndown by Story Points, count of Tasks, custom fields. Create burndowns on Epics, Features, Stories. Resize to 10x10.
September 30, 2019Sep 30, 201909/30/19How is our Feature progressing? As simple and common as this question is, it’s a hard one to answer. Especially if your Feature is complex and is composed of multiple User Stories and Tasks. With Sprint 157 Update you will be able to answer this using Rollup in Azure Boards backlog view.
September 19, 2019Sep 19, 201909/19/19The success of any agile team is built on the shoulders of its individuals and their ability to work as a team. Those individuals need to feel safe to express their ideas and thoughts without other members passing judgement on each other.
August 6, 2019Aug 6, 201908/6/19 You can’t fix what you can’t see. That’s why high executing teams want to keep a close eye on the state and health of their work processes. Now its easier for teams to track important metrics with minimal effort right inside Azure Boards. Introducing three new reports to Azure Boards: Sprint Burndown, Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD), Velocity.
July 12, 2019Jul 12, 201907/12/19Azure Pipelines enable you to continuously build, test and deploy to any platform or cloud. This plugin connects Jira Software with Azure Pipelines, enabling full tracking of how and when an issue is delivered.
May 7, 2019May 7, 201905/7/19While 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.
April 5, 2019Apr 5, 201904/5/19Analytics for Azure DevOps Services is Now Generally Available! Read this blog to learn more about the exciting features that you can start using!
April 4, 2019Apr 4, 201904/4/19You can now edit and delete comments in your work item's discussion! Read this blog to learn more about the experience.
April 2, 2019Apr 2, 201904/2/19We recognize that throughout the years, Azure Boards's workflows have accumulated smaller issues and usability nitpicks which have failed to become part of bigger product initiatives. This is where Project Paper Cuts comes in.
February 14, 2019Feb 14, 201902/14/19Our new Basic Process is now available in Azure DevOps. This process is light and simple so you can get started working immediately without having to understand any complex concepts. Give it a try today.
Azure & Cloud
January 17, 2020Jan 17, 202001/17/20 The new year is underway, and the days are getting longer. This week, we have some exciting news to share, and some great articles to discuss. Grab a warm beverage and let's get started!
January 10, 2020Jan 10, 202001/10/20We are in the second week of the new year, and people are slowly getting back into full-time work mode. This week, our community posts are all about extensions and integrations. Read on for some great content!
January 3, 2020Jan 3, 202001/3/20This is the first post of 2020, and the community did not take a break for the holidays! Today, I am reminded of the importance of 101s and introductory trainings. Wherever you are on your (Azure) DevOps journey, this community has content for you!
December 20, 2019Dec 20, 201912/20/19 This post is the last community roundup before the holiday break, and we certainly have some holiday cheer for you. Thanks to all the blog authors, and check out the end of the post for a fun holiday-break project!
December 13, 2019Dec 13, 201912/13/19It is the holiday season, and the bright lights are everywhere. In the technology world, I hope you're seeing more green than red lights in your Azure Pipelines status badges!
December 10, 2019Dec 10, 201912/10/19Today, we are releasing Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1.1 RTW. Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1.1 includes bug fixes for Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1. You can find the details of the fixes in our release notes.
December 9, 2019Dec 9, 201912/9/19Sprint 161 has just finished rolling out to all organizations and you can check out all the cool features in the release notes. This post covers just some of the features that you can start using today.
December 6, 2019Dec 6, 201912/6/19 This week, the emerging theme of the community posts is the cross-platform, cross-cloud, extensible nature of Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps is not just a product, but a platform, enabling the community to expand and improve on our engineering efforts to support the growing variety of technologies around the world.
December 6, 2019Dec 6, 201912/6/19We are rolling out a new tenant policy in Azure DevOps to configure who are allowed to create new Azure DevOps organizations in your company.
November 25, 2019Nov 25, 201911/25/19Azure DevOps will no longer support Alternate Credentials authentication beginning March 2, 2020. Customers still using Alternate Credentials have until then to transition to a more secure authentication method, to avoid this breaking change impacting their DevOps workflows.
Azure DevOps Server
September 10, 2019Sep 10, 201909/10/19This month, we are releasing fixes for security vulnerabilities that impact TFS 2015, TFS 2017, TFS 2018, and Azure DevOps Server 2019.
CVE-2019-1305: cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Repos
CVE-2019-1306: remote code execution vulnerability in Wiki
Here are the versions impacted:
Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1 Patch 1
If you have Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1,
August 20, 2019Aug 20, 201908/20/19Today, we are announcing the availability of Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1. Azure DevOps Server brings the Azure DevOps experience to self-hosted environments. Customers with strict requirements for compliance can run Azure DevOps Server on-premises and have full control over the underlying infrastructure.
August 13, 2019Aug 13, 201908/13/19For the August release, we are releasing patches for Azure DevOps Server 2019.0.1, TFS 2018 Update 3.2, and TFS 2017 Update 3.1. This month, there are no security fixes; these patches include functional changes.
Azure DevOps Server 2019.0.1: We added information to service connections to clarify that they are authorized for all pipelines by default.
July 23, 2019Jul 23, 201907/23/19Today, we are announcing the release of Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1 RC2. This is our last planned prerelease before our final release of Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1. This second release candidate includes some bug fixes since RC1.
July 9, 2019Jul 9, 201907/9/19For the July security release, we are releasing fixes for vulnerabilities that impact Azure DevOps Server 2019, TFS 2018, TFS 2017, TFS 2015, TFS 2013, TFS 2012, and TFS 2010. Thanks to everyone who has been participating in our Azure DevOps Bounty Program.
July 2, 2019Jul 2, 201907/2/19Today, we are announcing the release of Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1 RC1. Azure DevOps Server, formerly known as Team Foundation Server or TFS, is a self-hosted package that customers can run in their own environment, on-premises, or inside VMs on the cloud and includes all of the Azure DevOps services: Pipelines,
May 6, 2019May 6, 201905/6/19We are constantly working to improve our experience end-to-end, including how our products are purchased. In response to feedback from our customers, we are pleased to announce some changes that will simplify how some Azure DevOps services are purchased.
April 30, 2019Apr 30, 201904/30/19Today, we are releasing Azure DevOps Server 2019.0.1 RC. This is a go-live release, meaning it is supported on production instances, and you will be able to upgrade to our final release.
Azure DevOps Server 2019.0.1 includes bug fixes for Azure DevOps Server 2019.
April 9, 2019Apr 9, 201904/9/19For the April security release, we are releasing fixes for vulnerabilities that impact Azure DevOps Server 2019, TFS 2018, TFS 2017, and TFS 2015. These vulnerabilities were found through our Azure DevOps Bounty Program. Thanks to everyone who has been participating in this program.
March 5, 2019Mar 5, 201903/5/19Today, we announced the release of Azure DevOps Server 2019, the evolution of Team Foundation Server. This is the first release of our new brand and new navigation. You can read about the new features in our release notes.
Here are some key links:
Azure DevOps Server 2019 ISO
Azure DevOps Server 2019 Web Install
Release Notes
Thanks to everyone who installed our release candidates and sent us feedback.
CI/CD
December 19, 2019Dec 19, 201912/19/19This year, I’ve been privileged to work with a great team across the DevOps community and help co-chair the new DeliveryConf conference, a non-profit conference dedicated to the technical aspects of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. I am looking forward to all the fantastic technical sessions on CI/CD!
November 13, 2019Nov 13, 201911/13/19Codecov.io added tokenless uploading of coverage results for public Azure Pipelines.
November 7, 2019Nov 7, 201911/7/19The new Review Apps feature of Azure Pipelines (in preview) allows developers to dynamically create environments on every Pull Request, to test applications consisting of multiple microservices.
November 6, 2019Nov 6, 201911/6/19New preview capabilities for Azure Pipelines let you define artifact policies that are enforced before deploying to critical environments such as production. You will be able to define custom policies that are evaluated against all the deployable artifacts in a given pipeline run and block the deployment if the artifacts don't comply.
November 5, 2019Nov 5, 201911/5/19What's new with Azure Pipelines. We've updated Continuous Delivery capabilities with triggers on other pipelines and Azure Container Registry, and implemented new deployment strategies for VMs and Kubernetes. We're also making Pipeline Caching and Pipeline Artifacts generally available.
August 1, 2019Aug 1, 201908/1/19With this update, Azure Pipelines supports test attachments bigger than 100MB in size, which means you can now upload big files like crash dumps or videos with failed tests, aiding your troubleshooting experience.
July 24, 2019Jul 24, 201907/24/19I'm excited to announce the public previews of pipeline caching and pipeline artifacts in Azure Pipelines. Together, these technologies can make every run of your pipeline faster by accelerating the transfer of artifacts between jobs and stages, and by caching the results of common operations like package restores.
July 22, 2019Jul 22, 201907/22/19Create and monitor work items in Azure Boards from your Slack channel
July 12, 2019Jul 12, 201907/12/19Azure Pipelines enable you to continuously build, test and deploy to any platform or cloud. This plugin connects Jira Software with Azure Pipelines, enabling full tracking of how and when an issue is delivered.
June 19, 2019Jun 19, 201906/19/19The Azure Pipelines app for Slack provides rich previews of builds and releases when a URL is pasted to the pipeline ( Link unfurling)
Community
January 17, 2020Jan 17, 202001/17/20 The new year is underway, and the days are getting longer. This week, we have some exciting news to share, and some great articles to discuss. Grab a warm beverage and let's get started!
January 10, 2020Jan 10, 202001/10/20We are in the second week of the new year, and people are slowly getting back into full-time work mode. This week, our community posts are all about extensions and integrations. Read on for some great content!
January 3, 2020Jan 3, 202001/3/20This is the first post of 2020, and the community did not take a break for the holidays! Today, I am reminded of the importance of 101s and introductory trainings. Wherever you are on your (Azure) DevOps journey, this community has content for you!
December 20, 2019Dec 20, 201912/20/19 This post is the last community roundup before the holiday break, and we certainly have some holiday cheer for you. Thanks to all the blog authors, and check out the end of the post for a fun holiday-break project!
December 19, 2019Dec 19, 201912/19/19This year, I’ve been privileged to work with a great team across the DevOps community and help co-chair the new DeliveryConf conference, a non-profit conference dedicated to the technical aspects of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. I am looking forward to all the fantastic technical sessions on CI/CD!
December 13, 2019Dec 13, 201912/13/19It is the holiday season, and the bright lights are everywhere. In the technology world, I hope you're seeing more green than red lights in your Azure Pipelines status badges!
December 9, 2019Dec 9, 201912/9/19Sprint 161 has just finished rolling out to all organizations and you can check out all the cool features in the release notes. This post covers just some of the features that you can start using today.
December 6, 2019Dec 6, 201912/6/19 This week, the emerging theme of the community posts is the cross-platform, cross-cloud, extensible nature of Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps is not just a product, but a platform, enabling the community to expand and improve on our engineering efforts to support the growing variety of technologies around the world.
November 29, 2019Nov 29, 201911/29/19Round up of the latest community news to be thankful for. This week we have CI/CD using IoT Hub, 100 days on IaC, Configuring CI/CD with Azure Pipelines, using the GitHub Actions for Azure, 3 ways to automate tests, Deploying to GCP using Terraform with Azure Pipelines and a reminder that Gene Kim's latest book, The Unicorn Project, is out now
November 22, 2019Nov 22, 201911/22/19 After all the recent travel, I finally got to spend this week at home and recharge. It was a much-needed break, and I got to enjoy Chicago, even though the winter decided to arrive early this year. So we can make a fresh cup of tea, and enjoy some community posts on code security and mobile development!
DevOps
January 9, 2020Jan 9, 202001/9/20Now you can create a dashboard without needing to have a team first. Create and share cross-team dashboards. Personalize who can edit them.
January 23, 2019Jan 23, 201901/23/19Azure Pipelines has supported container jobs for a while now. You craft a container with exactly the versions of exactly the tools you need, and we'll run your pipeline steps inside that container. Recently we expanded our container support to include service containers: additional, helper containers accessible to your pipeline.
October 23, 2018Oct 23, 201810/23/18Today we are excited to announce that Azure DevOps is now available over Azure ExpressRoute. Customers who typically operate in the government and financial services sectors have requested this support because they want private connections that don’t go over the public Internet for security reasons. ExpressRoute also typically offers them more reliability, faster speeds, and lower latencies than typical Internet connections.
October 19, 2018Oct 19, 201810/19/18It's another Friday, and I've spent another week talking to customers about their DevOps journey. And it's another week of amazing content about DevOps on the Microsoft cloud from the community.
October 12, 2018Oct 12, 201810/12/18I'm back! One of the great privileges of my job is that I get to spend a lot of time talking to customers about DevOps. But that often means a lot of time on the road, and stepping away from drinking at the firehose of great content coming from the Azure DevOps community. But now that I'm back in the office, I've found a great bunch of DevOps links.
October 5, 2018Oct 5, 201810/5/18Today, the Git project has announced a security vulnerability: there is a security issue in recursively cloning submodules that can lead to arbitrary code execution. The Azure DevOps team encourages you to examine whether you are on an affected platform and, if so, upgrade your Git clients to the latest version.
October 5, 2018Oct 5, 201810/5/18At the end of last sprint we flipped the switch on a new feature for Azure Artifacts called Universal Packages. With Universal Packages teams can store artifacts that don’t neatly fit into the other kinds of package types that we support. A Universal Package is just a collection of files that you’ve uploaded to our service and labelled with a name and version.
October 1, 2018Oct 1, 201810/1/18Analytics is the new reporting platform for both Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Azure DevOps. Analytics will be available with TFS 2019 RC1, which should be available later this year. We are looking for TFS customers who are planning to install RC1 when its released and would be willing to participate in a test program for Analytics.
September 27, 2018Sep 27, 201809/27/18Azure DevOps now supports AzureAD (AAD) users accessing organizations that are backed by Microsoft accounts (MSA). For administrators, this means that if your organization uses MSAs for corporate users, new employees can use their AAD credentials for access instead of creating a new MSA identity.
September 24, 2018Sep 24, 201809/24/18Back in June of this year, we rolled out the first iteration of our new navigation model for Azure DevOps. We’ve spent the summer improving that experience based on the feedback many of you have provided. Thank you! Our next step is to move from the new model being a preview, to becoming the navigation for the product. In this post, I’ll walk through some of the key feedback we’ve addressed and lay out the schedule you can expect going forward.
Directions
April 5, 2019Apr 5, 201904/5/19At the Microsoft Reactor in London this morning, Donovan Brown announced that customers can now create Azure DevOps organizations and choose that their data will be hosted in the UK Azure geography.
February 22, 2019Feb 22, 201902/22/19We plan on closing down the corresponding Azure DevOps cloud-based load testing service on March 31st, 2020.
October 29, 2018Oct 29, 201810/29/18In order to provide you with visibility into several of our key investments, we post quarterly updates to the roadmap on our Features Timeline page.
September 24, 2018Sep 24, 201809/24/18Back in June of this year, we rolled out the first iteration of our new navigation model for Azure DevOps. We’ve spent the summer improving that experience based on the feedback many of you have provided. Thank you! Our next step is to move from the new model being a preview, to becoming the navigation for the product. In this post, I’ll walk through some of the key feedback we’ve addressed and lay out the schedule you can expect going forward.
June 4, 2018Jun 4, 201806/4/18Today, Satya announced the exciting news – our intent to acquire GitHub!
GitHub and Microsoft have been partnering on several levels for years. Specifically, the VSTS team has worked closely with GitHub on Git at a technical level and on other open source projects such as libgit2,
April 27, 2018Apr 27, 201804/27/18Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) offers a suite of DevOps capabilities to developers including Source control, Agile planning, Build, Release, Test and more. But until now all these features require the user to first login using a Microsoft Account before they can be used.
Git & Version Control
November 11, 2019Nov 11, 201911/11/19In a previous blog series, we announced that Git has a new commit-graph feature, and described some future directions. Since then, the commit-graph feature has grown and evolved. In the recently released Git version 2.24.0, the commit-graph is enabled by default!
October 23, 2019Oct 23, 201910/23/19 Coding is a team sport. To help developers be more efficient, we are excited to announce the new Azure Repos app for Microsoft Teams
August 16, 2019Aug 16, 201908/16/19Understanding the way Git defines Δfile changes and merge conflicts in pull requests.
August 6, 2019Aug 6, 201908/6/19A deep dive into using the new Git Trace2 feature to study Git performance problems on very large repos.
June 6, 2019Jun 6, 201906/6/19One of the more powerful git commands is the cherry-pick command. This can be an extremely powerful component of many git workflows such as the Azure DevOps team's Release Flow. To highlight a common use-case for it, let’s talk about hot-fixing release branches.
May 15, 2019May 15, 201905/15/19In 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.
October 5, 2018Oct 5, 201810/5/18Today, the Git project has announced a security vulnerability: there is a security issue in recursively cloning submodules that can lead to arbitrary code execution. The Azure DevOps team encourages you to examine whether you are on an affected platform and, if so, upgrade your Git clients to the latest version.
July 16, 2018Jul 16, 201807/16/18We’ve been discussing the commit-graph feature in Git 2.18 and how we can use generation numbers to accelerate commit walks. One area where we can get significant speedup is when presenting output in topological order. This allows us to walk a much smaller list of commits than before.
July 9, 2018Jul 9, 201807/9/18Earlier, we announced that Git 2.18 contains a new commit-graph feature, and we discussed the commit-graph file format. As shipped in Git 2.18, this file only speeds up commit walks by a constant multiple, due to parsing structured data from the commit-graph file.
July 2, 2018Jul 2, 201807/2/18Earlier, we announced the commit-graph feature in Git 2.18 and talked about some of its performance benefits. Today, we’ll discuss some if the technical details about how the commit-graph feature works, including some helpful properties of its file format. This file speeds up commit-graph walks so much that we were able to identify other ways to speed up these walks using small optimizations.
Open Source
November 11, 2019Nov 11, 201911/11/19In a previous blog series, we announced that Git has a new commit-graph feature, and described some future directions. Since then, the commit-graph feature has grown and evolved. In the recently released Git version 2.24.0, the commit-graph is enabled by default!
September 26, 2019Sep 26, 201909/26/19The 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!
August 6, 2019Aug 6, 201908/6/19A deep dive into using the new Git Trace2 feature to study Git performance problems on very large repos.
July 22, 2019Jul 22, 201907/22/19Today 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.
May 15, 2019May 15, 201905/15/19In 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.
May 8, 2019May 8, 201905/8/19Today, 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.
May 7, 2019May 7, 201905/7/19While 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.
May 7, 2019May 7, 201905/7/19Today, we are announcing new features for Azure Pipelines, including multi-stage YAML pipelines (for CI and CD), environments and deployment strategies, and Kubernetes support.
May 6, 2019May 6, 201905/6/19We 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.
November 28, 2018Nov 28, 201811/28/18We 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.
Package Management
July 25, 2019Jul 25, 201907/25/19Share your packages stored in Azure DevOps with guests and anonymous users with the public preview of public feeds.
July 24, 2019Jul 24, 201907/24/19I'm excited to announce the public previews of pipeline caching and pipeline artifacts in Azure Pipelines. Together, these technologies can make every run of your pipeline faster by accelerating the transfer of artifacts between jobs and stages, and by caching the results of common operations like package restores.
May 8, 2019May 8, 201905/8/19Azure Artifacts introduces pay-per-GB pricing and is available to all users in your organization - no license needed. Also, Python and Universal Packages are generally available and ready to use at scale.
February 5, 2019Feb 5, 201902/5/19For a long while, Azure Pipelines users have been asking to improve performance on the hosted build agents by adding caching for common scenarios like package restore. The issue came up in a recent popular Hacker News item, so we wanted to share an update.
October 5, 2018Oct 5, 201810/5/18At the end of last sprint we flipped the switch on a new feature for Azure Artifacts called Universal Packages. With Universal Packages teams can store artifacts that don’t neatly fit into the other kinds of package types that we support. A Universal Package is just a collection of files that you’ve uploaded to our service and labelled with a name and version.
August 8, 2018Aug 8, 201808/8/18On the 24th of July 2018, we notified some customers via e-mail and on this blog about a planned action that we would start taking in relation to the malicious ESLint NPM package incident. This action is now underway.
November 20, 2017Nov 20, 201711/20/17Until now, we’ve focused on making Package Management in Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server the best place to store your private NuGet and npm packages, but we haven’t focused as much on the packages you use from public sources like NuGet.org.
November 15, 2017Nov 15, 201711/15/17As far back as 2012, Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server users have been asking for a Symbol Server. Symbols are crucial to debugging Windows applications, esp. applications written in native languages like C and C++, because they map from the built binary back to the source code: the classes and functions needed to step through an application line-by-line.
September 29, 2017Sep 29, 201709/29/17NuGet (both the command-line tool and the accompanying tools built into Visual Studio) continues to iterate rapidly and add support for new .NET Core and .NET Standard target frameworks, among other improvements. Naturally, many users of Team Build in Visual Studio Team Services want to build those apps,
May 22, 2017May 22, 201705/22/17To demonstrate our continued commitment to support Java developers and their full lifecycle DevOps needs with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS), I want to share some of our recent and exciting Java-related feature announcements. Our teams are working with large and small Java teams every day to better understand their needs and to solicit recommendations for improvements of our tools.
Reporting
January 9, 2020Jan 9, 202001/9/20Now you can create a dashboard without needing to have a team first. Create and share cross-team dashboards. Personalize who can edit them.
November 19, 2019Nov 19, 201911/19/19Sprint burndown the way you want. Burndown by Story Points, count of Tasks, custom fields. Create burndowns on Epics, Features, Stories. Resize to 10x10.
September 30, 2019Sep 30, 201909/30/19How is our Feature progressing? As simple and common as this question is, it’s a hard one to answer. Especially if your Feature is complex and is composed of multiple User Stories and Tasks. With Sprint 157 Update you will be able to answer this using Rollup in Azure Boards backlog view.
August 6, 2019Aug 6, 201908/6/19 You can’t fix what you can’t see. That’s why high executing teams want to keep a close eye on the state and health of their work processes. Now its easier for teams to track important metrics with minimal effort right inside Azure Boards. Introducing three new reports to Azure Boards: Sprint Burndown, Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD), Velocity.
April 5, 2019Apr 5, 201904/5/19Analytics for Azure DevOps Services is Now Generally Available! Read this blog to learn more about the exciting features that you can start using!
October 25, 2018Oct 25, 201810/25/18Keeping the pipeline healthy and making it effective is KEY to your DevOps ongoing journey. Some time back we introduced Analytics in Azure Pipeline with Top failing tests report to help you do just that.
October 1, 2018Oct 1, 201810/1/18Analytics is the new reporting platform for both Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Azure DevOps. Analytics will be available with TFS 2019 RC1, which should be available later this year. We are looking for TFS customers who are planning to install RC1 when its released and would be willing to participate in a test program for Analytics.
September 24, 2018Sep 24, 201809/24/18If you are using Azure DevOps – we want to hear what reporting metrics are important to you. We've authored a short survey to gather this data.
August 30, 2018Aug 30, 201808/30/18If you are using Team Foundation Server (TFS) and SSRS Reporting today, we want to hear from you! We want to know which of the TFS Reports we offer today are most valuable to you.
August 21, 2018Aug 21, 201808/21/18Analytics is the new reporting platform for both Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). We are starting a Limited Private Preview of Analytics for TFS 2018 Update 2 in preparation for a full release in TFS 2019.
Security
November 6, 2019Nov 6, 201911/6/19New preview capabilities for Azure Pipelines let you define artifact policies that are enforced before deploying to critical environments such as production. You will be able to define custom policies that are evaluated against all the deployable artifacts in a given pipeline run and block the deployment if the artifacts don't comply.
June 26, 2019Jun 26, 201906/26/19Auditing for Azure DevOps is now available for all organizations as a Public Preview! A new way to monitor activities and changes throughout Azure DevOps organizations.
May 31, 2019May 31, 201905/31/19Azure DevOps is currently investing in enhancing its routing structure. As a result of this enhancement, our IP address space will be changing. If you're currently using firewall rules to allow traffic to Azure DevOps, please be sure to update these rules to account for our new IP ranges.
September 27, 2018Sep 27, 201809/27/18Azure DevOps now supports AzureAD (AAD) users accessing organizations that are backed by Microsoft accounts (MSA). For administrators, this means that if your organization uses MSAs for corporate users, new employees can use their AAD credentials for access instead of creating a new MSA identity.
September 13, 2018Sep 13, 201809/13/18Basic authorization is now enabled on the communication between the TFS and Search services to make it more secure.
August 21, 2018Aug 21, 201808/21/18Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is a critical DevSecOps practice. As engineering organizations accelerate continuous delivery to impressive levels, it’s important to ensure that continuous security validation keeps up. To do so most effectively requires a multi-dimensional application of static analysis tools. The more customizable the tool, the better you can shape it to your actual security risk.
August 8, 2018Aug 8, 201808/8/18On the 24th of July 2018, we notified some customers via e-mail and on this blog about a planned action that we would start taking in relation to the malicious ESLint NPM package incident. This action is now underway.
July 24, 2018Jul 24, 201807/24/18As promised in the Protecting our users from the ESLint NPM package breach blog post last week, we have deployed new REST APIs to allow administrators of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) accounts to centrally revoke Personal Access Tokens (PAT) and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) created by users in their accounts.
July 18, 2018Jul 18, 201807/18/18On the 12th of July 2018, malicious code was detected in two popular open-source NPM packages, eslint-scope (version 3.7.2) and eslint-config-eslint (version 5.0.2). As a result, developers who downloaded and installed these packages may have had credentials stored in their .npmrc file compromised.
July 5, 2018Jul 5, 201807/5/18Today, we’re excited to announce that users with the Stakeholder access level can now be administrators in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). With these upcoming changes, Stakeholders can administer access levels, permissions, and settings – if they have been granted permissions to do so.
Test
August 1, 2019Aug 1, 201908/1/19With this update, Azure Pipelines supports test attachments bigger than 100MB in size, which means you can now upload big files like crash dumps or videos with failed tests, aiding your troubleshooting experience.
April 12, 2019Apr 12, 201904/12/19 We've been recommending for a while that customers use the open source tools Selenium and Appium tools, therefore the Visual Studio 2019 release marks their final deprecation.
We recommend using Selenium for testing web-applications and Appium with WinAppDriver for testing desktop (WPF, WinForms, Win32) and UWP apps.
February 22, 2019Feb 22, 201902/22/19We plan on closing down the corresponding Azure DevOps cloud-based load testing service on March 31st, 2020.
October 25, 2018Oct 25, 201810/25/18Keeping the pipeline healthy and making it effective is KEY to your DevOps ongoing journey. Some time back we introduced Analytics in Azure Pipeline with Top failing tests report to help you do just that.
June 19, 2018Jun 19, 201806/19/18I’m excited to share the new navigation we’re working on for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to modernize the user experience and give you more flexibility. As Lori mentioned in her blog post, our goal to create an integrated suite that also gives the flexibly to pick and choose the services that work best for you.
March 7, 2018Mar 7, 201803/7/18We often get asked how to do CI/CD for IoT apps using Win10 IoT Core. If you’ve been considering or using Win10 IoT Core, then read on.
The Visual Studio Test Platform that ships with Visual Studio 15.6 RTW now supports Testing on Win10 IoT Core.
January 30, 2018Jan 30, 201801/30/18Introduction
MSTest V2 v1.3.0 Beta2 now supports in-assembly parallel execution of tests – the top most requested/commented issue on the testfx repo.
The feature can dramatically reduce the total time taken to execute a suite of tests. To get started, install the framework and adapter from NuGet.
September 4, 2017Sep 4, 201709/4/17As you are already aware, we announced the plan for deprecating XAML builds sometime back.
TFS 2018 RC1 is now available and with that XAML builds are no longer supported. Consequently, Lab Management and automated testing capabilities in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) are no longer supported starting from TFS 2018 RC1.
September 1, 2017Sep 1, 201709/1/17MSTest V2 has crossed 1 Million downloads. Congratulations! Hats off to the community! MSTest V2 is seeing robust usage. We ourselves use it heavily. If you are still using an earlier version of the MSTest framework, we encourage you to upgrade.
August 24, 2017Aug 24, 201708/24/17Having executed a test – at a minimum – we want to know the outcome. But beyond that, we may want to know more. Data collectors and loggers are the key extension mechanisms intended to provide this and other such details for rich reporting.
Wiki
March 25, 2018Mar 25, 201803/25/18Now you can publish markdown files from a git repository to the VSTS Wiki. Developers often write SDK documents, product documentation, or README files explaining a product in a git repository. Such pages are often updated alongside code in the code repository.
January 12, 2018Jan 12, 201801/12/18Happy new year to all Wiki lovers. We are learning a lot with each passing day and in this blog I will share our learning and value that we delivered in the past few sprints. Few of these features are coming up in this sprint (Jan end).
December 1, 2017Dec 1, 201712/1/17Search wiki pages
Over time as teams document more content in wiki pages, finding relevant content becomes increasingly difficult. To maximize collaboration, you need the ability to easily discover content across all your projects. Now you can use wiki search to quickly find relevant wiki pages by title or page content across all projects in your VSTS account.
October 16, 2017Oct 16, 201710/16/17It has been 3 months since Wiki went live and thanks to your feedback, we believe this is the right time to remove preview tag from Wiki.
Wiki* will be Wiki in the coming days.
I would like to give a shout out to everyone in the developer community ,
September 5, 2017Sep 5, 201709/5/17It has been exactly 2 months since Wiki went live on VSTS. Wiki is also available in TFS 2018 RC1 now. We have received tons of great feedback and we also learnt a lot from usage patterns. I wanted to talk about some of our learnings and the improvements in Wiki.
July 6, 2017Jul 6, 201707/6/17Last updated 1/4/2017: Wiki was released to all in October. Read more.
Each project in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) now supports its own Wiki. Now you can conveniently write pages that help your team members and other users understand, use,
