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End of support for Azure Pipelines agents running on CentOS 6, Debian 4.9, Fedora 32, Ubuntu 16, macOS 10.14, and older versions
In the blog post Upgrade of .NET agent for Azure Pipelines, we explained our plan to update the agent implementation from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 6 in order to support newer operating systems. If you run your agents on any operating system supported by .NET 6, then this will be seamless to you. However, if you run the agent on one of the following operating systems, then this blog has some steps that you must take now in order to prevent pipelines from failing. Starting with 2.218 version of the agent that is going to be released in March 2023, pipelines running on any of the above operating systems will fail wi...
Join Brendan Burns, Donovan Brown and others for Azure Open Source Day on March 7th!
We hope you will join us on Tuesday, March 7th to learn how to build intelligent, scalable apps faster and easier at this deep dive into open source and Azure. See the latest open-source technology in action—while connecting with the community of industry leaders, innovators, and open-source enthusiasts. Register now!
New Boards Hub, Sprint 217 update
As noted in the New Boards Hub 216 Update, we turned on the "Try me" banner for New Boards Hub to new set of customers. As expected, it has spurred a fury of feedback that has kept us busy. It will be at least a sprint or more to address the current backlog of issues reported. In the meantime, please keep using the New Boards Hub and report any issues you find. Notable bugs fixed Note: although these items are fixed, they may not be released to all organizations yet. Rollout can take a few days to a couple weeks. New Features We released these new Boards features over the last two sprints: We appre...
Updated: February patches for Azure DevOps Server
2/17 Update: After installing Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.2 Patch 5 notifications were not getting delivered. To address this issue, we are re-releasing the patch. If you installed Patch 5, you should download and re-install the patch from the link provided in the instructions below. This month, we are releasing fixes that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. The following will be fixed with this patch: Azure DevOps Server 2022 Patch 2 If you have Azure DevOps Server 2022, you should install Azure DevOps Server 2022 Patch 2. Check out the release notes for more details. Verifying Inst...
Customers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 should upgrade the OS on Self-hosted agents
RHEL 6 & .NET Core 3.1 The current versions of the Azure Pipelines agent across all OSes depend on .NET Core 3.1. .NET Core 3.1 no longer ships updates for RHEL 6, including security related patches. We will be updating the .NET Core 3.1 (minor) version to keep it up-to-date for other operating systems. As part of this update we will drop support for RHEL 6. Hence, v2.214 is the last agent version that will support RHEL 6. After February 13, no more agent releases will support RHEL 6. What does this mean? The agent release page has a separate RHEL 6 build, which we will stop releasing after v2.214. Any fut...
Learn Azure DevOps from Zero to Hero
Azure DevOps is FULL of so many features! Myself and Nana from Techworld with Nana teamed up to bring you an Azure DevOps Zero to Hero video! Many of you reading this blog may already be very experienced with Azure DevOps, please share this video to your colleagues and teams that are just getting started. The community (i.e. yourselves!) asked for a full course on how to learn Azure DevOps. We made sure to cover off the major features of Azure DevOps that will enable you to get skilled up and using the tool with ease. The video is broken down into the following components: Azure Boards: The complete project pla...
Disable creation of classic pipelines
YAML pipelines offer the best security for your Azure Pipelines. In contrast to classic build and release pipelines, YAML pipelines: This is why many of you who are security-conscious choose to only use YAML pipelines. Alas, as long as your engineers can choose to use classic pipelines, you will have to continue worrying about their security. We've launched a new feature that allows you to disable creation of classic pipelines. When you enable it, no classic build pipeline, classic release pipeline, task groups, and deployment groups can be created. Thus, there won't be any (new) classic pipelines to worr...
Azure DevOps Server 2022 Patch 1
This month, we are releasing fixes that impact Azure DevOps Server 2022. The following will be fixed with this patch: Azure DevOps Server 2022 Patch 1 If you have Azure DevOps Server 2022, you should install Azure DevOps Server 2022 Patch 1. Key links: Verifying Installation
New Boards Hub, Sprint 216 update
Because of the holidays, and our deployment schedule, this update includes our progress for both sprint 215 and 216. You will notice a lot of bugs being fixed in these sprints. Some of the issues being significant. We also turned on the "Try the New Boards Hub" message to another ring of customers this week. This will no doubt produce another round of feedback tickets for us to address. We have two more rings to go, but we are getting closer to having the New Boards Hub be the default experience. Notable bugs fixed Note: Although these items are fixed, they may not be released to all organizations yet. Rollo...