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The New Test Run Hub is Going Generally Available!
Delivering high-quality software requires clarity, speed, and collaboration. That’s why we introduced the New Test Run Hub in Azure Test Plans. A modern, streamlined experience designed to make test execution and analysis fast and intuitive. And we’re excited to announce that this experience is moving to General Availability (GA) for the Azure DevOps Services throughout January 2026. Why the New Test Run Hub? The new hub centralizes test execution for both manual and automated runs, giving teams: Your Feedback Matters Based on your feedback, we’ve made several improvements ahead of General Availabi...
Work item linking for Advanced Security alerts now available
Security vulnerabilities don't fix themselves. Someone needs to track them, prioritize them, and actually ship the fix. If you've ever tried to manage security alerts alongside your regular sprint work, though, you know the friction: you're looking at an alert in one tab, switching to your backlog in another, trying to remember which vulnerability you were supposed to file a bug for. We shipped work item linking for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps alerts to fix this. It's now generally available and it does exactly what it sounds like: you can link work items in Boards directly to security alerts. Note...
Azure Boards integration with GitHub Copilot
A few months ago we introduced the Azure Boards integration with GitHub Copilot in private preview. The goal was simple: allow teams to take a work item from Azure Boards and send it directly to GitHub Copilot so the coding agent could begin working on it, track progress, and generate a pull request. We are happy to announce that this integration is now being rolled out as generally available 🎉. Customers who participated in the preview helped us validate the experience, find issues, and shape improvements. GA includes the same workflow introduced in preview, along with new capabilities based on customer feedbac...
Retirement of Global Personal Access Tokens in Azure DevOps
In the new year, we’ll be retiring the Global Personal Access Token (PAT) type in the Azure DevOps Services product. No changes will be made to global PATs in the Azure DevOps Server product. Global PATs allow users to authenticate across all accessible organizations. While this can feel convenient, a single credential with broad reach creates a concentrated security risk — especially as a user’s access footprint grows. This level of privilege becomes an attractive target for bad actors, making global tokens unsuitable for today’s security‑conscious environments. Setting clear boundaries around high‑impact cr...
Updated: Announcing Azure DevOps Server General Availability
Update March 13, 2026: We have released a patch that resolves the issue introduced in the original Azure DevOps Server release that, under certain conditions, could cause group memberships to become deactivated. Who should install Azure DevOps Server Patch 2 Who does not need this patch Update March 13, 2026: Azure DevOps Server Issue Resolved and Release Re‑Published We’re happy to share that the previously identified issue affecting Azure DevOps Server has been resolved, and the corrected release is now available. You can now proceed with new installations or upgrades using the previously published ...
Azure DevOps and GitHub Repositories — Next Steps in the Path to Agentic AI
In May, we talked about the evolution of GitHub Copilot from a coding assistant into an AI powered peer programmer. Since then, GitHub has taken a major step forward - becoming an open platform for agentic development, where Agent HQ enables developers to orchestrate any agent, anytime, anywhere. Agent HQ provides observability, governance, and security controls for agents, so organizations can manage access, audit usage, and enforce policies. Meanwhile, the new GitHub Code Quality (in public preview) provides in-context findings, maintainability scores, and one-click fixes—helping teams ensure their code is heal...
November Patches for Azure DevOps Server
Today we are releasing patches that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly encourage and recommend that all customers use the latest, most secure release of Azure DevOps Server. You can download the latest version of the product, Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 from the Azure DevOps Server download page. Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 Patch 7 Release notes If you have Azure DevOps Server 2022.2, you should install Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 Patch 7 to have the most secure and updated product experience. With this patch we are fixing the following: Verifying Installation Run , is the...
Azure Developer CLI: Azure Container Apps Dev-to-Prod Deployment with Layered Infrastructure
This post walks through how to implement "build once, deploy everywhere" patterns using Azure Container Apps with the new and layered infrastructure features in Azure Developer CLI v1.20.0. You'll learn how to deploy the same containerized application across multiple environments with proper separation of concerns. This is the third installment in our Azure Developer CLI series, building on our previous explorations: - Azure App Service and GitHub Actions - Azure DevOps Pipelines Build once, deploy everywhere The challenge we're solving If you've worked with containers in production, you've probably run into...
Upcoming Updates for Azure Pipelines Agents Images
To ensure our hosted agents in Azure Pipelines are operating in the most secure and up-to-date environments, we continuously update the supported images and phase out older ones. In October 2024, we announced support for Ubuntu-24.04. Soon, we plan to update the ubuntu-latest image to map to Ubuntu-24.04. Additionally, MacOS 15 Sequoia and Windows 2025 images will be generally available later this year. Alongside these new releases, we will deprecate older images like Ubuntu-20.04 and Windows Server 2019. Please refer to the following subsections for detailed updates on individual images. Ubuntu Ubuntu 24.04 ...