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Optimizing for stability during the global health pandemic
Azure DevOps serves as the foundation of the engineering system for many of our customers, as well as for most of Microsoft itself. With so much uncertainty arising from the COVID-19 global health pandemic, during this time we believe our overriding focus for Azure DevOps needs to be stability and reliability.
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.03.27
Happy Friday DevOps friends! Check out today's stories where we range from getting SSIS Catalogs under source control to self-updating screen shots in projects to a collection of projects working in the open to help with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.03.20
Happy Friday everyone! The content parade continues this week with topics including: database changes in the pipeline, infrastructure as code, security, and automation of Azure DevOps itself.
Introducing the New Pull Request Experience for Azure Repos
Try out Azure Repos' mobile-friendly and faster pull request experience with new features like adding required reviewers per pull request, comparing multiple iterations, and accepting suggested changes within the pull request!
Supporting SHA-2 algorithm in SSH on Azure DevOps
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With the release of OpenSSH 8.2 last month, connections to SSH servers using SHA-1 was disabled by default in the OpenSSH client. We understand that this move helps improve the security of SSH connections, by encouraging all users to adopt the SHA-2 class of algorithms, generally considered safer. However, this resulted in OpenSSH users not being able to connect to Azure DevOps, since Azure DevOps only supported SHA-1 class algorithms. Workaround was to use a flag to force the client to fall back to SHA-1. We've now remedied the situation by enabling support for a SHA-2 class key exchange algorithm - ‘diffie-hel...
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.03.13
Hey y'all! Happy Friday the 13th! While there's lots of discouraging things out on the interwebs lately, we have some great examples of how to continue to deliver software. From build pipelines and shared definitions to custom release notes to caching, there's a lot of great content this week.
March patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server
This month, we are releasing fixes for security vulnerabilities that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server 2019, as well as the following older Team Foundation Server releases: TFS 2015, TFS 2017 and TFS 2018.
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.03.06
It's been another good week for Azure DevOps content. This week we've got a comparison in working with Azure Pipelines Tasks and GitHub Actions, see how Azure DevOps is any language, any platform, any cloud, and take a look at using Terraform output to help with later tasks. Thanks to the community for continuing to share great content!
Update: Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 in Azure DevOps Services Extended
Unlike previously announced, we will not temporarily or permanently disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in Azure DevOps Services until further notice.