Azure DevOps Blog

Retrospectives: The Hidden Gem Enabling Teams to Thrive – Part 1

February 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 02/28/23

Damon Stoddard

Let me ask you a question. If you asked a world-renowned expert what the single most impactful thing a team could do to improve, what do you think they’d say? I had the opportunity to ask Scott Tannenbaum that question during a recent meeting. Scott is the co-author of the book “Teams that Work”, an evidence-based book outlining the ...

End of support for Azure Pipelines agents running on CentOS 6, Debian 4.9, Fedora 32, Ubuntu 16, macOS 10.14, and older versions

February 22, 2023 Feb 22, 2023 02/22/23

Bohdan Janousek

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 ...

New Boards Hub, Sprint 217 update

February 17, 2023 Feb 17, 2023 02/17/23

Dan Hellem

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 ...

Updated: February patches for Azure DevOps Server

February 14, 2023 Feb 14, 2023 02/14/23

Gloridel Morales

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-...

Customers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 should upgrade the OS on Self-hosted agents

February 3, 2023 Feb 3, 2023 02/3/23

Eric van Wijk

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...

Learn Azure DevOps from Zero to Hero

January 27, 2023 Jan 27, 2023 01/27/23

April Edwards

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!) ...

Disable creation of classic pipelines

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23

Silviu

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 ...

Azure DevOps Server 2022 Patch 1

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23

Gloridel Morales

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

January 20, 2023 Jan 20, 2023 01/20/23

Dan Hellem

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...

Organization profile image

January 12, 2023 Jan 12, 2023 01/12/23

Andrew Brenner

Well, it’s hard to believe it’s already 2023! Here at Azure DevOps, we want to wish all of you a Happy New Year and share a small improvement we just added to the product roadmap. An Azure DevOps organization is created with an automatically generated profile image, based on the first letter in the organization name. This makes it hard ...