{"id":42445,"date":"2018-04-17T17:34:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T17:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=42445"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:50:07","slug":"tfs-2018-update-2-rc2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/tfs-2018-update-2-rc2\/","title":{"rendered":"TFS 2018 Update 2 RC2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have released Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2 RC2. You can see details about Update 2, including some key new features, in our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devops\/2018\/03\/28\/tfs-2018-update-2-rc1\/\">RC1 blog post<\/a>. RC2 is our last planned release before TFS 2018 Update 2 RTW.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some key links:\n<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/visualstudio\/releasenotes\/tfs2018-update2\">TFS 2018.2 RC2 Release Notes<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=870791\">TFS 2018.2 RC2 Web Installer<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=870790\">TFS 2018.2 RC2 ISO<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=870792\">TFS 2018.2 RC2 Express Web Installer<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=870789\">TFS 2018.2 RC2 Express ISO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like RC1, RC2 is a go-live release that is fully supported for installation in your production environment. It is available in all languages. Please report any problems on <a href=\"https:\/\/developercommunity.visualstudio.com\/spaces\/22\/index.html\">Developer Community<\/a> or call customer support if you need immediate help.<\/p>\n<p>The big change in RC2 is that we are enabling XAML builds for your legacy builds. Since <span>XAML builds are not supported in TFS 2018 RTW or Update 1, s<\/span>ome customers were blocked on upgrading.\u00a0 In Update 2, XAML builds are re-enabled but deprecated, meaning there will be no further investment in this area. This should unblock those customers that have legacy XAML builds. For more information, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/visualstudio\/releasenotes\/tfs2018-update2#xaml-builds\">release notes<\/a> and our blog post.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re looking forward to your feedback.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have released Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2 RC2. You can see details about Update 2, including some key new features, in our RC1 blog post. RC2 is our last planned release before TFS 2018 Update 2 RTW. Here are some key links: TFS 2018.2 RC2 Release Notes TFS 2018.2 RC2 Web Installer TFS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azure-devops-server","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>We have released Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2 RC2. You can see details about Update 2, including some key new features, in our RC1 blog post. RC2 is our last planned release before TFS 2018 Update 2 RTW. Here are some key links: TFS 2018.2 RC2 Release Notes TFS 2018.2 RC2 Web Installer TFS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}