{"id":61332,"date":"2021-03-23T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=61332"},"modified":"2021-03-23T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:02:03","slug":"introducing-azure-devops-server-2020-1-rc1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/introducing-azure-devops-server-2020-1-rc1\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Azure DevOps Server 2020.1 RC1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re very excited to announce the first release candidate (RC) of Azure DevOps Server 2020.1!<\/p>\n<p>We added many new features that you&#8217;ve been asking for. Here are a few of the <strong>highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/devops\/server\/release-notes\/azuredevops2020u1?view=azure-devops#state-transition-restriction-rules\">State transition restriction rules in Boards<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/devops\/server\/release-notes\/azuredevops2020u1?view=azure-devops#stakeholders-can-move-work-items-across-board-columns\">Stakeholders can now move work items across board columns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/devops\/server\/release-notes\/azuredevops2020u1?view=azure-devops#improve-release-security-by-restricting-scope-of-access-tokens\">Improve release security by restricting scope of access tokens<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/devops\/server\/release-notes\/azuredevops2020u1?view=azure-devops#pull-request-experience-improvements\">Enhanced pull request experience<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/devops\/server\/release-notes\/azuredevops2020u1?view=azure-devops#multi-repo-triggers\">Multi-repo triggers in Pipelines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are many more features with this release and you can read all about those features in our <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/devops\/server\/release-notes\/azuredevops2020u1?view=azure-devops\">release notes<\/a>. You can\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/devops\/server\/download\/azuredevopsserver?view=azure-devops\">download Azure DevOps Server 2020.1 RC1<\/a> today. A direct upgrade to Azure DevOps Server is supported from any version of TFS, including Team Foundation Server 2015 and newer. Let us know any feedback or questions via the <a href=\"https:\/\/developercommunity.visualstudio.com\/spaces\/22\/tfs.html?topics=tfs\">Developer Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Resources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/devops\/server\/download\/azuredevopsserver?view=azure-devops\">Download Azure DevOps Server 2020 RC1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/devops\/server\/release-notes\/azuredevops2020u1?view=azure-devops\">Release notes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/devops\/server\/requirements?view=azure-devops&amp;branch=releasenotes%2FAzureDevOpsServer2020\">Azure DevOps Server requirements and compatibility<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/devops\/server\/install\/get-started?view=azure-devops&amp;branch=releasenotes%2FAzureDevOpsServer2020\">Installation documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re very excited to announce the first release candidate (RC) of Azure DevOps Server 2020.1! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1006,"featured_media":60785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azure-devops-server","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today we&#8217;re very excited to announce the first release candidate (RC) of Azure DevOps Server 2020.1! <\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61332","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\/1006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}