{"id":3891,"date":"2015-10-09T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/2015\/10\/09\/team-foundation-server-2015-update-1-rc-1\/"},"modified":"2019-10-24T17:39:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T00:39:28","slug":"team-foundation-server-2015-update-1-rc-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/team-foundation-server-2015-update-1-rc-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 RC 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&rsquo;ve released <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=626593\">Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 RC 1 (Release Candidate 1).<\/a> This is the newest version of Team Foundation Server (TFS), the collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft&#8217;s application lifecycle management (ALM) solution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are many feature updates in this update. Here&rsquo;s a short summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Version control: use Git and Team Foundation Version Control in the same project, history and getting started improvements on the web portal, social #ID in pull requests, commit details summary is easier to read, and an improved experience for cloning Git repositories.<\/li>\n<li>Backlogs: multi-select on all backlogs, drag any item to an iteration from anywhere, Add panel on the iteration backlog, line on the burndown indicates actual capacity, configure settings directly, add\/remove users in the sprint plan, and multiple activities per team member in planning capacity for a sprint.<\/li>\n<li>Kanban boards: query on columns, card coloring, tag coloring, inline renaming of columns and swimlanes, reorder cards when changing columns, configure settings directly, and hide empty fields on cards.<\/li>\n<li>Work items and tasks: tasks as checklist, link to branches and pull requests in work items, task board card coloring, and limit values shown for Work Item type in queries.<\/li>\n<li>Build: improved access control for resources, improved source control integration, usability fixes in Build Explorer, and parity with XAML builds for label sources and client-side workspace mappings.<\/li>\n<li>Testing: export test outcome for manual tests and test result retention policy improvements.<\/li>\n<li>Dashboards: 100% customizable with new widgets and multiple dashboards.<\/li>\n<li>SonarQube: works for Java programs built with a Maven task, SonarQube Analysis build tasks work with on-premises and hosted agents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This product is &#8220;go-live&#8221; meaning that you can use it in production environments. However, because this is still a pre-release, there may be some bugs that will be fixed by RTM. We will support upgrading this update from Update 1 RC&nbsp;2 to Update 1 RTM, and further updates will require RTM.<\/p>\n<p>For a complete description of the improvements, bug fixes, and known issues in this release, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/news\/tfs2015-update1-vs\">Release Notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As always, we welcome your feedback. Share your feedback, suggestions, thoughts, and ideas on <a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudio.uservoice.com\/forums\/121579-visual-studio\/category\/30925-team-foundation-server-visual-studio-online\">UserVoice<\/a>, through the in-product <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/mt280277.aspx\">Send-a-Smile<\/a> UI, or file a bug through the <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio\">Visual Studio Connect site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/5758.Kraig_.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 15px\"><strong>Kraig Brockschmidt<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kraigbro\">@kraigbro<\/a>), Senior Content Developer, Visual Studio<br \/>Kraig has been around Microsoft since 1988, working in roles that always have to do with helping developers write great software. Currently he&rsquo;s focused on developing content for cross-platform mobile app development with both Xamarin and Cordova. He writes for MSDN Magazine, is the author of <em>Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript<\/em> (two editions) and <em>Inside OLE<\/em> (two editions, if you remember those) from Microsoft Press, occasionally blogs on <a href=\"http:\/\/kraigbrockschmidt.com\/\">kraigbrockschmidt.com<\/a>, and can be found lurking around a variety of developer conferences.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&rsquo;ve released Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 RC 1 (Release Candidate 1). This is the newest version of Team Foundation Server (TFS), the collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft&#8217;s application lifecycle management (ALM) solution.&nbsp; There are many feature updates in this update. Here&rsquo;s a short summary: Version control: use Git [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":255385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1195,4980,1028,155],"tags":[136,137,376,124,353,133],"class_list":["post-3891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cross-platform","category-java","category-mobile","category-visual-studio","tag-css","tag-html","tag-java","tag-javascript","tag-xamarin","tag-xaml"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today we&rsquo;ve released Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 RC 1 (Release Candidate 1). This is the newest version of Team Foundation Server (TFS), the collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft&#8217;s application lifecycle management (ALM) solution.&nbsp; There are many feature updates in this update. Here&rsquo;s a short summary: Version control: use Git [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}