June Patches for Azure DevOps Server
Today we are releasing patches that impact the latest version of our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly encourage and recommend that all customers use the latest, most secure release of Azure DevOps Server. You can download the lates...
Restricting PAT Creation in Azure DevOps Is Now in Preview
As organizations continue to strengthen their security posture, restricting usage of personal access tokens (PATs) has become a critical area of focus. With the latest public preview of the Restrict personal access token creation policy in Azure DevOps...
Azure DevOps with GitHub Repositories – Your path to Agentic AI
GitHub Copilot has evolved beyond a coding assistant in the IDE into an agentic teammate – providing actionable feedback on pull requests, fixing bugs and implementing new features, creating pull requests and responding to feedback, and much more. Th...
Azure Boards + GitHub: Recent Updates
Over the past several months, we’ve delivered a series of improvements to the Azure Boards + GitHub integration. Whether you’re tracking code, managing pull requests, or connecting pipelines, these updates aim to simplify and strengthen the link be...
April Patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server
Today we are releasing patches that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server, as well as Team Foundation Server 2018.3.2. We strongly encourage and recommend that all customers use the latest, most secure release of Azure DevOps Server. You ...
CDN Domain URL change for Agents in Pipelines
Introduction We have announced the retirement of Edgio CDN for Azure DevOps and are transitioning to a solution served by Akamai and Azure Front Door CDNs. This change affects Azure DevOps Pipelines customers. This article provides guidance for the Azu...
TFVC Policies Storage Updates
TFVC Check-In Policies TFVC projects can have check-in policies such as Build (Require last build was successful), Work Item (Require associated work item), Changeset comments policy (Require users to add comment to their check-in), etc. We are changin...
New Overlapping Secrets on Azure DevOps OAuth
As you may have read, Azure DevOps OAuth apps are due for deprecation in 2026. All developers are encouraged to migrate their applications to use Microsoft Entra ID OAuth, which can access all Azure DevOps APIs and has the added benefit of enhanced sec...
Introducing Java, JS and Python support in Test Plans
We are excited to announce new capabilities in Azure Test Plans that will enhance your testing workflows. This feature is currently available in Public Preview. You can find instructions at the end of the article on how to request it for your Azure Dev...
Introducing Java, JS and Python support in Test Plans
We are excited to announce new capabilities in Azure Test Plans that will enhance your testing workflows. This feature is currently available in Public Preview. You can find instructions at the end of the article on how to request it for your Azure Dev...
Upcoming Updates for Azure Pipelines Agents Images
To ensure our hosted agents in Azure Pipelines are operating in the most secure and up-to-date environments, we continuously update the supported images and phase out older ones. In October 2024, we announced support for Ubuntu-24.04. Soon, we plan to ...
Markdown for large text fields (private preview)
Adding Markdown capabilities to the work item is a long-standing request. We introduced Markdown for comments in early 2024, but due to the rollout of the New Boards Hub, we put the feature on hold. Today, we’re excited to announce a private preview ...
March Patches for Azure DevOps Server
Today we are releasing patches that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly encourage and recommend that all customers use the latest, most secure release of Azure DevOps Server. You can download the latest version of the produ...
New Boards Hub Update
We’ve reached a major milestone in the rollout of New Boards Hub this week by making it the default experience for all organizations and users. While many users can still temporarily switch back if they encounter a blocking issue, our telemetry shows...
