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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 DevOps project. With this latest release, we are introducing the ability to associate automated tests written in Java/JUnit (Maven and Gradle), JS (Jest) and Python (PyTest) with test cases and then run those tests with the new Azure Test Plan task. This is an addition to the ability to associate tests written in the majority of the .NET supported frameworks, which wa...
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 update the ubuntu-latest image to map to Ubuntu-24.04. Additionally, MacOS 15 Sequoia and Windows 2025 images will be generally available later this year. Alongside these new releases, we will deprecate older images like Ubuntu-20.04 and Windows Server 2019. Please refer to the following subsections for detailed updates on individual images. Ubuntu Ubuntu-24.04 ...
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 for Markdown support in large text fields! 🎉 🦄 How it works By default, all existing and new work items will continue using the HTML editor for large text fields. However, you now have the option to opt-in and use the Markdown editor for individual work items and fields. Existing work items Open the work item and click into a large text field (e.g., Description)....
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 product, Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 from the Azure DevOps Server download page. The following versions of the product has been patched. Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 Patch 4 If you have Azure DevOps Server 2022.2, you should install Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 Patch 4 to have the most secure product experience. Check out the Release notes for details. Note: Azur...
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 that 97% of users are staying on New Boards without reverting. This is a significant step forward! Maintaining two versions of Boards is not a sustainable long-term solution, and our goal is to transition all customers to New Boards permanently. To that end, we’ve already disabled Old Boards for over 50% of organizations, and we’ll continue this process over the n...
Azure DevOps Basic usage included with GitHub Enterprise
Many customers want to use both GitHub and Azure DevOps together. Until now, unless you purchased Visual Studio subscriptions with GitHub Enterprise, you had to pay separately for both products. With the Sprint 252 release, Azure DevOps Basic usage rights are included with GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Your users access this benefit automatically when they login to Azure DevOps using Microsoft Entra. Their access level will change to “GitHub Enterprise” and just like a Visual Studio subscriber, there are no Azure DevOps charges for these users. We’ll be adding support for GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residenc...
GitHub Copilot for Azure DevOps users
Azure DevOps customers frequently ask us when GitHub Copilot will be available to them. What many don’t realize is that GitHub Copilot for Business is already accessible to all customers, including those using Azure DevOps. Even better, much of its powerful functionality is integrated into tools you already use, like Visual Studio and VS Code. In this post, we’ll share resources to help you get started with GitHub Copilot as an Azure DevOps customer and highlight some of the great features available in your IDE. 👟 Getting Started Getting started with GitHub Copilot is simple and opens the door to a more efficie...
February Patches for Azure DevOps Server
Update 2/24: We re-released Patch 3 for Azure DevOps Server 2022.2. If you have previously installed the earlier versions of this patch, please update it using the provided link. This re-release addresses an issue causing YAML pipelines to fail. Further details on the issue can be found in the Developer Community. Update 2/13: We have re-released Patch 3 for Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 to fix the YAML pipelines failing issue reported in the Developer Community. You can use the link provided in this blog post to download the patch for the first time as well as fixing the issue if you have previously installed Patc...
Full web support for conditional access policies across Azure DevOps and partner web properties
We’re happy to announce that we’ve made significant progress in updating our web authentication stack on Azure DevOps services and partner web properties to utilize Microsoft Entra tokens to handle web sessions. By replacing our previous cookies with Entra tokens, we’ve deepened the integration we have with Microsoft Entra ID on our web experience. This change allows us to continuously evaluate identity compliance with Entra policies on an hourly basis (the duration of an Entra token). Previously, we could only regularly evaluate IP-fencing policies (at a much less frequent cadence than every hour) with our old...