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August 2018

21 Aug

Migrate projects to the Inheritance process model: VSTS Sprint 139 Update

In the Sprint 139 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), you can now migrate Hosted XML projects to the Inheritance process model to ease customization.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
6 Aug

Review summarized test results in VSTS Sprint 138 Update

VSTS Sprint 138 Update feature enhancements include a summarized view of test results that organizes related outcomes into a hierarchy.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

July 2018

13 Jul

General availability: Azure DevOps Projects

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure DevOps Projects is generally available.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
10 Jul

General availability: Microsoft-hosted Linux and macOS agents in VSTS Sprint 137 Update

In the Sprint 137 Update of Visual Studio Team Services, we've removed the "Preview" moniker from our Linux and macOS Microsoft-hosted CI/CD agents and made them generally available.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

June 2018

19 Jun

Modernizing the UI—VSTS Sprint 136 Update

In the Sprint 136 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), we're introducing some design changes.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

May 2018

30 May

Visualize release progress—VSTS Sprint 135 Update

The Sprint 135 Update of Visual Studio Team Services brings a new way to visualize all your release activity.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
21 May

Visual Studio Team Services | Release Management release gates

NOW AVAILABLE

Visual Studio Team Services, a cloud-hosted DevOps service, features capabilities such as Agile planning, Git source control, Cloud Build, Release Management (including continuous integration and delivery [CI/CD] pipelines), Test Manager, and Package Management. We’ve added the Release Management release gates capability to Team Services.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
21 May

Visual Studio Team Services | Azure DevOps Projects

NOW AVAILABLE

Use Azure DevOps Projects to start running your application on Azure App Service or Virtual Machine hosts.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
7 May

Deploy to Azure Kubernetes Service by using DevOps Projects: Sprint 134 Update

The Sprint 134 Update of Visual Studio Team Services brings better support for Ruby, Python, and Java languages in for build and even more deployment options for release.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

April 2018

16 Apr

Deployment for Azure MySQL, Kubernetes Helm, and Ruby - VSTS Sprint 133 Update

The Sprint 133 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) expands the languages and platforms supported for VSTS build and release.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
3 Apr

Deployment Groups and build completion trigger – VSTS Sprint 132 Update

The Sprint 132 Update of Visual Studio Team Services brings a few key features to help you scale your build and release pipeline.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

March 2018

5 Mar

Work Items hub and VM-based Azure DevOps Project – VSTS Sprint 131 Update

In the Sprint 131 Update of Visual Studio Team Services, a few features have received a large amount of feedback and activity on UserVoice, including the Work Items hub.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

February 2018

25 Feb

Visual Studio App Center

NOW AVAILABLE

Visual Studio App Center will combine multiple services commonly used by mobile developers into a single, integrated product. You'll be able to build, test, distribute, and monitor your mobile apps, and then easily add backend cloud services to scale your app to millions of users on demand.

  • Mobile Services
  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

November 2017

21 Nov

VSTS available only in the Azure portal from November 30

Beginning November 30, 2017, you will need to use the Azure portal to manage your Visual Studio Team Services accounts, instead of using the Azure classic portal.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Management

May 2017

11 May

Xamarin Live Player

IN PREVIEW

We'll soon announce new functionality in preview for Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac with Xamarin Live Player, paired with an app available for iOS and Android. This will help developers to start instantly developing and testing their apps.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
10 May

Introducing the Azure app (preview)

IN PREVIEW

With the Azure mobile app, you can check status and critical metrics of your Azure resources, get notifications and alerts, and perform simple operations to resolve common issues.

  • Alerts
  • API Management
  • App Service
  • Azure Monitor
  • Logic Apps
  • Content Delivery Network
  • Cloud Services
  • HDInsight
  • Scheduler
  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Azure DevOps
  • Web Apps
  • Management

December 2016

12 Dec

General availability: Package Management extension for Visual Studio Team Services

NOW AVAILABLE

The Package Management extension for Visual Studio Team Services is now generally available. It helps you move to DevOps workflows with continuous integration and delivery.

  • Azure DevOps

February 2016

3 Feb

Changes to Visual Studio Online Professional and Advanced user plans

Visual Studio Online Professional plans weren’t automatically converted to the new Visual Studio Professional monthly subscription on February 1, 2016.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings

October 2015

2 Oct

General availability: Visual Studio Online Build and Deployment

NOW AVAILABLE

Visual Studio Online Build and Deployment service lets you author, queue, and monitor cross-platform builds on hosted or private build agents.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Services

May 2015

22 May

Epic work item type added in Visual Studio Online

There's a new Epic work item type. Backlog levels on work items are optional.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

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