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General Availability: GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
Learn how to enable GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps code scanning, secret scanning, and dependency scanning in Azure DevOps and connect to Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
July 2023
Azure DevOps July 2023 updates
Target availability: Q3 2023
In July, we've delivered multiple improvements across Azure DevOps services. You can now dismiss dependency scanning alerts in Advanced Security that you believe to be a false positive or acceptable risk. In Azure Repos, we changed the default behavior to remove "Edit policies" permission when creating a new branch.
May 2023
Public Preview: GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
Learn how GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps implements code scanning, secret scanning, and dependency scanning in Azure DevOps.
April 2023
General availability: Azure DevOps 2023 Q1
In Q1 we've delivered multiple features across our services. These included improvements on security and new features that have been prioritized based on customer feedback.
January 2022
General availability: Azure DevOps updates
You can now see multiple improvements to the Copy Dashboard preview and try out a new feature which automatically retry a task in a pipeline when it fails.
October 2021
General availability: Azure DevOps September 2021 updates
With September updates, we added support for wild cards and conditional expressions in YAML pipeline files. In addition, we included multiple improvements to Delivery Plans.
September 2021
General availability: Azure DevOps August 2021 updates
With August updates, we added support for environment variables in Linux scale set agents. Now you can change the working directory of a Linux agent to use a faster drive than the OS drive. In addition, you can set a proxy to be used by the agent.
June 2021
General availability: Azure DevOps updates for June 2021
With this update, we've added a new set of policies which can be used to restrict the scope and lifespan of your organization’s Azure DevOps personal access tokens.
General availability: Azure DevOps Delivery Plans 2.0
With this update, we are including changes to Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines. You can now get total capacity for all teams in an iteration. In addition, we are previewing support for templates in the YAML editor.
May 2021
Introducing Developer Velocity Lab to improve developers’ work and well-being
Developer Velocity Lab (DVL) is a new research initiative that includes contributions across Microsoft, its research labs and GitHub.
General availability: Azure DevOps updates for May 2021
There are several new announcements for May 2021 including repos as protected resource in YAML pipelines and updates to Delivery Plans 2.0.
April 2021
General availability: Application Insights work item integration in Azure Monitor
You can now create work items in Azure DevOps or GitHub based on Application Insights telemetry.
March 2021
General availability: Changes coming to Azure Pipelines free grants
With this update, we are including temporary changes that will impact the process to acquire Azure Pipelines free grants. New users will have to send an email and provide additional information to get free CI/CD.
February 2021
Jenkins plug-ins for Azure are being retired on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Start using Azure CLI for a better experience integrating with Azure service.
Public preview: Application Insights work item integration for Azure DevOps & GitHub
Azure Monitor Application Insights has released a new way to create work items based on application insights telemetry.
January 2021
Azure Boards – New enhancements to Delivery Plans 2.0
In this sprint, we’re enhancing Delivery Plans 2.0 with new condensed views and rollup information.
December 2020
Azure Repos - New enhancements to pull request experience
In this sprint, we’re doubling down our investments in the pull request experience with a list of new enhancements.
November 2020
Azure Boards – Delivery Plans 2.0 is now in preview
With this release, we’re announcing the public preview release of Delivery Plans 2.0 and other improvements.
October 2020
Azure Repos adds a default branch at the org level
With this release, we’re adding the ability to set a default branch for the entire organisation.
September 2020
New IoT Event Learning Path
A new Event Learning Path is now available for solution architects, business decision makers, and developers interested in IoT Solutions with Azure IoT Services.
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