Draft pull requests and new work item text editor: Sprint 143 Update

In the Sprint 143 update of Azure DevOps, we’re introducing a new work item text editor that is much more powerful and easier to use. This is part of our effort to modernise and improve the experience across the product. In Azure Repos, you can create draft pull requests that you aren’t yet ready to complete, so they can’t be completed accidentally. We’re also releasing some new features in Azure Artifacts, including the ability to exclude files in artefact uploads and get provenance information on packages.

Azure Boards:

• New work item text editor

Azure Repos:

• Improved branch picker
• Draft pull requests

Azure Pipelines:

• Trigger YAML pipelines with tags
• Setting to auto-cancel an existing pipeline when a pull request is updated
• Declare container resources inline
• Changes to default permissions for new projects
• Deploy to failed targets in a deployment group
• Automatically redeploy on failure
• Support for Infrastructure as Code

Azure Artifacts:

• Exclude files in artefact uploads
• Provenance information on packages
• Azure Artifacts REST API documentation updates

Reporting:

• Test result trend widget