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July 2023

26 Jul

Azure DevOps July 2023 updates

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
12 Jul

Microsoft Dev Box is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

Microsoft Dev Box is generally available now. Dev Box is a virtualized solution that empowers developers to quickly spin up self-service workstations preconfigured for their tasks while maintaining centralized management to maximize security and compliance.

  • Azure Deployment Environments
  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Services

June 2023

16 Jun

Retirement notice: Move to Azure Load Testing GA API versions by 10 September 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: September 10, 2023

Retirement notice: Move to Azure Load Testing GA API versions by 10 September 2023

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Retirements
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
13 Jun

Microsoft Azure Load Testing - additional Azure components for server-side monitoring

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing load testing now supports additional Azure components for server-side monitoring during a load test run.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
13 Jun

Microsoft Azure Load Testing - configure auto stop criteria

NOW AVAILABLE

Configure auto stop criteria automatically stops a load test if the error percentage exceeds a given threshold for a certain time window.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
13 Jun

Microsoft Azure Load Testing supports setting up quick start tests using requests per second

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now set up a 'quick test' to check that your endpoint can handle a certain throughput of requests per second (RPS).

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features

May 2023

23 May

Microsoft Azure Deployment Environments is now generally available.

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Deployment Environments is now generally available. With Deployment Environments, developers can self-deploy the environments they need on demand using infrastructure-as-code templates.

  • Azure Deployment Environments
  • Microsoft Build
23 May

New capabilities available in Microsoft Dev Box

IN PREVIEW

Microsoft Dev Box is introducing several new capabilities to enhance developer experience and boost productivity. In addition, Dev Box general availability will begin in July.

  • Azure Deployment Environments
  • Microsoft Build
23 May

Public Preview: GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

IN PREVIEW

Learn how GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps implements code scanning, secret scanning, and dependency scanning in Azure DevOps.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Microsoft Build

April 2023

12 Apr

General availability: Azure DevOps 2023 Q1

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
12 Apr

General Availability: App Configuration geo-replication

NOW AVAILABLE

Replicate your application configuration data across supported regions to create redundancy, reduce latency, and distribute request load.

  • App Configuration
  • Security
  • Features

March 2023

16 Mar

Azure Load Testing support for JMeter 5.5

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing now uses Apache JMeter version 5.5 for running load tests.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Features

October 2022

26 Oct

Public preview: Azure Load Testing supports authenticating with client certificates

IN PREVIEW

Azure Load Testing now enables you to authenticate to application endpoints which require a client certificate for authentication.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Features
26 Oct

Public preview: Azure Load Testing is now HITRUST certified

IN PREVIEW

Azure Load Testing is now HITRUST certified.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Compliance
26 Oct

Public preview: Azure Load Testing in West Europe

IN PREVIEW

Azure Load Testing is in public preview in West Europe.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
12 Oct

Public preview: Microsoft Azure Deployment Environments

IN PREVIEW

Azure Deployment Environments has entered public preview and helps dev teams create and manage all types of environments throughout the application lifecycle.

  • Azure DevTest Labs
  • Microsoft Dev Box
  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Microsoft Ignite

September 2022

14 Sep

Public preview: Azure Load Testing in UK South

IN PREVIEW

Azure Load Testing is in public preview in UK South.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services

August 2022

31 Aug

Public preview: Azure Storage Explorer support for Azure App Configuration resources

IN PREVIEW

Work with your App Configuration resources in Storage Explorer on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

  • App Configuration
  • Security
  • Features
17 Aug

Public preview: Microsoft Azure Load Testing supports private endpoints testing

IN PREVIEW

With Azure Load Testing, you can now run load tests against private endpoints - endpoints deployed in a virtual network, public endpoints with access restrictions (restricting client IP addresses, etc.)

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
17 Aug

Public preview: App Configuration geo replication support

IN PREVIEW

Standard tier subscribers can synchronise any updates from the configuration store to replicas in other Azure regions.

  • App Configuration
  • Security
  • Features

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