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August 2022

15 Aug

Public preview: Microsoft Dev Box

IN PREVIEW

Self-service, high-performance workstations in the cloud that are preconfigured and ready-to-code for developers’ projects and tasks.

  • Azure DevTest Labs
  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Visual Studio
  • Services
8 Aug

General availability: Azure Lab Services August 2022 update

NOW AVAILABLE

Improve performance, reliability, and scalability for Azure Lab Services with the latest update.

  • Azure DevTest Labs
  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Services
3 Aug

Public preview: Azure Load Testing in West US 2

IN PREVIEW

Azure Load Testing is in public preview in West US 2.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services

July 2022

19 Jul

Public preview: Azure Load Testing - additional metrics for pass/fail criteria

IN PREVIEW

Azure Load Testing now supports additional client metrics (in addition to response time and error percentage) and aggregate functions on client metrics to define pass/fail criteria for a test.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Features
19 Jul

Public preview: Azure Load Testing now displays load engine health metrics

IN PREVIEW

You can view engine health metrics to understand the performance of the test engine during the run, enabling confidence in the test results and better test configuration.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Features

June 2022

8 Jun

Public preview: Azure Load Testing supports splitting input data across test engines

IN PREVIEW

You can now configure your test to automatically split large input data evenly across the test engine instances.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
8 Jun

Public preview: Azure Load Testing support for user specified JMeter properties

IN PREVIEW

Azure Load Testing preview now supports user specified JMeter properties, making load tests more configurable.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
8 Jun

Public preview: Azure Load Testing support for customer-managed keys

IN PREVIEW

You can now add another layer of security by bringing your own customer-managed keys.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
8 Jun

Public preview: Azure Load Testing supports quick start tests with web URL

IN PREVIEW

You can now create load tests quickly without prior knowledge of testing tools by entering your URL in the Azure Load Testing resource from the Azure portal.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
8 Jun

Public preview: Azure Load Testing support for user-assigned managed identities

IN PREVIEW

Use Azure AD managed identities with Azure Load Testing Preview to easily access other AAD-protected resources, like Azure Key Vault. Both system-assigned and user-assigned managed identities are now supported.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features

March 2022

16 Mar

Public preview: Azure App Configuration soft delete capability

IN PREVIEW

Soft deletion, recovery, and purge protection capabilities in standard tier.

  • App Configuration
  • Security
  • Features

January 2022

20 Jan

General availability: Azure DevOps updates

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

November 2021

2 Nov

General availability: Version updates for Azure App Configuration libraries

NOW AVAILABLE

Push refresh and feature management among new capabilities for Java Spring Boot applications.

  • App Configuration
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2021

4 Oct

General availability: Azure DevOps September 2021 updates

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

September 2021

2 Sep

General availability: Azure DevOps August 2021 updates

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
1 Sep

General availability: Azure App Configuration now offers increased hourly request limit

NOW AVAILABLE

The limit has increased to 30,000 requests per hour in the Standard tier

  • App Configuration
  • Security
  • Features

June 2021

24 Jun

General availability: Azure DevOps updates for June 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
3 Jun

General availability: Azure DevOps Delivery Plans 2.0

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

May 2021

25 May

Introducing Developer Velocity Lab to improve developers’ work and well-being

NOW AVAILABLE

Developer Velocity Lab (DVL) is a new research initiative that includes contributions across Microsoft, its research labs and GitHub.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
11 May

General availability: Azure DevOps updates for May 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

There are several new announcements for May 2021 including repos as protected resource in YAML pipelines and updates to Delivery Plans 2.0.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

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