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Public preview: Microsoft Dev Box
Self-service, high-performance workstations in the cloud that are preconfigured and ready-to-code for developers’ projects and tasks.
General availability: Azure Lab Services August 2022 update
Improve performance, reliability, and scalability for Azure Lab Services with the latest update.
Public preview: Azure Load Testing in West US 2
Azure Load Testing is in public preview in West US 2.
July 2022
Public preview: Azure Load Testing - additional metrics for pass/fail criteria
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.
Public preview: Azure Load Testing now displays load engine health metrics
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.
June 2022
Public preview: Azure Load Testing supports splitting input data across test engines
You can now configure your test to automatically split large input data evenly across the test engine instances.
Public preview: Azure Load Testing support for user specified JMeter properties
Azure Load Testing preview now supports user specified JMeter properties, making load tests more configurable.
Public preview: Azure Load Testing support for customer-managed keys
You can now add another layer of security by bringing your own customer-managed keys.
Public preview: Azure Load Testing supports quick start tests with web URL
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.
Public preview: Azure Load Testing support for user-assigned managed identities
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.
March 2022
Public preview: Azure App Configuration soft delete capability
Soft deletion, recovery, and purge protection capabilities in standard tier.
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.
November 2021
General availability: Version updates for Azure App Configuration libraries
Push refresh and feature management among new capabilities for Java Spring Boot applications.
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.
General availability: Azure App Configuration now offers increased hourly request limit
The limit has increased to 30,000 requests per hour in the Standard tier
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.
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