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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 organization.
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.
New disk IO and Bandwidth metrics to identify bottlenecks
New disk IO utilization metrics that help users gain insight into their disk IO and bandwidth bottlenecks have been released. These metrics simplify identifying resources that are limiting application s performance. Now with a couple of metric views, users can make informed decisions on how to upgrade their products to and see a direct impact to their performance.
Azure Monitor Log Analytics UI improvements September 2020
Target availability: Q3 2020
Log Analytics UI gets several improvements in September including, search in query history, search in query dialog, and time picker enhancements.
Azure Pipelines announces the general availability of scale-set agents
In the last two months, we improved the reliability in performing various scale-set operations. We have updated the guidance on how to improve the performance of provisioning new virtual machines.
August 2020
Azure DevOps Artifacts storage exploration
Target availability: Q3 2020
More granular breakdowns and analyses into artifact storage.
June 2020
Azure DevOps Services now simplifies Azure Artifacts integration with other services
The latest update to Azure DevOps Services includes new features for Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, and Azure Pipelines. Of particular note is a new Azure Artifacts feature that makes it easier to authenticate Azure Artifacts with other popular package managers.
May 2020
Azure Pipelines YAML CD features are now available with Azure DevOps update
Azure Pipelines YAML CD features are now available with the latest Azure DevOps update, plus more improvements to the Azure Pipelines user experience.
Azure DevOps update to configure deployment strategies from the Azure portal
An update to Azure DevOps enables you to configure deployment strategies from directly within the Azure portal, and includes several improvements to the Azure Pipelines and Azure Repos user experiences.
April 2020
Azure DevOps update to increase productivity and reduce latency
An update to Azure DevOps includes improvements to pull-request actionability, pipeline security and compliance, and npm API performances to increase productivity and reduce latency.
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