New enhancements to Azure Boards are now available

Azure Boards has new items that can help enhance your experience. For example, you can now customize system picklist values such as severity, activity, and priority. In addition, rule support is now available for setting fields to read-only or required based on group membership. Finally, there’s a new extension that will allow you to create cascading picklists on your work item form.

Check out the features list below for more new additions and read about all the new enhancements to Azure Boards.

Azure Boards:

• Read-only and required rules for group membership
• Customize system picklist values

Azure Artifacts:

• Configure upstreams in different organizations within an AAD tenant
• Use Python Credential Provider to authenticate pip and twine with Azure Artifacts feeds

Azure Pipelines:

  General

• Pipelines caching improvements
• Increase in gates timeout limit and frequency

  Docker

• New build image template for Dockerfile
• Arguments input in Docker Compose task

  Test

• Fix warning in large test attachments

  Hosted VMs

• Updates to hosted pipelines images

  Azure experiences

• Support for Bitbucket repositories in Deployment Center for AKS and Web App for containers
• Linux Web App support for Java workflows in Azure DevOps projects

  Azure command-line interface

• Pipeline variable group and variable management commands
• Run pipeline for a PR branch

Azure Test Plans:

• Test Plans progress report
• Enhancements to Test Plans page

Reporting:

• Improvement to the Query Results widget

Wiki:

• Comments in wiki pages
• Hide folders and files starting with “.” in wiki tree