Updates to Azure DevOps and App Service improvements

In the sprint 157 update of Azure DevOps, we added rollup columns to backlogs that let you track progress across work item hierarchies (for example, epics/features/user stories). We also added multiple improvements for deploying Azure App Service apps.

Check out the feature list below for more.

General:

• Get personalized notifications with @mention support in Slack apps
• Download a list of organizations to a directory

Azure Boards:

• Track the progress of parent items using Rollup on Boards backlog
• Taskboard live updates

Azure Repos:

• Policy to block files with specified patterns
• Resolve work items via commits using key words
• Granularity for automatic reviewers

Azure Artifacts:

• Get latest Universal Package with Semantic Versioning (SemVer) wildcard
• Azure Artifacts feeds in the Visual Studio Package Manager

Azure Pipelines:

• Create Azure Pipelines from VSCode
• New task for configuring Azure App Service app settings
• Azure App Service now supports Swap with preview
• YAML templates for Python and .NET Functions apps
• Service hooks for YAML pipelines
• Enhancement to Azure Pipelines app for Jira
• GitHub release task enhancements
• Stage level filter for Azure Container Registry and Docker Hub artifacts
• Sovereign cloud support in Kubernetes service connection

Reporting:

• Lead and Cycle Time widgets advanced filtering