State transition restriction rules for Azure Boards are now generally available

State transition restriction rules for Azure Boards are now generally available. This update allows you to restrict work items from being moved from one state to another.

Other key features to enhance the overall user experience are now available:

Azure Boards

·       State transition restriction rules

·       Copy work item to copy children

·       Improved rules for activated and resolved fields

·       System work item types on backlogs and boards (private preview)

Azure Pipelines

·       Exclusive deployment lock policy

·       Stages filters for pipeline resource triggers

·       Generic webhook based triggers for YAML pipelines

·       YAML resource trigger issues support and traceability

·       Banner for live site incidents impacting pipelines

Azure Artifacts

·       Ability to create org-scoped feeds from UI