Azure DevOps Blog

Azure Pipelines deprecated tasks retirement schedule

February 16, 2024 Feb 16, 2024 02/16/24

Eric van Wijk

Azure Pipelines includes around 150 build & release tasks as well as many more task extensions. Various included tasks have multiple (major) versions bringing the total to over included 200 tasks. Some of these tasks have been deprecated for some time, as newer tasks have replaced them. Deprecation means the task is still supported, ...

End of SSH-RSA support for Azure Repos

February 15, 2024 Feb 15, 2024 02/15/24

Bohdan Janousek

Azure Repos provides two methods for users to access a git repository in Azure Repos – HTTPS and SSH. To use SSH, you need to create a key pair using one of the supported encryption methods. In the past we’ve been supporting only SSH-RSA and we’ve asked users to enable the SSH-RSA here. This is not required to be done anymore as in 2022 ...

JUnit Attachments Support for Publish Test Results

February 15, 2024 Feb 15, 2024 02/15/24

David Paquette

We've recently made some improvements to the Publish Test Results task in Azure Pipelines. This task now supports file attachments when publishing test results from a JUnit report. JUnit Attachments Report Format The JUnit XML report format doesn't officially have support for file attachments but there is a common convention of including ...

February patches for Azure DevOps Server

February 13, 2024 Feb 13, 2024 02/13/24

Gloridel Morales

This month, we are releasing fixes that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. The following versions of the products have been patched. Check out the links for each version for more details. Azure DevOps Server 2022.1 Patch 2 If you have Azure DevOps Server 2022.1, you should install Azure DevOps Server 2022.1 Patch 2...

Workload identity federation for Azure deployments is now generally available

February 12, 2024 Feb 12, 2024 02/12/24

Eric van Wijk

In September, we announced the ability to configure Azure service connections that do not need a secret. Azure service connections that use workload identity federation are easier to manage and more secure. Many customers have adopted this feature and we're excited to announce it is now generally available! (image) Improved security ...

Regenerating secrets for Azure DevOps OAuth applications

February 5, 2024 Feb 5, 2024 02/5/24

Angel Wong

You can now self-regenerate new client secrets as needed for apps made on top of the Azure DevOps' OAuth platform. A valid, active client secret is critical for getting a refresh token to continue using your app. Once the secret has expired, you will also no longer be able to get access and refresh tokens needed to access Azure Devops APIs ...

Azure Boards + GitHub improvements in private preview

February 5, 2024 Feb 5, 2024 02/5/24

Dan Hellem

Today we are happy to announce several improvements to our GitHub integration story. These improvements are vital for those customers who are seeking better traceability between Azure Boards and GitHub repositories. AB# Validation This is a recap of the private preview announcement we made in December 2023. AB# validation is now available to...

New Boards Hub Update, January 2024

January 26, 2024 Jan 26, 2024 01/26/24

Dan Hellem

In our fall update, we acknowledged the necessity to pause the rollout of New Boards Hub. Our focus was on enhancing its quality, performance, accessibility, and addressing an long list of bugs and issues. We're pleased with the progress achieved in the past few months and want to highlight a few key points as we prepare to make New Boards Hub...

New version of Publish Code Coverage Results task

January 26, 2024 Jan 26, 2024 01/26/24

Bohdan Janousek

We’ve introduced a new V2 version of the publish code coverage results task (known as PCCR) in Azure Pipelines recently. The main benefit of the V2 task is the support for more formats of the code coverage results and therefore more programming languages than the V1 task, which was limited to Cobertura and JaCoCo formats only. You can see ...

Final notice of alternate credentials deprecation

January 19, 2024 Jan 19, 2024 01/19/24

Angel Wong

In November 2019, we announced that the alternate credentials feature will be formally deprecated in March 2020. Since then, a small number of users were grandfathered in with continued usage of existing alternate credentials, which have remained active until today. We will be discontinuing all usage of alternate credentials this month. Users...