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AB links on GitHub pull request and scale improvements for large organizations

April 4, 2024 Apr 4, 2024 04/4/24
Dan Hellem
We have a few new updates to announce for the work we have been doing to improve the Azure Boards + GitHub experience. Let’s jump right into it… 🎉 Add link to GitHub commit or pull request (GA) After being several weeks in preview, we are excited to announce our new enhanced experience for linking work items to GitHub. You can now ...

New Boards Hub on as default

March 20, 2024 Mar 20, 2024 03/20/24
Dan Hellem
If you've been keeping up with the progress of New Boards Hub, you're probably aware that the preview has been active for quite some time now. In fact, we officially announced the preview of New Boards Hub almost two years ago to the day. Since that initial preview announcement, we've been gathering your feedback and addressing issues. Azure ...

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 ...

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 ...