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October 2026

  1. Azure DevOps Server RC (26H2) Is Now Available
  2. PHP2Shell and Azure DevOps: what to check
  3. Introducing Agentic Autofix for code and dependencies
  4. Azure DevOps available in Microsoft Copilot Cowork
  5. October Patches for Azure DevOps Server
  6. New Wiki Editor Experience
  7. GitHub-hosted agents with Pay-as-you-Go pricing are now generally available in Azure Pipelines

September 2026

  1. Updates to Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos
  2. September Patches for Azure DevOps Server

August 2026

  1. Enterprise Live Migrations is now in public preview
  2. Azure DevOps in the GitHub Copilot App
  3. Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos (public preview)
  4. Apple Silicon and Xcode 27 images available in pay-as-you-go (preview)
  5. August Patches for Azure DevOps Server
  6. Pull request annotations on work item cards
  7. You can now use the Azure DevOps Service Connection instead of a PAT or Build Session token
  8. Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server is generally available

July 2026

  1. Find any commit in seconds: Commit Search comes to Azure DevOps
  2. July Patches for Azure DevOps Server
  3. Shrinking Azure Pipeline task extensions using esbuild
  4. Upcoming Change: NTLM Removal in Git (libcurl) – Impact to Azure DevOps Server Customers

June 2026

  1. Retirement of Azure DevOps issuer in Workload identity federation service connections
  2. June Patches for Azure DevOps Server
  3. Copilot Autofix for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
  4. Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos
  5. Enterprise Live Migrations: Moving from Azure DevOps Repo to GitHub with minimal disruption
  6. How Microsoft is migrating repositories to GitHub
  7. Azure DevOps and GitHub: Journeying into the AI Era

May 2026

  1. May Patches for Azure DevOps Server

April 2026

  1. Axios npm Supply Chain Compromise – Guidance for Azure Pipelines Customers
  2. Optimizing Git policy management at scale
  3. Public Preview: Actual Result for Manual Tests in Azure Test Plans
  4. Azure DevOps MCP Server April Update
  5. One-click security scanning and org-wide alert triage come to Advanced Security
  6. April Patches for Azure DevOps Server
  7. Improving the Markdown Editor for Work Items

March 2026

  1. Remote MCP Server preview in Microsoft Foundry
  2. Authentication Tokens Are Not a Data Contract
  3. Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server (public preview)
  4. March Patches for Azure DevOps Server
  5. Temporary rollback: build identities can access Advanced Security: read alerts again

February 2026

  1. Updates to Team Calendar extension
  2. TFVC Remove Existing Obsolete Policies ASAP
  3. Condensed views on Kanban and Sprint boards
  4. February Patches for Azure DevOps Server
  5. Azure Boards integration with GitHub Copilot includes custom agent support

January 2026

  1. Azure Boards additional field filters (private preview)
  2. What’s new with Azure Repos?

December 2025

  1. The New Test Run Hub is Going Generally Available!
  2. Work item linking for Advanced Security alerts now available
  3. Azure Boards integration with GitHub Copilot
  4. Retirement of Global Personal Access Tokens in Azure DevOps
  5. Updated: Announcing Azure DevOps Server General Availability

November 2025

  1. Azure DevOps and GitHub Repositories — Next Steps in the Path to Agentic AI
  2. November Patches for Azure DevOps Server
  3. Azure Developer CLI: Azure Container Apps Dev-to-Prod Deployment with Layered Infrastructure

October 2025

  1. Upcoming Updates for Azure Pipelines Agents Images
  2. Modernizing Authentication for Legacy Visual Studio Clients
  3. Azure DevOps local MCP Server is generally available
  4. Announcing the new Azure DevOps Server RC Release

September 2025

  1. Azure Boards integration with GitHub Copilot (Private Preview)
  2. New Test Run Hub in Azure Test Plans

August 2025

  1. Azure Developer CLI: From Dev to Prod with Azure DevOps Pipelines
  2. Azure DevOps OAuth Client Secrets Now Shown Only Once
  3. Hunting Living Secrets: Secret Validity Checks Arrive in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
  4. Real-Time Security with Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) comes to Azure DevOps
  5. Automate your open-source dependency scanning with Advanced Security

July 2025

  1. From Manual Testing to AI-Generated Automation: Our Azure DevOps MCP + Playwright Success Story
  2. Azure Developer CLI: From Dev to Prod with One Click
  3. July Patches for Azure DevOps Server
  4. Markdown Support Arrives for Work Items

June 2025

  1. Removing Azure Resource Manager reliance on Azure DevOps sign-ins
  2. Azure DevOps MCP Server, Public Preview
  3. June Patches for Azure DevOps Server
  4. Restricting PAT Creation in Azure DevOps Is Now in Preview
  5. GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security for Azure DevOps

May 2025

  1. Azure DevOps with GitHub Repositories – Your path to Agentic AI
  2. One Pipeline to Rule Them All: Ensuring CodeQL Scanning Results and Dependency Scanning Results Go to the Intended Repository
  3. Introducing Azure DevOps ID Token Refresh and Terraform Task Version 5

April 2025

  1. Spring Cleaning: A CTA for Azure DevOps OAuth Apps with expired or long-living secrets
  2. Azure Boards + GitHub: Recent Updates
  3. April Patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server
  4. Boards Integration with GitHub Enterprise Cloud and Data Residency (Public Preview)
  5. CDN Domain URL change for Agents in Pipelines
  6. TFVC Policies Storage Updates
  7. Important Update: Server Name Indication (SNI) Now Mandatory for Azure DevOps Services

March 2025

  1. New Overlapping Secrets on Azure DevOps OAuth
  2. Introducing Java, JS and Python support in Test Plans
  3. Markdown for large text fields (private preview)
  4. March Patches for Azure DevOps Server
  5. New Boards Hub Update

February 2025

  1. Azure DevOps Basic usage included with GitHub Enterprise
  2. GitHub Copilot for Azure DevOps users
  3. February Patches for Azure DevOps Server
  4. Full web support for conditional access policies across Azure DevOps and partner web properties
  5. Update to Azure DevOps Allowed IP addresses

January 2025

  1. Upcoming support lifecycle milestones for older on-premises products
  2. Changes to provisioning Azure DevOps projects using the Azure DevOps Demo Generator
  3. Reducing personal access token (PAT) usage across Azure DevOps
  4. Important: Switching CDN providers

December 2024

  1. New Boards Hub Rollout Expectations
  2. Microsoft DevLabs Extensions

November 2024

  1. Getting the most out of Azure DevOps and GitHub
  2. Announcing the General Availability of Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) for Azure DevOps
  3. November Patches for Azure DevOps Server

October 2024

  1. No new Azure DevOps OAuth apps beginning April 2025
  2. Using Entra profile information in Azure DevOps
  3. Introducing Pull Request Annotation for CodeQL and Dependency Scanning in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
  4. Deprecation of the macOS-12 Hosted Pipeline Image

September 2024

  1. Azure Boards, September Update

August 2024

  1. Introducing Object Limit Tracker in Azure DevOps
  2. New Boards Hub Rollout Update
  3. New Azure DevOps Server Roadmap
  4. Announcing Public Preview of Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) for Azure DevOps

July 2024

  1. Update on Azure Boards + GitHub Integration
  2. Updated: Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 RTW now available

June 2024

  1. June patches for Azure DevOps Server
  2. Test & Feedback Extension in Manifest V3

May 2024

  1. May patches for Azure DevOps Server
  2. Azure DevOps Server 2022 Update 2 RC now available

April 2024

  1. AB links on GitHub pull request and scale improvements for large organizations
  2. End of Support for Microsoft products reliant on older Azure DevOps and Visual Studio authentication

March 2024

  1. New Boards Hub on as default
  2. Quick Copy and Import Test Case by Plan or Suite ID
  3. March patches for Azure DevOps Server

February 2024

  1. Azure Pipelines deprecated tasks retirement schedule
  2. End of SSH-RSA support for Azure Repos
  3. JUnit Attachments Support for Publish Test Results
  4. February patches for Azure DevOps Server
  5. Workload identity federation for Azure deployments is now generally available
  6. Regenerating secrets for Azure DevOps OAuth applications
  7. Azure Boards + GitHub improvements in private preview

January 2024

  1. New Boards Hub Update, January 2024
  2. New version of Publish Code Coverage Results task
  3. Final notice of alternate credentials deprecation
  4. Azure DevOps Server Product Lifecycle and Servicing

December 2023

  1. Updates to Azure DevOps Demo Generator and Labs
  2. December patches for Azure DevOps Server
  3. Work Items in Visual Studio

November 2023

  1. Updated: Azure DevOps Server 2022.1 RTW now available
  2. New Boards Hub, Fall Update
  3. Azure DevOps’ First Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) Now Available
  4. November patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server
  5. Git Partial Clone Now Supported in Azure DevOps

October 2023

  1. Azure DevOps Server 2022.1 RC2 now available
  2. Azure Boards + GitHub Integration Improvements
  3. Seamless Automation: Bridging Requirement Discussion Transcripts to Azure DevOps Features
  4. Introducing Work Item Chart Filtering in Azure DevOps Dashboards
  5. Improved Code Coverage Tab Experience
  6. October patches for Azure DevOps Server

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