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Over the past several months, we’ve delivered a series of improvements to the Azure Boards + GitHub integration. Whether you're tracking code, managing pull requests, or connecting pipelines, these updates aim to simplify and strengthen the link between your work items and your GitHub activity. Here’s a recap of everything we’ve released (or are j...

Back in January, we launched a private preview of our Boards integration with GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency. If you're unfamiliar with GitHub's data residency option and what it means for your organization, you can learn more in the original announcement. Since the private preview launch, we’ve gathered valuable feedback from early a...

TFVC Check-In Policies TFVC projects can have check-in policies such as Build (Require last build was successful), Work Item (Require associated work item), Changeset comments policy (Require users to add comment to their check-in), etc. We are changing the way we store these policies on the server. This change will slightly affect TFVC users sinc...

Earlier this year, we announced an upgrade to our network infrastructure and the new IP addresses you need to allow list in your firewall - Update to Azure DevOps Allowed IP addresses - Azure DevOps Blog. This is our second blog post to inform you that starting from April 23rd, 2025, we will be requiring Server Name Indication (SNI) on all incomin...

As you may have read, Azure DevOps OAuth apps are due for deprecation in 2026. All developers are encouraged to migrate their applications to use Microsoft Entra ID OAuth, which can access all Azure DevOps APIs and has the added benefit of enhanced security features and long-term investment. Although we are nearing Azure DevOps OAuth’s end-of-life...

📢 As of April 15th, we are no longer accepting private preview requests. We have enough participants signed up to provide feedback. Keep an eye on the Azure DevOps release notes for the general availability announcement. Adding Markdown capabilities to the work item is a long-standing request. We introduced Markdown for comments in early 2024,...

We've reached a major milestone in the rollout of New Boards Hub this week by making it the default experience for all organizations and users. While many users can still temporarily switch back if they encounter a blocking issue, our telemetry shows that 97% of users are staying on New Boards without reverting. This is a significant step forward...

Azure DevOps customers frequently ask us when GitHub Copilot will be available to them. What many don’t realize is that GitHub Copilot for Business is already accessible to all customers, including those using Azure DevOps. Even better, much of its powerful functionality is integrated into tools you already use, like Visual Studio and VS Code. In t...

We’re happy to announce that we’ve made significant progress in updating our web authentication stack on Azure DevOps services and partner web properties to utilize Microsoft Entra tokens to handle web sessions. By replacing our previous cookies with Entra tokens, we’ve deepened the integration we have with Microsoft Entra ID on our web experience...

We are excited to announce some important upgrades to our networking infrastructure that will enhance the performance and reliability of our service. As part of these infrastructure upgrades, we are introducing new IP addresses that you will need to allow list in your firewall configurations. What’s Changing And Why? We are transitioning from the...