Azure DevOps docs: What's new for January 2020
Welcome to what's new in Azure DevOps docs for January 2020. This article lists some of the major changes to docs during this period.
Boards
Updated articles
- Syntax for the Work Item Query Language (WIQL) - WIQL enhancements
Notifications
Updated articles
- Manage notifications for a team or group - Consolidating and refreshing Notifications topics
- Manage your notifications - Consolidating and refreshing Notifications topics
Organizations
New articles
- Troubleshoot leaving your organization - Accounts remove self from org
- Set permissions and access for testing - Security permission updates
Updated articles
- Permissions, users, and groups in Azure DevOps - Security permission updates
- Permissions lookup guide for Azure DevOps - Security permission updates
- Security key concepts - Security key concepts updates
- Set repository permissions for Git or TFVC - Security permission updates
- Work tracking, process, and project limits - Consolidate limit information
Pipelines
New articles
- Deploy to a Linux Virtual Machine - VM support in Environments & Rolling deployments
- Environment - virtual machine resource - VM support in Environments & Rolling deployments
Updated articles
- Create your first pipeline
- Updating FAQ so that relevant content shows up
- Combining get started sections for multiple languages
- Use /azure/devops/CD to deploy a Python web app to Azure App Service on Linux - Updated Python CICD doc to address customer feedback
- Service connections
- Deployment jobs - Docs for VM support in Environments & Rolling deployments
- Resources in YAML - Resources in YAML documentation
- Docker Compose task - Docker Compose task doc update
- Gradle task - Gradle task doc update
- Jenkins Queue Job task - jenkins-queue-job task doc update
- Maven task - Maven task doc update
- Visual Studio Build task - vsbuild task doc update
- Xamarin.Android task - Xamarin.Android task doc update
- Xcode task - Xcode task doc update
- Kubernetes manifest task - Edit pass: Kubernetes manifest
- YAML schema reference - edit pass: Yaml schema
Report
Updated articles
- Connect with data by using Power BI and OData queries - Edit pass: two report-powerbi articles
Repos
Updated articles
- Day in the life of a devops developer: write new code for a user story - Contribution from public PR 5560
- History command - Contribution from public PR 5560
GitHub issue content updates
Thank you for your feedback on our documentation. This month we made updates to our content to address the following GitHub issues.
- Missing example for Agent.TempDirectory variable #7101
- win1803 containers are being retired 2020-03-23 per an email #7066
- Update Build.Cleanup section #7031
- Grammar - missing "to" #6986
- AccountName should be OrgName or CollectionName #6984
- Title "Why is the Git repository hidden?" is misleading #6982
- Azure Artifacts no longer requires licenses to be assigned #6980
- Wrong PS script name mentioned #6978
- Incorrect title and inconsistent menu and page title #6973
- Create reports step fails on ubuntu #6971
- Copy-paste mishap #6959
- Timeout for private projects with paid parallel jobs #6946
- Example in section Publish (UniversalPackages@0) is wrong #6944
- Doublet (Add a team admin) #6930
- System.AccessToken default scope #6924
- There is no such thing as a "task job" #6916
- Broken link under "This blog post"... #6865
- scriptArguments is not used for inline scripts #6864
- Typo #6855
- targetType has inline and Inline with different casing in the same 2 lines #6824
- pipeline reference name in example doesnt follow required format #6821
- Please clarify permissions and roles #6809
- Typo under Deploy agents to a deployment group section #6758
- No doc for rootDirectory input parameter #6757
- Documentation about Scheduled pipelines are incomplete #6704
- .NET Framework containers are no longer supported for 1803 servers #6624
- Page starts with a quote #6594
- Duplicate task document #6537
- Secret Variables value cannot be used in pipeline #6443
- Using other repositories: How to use variables #6422
- Multiline string support #6412
- plenty to read at what? #6322
- missing how to reference step output from a job from a different stage #6100
- AzureFunctionApp@1 package attribute value #6066
- Expressions without variables? #5197
- missing entire "dependencies" group of predefined variables #4921
- Multi-job output variables across Stages? #4466
- Missing details about "Build.Cleanup" capability that can be added to agents to route clean up jobs #3685
Community contributors
The following people have contributed to Azure DevOps docs in January 2020. Thank you! You can learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.
- Potapy4 - Nikita Potapenko (4)
- roferg - Rogan Ferguson (2)
- cmelo05 - Caio Melo (1)
- Codebytes - Chris Ayers (1)
- droessmj - Michael Droessler (1)
- Ekhozie - Ekhozie (1)
- Flogex - Florian Gerlinghoff (1)
- GoodPie - Brandyn Britton (1)
- javiruiz01 - Javier Ruiz (1)
- JBrLloyd (1)
- mariomendieta - Mario Mendieta (1)
- MarkIannucci - Mark Iannucci (1)
- nolanegly - Nolan Egly (1)
- pascalberger - Pascal Berger (1)
- qJake - Jake Burgy (1)
- raydixon - Ray Dixon (1)
- robertjf - Robert Foster (1)
- smholvoet - Sander Holvoet (1)
- stevenmg - Steven Glick (1)
- StingyJack - Andrew Stanton (1)
- v-gesar (1)