Azure DevOps docs: What's new for February 2020
Welcome to what's new in Azure DevOps docs for February 2020. This article lists some of the major changes to docs during this period.
Boards
New articles
- Configuration and customization of Azure Boards
- test column markdown
- Adding Azure Boards configure & customize topic
- View portfolio progress with the Feature Timeline - feature timeline add
- Azure Boards migration and integration - Make migrate info visible
- Azure Boards FAQs - Add Boards FAQs
Updated articles
- Create your product backlog - Create your backlog refresh
- Configuration and customization of Azure Boards
- test column markdown
- Adding Azure Boards configure & customize topic
- Plan and track work - Create your backlog refresh
- What is Azure Boards? - updates 1
Extend
Updated articles
- Pipeline decorator expression context - Tasks are desugared before decorators are evaluated
Organizations
New articles
- Assign a new owner to your orphaned organization - CHCOMLEY - resolve orphaned organization ownership
- Rename or remove a team - Rename and remove a team
Updated articles
- Billing FAQs - CHCOMLEY - billing-faq additions 02/27/2020
- Naming restrictions and conventions - update custom rules
Pipelines
New articles
- Approach to securing YAML pipelines - Pipelines security content
- Shared infrastructure - Pipelines security content
- Variables and parameters - Pipelines security content
- Other security considerations - Pipelines security content
- Securing Azure Pipelines - Pipelines security content
- Project structure - Pipelines security content
- Repository protection - Pipelines security content
- Pipeline resources - Pipelines security content
- Security through templates - Pipelines security content
Updated articles
- Use Azure Pipelines - Update 2 intro articles
- Sign up for Azure Pipelines - CHCOMLEY - Azure Pipelines acquisition (pipelines-sign-up)
- Add & use variable groups
- Document CLI commands for managing variable groups
- Resolve syncing conflicts from repo_sync_working_branch to master
- Pipeline run sequence - Document CLI commands for managing pipeline runs
- Define variables
- edit pass: variables
- Document CLI commands for managing variables
- Resolve syncing conflicts from repo_sync_working_branch to master
- MSBuild task
- adding troubleshooting section
- msbuild task doc update
Report
New articles
- Pipeline outcome summary for all pipelines sample report
- Add Sample report for all pipelines scenario
- Resolve syncing conflicts from repo_sync_working_branch to master
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.
- Re-title the last question #7398
- System.PullRequest.SourceBranch does not include refs/head/ #7372
- Update "Q: Which versions of Visual Studio can I use with Azure DevOps?" #7369
- Is it possible to include one agent to multiple pools? #7367
- Pre-reqs need some clarification. #7350
- Header vs Page Title Mismatch #7344
- Is macOS-latest really macOS-10.14? The latest is 10.15 #7343
- spelling mistake. #7309
- Powershell Version #7300
- Agent.BuildDirectory and Pipeline.Workspace seem synonymous but not sure #7298
- Azure DevOps Server 2019 needs a note for IE compatibility. #7290
- Multiple Sets of Stages Templates and linkage #7275
- Wrong defaults for workingFolder #7273
- Outdated note #7268
- SQL is incorrect in ISVError:300005 #7216
- Grammar mistake in "configure status policy in azure repos" #7203
- Description of "source" for pipeline resource is confusing #7201
- What is --cov=com #7189
- Email bounce from alias when sending feedback email #7183
- azure-pipeline.yml should be azure-pipelines.yml #7175
- Broken link #7158
- Should be inserted as a hint. Could Potentially be mistaken as an error. #7155
- Document contains a typo with single brackets instead of double brackets around TOC #7153
- Non existing links to pages in organizations/projects/toc.yml #7125
- Should I be able to check the skip status of a stage? #7110
- Scope of a "public project" is unclear #7103
- Spelling error #7081
- Verify that removing members screenshot is correct #7063
- Documentation on expressions is missing information about "if" statements #6989
- Two broken image references #6950
- Explain 'pipeline' and 'source' entries better for pipeline triggers #6913
- use the go task #6850
- Undocumented "dynamic variable" $(build.containerId) #6352
- Link "Rename and delete feed" is broken #4325
- Agent.BuildDirectory example #4057
- Agent.BuildDirectory example appears to be inaccurate #4000
Community contributors
The following people have contributed to Azure DevOps docs in February 2020. Thank you! You can learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.
- collinbarrett - Collin M. Barrett (4)
- ChristopherMank - Christopher Mank (2)
- Potapy4 - Nikita Potapenko (2)
- ajithmjose - AJ (1)
- alexander-danilenko - Alexander Danilenko (1)
- arammaliachi (1)
- compnerd - Saleem Abdulrasool (1)
- diogobaltazar - Diogo Pereira Marques (1)
- EddieBreeveld - Edward Breeveld (1)
- eogas - Evan Ogas (1)
- iamalexmang - Alex Mang (1)
- IanKemp - Ian Kemp (1)
- jasper22 - Alex (1)
- Jteve-Sobs (1)
- karoldeland - Karol Deland (1)
- pizycki - Paweł Iżycki (1)
- Styxxy - Hans De Mulder (1)
- tigran-a (1)
- VitorRigoni - Vitor Rigoni (1)
- weq - Raymond Siring (1)
- zanecop - ##[set-env name=HappeningStatus]"Its" (1)