Azure DevOps docs: What's new for July 1, 2020 - July 31, 2020
Welcome to what's new in the Azure DevOps docs from July 1, 2020 through July 31, 2020. This article lists some of the major changes to docs during this period.
Artifacts
Updated articles
- Use Azure Artifacts as a private PowerShell repository - Artifacts PowerShell repo
Boards
Updated articles
- Copy or clone work items - Copy work item (copies linked tasks)
Extend
Updated articles
- Add a build or release task
- Service endpoint authentication schemes
- Authentication schema examples
- Updated JSON examples
Notifications
Updated articles
- Access notification settings - Updates to support Azure DevOps Server 2020
Organizations
Updated articles
- Assign users to security groups, manage permissions, access levels, and billing for Azure DevOps. Configure resources and manage settings for an organization, project, team, or user. - Update Settings TOC
- Create a project in Azure DevOps - Updates to Settings, CLI for Azure DevOps Server 2020
- Add a team, move from one default team to several teams - Updates to Settings, CLI for Azure DevOps Server 2020
- Rename or remove a team - Updates to Settings, CLI for Azure DevOps Server 2020
- Define area paths and assign to a team - Remove preview
- Define Iteration Paths and configure team iterations - Update area paths monikers, remove preview
- About process customization and inherited processes - Updates for Azure DevOps Server 2020.
Pipelines
New articles
- Build a data pipeline with DevOps, Azure Data Factory, and machine learning - CI/CD Data Pipeline Articles
- Why data pipelines? - CI/CD Data Pipeline Articles
- Building a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipeline with DSC
- Build GitHub Enterprise Server repositories
- Build on-premises Bitbucket repositories
- Build Subversion repositories
Updated articles
- Azure virtual machine scale set agents - Scale Set Agents - new configuration options and more detail on how it works
- Azure Pipelines with Microsoft Teams - Multi-tenant support
- Retention policies for builds, tests, and releases - Build and release retention policies
- Resources in YAML - Pipeline resources documentation
- Release triggers - Release triggers
- Build GitHub repositories - Updates
- Use multiple repositories in your pipeline - Various fixes
- Stage templates in Azure Pipelines - Updates
Project
Updated articles
- Manage or enable features - Update preview features
Reference
New articles
Repos
New articles
- Change the default branch - Guidance for changing the default branch
Updated articles
- Azure Repos with Microsoft Teams - Multi-tenant support
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.
- Please remove the color from this article. #8891
- What are the "feed users" #8878
- Needs clarity on how to use the copied code from this section. #8854
- Is this missing ##[section]? #8841
- Possible typo in "Understand variable syntax" #8801
- Incorrect example #8791
- Incomplete sentence in a page. #8774
- No mention of the requirement for agents to not be inside of a container #8772
- task.uploadsummary requires file to be utf8 or ascii encoding to work #8759
- "packages" resource documentation missing? #8757
- Register-PSRepository URL argument values require Project name #8756
- .NET client links broken #8744
- Outdated list of Microsoft-hosted agents #8736
- Cloning a second azure repo #8730
- Pipeline Artifacts task page should link to the main page #8723
- Stages is no longer in-preview #8717
- Missing documentation for packages #8674
- Container Jobs and self hosted agents #8632
- Azure Devops server: No "pool" support at pipeline/stage level #8623
- Deployment Pipeline not trigger when build pipeline complete #8590
- Warn not to migrate history before I complete the steps #8565
- Resources: packages example and schema are missing #8497
- No information about packages as resources #8485
- Missing information #8466
- How can we force the feeds to refresh? #8382
- Both "DownloadBuildArtifacts" and "DownloadPipelineArtifacts" tasks can be used in YAML pipelines now #8381
- Custom package version #8236
- How are Azure DevOps Public Projects discoverable? #8199
- Reason for using outputs | resources clean option? #8152
- Documentation mismatch for single jobs and templates #7783
- Multiple custom email addresses #7675
- Variable group yaml variable expression in Azure Devops Pipeline #7586
- Variable expansion with deployment job and environment tags #7518
- Build.Reason documented incorrectly for triggered pipeline #7492
allowPackageConflictsworks forubuntu#7232- Delete pipeline artifacts when re-running failed jobs #6677
- Github Release Drop cant be 'triggered' #5171
- Which tasks are supported for Server Jobs? #4672
- Where exactly can expressions be used? #4073
- Singular folder names rather than plural #1564
Community contributors
The following people contributed to the Azure DevOps docs during this period. Thank you! Learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.
- milbrandt - Volker Milbrandt (4)
- johnlokerse - John (2)
- andersonpimentel - Anderson Pimentel (1)
- burhan - Burhan Khalid (1)
- cpoDesign - Pavel (1)
- dakimaz (1)
- davidsmatlak - David Smatlak (1)
- iamalexmang - Alex Mang (1)
- JakeDean101 (1)
- jitusonawane - Jitendra Sonawane (1)
- MarkIannucci - Mark Iannucci (1)
- mburleigh - Matthew Burleigh (1)
- mcthib - Thibaut Vial (1)
- NenoLoje - Neno Loje (1)
- nickidw - Nicki de Wet (1)
- philipwolfe - Philip Wolfe (1)
- SebastianSchuetze - Sebastian Schütze (1)
- shigupt202 (1)
- tautoa - Jon Collins (1)
- thebeanogamer - Daniel Milnes (1)
- ThomasMPorter - Thomas M Porter II (1)
- v-avilla (1)
- venudhar1 (1)