Azure DevOps docs: What's new for September 1, 2020 - September 30, 2020
Welcome to what's new in the Azure DevOps docs from September 1, 2020 through September 30, 2020. This article lists some of the major changes to docs during this period.
Artifacts
Updated articles
- Set up your client's npmrc - npmrc setup
Boards
New articles
Updated articles
- Link user stories, issues, bugs, and other work items - Add link, build cross-project
- Plan and track work
- Update and monitor your Taskboard
- About process customization and inherited processes
- Add and manage fields (Inheritance process)
Cross-service features
New articles
- Work across projects FAQs - Work across projects FAQs
Updated articles
- Manage banners
- Manage authorizations
- Show bugs on backlog
- Add team administrator
- Set area paths
- About teams and settings
- Add teams
- Wiki Markdown guidance
- Create and embed a work item from wiki
- Add comments to wiki pages
- Use #ID to link to work items
Developer resources
Updated articles
- Add a build or release task
- Service endpoint authentication schemes
- Workplace messaging apps
- Webhooks
- Integrate custom build tasks into extensions
Organizations
Updated articles
- About access levels - Updates in display limits and updates to reflect drag-and-drop feature
- Manage permissions with command line tool - Namespace updates
- Add team, go from one default team to others - Settings - Add teams
- Get started as a Stakeholder
- Allowed address lists and network connections
- Permissions, service accounts, and groups in Azure DevOps
Pipelines
New articles
- Quickstart: trigger a pipeline run from GitHub Actions - GitHub Actions with pipelines
Updated articles
- Build a data pipeline with DevOps, Azure Data Factory, and machine learning - Added command to create variable-group
- Configure and pay for parallel jobs - Updates for parallel jobs content performance improvements
- Set retention policies for builds, tests, and releases - More content in pipeline retention
- Access repositories, artifacts, and other resources - New limit job scope setting
- Use secrets from Azure Key Vault in Azure Pipelines - Azure key-vault
- Troubleshoot Azure Resource Manager service connections - Azure Resource Manager service connections
- Define your multi-stage continuous deployment (CD) pipeline - Multi-stage deployments
- NuGet task - NuGet push, pack and restore
- Publish Test Results task - Update test results formatting
Repos
New articles
- Reconcile Command - TFVC Add Reconcile command
Test plans
Updated articles
User guide
Updated articles
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.
- "Extract all .zip files recursively" Example is incorrect #9366
- Note In Support For Output Variables Is Out Of Date And Incorrect #9348
- Example for ordered lists in wiki #9317
- Changes from Release Branch to Master #9304
- Variable "Resources.TriggeringAlias" is not documented #9266
- No Authentication is still wrong #9254
- Where is the developer supposed to set up the system.debug? #9247
- Use commas, not hyphens. #9244
- Link to list of pre-cached images outdated #9241
- Missing npm file path in target folder #9221
- Spaces are not handled as documented in PipAuthenticate@1/artifactFeeds #9212
- Mermaid Diagrams #9206
- If I import a git repository, is there a way to retain a link to the github repository I imported in order to pull changes in the github repo into my azure devops imported repo? #9174
- Node task can't find working directory "TaskDirectory". #9166
- Parameter 'chartType' does not clearly describe parameter options #9163
- Document does not explain how to embed bug number manually. #9162
- Document is missing IP's and ranges from Azure DevOps page #9156
- Documentation for Incoming Web Hook missing URL fragment #9115
- ToC in "Common service connection types" #9099
- What's wrong with a 91 days PAT?! #9020
- A rare MS apostrophe error...but twice? #8995
- Link with text "Add issues or impediments to your product backlog" does not seem to link to anything #8992
- Cross Project Linking #8950
- Feed permission documentation on regarding pipelines should include more info on project permissions #8929
- Add Link to Define variables #8908
- Variables across stages #8837
- Better formatting for Results Format Mapping #8715
- Extra spaces in YAML example #8533
- Clarify the Authentication Method. #8438
- Missing publish command #8393
- Poor documentation about objects and repetition constructs #8385
- Add physical machines to environment? #8357
- Defining minor version #8351
- This should show an example on how to use variables in
condition#8294 - The example for NuGet package caching is incorrect #7985
- What if the subscription is missing from the list of subscriptions? #7906
- Permissions to Add comments only #7639
- Redeploy successful release #7612
- This documentation page needs A LOT of work #6967
- Using CacheBeta with NuGet is Failing Builds #6281
- Improve info about agent configuration PAT #6209
- Default kudu/scm access restrictions prohibit devops deployment #4847
- Needs more explanation on the task icon or schema definition for it necessary? #4571
- So what can you do with a menu action and how? #4303
- Reconcile #1561
- reconcile command is missing #1066
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.
- Styxxy - Hans De Mulder (3)
- radujipa - Radu Jipa (2)
- wesleycamargo - Wesley Camargo (2)
- Akshu-on-github - Akshaya (1)
- aleccaputo - Alec Caputo (1)
- AlexandraRamirezMS (1)
- ashokm - Ashok Manji (1)
- davidsmatlak - David Smatlak (1)
- electrominium - Mohammed Mehdi (1)
- esecules - Eric Secules (1)
- focusonmx - Yujin Lee (1)
- Gupta-Amrit (1)
- LucyParry - Lucy (1)
- Mac-Chiato (1)
- ManuelGalindo (1)
- MarkIannucci - Mark Iannucci (1)
- mikemonteith - Mike Monteith (1)
- raboley - Russell Boley (1)
- zleight1 - Zachary Leighton (1)