Azure DevOps docs: What's new for October 1, 2020 - October 31, 2020
Welcome to what's new in the Azure DevOps docs from October 1, 2020 through October 31, 2020. This article lists some of the major changes to docs during this period.
Artifacts
Updated articles
Boards
Updated articles
Integrate
Updated articles
- Use the Cross-platform CLI for Azure DevOps using personal access tokens (PATs)
- Release API Contracts
Notifications
New articles
Updated articles
- About notifications
- Link work items to external objects in Azure DevOps
- Manage your personal notifications
Organizations
New articles
- Security namespace and permission reference for Azure DevOps
- Security and permission management tools for Azure DevOps
Updated articles
- About security, membership, and permissions
- Manage permissions with command line tool
- Default permissions and access for Azure DevOps
- About settings for users, teams, projects, or organizations
- Manage and configure team tools
- Naming restrictions and conventions
- Define iteration paths and configure team iterations
Pipelines
New articles
Updated articles
- Run a self-hosted agent in Docker
- Agent pools
- Quickstart: Build and deploy Xamarin apps with a pipeline
- Azure Pipelines documentation
- Trigger one pipeline after another
- Pipeline caching
- Deploy pull request Artifacts with Azure Pipelines
Project
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.
- 'Versions that got promoted to views are exempt from retention policies and will be deleted.' should be 'not deleted' #9567
- New users #9502
- Error while syncing repositories #9474
- Typo in header "Search limitaitons" #9468
- Typo in Numbering under "Where are my .npmrc files?" #9461
- Link no longer makes sense #9460
- Grammar issue #9451
- Update agents without internet access #9450
- Git credential manager links point to deprecated solution #9402
- Deploy not being marked as a reserved name in doc #9398
- Environment registration token expire time #9382
- A typo #9377
- privide some hint where the tf.exe normally is located #9359
- Wrong WI used and typo #9345
- Typo: promoted -> prompted #9315
- Typo in What's new #9301
- Documentation update needed in scale-set agents? #9300
- Cobertura Support #9185
- published artifact not visible on pipeline run summary page #8951
- screenshots and directions are wrong for devops server 2019 #8948
- Example doesn't match command #8924
- Confusing statement and alternate credentials is no longer #8863
- The file name restrictions are incorrect #8557
- 'escape them with a slash' does not have / in the parentheses in custom command section #8484
- How does the .NET Core task support publishing of test code coverage data? #8447
- Need additional info about when macro syntax variables can be used #8445
- Add example of caching Docker images #8397
- Type casting #8242
- Availability of queue time variable and run time parameter #8125
- Missing Explanation for how default branch for trigger impacts Pipeline Resource Trigger #7065
- Where are constraints coming from? #812
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.
- hyoshioka0128 - Hiroshi Yoshioka (12)
- ChristopherMank - Christopher Mank (2)
- macfarmw - Matthew MacFarland (2)
- AliyeSimsek - Aliye Simsek (1)
- andreujuanc - Juan C. Andreu (1)
- angelwong - Angel Wong (1)
- arammaliachi (1)
- ashokm - Ashok Manji (1)
- derrix060 - Mario Apra (1)
- evansmith1377 - Evan Smith (1)
- greg-bennett (1)
- jessehouwing - Jesse Houwing (1)
- jhitze - Jacob Hitze (1)
- kissge (1)
- ksmis-gh - Kshiteesh (1)
- kzu - Daniel Cazzulino (1)
- markrendle - Mark Rendle (1)
- novasdream - Bruno Novais (1)
- pauharri (1)
- Potapy4 - Mykyta Potapenko (1)
- smholvoet - Sander Holvoet (1)
- Styxxy - Hans De Mulder (1)
- ulfakerstedt - Ulf Ã…kerstedt (1)