Azure DevOps docs: What's new for December 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
Welcome to what's new in the Azure DevOps docs from December 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020. This article lists some of the major changes to docs during this period.
Artifacts
Updated articles
- Upstream sources
- What are feed views?
- Secure and share packages using feed permissions
- Use feed views to share your packages
- Configure upstream sources
- Use Azure Artifacts feeds with NuGet
Boards
Updated articles
Integrate
Updated articles
Notifications
Updated articles
Organizations
New articles
Updated articles
- Add users and manage access in Azure DevOps
- Access, export, and filter audit logs
- Billing FAQs
- Buy access to Azure Test Plans
- About projects and scaling your organization
- Create a project in Azure DevOps
- Resources granted to project members
- Get started with permissions, access, and security groups
- About security, authentication, and authorization
- About pipeline security roles
- Add AD/Azure AD users or groups to a built-in security group
- Add users to a project or team
- Allowed address lists and network connections
- Increase permission levels, find an admin
- Security namespace and permission reference for Azure DevOps
- Security groups, service accounts, and permissions in Azure DevOps
- Grant or restrict access
- Security key concepts
- Set permissions and access for work tracking
- Set permissions at the project- or collection-level
- About settings for users, teams, projects, or organizations
- Manage and configure team tools
Pipelines
New articles
Updated articles
- Build multiple branches
- Create your first pipeline
- Quickstart: trigger a pipeline run from GitHub Actions
- Quickstart: Build and deploy Xamarin apps with a pipeline
- What is Azure Pipelines?
- Expressions
- Runtime parameters
- Configure schedules for pipelines
- Service containers
- Add stages, dependencies, & conditions
- Template types & usage
- Define variables
- Integrate with ServiceNow change management
- Provision deployment groups
- Stage templates in Azure Pipelines
- Release pipelines
- Build GitHub repositories
- Pipeline options for Git repositories
- Run Git commands in a script
- Use a PowerShell script to customize your build pipeline
- .NET Core CLI task
- Azure File Copy task
- Azure Resource Group Deployment task
- Java Tool Installer task
- Review logs to diagnose pipeline issues
Project
Updated articles
- Wikis, Public Projects, work across projects documentation
- Switch project, repository, team
- Manage or enable features
- Work across projects
- Search your code
- Search for work items
- Provisioned wikis vs. published code as a wiki
Reference
New articles
Updated articles
Repos
Updated articles
Test
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.
- Typo in one of the samples, with a keyword "postRouteTaffic", instead of the expected "postRouteTraffic" #9871
- azure-feed:// URI format #9852
- Document that FileTransform may not do what one thinks... #9822
- What are we supposed to write in <user> ? #9817
- Instructions for private repos not working #9814
- Use Variables in Content #9809
- shortcuts #9801
- Instructions and screenshots for creating PAT are outdated #9793
- Upgrade pipelines-xamarin to use a vmImage for vs2019 #9792
- feature branch naming convention is not consistent #9776
- Inconsistent indentation in the example #9769
- Please add about the expiration date of the SSH key #9754
- Git Version maybe wrong #9753
- Typo in YAML Deployment job Schema #9737
- Potentially misleading title and content? #9712
- How does one reach the link that you've embedded in the article? #9688
- Does Demand specification allow for "-contains" string? #9655
- Workloads tab -> Environments tab? #9644
- missing noun #9624
- Can credits from Azure Sponsorship Offer be used to pay for Azure DevOps services? #9592
- Parallel Jobs content is confusing #9589
- How to Inject pipeline variable into bash environment? #9572
- Seeing Markup Above Images #9565
- "How much do parallel jobs cost?" does not show any pricing. #9562
- Wrong information for Azure Maven Feed authentication #9524
- Incorrect markdown for the link to built-in docker images #9521
- Example script has been truncated or contains errors #9514
- Use the OAuth token to access the REST API examples does not work as-is #9488
- Wiki page menu options for code wikis aren't matching documentation #9480
- Links to macos-10.14 readmes #9404
- Arguments, RuntimeStack list link missing #9401
- Predefined variables for repository resource trigger #9389
- Can users contribute to their own branches only #9364
- Fix casing for appPoolIdentityForWebsite input argument #9363
- Invalid example in the YAML snippet - xmlTransformationRules #9320
- Error in text or description #9282
- Incorrect deployment mode options in the YAML snippet. #9276
- Rules for incrementing $(Rev:r) could be described more clearly #9243
- "Library roles and permissions" missing information #9205
- 'each' Keyword/Expression Documentation Missing #9204
- Azure App Service Manage task incorrect action capitalization #9151
- Add information about limitations #9080
- Parameter references are not expanded/resolved in variablesTemplate #9070
- No indication of permission prerequisites. #9014
- Is 5.* still (preview) #9002
- apt install for Single container job won't work as per lack of root power #8844
- I am confused by the discussion of how to reference variables defined in one job in another job #8529
- I think, There are some errors in the documention #8478
- When modifying permissions there's no "Save Changes" button #8450
- Unclear where to set options of "Clean the local repo on the agent" #8441
- Clarify how template file paths are resolved #8106
- Can parameters be set based on variables? #8101
- Where can runtime expressions be used? #8062
- Missing a YAML example for restore #7114
- Private Repos Require GOPRIVATE #6784
- Missing documentation on variable redefinition within the same scope #6632
- Where can I find information on how "Automatically link new work in this build" works #6597
- What project role/rights are needed to create new repos #5909
- Regarding the rev with leading zeros... #5468
- Docs say .NET Core's restore command automatically handles Azure Artifacts auth, but it doesn't #4714
- Sample App Code URL doesn't exist #4341
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.
- jlattimer - Jason Lattimer (5)
- JFolberth (2)
- aldonetti - Aldo Donetti (1)
- DeeDeeG (1)
- erjaintarun - Tarun Jain (1)
- Felistas (1)
- giraffesyo - Michael McQuade (1)
- Jominana - Jorge Minana (1)
- kanika1894 - Kanika Pasrija (1)
- Luperi - Luca Perico (1)
- mozts2005 - Elizabeth Schneider (1)
- Nikhil95 - Nikhil Desai (1)
- Olament - Zixuan Guo (1)
- samsmithnz - Sam Smith (Microsoft) (1)
- skedwards88 - Sarah Edwards (1)
- StingyJack - Andrew Stanton (1)
- vicperdana - Vic Perdana (1)
- Zhaph - Zhaph - Ben Duguid (1)