Azure DevOps docs: What's new for April 1, 2021 - April 30, 2021
Welcome to what's new in the Azure DevOps docs from April 1, 2021 through April 30, 2021. This article lists some of the major changes to docs during this period.
Artifacts
New articles
Updated articles
Boards
Updated articles
- Link user stories, issues, bugs, and other work items
- Bulk modify work items
- Copy or clone work items
- Interactively filter backlogs, boards, queries, and plans
- Customize cards
- Plan and track work
- Azure Boards with Microsoft Teams
- Review team Delivery Plans
- Linking, traceability, and managing dependencies
- Perform a semantic work item search
- Customize a sprint Taskboard
- Changes made to process templates
- View and add work items using the Work Items page
Migrate
New articles
Updated articles
- Validation and import processes
- Migrate data from Azure DevOps Server to Azure DevOps Services
- Validate and resolve errors related to process templates
Notifications
New articles
Updated articles
Organizations
New articles
- Access via Azure AD FAQs
- Create and configure organization FAQs
- Set up Visual Studio with Azure DevOps FAQs
- User and permissions management FAQs
- Manage personal access tokens (PATs) using REST API
- Billing FAQs
- Create a project FAQs
- Rename project FAQs
- Authenticate & invite GitHub user FAQs
- Troubleshoot work item form caching issues
Updated articles
- Manage personal access tokens (PATs) using REST API
- Get started with permissions, access, and security groups
- Security groups, service accounts, and permissions in Azure DevOps
- Apply rules to workflow states (Inheritance process)
- Customize your backlogs or boards (Inheritance process)
- Add a rule to a work item type (Inheritance process)
Pipelines
New articles
Updated articles
- Run a self-hosted agent in Docker
- Microsoft-hosted agents
- Deploy to Azure Web App for Containers
- Specify events that trigger pipelines
- Build and deploy Java to Azure Functions
- Deployment jobs
- Trigger one pipeline after another
- Pipeline caching
- Use gates and approvals to control your deployment
- Logging commands
Project
New articles
- Semantic search FAQs
- Functional code search
- Functional artifact or package search
- Functional work item search
- Get started with semantic search
- Install and configure Search
- Manage Search indexing
Updated articles
Report
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.
- Software dependencies not exact enough #10596
- Install Guide #10595
- [docs]NODE_OPTIONS instead of NODE_OPTION #10587
- .artifactignore file must be all lower case #10501
- The link to specifying demands could go to an existing page that is much better #10495
- Dead link to the command reference #10487
- Page is not updated to provide details about upcoming change #10486
- Can you clarify "alternative credentials" in Security Policies section #10484
- Self-hosted Linux agents for RHEL 8 not currently supported - Red Hat removed libunwind.so package from build #10469
- Is this an error? #10456
- Relative Link Documentation Wrong #10450
- Documentation is incorrect for issecret, fails to note secret variables do not get set as env vars #10430
- Mermaid diagram types incorrect #10429
- stageDependencies unavailable in AzDo 2019.1 #10418
- Need more documentation on parallel stages order #10403
- Example for dockerComposeFileArgs looks wrong #10400
- Wiki Markdown paragraph formatting inconsistent with documentation. #10382
- Docker Cache example incomplete and does not appear to actually work #10240
- Suggestion: Remove runtime expression syntax from example for macro syntax #10203
- token to base64 from linux terminal #10192
- Ability to restore conditional on deletion mechanism? #10190
- Docker Cache Example Configuration Fails #10164
- Typo #10152
- This page's link to installing Node on Nano refers to a page with the banner: " We're no longer updating this content regularly. Check the Microsoft Product Lifecycle for information about how this product, service, technology, or API is supported." #10107
- more information about service connection/authentication with ACR #9908
- Docker Example doesn't work #9476
- Package Management needs the module package to have a tag to find the package #9098
- Very very very confusing instructions for npmrc setup #8814
- Some clarification could be helpful #8700
- Available in templates? for build and system variables missing explanation #8678
- Copy output #8574
- Incorrect path causes function to not work even though pipeline succeeds #8542
- Not clear how to publish to nuget.org #8246
- Build.SourceVersionMessage only valid for master-branch? #8004
- System.PullRequest.SourceBranch example should have refs/heads/ prefix #7970
- Gradle example should be updated now that 10842 is marked fixed. #7743
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.
- albertoal - Alberto Alvarez (1)
- arnaud-tincelin - Arnaud (1)
- ebusho - ebusho (1)
- ericmutta - Eric Mutta (1)
- ericvruder - Eric Ruder (1)
- ganesp - Ganesh Pande (1)
- ieelleme (1)
- j-tim - Tim van Baarsen (1)
- kkalitowski - Kevin Kalitowski (1)
- kmadof - Krzysztof Madej (1)
- KyMidd - Kyler Middleton (1)
- markgaze - Mark Gaze (1)
- nikita-bykov - Nikita Bykov (1)
- SebastianSchuetze - Sebastian Schütze (1)
- simonsabin - Simon Sabin (1)
- VyacheslavPritykin - Vyacheslav Pritykin (1)