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TFS Security updates

March 2, 2018 Mar 2, 2018 03/2/18
Brian Harry
On Wednesday, we released a roll up of fixes for security vulnerabilities for several versions of Team Foundation Server. There are no new features in this update. Most of the vulnerabilities are related to cross site scripting (XSS), some of which were customer reported. The others include an improperly encoded API, a service endpoint editing experience which exposes a previously configured password, and a regex denial of service vulnerability in our web portal. We recommend customers install these updates. These fixes are included in the recently released Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 1. The release on Wednesday was for older versions and for customers who are not yet ready to update to the TFS 2018.

VSTS and TFS roadmap update

February 28, 2018 Feb 28, 2018 02/28/18
Brian Harry
This week we updated the roadmap (Feature Timeline) for Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server.  Check it out to see many of the significant improvements we are working on/planning.  If you have feedback or suggestions for other improvements that are important to you, our User Voice forum is the best place to provide it. ...

DevOps @ Connect(); 2017

November 9, 2017 Nov 9, 2017 11/9/17
Brian Harry
I am excited…There will be lots of news…at Microsoft Connect(); 2017 happening Wednesday Nov 15th in New York City. Please join the live stream starting at 10:00 AM EST for Scott Guthrie’s keynote, where he will showcase lots of new innovations across Azure, .NET, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services and more.  At 3:00 PM EST...

Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 3 available

November 6, 2017 Nov 6, 2017 11/6/17
Brian Harry
Today we released the final build of TFS 2017 Update 3.  This release follows the release candidate and addresses all the customer feedback we have gotten and all the issues we have found in extensive testing.  If you are on TFS 2017 or are upgrading to it, this is the release I would recommend for you. As I've ...

Team Foundation Server 2018 and SQL Server

October 13, 2017 Oct 13, 2017 10/13/17
Brian Harry
About 6 weeks ago, I wrote a post announcing the availability of TFS 2018 RC1.  In the comments, there ensued a sizeable conversation about the requirement for SQL Server 2016 or later (rather than also supporting SQL Server 2014).  It was good to get the feedback.  I read it carefully and we discussed it within our team.  I wanted to wrap...

TFS 2018 RC2 is available

September 25, 2017 Sep 25, 2017 09/25/17
Brian Harry
Today we shipped the second release candidate for Team Foundation Server 2018.  If all goes well, this should be the final release candidate.  We'll make sure that all the issues you report are addressed and we'll ship the final version in a couple of months.  From the release notes, you can see TFS 2018 has tons of new features.  RC2 adds...

TFS 2017 Update 3 RC is available

September 19, 2017 Sep 19, 2017 09/19/17
Brian Harry
Today we released the Release Candidate for Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 3.  Following the pattern of all of our Update 3 releases, TFS 2017 Update 3 is a small release, focused on bug fixes - mostly a roll up of fixes for issues that we've uncovered as increasing numbers of customers have adopted the TFS 2017 wave of releases.  In all...