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DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps Projects general availability

During our Connect(); 2017 event, we announced the public preview of Azure DevOps Projects to help customers start running applications on any Azure service in just three steps. Today, we're excited to announce that Azure DevOps Projects is now generally available in the Azure Portal, making it easier for developers to deploy to the ...

Universal Packages bring large, generic artifact management to VSTS

Until now, Package Management has hosted packages that are part of a development ecosystem: NuGet packages for .NET development, npm packages for Node.js and web frontend development, and Maven packages for Java development. We're also continuing to expand our support for new development ecosystem, with support for Python's PyPI packages and...

Supercharging the Git Commit Graph III: Generations and Graph Algorithms

Earlier, we announced that Git 2.18 contains a new commit-graph feature, and we discussed the commit-graph file format. As shipped in Git 2.18, this file only speeds up commit walks by a constant multiple, due to parsing structured data from the commit-graph file. Today, we continue by talking about how we can use the idea of a generation ...

Moving from Hosted XML process to Inheritance process – Private Preview

VSTS provides two process customization models, Hosted XML and Inheritance. Hosted XML was designed to allow your customizations to come with you when migrating from TFS. The Inheritance process model is the future of process customization in VSTS. It's simple yet powerful. As more customers import their work into VSTS we have received a lot ...

If I am a VSTS Stakeholder, can I also be an Admin?

Today, we’re excited to announce that users with the Stakeholder access level can now be administrators in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). With these upcoming changes, Stakeholders can administer access levels, permissions, and settings – if they have been granted permissions to do so. Previously, they were only able to invite users ...

What’s new in VSTS Sprint 136 Update

The Sprint 136 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all accounts. In this Update we introduce several design changes as part of modernizing our user interface. Watch the following video to learn about a few of the features, which also includes a demonstration of the new navigation and new Work hubs. Here’s an ...

Supercharging the Git Commit Graph

Have you ever run and waited a few seconds before the window appears? Have you struggled to visualize your commit history into a sane order of contributions instead of a stream of parallel work? Have you ever run a force-push and waited seconds for Git to give any output? You may be having performance issues due to the number of commits in ...