July 24, 2018
As promised in the Protecting our users from the ESLint NPM package breach blog post last week, we have deployed new REST APIs to allow administrators of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) organizations to centrally revoke Personal Access Tokens (PAT) and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) created by users in their organizations. We’ve reviewed our system telemetry and... Read More
July 21, 2018
This week I’ve been busy talking with Open Source developers and users at OSCON, explaining how VSTS can enable their builds with our hosted (or on-premises!) build agents. Meanwhile, we’ve seen some incredible podcasts and blog posts about DevOps in Azure. The DevOps Lab: Azure Automation Runbooks with PowerShell Damian Brady sits down with MVP... Read More
July 19, 2018
In our interactions with users, we see a lot of confusion over the word account. Currently we use account to mean things like https://contoso.visualstudio.com and things like admin@contoso.com. To avoid this confusion, and to better align with the terminology of the broader developer and OSS community, we will be adopting the word organization in Visual... Read More
July 18, 2018
We’re excited to announce updates to the new dashboard experience. This new experience lets you: Easily switch between your team’s dashboards Fine tune team permissions on individual dashboards Find and favorite the dashboards you need It is now generally available for VSTS customers and coming to TFS in the next major version. Get to your... Read More
July 18, 2018
On the 12th of July 2018, malicious code was detected in two popular open-source NPM packages, eslint-scope (version 3.7.2) and eslint-config-eslint (version 5.0.2). As a result, developers who downloaded and installed these packages may have had credentials stored in their .npmrc file compromised. This may include credentials required to access package feeds hosted in Visual Studio Team Services. ... Read More
July 16, 2018
We’ve been discussing the commit-graph feature in Git 2.18 and how we can use generation numbers to accelerate commit walks. One area where we can get significant speedup is when presenting output in topological order. This allows us to walk a much smaller list of commits than before. One place where this breaks down is... Read More
July 13, 2018
It’s been another busy week for VSTS and DevOps, and we’re excited to see some interesting articles and podcasts about DevOps on Azure. Moving a Git Repo from Bitbucket to VSTS One of the great things about Git is that it’s easy to move your repository from one hosting provider to another – and maintain... Read More
July 12, 2018
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 Azure cloud and create CI/CD pipelines... Read More
July 9, 2018
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 more in the coming months. However,... Read More
July 9, 2018
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... Read More