General availability: Azure DevOps September 2021 updates

With this update, we've included multiple improvements to Delivery Plans. You can now emphasize Tags using colors and filter cards based on boolean field types. In addition, we made changes to make work item titles always visible in the card.

Check out the following feature descriptions for details.

General

• Improved tenant switch requests reliability

Azure Boards

• Emphasize tags in Delivery Plans using colors
• Filter cards based on boolean field types in Delivery Plans
• Work item title are always visible in Delivery Plan cards
• Show light green colored dependency icon for work items that have dependencies with no issues

Azure Pipelines

• New YAML conditional expressions
• Support for wild cards in path filters
• Support for multiple statuses in Bitbucket
• Allow contributors to skip seeking PR comments prior to build validation
• Windows Server 2022 with Visual Studio 2022 is now available on Microsoft-hosted agents (preview)
• macOS-latest label will soon point to macOS-11 image
• Updated schedule for removal of Ubuntu 16.04 image on Microsoft-hosted agents

Azure Repos

• New TFVC pages are generally available
• Configure branch creators to not get "Manage permissions" on their branches
• Prevent fork users from voting on their upstream PRs