Modernizing the UI—VSTS Sprint 136 Update

In the Sprint 136 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), we're introducing some design changes. You can preview a new experience in the Build hub and Test tab. The Queries hub is now generally available. Also, you can try a preview of the new navigation experience.

There are other features across work, build, release, test, and reporting, as listed below. View the full release notes on Microsoft Docs.

Navigation

• Preview our new navigation

Work

• Queries hub generally available
• Easily find existing work items in linking and mention experiences

Build and release

• New build results page
• Pass environment variables to tasks
• Ignore a release gate for a deployment
• Set a variable at release time
• Organize your release definitions in folders
• Use improved Windows remote PowerShell based tasks
• GitHub artifacts show associated commits deployed in a release

Package

• Use upstream sources in legacy feeds
• Use arbitrary public npm feeds as upstream sources

Test

• Improved experiences in the Test tab

Reporting

• Exclude items completed before a certain date in analytics views
• Easily navigate to dashboards

Authentication

• Get notified for PAT expirations