Azure DevOps—New sprint burndown widget and improved pipelines security

Azure Repos:

• Cross-repo branch policy administration

Azure Pipelines:

• Multi-stage pipelines UX
• Orchestrate canary deployment strategy on environment for Kubernetes
• Approval policies for YAML pipelines
• Azure Container Registry as a first-class pipeline resource
• Pipeline resource meta-data as predefined variables
• Traceability for pipelines and Azure Container Registry resources
• Simplified resource authorization in YAML pipelines
• Improve pipeline security by restricting the scope of access tokens
• Evaluate artifact check
• Markdown support in automated test error messages
• Diagnosing cron schedules in YAML
• Updates to the Azure Resource Manager template deployment task
• Project level security for service connections
• Ubuntu 18.04 pool
• Service Mesh Interface based canary deployments in KubernetesManifest task
• ReviewApp in Environment

Azure Artifacts:

• Updated Connect to feed experience
• Public feeds are now generally available with upstream support
• Create project-scoped feeds from the portal

Reporting:

• A sprint burndown widget with everything you've been asking for

Wiki:

• Synchronous scroll for editing wiki pages
• Page visits for wiki pages

In the latest Azure DevOps update, we added a new sprint burndown widget that supports burning down by story points, count of tasks, and by summing custom fields. In addition, we improved pipelines security by restricting the scope of access tokens.

Check out the features list for more updates and improvements.