Azure DevOps—Assignment-based billing and other new features

In the latest update of Azure DevOps, we've added user assignment-based billing. With this feature, the number of Basic or Basic + Test Plan licenses will change as you add or remove users. This means that you’ll only pay for the licenses you’re using. We’ve also added a new setting that lets you choose whether new users get full Basic access or limited/free Stakeholder access.

In addition, we switched from monthly to daily billing. This means that if you give a user paid access for a few weeks or even a few days, you pay only for the time they were assigned the paid access, rather than a full month.

See the list of new features for more information.

General:

• User assignment-based billing and default access level
• New UI to manage organization and project permissions

Azure Boards:

• Support for custom fields in rollup columns
• New rule to hide fields in a work item form based on condition
• Custom work item notification settings
• Link work items to deployments

Azure Repos:

• Use service account-based authentication to connect to AKS
• Preview markdown files in pull request side-by-side diff
• Build policy expiration for manual builds
• Add a policy to block commits based on the commit author email

Azure Pipelines:

• Retry failed stages
• Enhancements to approvals in YAML pipelines
• Container structure testing support in Azure Pipeline
• Flaky bug management and resolution
• Enhancements to Azure Pipelines app for Slack and Microsoft Teams
• Updates to hosted pipelines images
• Open Policy Agent installer task
• Pipeline decorators for release pipelines

Azure Test Plans:

• New Test Plans page

Reporting:

• Inline sprint burndown using story points

Wiki:

• Short and readable wiki page URLs
• Mermaid diagram support in wiki