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Welcome to what's new in the Azure DevOps docs from March 1, 2026 through March 31, 2026. This article lists some of the major changes to docs during this period.
Administration
Updated articles
- Select backlog navigation levels
- Apply rules to workflow states (Inheritance process)
- Change a project process from Agile to Scrum
- Change a project process from Scrum to Agile
- Customize the web layout for a work item type (Inheritance process)
- Add and manage work item types
- Customize a project by using an inherited process
- Sample custom rule scenarios
- Restrict organization creation
- Data locations for Azure DevOps
- Add a Microsoft Entra group to a built-in security group
- Look up an Azure DevOps Administrator
- Manage access to specific features
- Set object-level permissions
- About teams and Agile tools
- Manage permissions with command line tool
- Add organization users and manage access
- Revoke personal access tokens for organization users (for admins)
- Assign access levels with group rules
- Set up Conditional Access policies on Azure DevOps
- Connect your organization to Microsoft Entra ID
- Create an organization
- Remove users from Azure DevOps
- Manage access with Microsoft Entra groups
- Manage personal access tokens using policies (for administrators)
- Assign an owner to an orphaned organization
- Use personal access tokens
- Access, export, and filter audit log
- Manage paid access for users
- Manage billing
- Manage notifications for your team, project, or organization
- Manage your personal notifications
- Default and supported notifications
- Create a project in Azure DevOps
- Delete a project
- View and update project summary page
- Rename a project in Azure DevOps
- Create or add a team
- Add and manage information banners in Azure DevOps
- Rename or remove a team
- Define area paths and assign to a team
- Define iteration paths (sprints) and configure team iterations
- Add and manage fields (Inheritance process)
- Customize the workflow (Inheritance process)
- Tutorial: Create and manage inherited processes
- Manage and configure team tools
- Turn a service on or off
Artifacts
New articles
Updated articles
- Consume packages from Python package index (PyPI)
- Package sizes and count limits
- Universal Packages upstream sources
Azure Boards
Updated articles
- Drive Git development from a work item in Azure Boards
- Manage problems or impediments in Azure Boards
- Manage columns in a work item list in Azure Boards
- Set Work in Progress limits
- Use the Dependency Tracker extension
- Add status badges for your GitHub repo
- Connect Azure Boards to GitHub (cloud)
- Example query charts
- Set permissions on queries and query folders
- Add tasks to backlog items for sprint planning
- Adjust work to fit sprint capacity
- Sprint and scrum best practices
- Customize cards on a sprint taskboard in Azure Boards
- 5. Share your sprint plan
- 6. Update and monitor your Taskboard
- Upload or download a process template
- Modify work items in bulk in Azure Boards
- Copy or clone work items
- Define features and epics to organize your backlog
- Filter and focus your work in Azure Boards
- Define, capture, triage, and manage bugs in Azure Boards
- Manage work items effectively
- Bulk move work items and change the work item type in Azure Boards
- Tutorial: Organize your backlog and map child work items to parents in Azure Boards
- Remove, delete, or restore work items in Azure Boards
- Manage columns on your board
- Tutorial: Add tasks or child items as checklist items
- Customize cards on a board
- Expedite work using swimlanes
- Add board features and epics
- Plan and track work in Azure Boards
- Add or edit a Delivery Plan
- Configure a hierarchy of teams
- Manage product and portfolio backlogs
- Use team delivery plans in Azure Boards
- Implement SAFe® with Azure Boards - Complete guide
- Track dependencies in Delivery Plans
- Add work item tags to categorize and filter lists and boards
- Create a query based on build and test integration fields
- Query work item history and discussion fields
- Export, update, and import bulk work items with CSV files
- Query work items by link or attachment count
- Query by rank and picklist value
- Query by area or iteration path
- Query by date or current iteration
- Query by assignment or workflow changes
- Query by field value comparisons
- Query by numeric fields
- Run a semantic work item search
- Query by titles, IDs, and rich-text fields
- Define a work item query
- View, run, or email a work item query
- Work Item Query Language (WIQL) syntax reference
- 1. Assign backlog items to a sprint in Azure Boards
- Manage sprint timelines
- End-of-sprint activities
- Forecast your product backlog
- 3. Determine and set sprint capacity in Azure Boards
- Autocomplete work items with pull requests
- Send an email with work items
- Follow work items and pull requests
- Move work items from one team to another team
- View and add work items
- List work item fields and attributes
Azure DevOps Reporting and Analytics service
Updated articles
- Transform Analytics data to generate Power BI reports
- Create a Power BI report from a default Analytics view
- Query trend data with OData aggregation
- Create an Analytics view in Azure DevOps
- Aggregate work tracking data by using Analytics
- Configure and monitor sprint burndown
- Track progress with status and trend query-based charts
- Construct OData queries for Analytics in Azure DevOps
- Configure a burndown or burnup widget
- Configure lead time and cycle time widgets
- Design effective dashboards in Azure DevOps
- Define basic queries using OData Analytics
- Create a Power BI report with an OData query
- Connect with data by using Power BI and OData queries
- Secure your analytics and reporting
Azure Pipelines
New articles
Updated articles
- Deploy multiple branches to different stages with Classic release pipelines
- What is Azure Pipelines?
- Use secure files
- Build, test, and deploy PHP apps
- Create your first pipeline
- Customize your pipeline
- Key Azure Pipelines concepts
- Logging commands
- Define variables
- Check out multiple repositories in your pipeline
Azure Repos
Updated articles
- Set Git repository settings and policies
- Create a README file for your repo
- Delete a Git repo from your project
- Move Git repositories to another project with full-fidelity history
- Remove a large binary from your Git history to manage the size of cloned repositories
- Rename a Git repository in your project
- Set Git repository permissions
- Configure GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
Azure Test Plans
Updated articles
- Bulk import or export test cases
- Copy or clone test plans, test suites, and test cases
- Create test plans and test suites
- Create and manage manual test cases
- Test Plans FAQs
- Run automated tests from test plans
- Manage test runs in Azure DevOps Test Plans
Extend
Updated articles
Integrate
Updated articles
- Authentication methods for Azure DevOps
- Best practices for integration
- Use service principals and managed identities in Azure DevOps
- .NET client library samples for Azure DevOps
- REST API samples for Azure DevOps
- Get started with the REST APIs
- Create a bug in Azure DevOps Services using .NET client libraries
- Fetch work items with queries programmatically
Marketplace
New articles
Miscellaneous
Updated articles
Reference
Updated articles
- Add or modify a work item type
- Add a portfolio backlog level
- Customize the work tracking web form
- Change the workflow for a work item type
- Provide help text, hyperlinks, or web content on a work item form
- Rollup of work and other fields