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Features
Pipelines Agent runtime upgrade planning
What is the Pipeline Agent?
The Azure DevOps Pipeline Agent is the software product that runs on a pipeline host to execute pipeline jobs. It runs on Microsoft hosted agents, Scale Set agents and Self-hosted agents. In the latter case you install it yourself. The Pipeline Agent consists of a Listener and Worker (implemented in .NET), the Worker runs tasks which are implemented either in Node or PowerShell and therefore hosts those runtimes for them.
Upcoming upgrade to .NET 6 & Red Hat 6 deprecation
With the release of .NET 6 we are able to take advantage of its new cross-platform capabilities. Specifically, we will be able to provide native compatibility for Apple Silicon and Windows Arm64. Hence we plan to move to .NET 6 for Pipeline Agent (Listener and Worker) in the coming months.
Due to a number of constraints that this imposes, we are dropping Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 support from our agent April 30th 2022.
Next steps
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These features will roll out over the next two to three weeks.
Head over to Azure DevOps and take a look.
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