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New extensibility points for Pipelines details view

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With this update, we've added two new extensibility points that you can target in your extensions. These extensibility points let you add a custom button in the pipeline header and a custom menu on a pipeline folder.

Check out the release notes for details.

Azure Boards

Azure Pipelines

Azure Boards

Remove the ability to download a deleted attachment from work item history

We fixed a small issue where users were able to download attachments from the work item history, even after the attachment was removed from the form. Now, once the attachment is removed, it cannot be downloaded from the history, nor will the download URL be available from the REST API response.

Azure Pipelines

New extension points for Pipelines details view

We've added two new extensibility points that you can target in your extensions. These extensibility points let you add a custom button in the pipeline header and a custom menu on a pipeline folder:

  • Custom button in the pipeline header: ms.vss-build-web.pipelines-header-menu
  • Custom menu on a pipeline folder: ms.vss-build-web.pipelines-folder-menu

To use these new extensibility points, simply add a new contribution that targets them in your Azure DevOps extension's vss-extension.json manifest file.

For example:

"contributions": [
        {
            "id": "pipelinesFolderContextMenuTestItem",
            "type": "ms.vss-web.action",
            "description": "Custom menu on a pipeline folder",
            "targets": [
                "ms.vss-build-web.pipelines-folder-menu"
            ],
            "properties": {
                "text": "Test item",
                "title": "ms.vss-code-web.source-item-menu",
                "icon": "images/show-properties.png",
                "group": "actions",
                "uri": "main.html",
                "registeredObjectId": "showProperties"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "pipelinesHeaderTestButton",
            "type": "ms.vss-web.action",
            "description": "Custom button in the pipeline header",
            "targets": [
                "ms.vss-build-web.pipelines-header-menu"
            ],
            "properties": {
                "text": "Test item",
                "title": "ms.vss-code-web.source-item-menu",
                "icon": "images/show-properties.png",
                "group": "actions",
                "uri": "main.html",
                "registeredObjectId": "showProperties"
            }
        }
]

The result will be:

  • Custom button in the pipeline header

    Custom button in the pipeline header

  • Custom menu on a pipeline folder

    Custom menu on a pipeline folder

Improved migration to Azure DevOps Services

When running an import from Azure DevOps Server to Azure DevOps Services, you have to consider that Azure DevOps no longer supports per-pipeline retention rules. With this update, we removed these policies when you migrate to Azure DevOps Services from your on-premises Azure DevOps Server. To learn more about configuring retention policies, see our documentation on setting retention policies for builds, releases, and tests.

Improvement to Pipelines Runs REST API

Previously, the Pipelines Runs REST API returned only the self repository. With this update, the Pipelines Runs REST API returns all repository resources of a build.

Next steps

Note

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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How to provide feedback

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You can also get advice and your questions answered by the community on Stack Overflow.

Thanks,

Aaron Hallberg