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New Boards Hub enabled for all customers across all regions

In this sprint, we're excited to announce that the New Boards Hub is enabled for all customers globally! Try out the New Boards Hub and share your feedback to help shape what's next. You can find details about how to share your feedback in the release notes.

In addition, the Markdown support for comments is generally available with this release. This has been a long-awaited feature requested in the Developer Community.

Check out the release notes for details.

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

General

Azure Boards

Azure Repos

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

Advanced Security properly picks up on default branch changes and deleted branches

In previous releases, February 12 and February 24, we announced features that helped manage branch changes in your repository.

For deleted branch changes, these are specifically to manage pull request branches that are subsequently deleted. This feature does not currently support regular branches that are scanned then later deleted for some reason.

We found out that these changes weren't properly reflected for many customers, and this release fixes issues that customers were encountering.

General

Basic access included for GitHub Enterprise data residency customers

GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers in data residency regions now get Basic access in Azure DevOps. After installing the Azure Boards app, GitHub Enterprise users are detected automatically.

You can learn more about GitHub Enterprise licensing in our documentation.

Boards

Markdown support for comments

We’re excited to announce the general availability of the Markdown editor for work item comments! You can now use full Markdown syntax and enjoy a modern editing experience when writing new comments, bringing consistency with other Markdown-enabled areas across the product.

Existing large text fields will remain unchanged, but you can choose to convert them to Markdown individually as needed.

Gif to demo markdown support for comments.

This request was prioritized based on this Developer community suggestion ticket

Note

We are rolling this feature out gradually, region by region. We expect it to be available to all customers within 4–5 weeks.

Bug fixes improving GitHub integration and security

This sprint, we resolved several critical bugs to improve the security and reliability of Azure Boards GitHub integrations:

  • Fixed multiple issues related to access token handling, including inability to revoke tokens, use of over-permissive scopes, and lack of token verification
  • Addressed privilege escalation vulnerabilities in both the GitHub connection and branch creation flows
  • Removed persistent storage of GitHub PATs after disconnection to prevent unintended access
  • Eliminated use of wildcard origins in CORS configuration to enforce stricter security controls
  • Improved secret management by rotating GitHub client secrets and stopping global sharing across organizations
  • Enhanced logging and auditability when removing service connections
  • Resolved potential information leaks caused by misconfigured webhooks

New Boards Hub now enabled for all customers

As of June 23rd, the New Boards Hub is now enabled for all customers across all regions. The legacy Boards experience is no longer available.

This marks a major milestone in a journey that began back in April 2022. While we’ve come a long way, we still have a backlog of minor usability issues to address. Our team remains focused on fixing bugs and continually improving the experience.

We’ll continue iterating and resolving usability feedback in the coming months, with the goal of addressing as much as possible before exploring support for the on-premises version of Azure DevOps.

If you have feedback to provide or need to report an issue, please create a Feedback Ticket.

Azure Repos

Create work items from pull request comments

You can now create a work item directly from a comment in your pull request. Simply open a PR, add a comment, and click the new Create Work Item button. Then, choose the desired work item type from the dropdown menu.

Image to demo create work items from pull request comment.

Enhanced diagram support in wiki pages and file preview

We brought expanded support for a variety of Mermaid diagram types and visualizations, enhancing your documentation and project planning capabilities. The newly supported diagram types that we have included this sprint are: Entity relationship and Timeline diagram.

You can find more information about Mermaid support in the work with Mermaid diagrams documentation.

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

We would love to hear what you think about these features. Use the help menu to report a problem or provide a suggestion.

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