Browse DevOps News (290)
Kristen Womack summarizes the April 2026 Azure Developer CLI (azd) releases, focusing on multi-language hooks in azure.yaml, extension framework updates, Copilot-assisted troubleshooting, and a set of security, provisioning, and CI/CD reliability improvements across versions 1.23.14 through 1.24.2.
The Visual Studio Code Team summarizes what’s new in VS Code 1.119 (Insiders), including Markdown UX updates and several chat/agent features such as improved codebase context for virtual file systems, attaching browser tabs as context, and Copilot CLI plan mode support.
stclarke summarizes recent Microsoft Security updates, including new Microsoft Defender protections for AI agents in the Agent 365 tooling gateway, a generally available Defender for Cloud + GitHub Advanced Security integration, and a new Microsoft Purview demo for running data security investigations with AI-assisted analysis.
Microsoft Fabric Blog explains how Fabric SQL developers can move from Azure Data Studio to VS Code, keeping SQL Database Projects and adopting a Git-based workflow with pull requests, schema compare, publish script previews, and optional GitHub Copilot assistance in the MSSQL extension.
Microsoft Fabric Blog summarizes the April 2026 Fabric release, covering platform UX updates, VS Code-based workspace and notebook workflows, notebook retry policies, MLflow-based MLOps improvements, Data Warehouse enhancements like COPY INTO for JSONL, and Real-Time Intelligence updates including Eventstream observability and Eventhouse remote MCP.
Jason Helmick announces the GA release of Microsoft Desired State Configuration (DSC) v3.2.0, covering new built-in Windows resources, experimental Bicep orchestration over gRPC, expanded WhatIf support, version pinning, expression language updates, and adapter/extension improvements, plus install and support lifecycle details.
Mark Downie covers the April Visual Studio 2026 update, focusing on GitHub Copilot’s new cloud agent workflow, user-level custom agents, and a Debugger Agent that validates fixes against real runtime behavior, plus improvements to C++ agent tools, IntelliSense vs Copilot completion priority, and configurable Copilot shortcuts.
Kedasha Kerr explains how to use Markdown on GitHub to write clearer READMEs and to format issues, pull requests, and comments. The post walks through core Markdown syntax—headings, emphasis, blockquotes, lists, code, links, and images—plus how to try it directly in a repository.
Alexis Wales explains how GitHub validated, fixed, and investigated a critical remote code execution issue in the git push pipeline, including what caused the injection, how GitHub confirmed no exploitation on github.com, and what GitHub Enterprise Server admins should patch and review.
Vlad Fedorov shares what GitHub is changing after two recent availability incidents, including scaling work driven by rapid growth in pull requests and API usage, plus concrete reliability efforts like service isolation, caching improvements, and continued migration to Azure and a future multi-cloud posture.
Allison shares a GitHub Changelog update: Copilot cloud agent now starts over 20% faster by using optimized runner environments prebuilt with GitHub Actions custom images, reducing environment startup overhead when Copilot begins work from issues, PRs, or the Agents tab.
Allison announces a billing change for GitHub Copilot code review: starting June 1, 2026, reviews will consume both Copilot AI Credits and (for private repos) GitHub Actions minutes, with guidance on checking usage, budgets, and runner configuration.
Allison announces an upcoming change to GitHub App installation token format, including Actions-issued GITHUB_TOKEN. The update moves to a longer, stateless JWT-based token and calls out common breakpoints like hardcoded token-length checks, regex validation, and too-small database columns.
Allison announces two upcoming GitHub changes: web notification retention will drop from five months to three, and watches on repositories archived for over six months will be removed for non-collaborators.
Josef Sin explains what the Axios npm supply chain compromise means for Azure Pipelines users, who is and isn’t impacted, and what to do if your CI/CD runs may have installed the malicious versions—covering agent types, service connections, cache cleanup, and practical mitigation steps.
Allison announces improvements to GitHub Copilot Chat for pull requests, including richer PR context (comments, file changes, commits, reviews) plus new capabilities to review and summarize PRs directly from GitHub surfaces.
Allison announces that GitHub’s new global pull requests dashboard is now enabled by default as an opt-out public preview, and summarizes the latest improvements to the inbox and pull request list views for managing reviews and PR activity.
Allison announces an improvement to GitHub’s supply chain security tooling: Python dependency graphs can now be generated via a new Dependabot job that submits dependency snapshots to the Dependency Submission API, producing more complete transitive dependency trees and SBOMs across pip, uv, and Poetry projects.
Allison announces a GitHub organization-level setting that lets org owners disable commit comments across all repositories at once, instead of configuring each repo individually, with steps to find the setting in Organization Settings → Repository → General.
Richard Lander explains what Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute Raccoon) means for .NET developers, including how to install .NET 10 from Ubuntu’s archive, use the new `resolute` Docker image tags, and install .NET 8/9 via the dotnet-backports PPA.