Introducing Azure DevOps 2019!

Recently Microsoft announced the first release of Azure DevOps Server 2019. It includes a refined, more efficient and user-friendly Azure DevOps interface and delivers the codebase of Microsoft Azure DevOps while being optimized for customers who prefer to self-host.

Features of Azure DevOps:

1. In addition to existing SQL Server support, Azure DevOps Server also includes support for Azure SQL. This means you can self-host Azure DevOps in their own datacenter using an on-premises SQL Server. 
2. You can use the globally available Microsoft hosted service to take advantage of automatic updates and automatic scaling of Azure DevOps Server.
3. Azure DevOps Server 2019 includes a new release management interface. You can easily understand how your deployment is taking place and gives you a better idea of what is getting deployed to which environment and why.
4. You can now mix and match agents self-hosted on-premises and in any cloud on Windows, Mac, or Linux, while easily deploying to IaaS or PaaS in Azure, as well as on-premises infrastructure.
5. An improved user experience in Azure DevOps.
6. A new feature is ‘my work flyout’. It was developed after feedback obtained that when a customer is in one part of the product and wants some information from another part, they didn’t want to lose their context of the current task. You can now access this flyout from anywhere in the product, which will give you a quick but clear understanding of vital information.
7. For teams that use pull requests (PRs), a new notification filter is added to allow users and teams to receive email alerts any time a policy is bypassed.
8. Tests tab now gives a thorough information for Pipelines. It provides an in-progress test view, debugging experience, test history and run level summary.

If you would like to download Azure DevOps Server 2019 RC1 then follow the link!