Announcing Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1 RC1

This post announces the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) for Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1. Key new features highlighted include: the removal of the Analytics extension requirement (Analytics can now be enabled directly in Project Collection Settings), a new 'Basic' process template with three work item types (Epics, Issues, Tasks), improved integration with GitHub to link work items in Azure Boards with GitHub issues, enhancements to pull requests (automatic queuing of expired builds for PR completion, Fast-Forward and Semi-Linear merging, filtering by target branch), simplified YAML editing in Pipelines with a web editor and IntelliSense, a new 'Test result trend (Advanced)' widget for tracking test results, and several Azure Artifacts improvements (support for Python Packages, upstream sources for Maven, and support for Maven, npm, and Python package types in Pipeline Releases). New Wiki features are also mentioned: permalinks, @mention for users/groups, HTML tag support, markdown templates for formulas/videos, work item status inclusion, and page following.