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I have just released Version 1.14.1 of my Azure DevOps Pipeline Social Media Template Tester https://tinyurl.com/ADOEXT-RF Bump brace-expansion in /Extensions/BuildUpdating/GetBuildDefinitionVariableValueTask

I have just released Version 1.14.4 of my Azure DevOps Pipeline Social Media Template Tester https://tinyurl.com/ADOEXT-RF Bump brace-expansion in /Extensions/ArtifactDescription/ArtifactDescriptionTask

I have just released Version 1.12.3 of my Azure DevOps Pipeline Social Media Template Tester https://tinyurl.com/ADOEXT-RF Bump qs from 6.12.0 to 6.15.2 in /Extensions/BuildUpdating/GetBuildDefinitionVariableValueTask

I have just released Version 1.12.2 of my Azure DevOps Pipeline Social Media Template Tester https://tinyurl.com/ADOEXT-RF Bump qs from 6.12.0 to 6.15.2 in /Extensions/BuildUpdating/BuildVariableTask

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I have just released Version 1.11.1 of my Azure DevOps Pipeline Social Media Template Tester https://tinyurl.com/ADOEXT-RF Bump the npm_and_yarn group across 15 directories with 10 updates

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I have just released Version 1.8.1 of my Azure DevOps Pipeline Social Media Template Tester https://tinyurl.com/ADOEXT-RF Bump the npm_and_yarn group across 16 directories with 14 updates

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I have just released Version 1.7.1 of my Azure DevOps Pipeline Social Media Template Tester https://tinyurl.com/ADOEXT-RF Swap the means by which a GitHub encrichment is triggered to support named GHEC instances (#2237)

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I have just released Version 4.28.41 of my Azure DevOps Pipeline XplatGenerateReleaseNotes https://tinyurl.com/ADOEXT-RF Swap the means by which a GitHub encrichment is triggered to support named GHEC instances (#2237)

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Thanks to everyone who came to my #dddnorth session 'It is all about the journey - DevOps Migrations', hope you found it useful. You can find my slides at tinyurl.com/devopsmig

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There is still time to register for DDDNorth being held at Hull Uni on the 28th of February. This is a free community conference with over 20 great sessions and a free lunch! To checkout the agenda and to register go to www.dddnorth.co.uk

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I have just released Version 3.15.6 of my Azure DevOps Pipeline VersioningExtension https://tinyurl.com/ADOEXT-RF Update NPM Packages (#2170)

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I have just released Version 3.25.6 of my Azure DevOps Pipeline WikiUpdaterExtension https://tinyurl.com/ADOEXT-RF NPM package Updates (#2168)

I have just released Version 4.5.12 of my Azure DevOps Pipeline WikiPDFExportExtension https://tinyurl.com/ADOEXT-RF Add support to download a specific version of the AzureDevOps.WikiPDFExport CLI tools (#2167)

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I have just released Version 4.7.6 of my Azure DevOps Pipeline FileCopyExtension https://tinyurl.com/ADOEXT-RF Remove deprecated 'request' dependency from XmlFileUpdateTask package.json (#2163)

I have just released Version 3.11.38 of my Azure DevOps Pipeline BuildUpdatingExtension https://tinyurl.com/ADOEXT-RF General NPM package update (#2162)

I have just released Version 2.12.10 of my Azure DevOps Pipeline ArtifactDescription https://tinyurl.com/ADOEXT-RF General NPM package update (#2161)

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