New enhancements to Azure Boards are now available

Azure Boards has [new items](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update) that can help enhance your experience. For example, you can now **customise system picklist values** such as severity, activity and priority. In addition, rule support is now available for setting fields to read-only or required based on group membership. Finally, there’s a new extension that will allow you to create [cascading picklists](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-devlabs.cascading-picklists-extension) on your work item form. Take a look at the features list below for more new additions and read about [all the new enhancements to Azure Boards](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update). **Azure Boards:** * [Read-only and required rules for group membership](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#read-only-and-required-rules-for-group-membership) * [Customise system picklist values](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#customize-system-picklist-values) **Azure Artifacts:** * [Configure upstreams in different organisations within an AAD tenant](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#configure-upstreams-in-different-organizations-within-an-aad-tenant) * [Use Python Credential Provider to authenticate pip and twine with Azure Artifacts feeds](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#use-the-python-credential-provider-preview-to-authenticate-pip-and-twine-with-azure-artifacts-feeds) **Azure Pipelines:** **General** * [Pipelines caching improvements](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#pipelines-caching-improvements) * [Increase in gates timeout limit and frequency](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#increase-in-gates-timeout-limit-and-frequency) **Docker** * [New build image template for Dockerfile](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#new-build-image-template-for-dockerfile) * [Arguments input in Docker Compose task](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#arguments-input-in-docker-compose-task) **Test** * [Fix warning in large test attachments](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#fix-warning-in-large-test-attachments) **Hosted VMs** * [Updates to hosted pipelines images](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#updates-to-hosted-pipelines-images) **Azure experiences** * [Support for Bitbucket repositories in Deployment Center for AKS and Web App for containers](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#support-for-bitbucket-repositories-in-deployment-center-for-aks-and-web-app-for-containers) * [Linux Web App support for Java workflows in Azure DevOps projects](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#linux-web-app-support-for-java-workflows-in-azure-devops-projects) **Azure command-line interface** * [Pipeline variable group and variable management commands](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#pipeline-variable-group-and-variable-management-commands) * [Run pipeline for a PR branch](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#run-pipeline-for-a-pr-branch) **Azure Test Plans:** * [Test Plans progress report](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#test-plans-progress-report-public-preview) * [Enhancements to Test Plans page](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#enhancements-to-test-plans-page) **Reporting:** * [Improvement to the Query Results widget](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#improvement-to-the-query-results-widget) **Wiki:** * [Comments in wiki pages](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#comments-in-wiki-pages) * [Hide folders and files starting with “.” in wiki tree](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-156-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprint-156-update#hide-folders-and-files-starting-with--in-wiki-tree) * Azure DevOps * Features * [ Azure DevOps](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/devops/)