#azure-pipelines
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3 articlesAzure Pipelines' GitHub-hosted agents go GA, and your pool label now spends money
Microsoft has made GitHub-hosted agents with pay-as-you-go pricing generally available in Azure Pipelines, billing per minute by agent SKU instead of pre-purchased parallel jobs. macOS SKUs are GA; Linux and Windows SKUs are in public preview.
Oct 10, 2026 · Tomás VegaRunners & infrastructureAzure Pipelines opens an arm64 macOS preview with Xcode 27 in the pay-as-you-go pool
Microsoft added Apple Silicon macOS agents carrying Xcode 27 to Azure DevOps as a public preview, delivered through the pay-as-you-go GitHub-hosted Agents pool. For iOS and macOS pipelines that have been running Xcode on Rosetta-under-Intel agents, the native arm64 path is finally in reach on a Microsoft-hosted fleet.
Aug 19, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoSecurity & supply chainAzure DevOps issuer in WIF service connections heads for July 2027 retirement
Microsoft has set July 1, 2027 as the retirement date for the Azure DevOps issuer in workload identity federation service connections, pushing Azure Pipelines that already moved to secretless auth onto the shared Microsoft Entra issuer over the next year.
Jun 22, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo