What's New in Azd

New in 2026.2

The 2026.2 line targets IntelliJ Platform 2026.2 and adds new filters, board options, and pipeline insights on top of the features described below.

• Awaiting My Vote filter: A new quick filter in the Pull Requests list shows only the pull requests assigned to you that you have not voted on yet.

• Zoomable comment images: Click an image in a pull request comment to open it in an editor tab, where you can zoom and pan it like any other image.

• Per-pipeline approval muting: Approval notifications can now be muted for an individual pipeline, either straight from the notification or from Pipeline Settings.

• Richer run list: Pipeline runs now show their commit message and a colored status label (Success, Failed, In progress, and so on). Runs on the default branch link back to the pull request that triggered them.

• Board improvements: Open a Kanban board from any project in your organization, not just the one the current repository belongs to, and filter work items by Iteration (Sprint), including @CurrentIteration.

• New pipeline metrics: The Metrics view gained widgets for the top failure causes and the slowest stages.

• AI provider transparency: A startup notice explains that AI features use a built-in cloud provider by default, and lets you switch providers or disable them.

Performance and reliability: Watching a running build is much lighter on the IDE and no longer leaks memory over long runs, filtering and sorting large test-result lists is significantly faster, and a broad round of diff fixes covers completed pull requests, binary files, renamed and deleted files, and files that switch between a symlink and a regular file.

Enhanced AI Capabilities

This release brings significant updates to our AI-powered features, including support for the latest models and local providers.

Support for Latest Models: Ships with the pre-configured AZD GPT-5.4 Mini provider out of the box, plus support for the latest model families across providers — OpenAI GPT-5.4 (including Pro and Codex variants), Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 / Sonnet 4.5 / Haiku 4.5, Google Gemini 3 Pro and Flash, and local Ollama models (Llama 4, Qwen 3, DeepSeek R1).

Pipeline Approvals and Validations

Manage pipeline gatekeepers directly from the IDE. You can now view and respond to pending environment approvals and manual validation tasks.

When a pipeline run is blocked, the approvals appear in the build header and the stages list, allowing you to approve or reject with a comment.

Advanced Pipeline Test Insights

The Pipeline test result panel has been overhauled with new features to improve traceability and analysis:

• Sorting and Filtering: Quickly find failed or long-running tests with the new toolbar controls.

• Test Summary: A new header provides a real-time summary of test execution (passed, failed, skipped, and pass percentage).

• Traceability: Seamlessly link automated tests to Azure DevOps test cases.

AI-Powered Log Analysis

Get help diagnosing pipeline failures without leaving the IDE. The new AI chat integration for logs analyzes failed stages and suggests fixes.

PR Metrics Dashboard

A new comprehensive dashboard to track your team's Pull Request metrics and performance.

Improved Navigation and UI

• Timeline Commit Links: Clicking on commit SHAs in the PR timeline now opens the PR details view in the IDE instead of the browser.

• Sort Controls: PR and Pipeline lists now feature a dedicated sort button for easier organization.