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Release Notes

2026​

03/4/2026​

  • Backlog Epic/Feature Timeline: Updated the Options menu (formerly Card Options) to include standard Roadmap features where applicable, including User Selected Metrics.
  • Roadmap Settings: Added “Optimize queries for large Roadmaps” to improve performance when building roadmaps with work items that contain thousands of children. Includes visual progress indicators.
  • Rate Limiting: Added banner notifications when Azure DevOps gets rate limited, which causes Portfolio++ performance delays due to delayed or blocked Azure DevOps Analytics API requests.
  • Capacity Options: Added support for South African Rand (R) currency.
  • Capacity Requirements-Level Team Capacity Pop-Up: Fixed a permissions issue that prevented Azure DevOps Admin users from editing the values in the pop-up.
  • Various bug fixes

01/29/2026​

  • Capacity: Added Velocity Metrics (Planned, Completed Late, Incomplete)
  • Capacity: Fixed a permission issue inhibiting queries for some Organizations.
  • Epic/Feature Timeline: Performance improvements
  • Kanban: Fixed issue with column hiding
  • Roadmap: Fixed issue where parent work items incorrectly summed estimates from cross-project children using different estimation types (e.g., Size, Effort, or Story Points). Parent totals now include only child estimates that match the parent's estimation type.

2025​

12/29/2025​

  • Added support for the display of user selected metrics on Roadmap and Kanban cards
  • Improved Roadmap labels and user selected data fields so they remain visible on wider cards
  • Changed work-item-expansion algorithms to accommodate extremely large numbers of children
  • Fixed issue with Tasks Missing Estimates
  • Various bug fixes

11/28/2025​

  • Fixed infinite redirect for some visualstudio.com users
  • Fixed an issue preventing direct links from opening Portfolio++ views correctly
  • Fixed Capacity loading errors affecting teams with complex area path permissions
  • Fixed an issue where copying a Team's Sprint Capacity from a previous iteration removed team member days off

11/24/2025​

Capacity Fixes

  • Redirected VisualStudio.com to dev.azure.com to eliminate permission issues, enabling the Capacity view to load
  • Corrected Capacity view ‘Sprint Commitment’ and ‘Completed Work’ calculation when team configuration included sub-areas nested >2 levels deep
  • Corrected Capacity workdays calculation due to Azure DevOps Organization ‘Time zone’ setting
  • Fixed Capacity view Requirements level 'Add User' not displaying team members

10/27/2025​

  • Improved Roadmap performance for large Organizations
  • Added option to customize fiscal year quarter start dates
  • Added option to hide the blue 'current date' line
  • Improved Kanban 'Selected Items' dropdown options
  • Various bug fixes

09/18/2025​

  • Added Capacity Planning view
  • Added 'Show Resolved work items as Completed' to options menu
  • Added 'Show Team Iteration Path' to Options Menu for Build By Team (only)
  • Introduced Performance improvements for Azure DevOps Organizations with many Projects, Permissions groups, or Iterations
  • Fixed status tab not showing selected work-items for some Basic/CMMI process templates
  • 'View/Save As' now supports overwriting an existing view
  • Clicking the progress indicator now includes the Iteration Path column in query results
  • Roadmaps can now be searched by description or user email
  • Added subscription expiration date to the Portfolio++ Pro popup
  • Added URLs to demo videos highlighting Pro features
  • Improved Dark Mode styling
  • Various bug fixes

07/08/2025​

  • Bug Fixes: Issues related to 'Roadmap is too big to display'.

06/20/2025​

  • Bug Fixes: Issues related to dates.

06/18/2025​

  • Updates: added new filter modes to Status view
  • Bug Fixes: added fixes to identify work-item types in legacy XML process templates

06/13/2025​

  • Improved Roadmap 'Save' experience with info icon
  • Bug Fix: Legacy Build-by-Project Roadmaps constructed before release 2.4.0 not opening in certain conditions

06/08/2025​

  • Bug Fix: Resolved Build-By-Query Child Expansion

06/05/2025​

  • Added support for Azure DevOps Server 2019 upgraded from 2015 TFS
  • Build-by-Query now supports 'Shared Queries' that return:
  • Work items and direct links
  • Tree of work items
  • Admin Tab Updates:
  • Additional fields: Included, Last Viewed, Last Viewed By, Last Updated, Last Updated By, Created
  • Can export selected roadmaps to CSV
  • Create copy of existing roadmap using 'Save As' option
  • Additional filter modes allowing filtering of child work items
  • Private Roadmap Security Improvements
  • Bug fixes

2024​

10/25/2024​

  • Fixed issue with build by team drop down limiting how many teams are shown
  • Fixed issue with iteration selection being reset on option change in backlog epic/feature timeline
  • Fixed issue with malformed metrics query click in backlog epic/feature timeline

10/18/2024​

  • Fixed issue with customers not able to see upgrade to pro modal

08/26/2024​

  • 8491: Added option to pay for Portfolio++ Pro by adding it as an Azure subscription
  • 7265: Added ability to expand and collapse Project, Team, or Query cards in the timeline view
  • UI Usability Enhancements
  • Bug Fixes

02/20/2024​

  • 8382: Resolve issue affecting Portfolio++ users on Azure DevOps Server utilizing XML process templates. Projects upgraded from older versions of TFS were experiencing difficulties with loading project data.
  • Bug Fixes

01/25/2024​

  • Bug Fixes

01/12/2024​

  • 7963: Improve Roadmap query performance
  • Bug Fixes

01/02/2024​

  • 7340: Performance tuning
  • Bug Fixes

2023​

11/17/2023​

  • Bug Fixes

10/20/2023​

  • 7109: Resolve issue where XML process templates would sometimes not load

10/13/2023​

  • 7817: Resolve issue with Build By Query where users could get an error warning about missing permissions

10/04/2023​

  • 7428: Added tray to Milestones
  • 7266: Kanban V2
  • 7004: Options Menu UI Refactor, new options
  • 7695: Save view prompt
  • 7339: Customer Requests
  • 7110: Performance Improvements
  • Bug Fixes

09/06/2023​

  • 5516: Added ability to build Roadmaps by Shared Query
  • Bug Fixes

06/29/2023​

  • Bug Fixes

06/23/2023​

  • Bug Fixes

06/21/2023​

  • 5568: Added new feature to Kanban View so that selected work items of any type are shown together on the board
  • Bug Fixes

06/06/2023​

  • 6952: Resolve an issue with completed Story Points / Effort summation

05/26/2023​

  • 6925: Resolve an issue with save view where first time save can fail.

05/24/2023​

  • 6355: Performance Tuning, Refactoring, and Caching
  • 6729: Expanded support for XML process template configurations
  • Dark Mode usability enhancements
  • Bug Fixes

04/14/2023​

  • 6376: As a user, I want to be able to view my timelines in 'Years' in addition to Quarters, Months, Weeks, and Days.
  • 6006: Enable Azure DevOps Server users, who are disconnected from the internet, with the ability to purchase Portfolio++ Pro subscriptions.
  • Bug Fixes

02/16/2023​

  • 6283: Update Kanban Snapshot filename
  • 6250: Fix issue with generating snapshot in Portfolio Status
  • 6286: Resolve issue with custom sorting in Build By Teams
  • 6323: Resolve issue with Cross-Project queries for Portfolio Kanban
  • 6253: Hide Milestones outside of date range when date filters are set
  • 6332: Enable cross-project query option in legacy Epic/Feature Timeline
  • 6285: Resolve issue with duplicate work items in 2019 Server
  • 6287: Fixed custom sort order for Projects/Teams in Settings Panel

02/09/2023​

  • 6036: Enable legacy Roadmap Epic/Feature Timeline view
  • 6153: Resolve a date filtering issue in Portfolio Status view with Manual mode
  • 6127: Resolve an issue with Requirement level work items without linked children work items in Portfolio Status view
  • 6155: Add support for browser navigation buttons within the extension
  • 6193: Add scroll bar to Kanban Options menu for long lists of States
  • 6196: Resolve issue with Snapshot producing 0 byte files
  • 6216: Resolve permissions issues with Azure DevOps Analytics access

01/18/2023​

  • Bug Fix - Fix bug to allow users to sign up for trial subscriptions at the organization level

2022​

12/30/2022​

  • 4509: Settings panel updates
  • Allow Portfolio++ Pro Users to select any work item type from any backlog level when building roadmaps.
  • Allow Portfolio++ Pro Users to build roadmaps by Team
  • Make adding items to roadmaps more intuitive
  • 5494: Roadmap UI Updates
  • Add ability to expand Roadmap cards to view children
  • Remove Roadmap Epic/Feature timeline view
  • Add ability to view Roadmaps in Weeks view
  • 3369: Portfolio++ Administration
  • Add ability for Project Collection Administrators to delete any roadmap
  • 5564: Subscription Modal UI Updates
  • Add ability to purchase annual Individual subscriptions
  • Add ability to purchase annual Organization subscriptions

09/02/2022​

  • 5513: Resolve issue with Portfolio Kanban not calculating completed status correctly for Scrum process type

08/26/2022​

  • 5425: Resolve issue with VisualStudio.com users who cannot access Azure Devops Analytics service

08/22/2022​

  • 5424: Bug Fix - Requirements level tags not showing on Kanban Board

07/14/2022​

  • 5143: As a Portfolio++ Pro User I want to see my Portfolio in a Kanban Board
  • 5310: Show XML Process Template Warning

06/03/2022​

  • 5054: As a Portfolio++ Pro™ User I want to be able to include cross project work-items in my metrics
  • 4691: As a Portfolio++ Pro™ User I want to be able to click on the card metrics to see all the associated work-items
  • 5106: As a user I want to be able to click on the Project card title to navigate to the project backlog
  • 5102: As a user I want the Backlog Epic/Feature Timeline to load quicker
  • Bug Fixes

03/23/2022​

  • 4924: As an Azure DevOps Server user, I want the ability to purchase a Portfolio++ Pro™ subscription.

01/19/2022​

  • 4463: As a user, I want to manage my Portfolio++ Pro™ subscription and transactions through the customer self-service management portal.

2021​

10/29/2021​

  • 4558: As a Portfolio++ Pro™ User, I want my custom Epic Sort Order to remain when I add or remove Epic from my Roadmap selection.
  • 4526: As a user, I want to receive a warning message if the Analytics feature is not enabled or if I do not have permission to access Analytics views.

09/24/2021​

  • Added Portfolio++ Pro™ features:
  • Custom Project/Epic Sort Order
  • Dependency Management
  • Milestone Management

04/28/2021​

  • Fixed issue when printing Roadmap that was showing left-hand column cards titles as blank or awkwardly truncated.

04/01/2021​

  • 3638: As a user, I want to be able to switch from showing progress on Roadmap and Feature Timelines bars from counts, to percent complete
  • Refactoring: Fix miscellaneous UI bugs

03/19/2021​

  • 3153: As a user, I want to be able to see my 'Tags' on my Roadmap and Timeline cards (progress bars)
  • 3158: As a developer, I need to refactor our timeline views to show the tags on the Roadmap and Timeline cards
  • 3370: As a user I want to be able to share my Roadmap with others, and 'Lock' it to limit the ability to edit the Roadmap
  • 3408: As a user I want a filter bar menu to save filter selections + view preferences as "saved views"
  • Refactoring: Fix issue for Azure Devops Server installations where the port number is not being included in the dynamically generated analytics queries

02/15/2021​

  • Fixed an issue where searching for Epics in the Roadmap Settings panel was causing duplicate Epics to be displayed in the list

02/11/2021​

  • 3274: As a user I would like to see Portfolio++™ in the Hub Groups in the side navigation so I do not have to open my Boards Hub to view Portfolio++™
  • 3139 - As a user I want to be able to add custom Epic types to my Roadmap
  • 3144 - As a user I want to be able to view custom Epics and Feature types in my Roadmaps
  • 3505: Show Features in Generated View Mode if they are in an Iteration Path. No longer required to have subordinate work-items in Iteration Paths to be visible
  • Refactoring: View Framework and Query Parsing / Performance improvements for large Projects

2020​

12/29/2020​

  • Fixed an issue where Epics are not filtering by Project under Project Settings
  • Improved error handling for work-items where Title is empty in Project Settings

12/09/2020​

  • 2370: As a user I want to be able to print roadmaps, epic status, feature timelines from Portfolio++™
  • 2797: As a user I want to filter what is shown in my timeline by setting a date range
  • 3094: As a user I want Portfolio++™ to add support for virtual directory

11/6/2020​

  • 3045: As a user, I want to be able to view the Epic/Feature timeline as a tab in the Team's backlogs view
  • 10/16/2020
  • 3023: As a user I want to be able to use Portfolio++™ with the Scrum Process Template

10/9/2020​

  • 3015: As a user, I want Portfolio++™ to add support for Azure Devops Server 2019
  • 3028: As a user, I want Portfolio++™ to add browser support for Edge 44 and later releases

09/25/2020​

  • 2731: As a user, I want the Roadmap Directory to use familiar Azure Devops Projects page layout and behavior
  • 2738: As a user, I want to mark Roadmaps I created as private so only I can see them
  • 2671: As a user, I want to understand the EULA and Privacy Statement for Portfolio++™
  • 2662: As a user, I want to use standard forward and backward browser navigation in the extension
  • 2765: As a user, I don’t want to see cards behind the headers when scrolling vertically
  • 2806: As a user, I want Roadmap views and Epic Status to load faster
  • 2811: As a user, on the Epic Status tab, I do not want to see a green check indicator on “empty Epics”

09/8/2020​

  • 2806: As a user I want the Timeline and Epic Status views to load faster
  • 2811: As a user I don't want to see a green check next to the Epic if there are no child work-items defined
  • 2765: As a user I don't want to see the cards in the Timelines behind the headers when scrolling vertically
  • 2895: As a user, I want to see the User Story Modal utilize the maximum width of the screen.
  • 2662: As a user I want to be able to use standard browser navigation in the extension