microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent v3.253.0

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Features

• Added WIF support for checkout task (#5085)
• Increase timeout for artifact associate for pipeline artifact (#5109)
• Changes to skip Not Executed state test in result.publish() command (#5116)
• Updated Node 20 version to safe version (#5118)
• Custom tasks that use Node 16 runner version should emit a warning (#5125)

Bugs

• FIX: [CodeQL: SM02184] Server certificate validation disabled in VssUtil.cs (#5068)
• FIX: Tasks on MacOS agents not completing but marked as succeeded. (#5092)
• [Checkout] Configure sparse checkouts before fetch (#5106)
• Suppressing CodeQL [SM02196] warning (#5122)

Misc

• Upgrade runner image in pipeline from macos-12 to macos-14 (#5093)
• Adding registry key for VS telemetry to identify if Agent is installed on the same machine as VS (#5102)
• Update ADO Client package to 251 (#5112)
• Check git version before running sparse checkout (#5117)

Agent Downloads

After Download:

Windows x64

C:\> mkdir myagent && cd myagent
C:\myagent> Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem ; [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory("$HOME\Downloads\vsts-agent-win-x64-3.253.0.zip", "$PWD")

Windows x86

C:\> mkdir myagent && cd myagent
C:\myagent> Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem ; [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory("$HOME\Downloads\vsts-agent-win-x86-3.253.0.zip", "$PWD")

macOS x64

~/$ mkdir myagent && cd myagent
~/myagent$ tar xzf ~/Downloads/vsts-agent-osx-x64-3.253.0.tar.gz

macOS ARM64

~/$ mkdir myagent && cd myagent
~/myagent$ tar xzf ~/Downloads/vsts-agent-osx-arm64-3.253.0.tar.gz

Linux x64

~/$ mkdir myagent && cd myagent
~/myagent$ tar xzf ~/Downloads/vsts-agent-linux-x64-3.253.0.tar.gz

Linux ARM

~/$ mkdir myagent && cd myagent
~/myagent$ tar xzf ~/Downloads/vsts-agent-linux-arm-3.253.0.tar.gz

Linux ARM64

~/$ mkdir myagent && cd myagent
~/myagent$ tar xzf ~/Downloads/vsts-agent-linux-arm64-3.253.0.tar.gz

Alpine x64

Note: Node 6 does not exist for Alpine.

~/$ mkdir myagent && cd myagent
~/myagent$ tar xzf ~/Downloads/vsts-agent-linux-musl-x64-3.253.0.tar.gz

Alpine ARM64

Note: Node 6 does not exist for Alpine.

~/$ mkdir myagent && cd myagent
~/myagent$ tar xzf ~/Downloads/vsts-agent-linux-musl-ARM64-3.253.0.tar.gz

Alternate Agent Downloads

Alternate packages below do not include Node 6 & 10 and are only suitable for users who do not use Node 6 & 10 dependent tasks.
See notes on Node version support for more details.