Windows images update on March 20, 2017

Known issues

curl.exe is not on PATH - see this issue for explanation and solution
Microsoft.DotNet.Props was not found error in mixed .NET/Core projects without global.json - see this post for the solution
Git 2.12.0 does not support long paths (regression) - see this issue for more details and workaround

#1084 Fixed: Unfriendly error when build cache size quota exceeded
#1242 Add Reduced Redundancy Storage option for S3 deployment provider
#1284 LLVM 4.0.0 Compiler Infrastructure libraries
#1337 Agent environment deployment should fail if no single agent picks up the job
#1345 Git 2.12.0
#1351 MinGW-w64 6.3.0 for x86_64 arch
#1357 Node.js 7.7.3
#1358 Update Cygwin and MSYS2
#1362 APPVEYOR_JOB_NUMBER environment variable
#1366 Increase max request length for ‘api/testresults’ path
#1376 Yarn 0.21.3
#1377 .NET Core 1.1.1 with SDK 1.0.1
#1385 PostrgeSQL 9.6
#1387 Expose MaxErrorRetry in S3 provider setting
#1393 LLVM 4.0
#1394 APPVEYOR_CACHE_SKIP_RESTORE and APPVEYOR_CACHE_SKIP_SAVE environment variables
#1395 Mercurial 4.1.1
#1397 Add parameter PR to the last successful build artifact permalink
#1399 Git LFS 2.0.1
#1400 Subversion 1.8.17
#1401 Fixed: Inconsistent results for xunit .net core runner
#1402 Fixed: Inconclusive NUnit 3 tests generate errors in a build log
#1403 Erlang OTP runtime 19.3 x64
#1407 Microsoft Azure Service Fabric SDK 2.4.164
#1411 Visual Studio 2017 update 15.0.26228.9
#1412 Chrome 57.0
#1413 Firefox 52.0.1
#1414 Chrome Driver 2.28
#1415 IE Driver 3.3.0
#1416 Firefox Driver 0.15
#1417 APPVEYOR_BUILD_WORKER_IMAGE environment variable

There are build worker images available from previous deployment. You can use them in case of any issues with the current images:

You can select build worker image in “Build worker image” dropdown on Environment tab of project settings or if you use appveyor.yml:

os: Previous Visual Studio 2015