Unable to approve latest release Azure devOps

Question

I have auto run build and release pipeline in Team service.

It start whenever developer check in code in repository.

​In release pipeline I set approver name (Pre-deployment approvals) to approve deployment on target server.

​In deployment queue setting I used

​specific for 'Number of parallel deployments' ,

1 for Maximum number of parallel deployments,

​Deploy latest and cancel the others for 'subsequent releases'

​ ​In my case developer check-in multiple times and auto start pipelines create queue for release approvals.

​ ​Approver want to approve latest one and want auto cancel all previous one as shown in image.

​but system forced him to approve one pending one only.

​ ​Please assist.​

I tried to change deployment queue setting

Answer 1

If you approve also contain post deployment approval for your release, Deploy latest and cancel the others that it does not cancel for post deployment approvals and that's by design.

You need to go into the release and manually reject/cancel all previously queued releases.

Please take a look at below similar issues here：

• Release pipleline "Deploy latest and cancel the others" not working
• VSTS - Cannot approve release

If you are only using pre deployment approvals, try to reject the first in the queue and refresh the page, which may do the trick. For example: If you go to the main page for the release definition and see a queue of releases waiting for deployment:

Click on the first one and reject it, then refresh the list. Only the last release remains queued: