How to replace classic release variables?

[gowallace]

I have an Azure DevOps pipeline that is using the v3 replace tokens task. I saw that v6 was available, so I updated my task to use it, but there are some Azure Devops variables that are no longer being replaced, e.g. $(Release.ReleaseName), $(Release.AttemptNumber). These are built in variables to Azure DevOps: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/release/variables?view=azure-devops&tabs=batch

Is there a way to make the v6 task pull these in without having to do them individually? Thanks.

[qetza]

Hi @gowallace,
Thank for reporting this issue. I'm using the function getVariables from the Microsoft SDK which seems to return only all defaults YAML pipelines variables (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/build/variables?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml) which doesn't includes release variables 😞
I'm going to do some testing and will add code to force read the missing documented default variables.

In the mean time, as a workaround, you can use the additionalVariables input like this:

'Release.ReleaseName': '$(Release.ReleaseName)'
'Release.AttemptNumber': '$(Release.AttemptNumber)'

[qetza]

Hi @gowallace,
The version 6.0.1 of task which was released fixes your issue: the variable names are now case-insensitive like in the previous versions.

[gowallace]

Works great! Thank you so much.

[qetza]

Thanks for reporting the issue 😄