WorkItem Historian

Display a clean revision history of Azure DevOps work items with inline and side-by-side diffs

As of June 2026, WorkItem Historian has users in the Developer Tools category.

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Version
1.0.0
Manifest V3

History

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Jun 18, 20261.0.0
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Permissions & access

Permissions
contextMenus
Host access
https://dev.azure.com/*, https://*.visualstudio.com/*

Screenshots

WorkItem Historian screenshot 1

About

WorkItem Historian helps Azure DevOps users review how a work item changed over time.
Select a work item ID on an Azure DevOps page, then launch the extension from the context menu to open a dedicated history view.

Key functionality:

Opens revision history for a selected Azure DevOps work item ID.
Retrieves work item metadata and update history from Azure DevOps APIs.
Shows field-level changes across revisions for important text fields such as Description, Acceptance Criteria, Repro Steps, Test Steps, and Tags.
Supports two comparison modes:
Inline diff view
Side-by-side diff view
Supports time filtering to show changes from the last X days.
Highlights inserted and deleted content to make edits easy to understand.
Works with both modern Azure DevOps organizations and legacy visualstudio.com-hosted organizations.
Who it is for:

Product owners, developers, testers, and analysts who need fast visibility into requirement and test-content changes in Azure DevOps work items.

Technical

Version
1.0.0
Manifest
V3
Size
20.06KiB
Min Chrome
88.0
Languages
1
Featured
No

Metadata

ID
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Developer ID
u8b92beeaebf54c00407a14e24efb2adf
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Jun 17, 2026
Last Updated (Store)
Jun 17, 2026
Last Scraped
Jun 18, 2026
Website
Support URL
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Data sourced from the Chrome Web Store · last verified Jun 18, 2026.