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March 2024

28 Mar

GA: Azure Logic Apps Designer for Consumption

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

We're thrilled to announce the general availability of the new Azure Logic Apps Designer for Consumption, revolutionizing your workflow experience with unparalleled speed, smoothness, and reliability. Unifying the designer experience across all supported platforms, including standard Azure Logic Apps, the Azure Logic Apps Visual Studio Code extension, and consumption Azure Logic Apps in the portal, ensures seamless usability and familiarity wherever you work.

  • Features
27 Mar

Generally Available: Free managed certificates on Azure Container Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Container Apps now provides a free managed certificate for your custom domain.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
  • Security
25 Mar

General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature.

  • App Service
  • App Service (Linux)
  • Features
22 Mar

Action required: Upgrade your App Service apps to Node 20 LTS by 30 April 2025

Target retirement date: April 30, 2025

Extended support for Node 18 LTS is ending

  • Retirements
22 Mar

Retirement: Support for .NET 7 ends on 14 May 2024—upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8

Target retirement date: May 24, 2024

Upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8 by 14 May 2024

  • Azure Functions
  • Retirements
13 Mar

Public Preview: Managed Java components in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now leverage managed Java components in Azure Container apps for service registry and externalized application properties.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
12 Mar

WhatsApp Business Platform now available for applications built on Azure

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Azure Communication Services Advanced Messaging is now generally available, enabling developers to send and receive messages from their applications through third party social messaging platforms, like the WhatsApp Business Platform. This latest messaging service helps businesses create intelligent B2C communication workflows to reach more customers at scale and deliver safe, reliable communications to customers worldwide.

  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
7 Mar

General Availability: App Service Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network

NOW AVAILABLE

Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.

  • Features

February 2024

5 Feb

Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Linux Now supports NFS

NOW AVAILABLE

NFS support is now available for App Service Linux code and container when mounting a Azure File share as a local share for the web app. 

  • App Service
  • Features

January 2024

22 Jan

Azure Spring Apps Feature Update Q4 2024: Spring Cloud Gateway supports a response cache and more

NOW AVAILABLE

Recent updates to the Enterprise plan include improved response caching in Spring Cloud Gateway, a more secure try-out option in API Portal, and enhanced application-level settings in Service Connector. Additionally, there's richer build history information to help with troubleshooting. For both Enterprise and Basic/Standard plans, Azure Spring Apps now offer scheduled maintenance for updates and an auto-sync feature for certificates, making application management more efficient and secure.

  • Azure Spring Apps
  • Services
  • Features

November 2023

24 Nov

Extended support for .NET 6 (LTS) ends on 12 November 2024

Target retirement date: November 12, 2024

Extended support for .NET 6 (LTS) ends 12 November 2024 - upgrade your apps to .NET 8 (LTS)

  • Retirements
24 Nov

Extended support for .NET 7 (STS) ends on 14 May 2024

Target retirement date: May 14, 2024

Extended support for .NET 7 (STS) ends on 14 May 2024 - upgrade your apps to .NET 8 (LTS)

  • Retirements
21 Nov

General Availability of Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider lets you centrally configure the applications running in Kubernetes clusters. The latest version offers workload identity authentication in the provider and dynamic refresh of the configuration data.

  • App Configuration
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
  • Security
15 Nov

General Availability of Application Insights Enhancements for Azure Logic Apps (standard)

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

We are also excited to announce the general availability of Application Insights Enhancements for Azure Logic Apps (standard). This new capability gives you a simplified experience for discovering insights about your Logic App workflows and more control over filtering events at the source and reducing your storage costs. 

  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Announcing general availability of .NET Framework Custom Code for Azure Logic Apps (standard)

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

We are pleased to announce the general availability of .NET Framework Custom Code for Azure Logic Apps (standard). This capability allows customers to extend their low-code solutions with the power of custom code.

  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Announcing Azure Integration Environment in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

We are excited to introduce a new Azure service that provides unified experience to help customers effectively manage and monitor their integration resources. This service comprises two core components: the Azure Integration Environment and Business Process Tracking, both currently in public preview.

  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Azure Functions brings new flexibility with scale, VNet and long execution time

IN DEVELOPMENT

You can now request for access to try out Flex Consumption, a new Azure Functions hosting plan that provides fast scaling and networking features with a serverless billing model.

  • Azure Functions
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Policy-driven resiliency in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now use and customize policies that provide high value resiliency capabilities and apply them to your Container Apps.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Leverage integrated Azure AI services to build intelligent apps in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
14 Nov

GA: Azure Functions supports .NET 8 in the isolated worker model

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Functions now supports .NET 8, using the isolated worker model.

  • Azure Functions
  • Features

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