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Azure Front Door (classic) will be retired on 31 March 2027
Target retirement date: March 31, 2027
Migrate to Azure Front Door Standard or Premium by 31 March 2027, when Front Door (classic) will be retired.
Azure Static Web Apps distributed functions capability now in Public Preview
Reduced latency by distributing managed functions to regions of high demand.
Public preview: Azure CNI static block IP allocation support in AKS
You can now scale beyond the current 65k Pod IPs and scale up to 1 Million Pods.
November 2023
Generally available: Azure Static Web Apps now supports .NET 8
Azure Static Web Apps now supports .NET 8, enabling you to build and deploy frontend and full-stack .NET 8 web applications. With .NET 8 support, you can build and deploy Blazor WebAssembly apps to Azure Static Web Apps. You can also deploy .NET 8 managed functions to your Azure Static Web Apps.
Azure Chaos Studio is now generally available
The general availability of Azure Chaos Studios provides a fully managed experimentation platform for discovering challenging issues through experiment templates, dynamic targets and a more guided user interface.
October 2023
Public preview: Traffic Splitting for Azure Static Web Apps
Split traffic to your Azure Static Web Apps across multiple environments to gradually rollout features and compare versions being tested.
Public preview: Snippets for Azure Static Web Apps
Inject snippets into your website’s pages to add analytics, customizations and integrations, or to optimize performance without changing your source code.
August 2023
Generally Available: Azure Container Apps support for UDR, NAT Gateway, and smaller subnets
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now define UDRs to manage how outbound traffic is routed for your container app environment’s subnet.
General availability: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government
Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model.
July 2023
General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade
All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between July 2023 and November 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub.
Azure’s cross-region Load Balancer is now generally available
Azure Load Balancer support for cross-region load balancing is now generally available. You can now load balance across Azure regions enabling a globally redundant architecture via Azure Load Balancer.
June 2023
General availability: Azure Front Door Migration from classic to standard/premium
Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model.
Public preview: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government
Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model.
May 2023
Generally Available: Linked backends for Azure Static Web Apps
You can now link your backend APIs to your Static Web Apps applications for seamless routing and integrated security.
Microsoft Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces
Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces
April 2023
Generally available: API Management Authorizations
API Management Authorizations are now generally available, providing a simple and reliable way to unbundle and abstract authorizations from web APIs.
Generally available: Static Web Apps support for Python 3.10
You can now build Static Web Apps applications using Python 3.10
March 2023
Public preview: Data API builder instantly creates modern REST and GraphQL endpoints for modern databases
Improve development velocity and efficiency via modern REST and GraphQL API using the new data API builder with support for multiple Azure databases.
Public preview: Database connections support in Azure Static Web Apps
You can now make REST or GraphQL requests to a built-in `/data-api` endpoint to retrieve and modify contents of a connected database, without having to write backend code.
Public preview: Azure Static Web Apps support for A Record
You can now add an APEX custom domain to your Static Web Apps with A Records
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