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December 2023

1 Dec

Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs will be retired on 30 September 2025

Target retirement date: September 30, 2025

Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs are retiring on September 30th, 2025

  • IP Addresses
  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Retirements
1 Dec

Pod Security Policy is being deprecated with AKS 1.25 and 2023-06-01 API version

Target retirement date: October 14, 2025

Migrate your AKS cluster from Pod Security Policy to Pod Security Admission

  • Retirements
  • Features
1 Dec

Azure Object Anchors Retirement

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: May 21, 2024

Please note that Azure Object Anchors (AOA) will be retired on May 20, 2024. Object anchoring capability is generally available (GA) in Dynamics 365 Guides.

  • Retirements
1 Dec

Azure Spatial Anchors Retirement

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: November 21, 2024

Please note that Azure Spatial Anchors (ASA) will be retired on November 20, 2024.

  • Retirements
1 Dec

Application Insights Availability Tests TLS 1.3 Enablement

IN DEVELOPMENT

TLS 1.3 will be enabled for Availability Tests in Azure Monitor Application Insights starting on 4 December 2023

  • Application Insights
  • Azure Monitor
  • Compliance

November 2023

27 Nov

General Availability: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.2 runbooks

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.2 runbooks (General Availability).

  • Management
27 Nov

Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Defender for APIs

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

The general availability of Defender for APIs, a new offering as part of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, that helps organizations prevent, detect, and respond to API threats with an integrated cloud security context.

  • API Management
  • Features
27 Nov

Public Preview: Create and manage Azure Monitor managed Prometheus rules in Azure portal

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

You can now create and manage Azure Managed Prometheus rule groups, alert rules and recording rules in the Azure Portal

  • Azure Monitor
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Alerts
  • Features
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
22 Nov

General Availability - Azure Backup for AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Backup is announcing General Availability of Azure Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.

  • Azure Backup
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
22 Nov

Public Preview: Kafka Input and Output with Azure Stream Analytics

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

You can connect directly to Kafka to ingest from Kafka clusters or output data to Kafka clusters in your Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) job.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
  • Open Source
22 Nov

Public preview: Schema migration for target Azure SQL DB

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Transfer your database schema from source to target Azure SQL DB using DMS from the Azure Portal.

  • Azure Database Migration Service (classic)
  • Features
22 Nov

Public Preview Preview: Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) with Azure Stream Analytics

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

You can ingest events in protobuf format into Azure Stream Analytics using a built-in deserializer.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
  • Open Source
22 Nov

General availability: Azure Portal experience for Azure Database Migration Service

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

The new Azure Portal experience for Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) allows you to perform seamless migrations from SQL Server on-premises to Azure SQL Targets using DMS.

  • Azure Database Migration Service (classic)
  • Features
22 Nov

General availability: SKU recommendation in Azure SQL Migration extension - Azure Data Studio

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Support for SKU recommendation in the Azure SQL Migration extension for Azure Data Studio is in GA.

  • Azure Database Migration Service (classic)
  • Features
22 Nov

General Availability: pgvector 0.5.1 extension

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Pgvector 0.5.1, includes support for HSNW indexing, l1_distance, and sum aggregates since the prior supported version 0.4.0

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Features
22 Nov

Public Preview: Server logs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Enhance your database monitoring with the new server log feature for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, offering customizable retention and straightforward downloading for operational excellence.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Features
22 Nov

General availability: Time travel in Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

We are announcing the general availability of the time travel capability in Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL and MongoDB API.

  • Features
22 Nov

General availability: Change data capture in Azure Cosmos DB analytical store

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

We are announcing the general availability of the CDC capability from Azure Cosmos DB analytical store.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features

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