Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2023
Changes to My Groups admin controls
Target retirement date: June 30, 2024
New settings will enable admins to restrict end users from viewing and editing security groups in My Groups. The existing settings that allow enabling or disabling of My Groups will be retired in June 2024.
Default outbound access for VMs in Azure will be retired— updates and more information
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Default outbound access connectivity for virtual machines will be retired in September 2025 -- updates and more information
Azure Functions support for Python 3.8 is ending on 14 October 2024
Upgrade Azure Functions to use Python 3.9 or above.
Migrate to Azure Resource Manager control plane API version 2021-11-01 by 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Older control plane APIs in Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Relay will be retired.
Retirement notice: Bing Speech will be retired on 3 November 2023
Target retirement date: November 03, 2023
Migrate from Bing Speech to Speech Services and the Speech SDK by 3 November 2023
Azure Cosmos DB built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired March 30, 2024
Target retirement date: March 30, 2024
On 30 March 2024, the Azure Cosmos DB preview of built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired. If you’re using notebooks to interact with your Azure Cosmos DB account, transition to run these notebooks using Visual Studio Code’s support for Jupyter notebooks, or your preferred notebooks client.
Azure Activity Logs Legacy solution is replaced by Diagnostic settings
Target retirement date: September 15, 2026
Deprecation of Azure Activity Logs legacy solution and auto migration
Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 on Azure Cache for Redis ending on 31 October 2024
Target retirement date: November 01, 2024
Azure Cache for Redis support for TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 31 October 2024.
Support for Azure Machine Learning Explanation and Fairness Dashboards is ending on 14 March 2025
Target retirement date: March 14, 2025
The Explanation and Fairness Dashboard will be retired on 14 March 2025, please transition to the Responsible AI Dashboard (generally available) by that date. The Responsible AI dashboard will have feature parity and new additional features. You can still create and view the Explanation and Fairness dashboards with our open-source offerings (InterpretML and Fairlearn respectively), which are free for public use on GitHub and will continue to be maintained.
Migrate to Azure Monitor agent–based VM insights by 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Log Analytics agent–based VM insights will be retired.
Some Azure Service Bus SDK libraries will be retired on 30 September 2026—migrate to the latest SDKs
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Azure Service Bus SDK libraries that don't conform to Azure SDK guidelines will be retired and support will end.
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