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October 2023

2 Oct

Azure Container Apps is now eligible for Azure savings plan for compute

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now take advantage of Azure savings plan pricing for Azure Container Apps.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Pricing & Offerings

September 2023

29 Sep

Update to Azure Functions Cosmos DB extension version 4.x by 31 August 2024 for continued support

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Applications hosted on Azure Functions that are using Azure Cosmos DB extension version 3.x will be unsupported after 31 August 2024.

  • Azure functions
  • Retirements
29 Sep

Support for the 1.x version of Azure Functions ends 14 September 2026

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: September 14, 2026

Migrate to version 4.x of the Azure Functions runtime before support ends for version 1.x on 14 September 2026

  • Azure functions
  • Retirements
27 Sep

Generally Available: Artifact cache for Azure Container Registry

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now cache OCI artifacts with ACR from seven different public registries.

  • Container Registry
  • Features
27 Sep

GA: Azure Container Apps in Azure China cloud

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now run microservices, API’s, and other container workloads without managing infrastructure in Azure China cloud

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
27 Sep

Generally Available: Azure Functions v4 Programming model for Node.js

NOW AVAILABLE

Work in a more intuitive Azure Functions development experience.

  • Azure functions
  • Open Source
  • Features
27 Sep

Public preview: Azure Functions Support for Node.js 20

IN PREVIEW

You can now develop functions using Node.js 20 locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans on Linux and Windows.

  • Azure functions
  • Open Source
  • Features
27 Sep

Public preview: Azure Functions extension for Dapr

IN PREVIEW

You can now use Dapr’s powerful cloud native building block API with Azure Functions.

  • Azure functions
  • Open Source
  • Features
27 Sep

GA: Vertical Pod Autoscaling add-on for AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

Use Vertical Pod Autoscaling add-on for AKS to improve cost-efficiency, and cluster utilization for your workloads

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source
  • Features
27 Sep

GA: AKS image cleaner

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now automate the removal of all the unused, vulnerable images from your AKS nodes.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
27 Sep

GA: Dedicated table support for AKS diagnostics logs

NOW AVAILABLE

It is now easier and faster to query your logs.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
27 Sep

Public preview: AKS support for Kubernetes version 1.28

IN PREVIEW

Take advantage of the latest features in Kubernetes version 1.28 with AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source
  • Features
27 Sep

GA: Node OS patching - NodeImage feature in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can have a flexible and customized strategy for node-level OS security updates.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
  • Security
22 Sep

Retirement: HTTP application routing add-on (preview) for AKS will retire 03/03/2025

Target retirement date: March 03, 2025

Transition your ingresses to Web Application routing add-on before 3/3/2025 to avoid service disruptions.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Retirements
13 Sep

Generally available: Higher default value for Azure Functions Event Hubs max batch size

NOW AVAILABLE

Starting with version 6.0.0 of the Azure Functions Event Hubs extension, a higher default value of 100 will be used for max batch size

  • Azure functions
  • Features
12 Sep

Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Sixth Refresh Release

NOW AVAILABLE

This release includes quality improvements.

  • Service Fabric
  • Services
7 Sep

Public Preview: Azure Container Storage Updates: Expanded regions and performance options

IN PREVIEW

Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest updates you can now deploy in 26 regions, use volume resize & cloning and choose from an expanded list of Disk SKUs.

  • Azure Container Storage
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Azure Elastic SAN
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Features

August 2023

30 Aug

Public preview: Azure Functions .NET 8 support in Linux plans

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Azure Functions now supports .NET 8 preview 7, using the isolated worker model.

  • Azure functions
  • Features
30 Aug

Generally Available: Azure Container Apps support for UDR, NAT Gateway, and smaller subnets

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now define UDRs to manage how outbound traffic is routed for your container app environment’s subnet.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
30 Aug

Public preview: Azure Functions .NET worker cold start improvements

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Major cold start improvements are available to .NET apps on the Azure Functions isolated worker model through a preview configuration.

  • Azure functions
  • Features

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