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December 2023

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

  • Features
  • Retirements
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

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
10 Nov

Azure support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will end by 31 October 2024

Target retirement date: October 31, 2024

If you have resources that interact with Azure services and still use TLS 1.1 or earlier, transition them to TLS 1.2 or later by 31 October 2024

  • Retirements
3 Nov

Game Dev VM Marketplace Application will be retired on February 1st, 2024

Target retirement date: February 01, 2024

Announcement of Azure Game Dev VM retirement

  • Retirements

October 2023

20 Oct

Changes to My Groups admin controls

IN DEVELOPMENT

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.

  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
  • Security
  • Retirements
19 Oct

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

  • Bandwidth
  • Retirements
13 Oct

Azure Functions support for Python 3.8 is ending on 14 October 2024

Upgrade Azure Functions to use Python 3.9 or above.

  • Retirements
6 Oct

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.

  • Service Bus
  • Event Hubs
  • Retirements
6 Oct

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

  • Bing Speech
  • Retirements
6 Oct

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 Cosmos DB
  • Retirements
6 Oct

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

  • Retirements
6 Oct

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.

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Retirements
6 Oct

Support for Azure Machine Learning Explanation and Fairness Dashboards is ending on 14 March 2025

NOW AVAILABLE

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. 

  • Features
  • Retirements
6 Oct

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.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Retirements
6 Oct

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.

  • Service Bus
  • Retirements

September 2023

29 Sep

Azure API for FHIR retiring on 30 September 2026

Target retirement date: September 30, 2026

Migrate your data from Azure API for FHIR to Azure Health Data Services FHIR service for richer data integration and analytics capabilities.

  • Azure API for FHIR
  • Retirements
29 Sep

Azure Internet Analyzer will be retired on 15 March 2024 – delete profiles

Target retirement date: March 15, 2024

Azure Internet Analyzer will be retired on 15 March 2024  

  • Azure Internet Analyser
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Retirements

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