Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2022
General availability: Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 using Azure Portal
Migrate your data from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 to speed up your time to insights
Generally available: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision
Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) announced the general availability of the new model with support for 164 languages. It’s also available as a Docker container.
Azure SQL—Generally available updates for early May 2022
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL.
Generally available: Minor versions upgrade for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
Run the most stable, compliant, and secure MySQL community versions 8.0.28 and 5.7.37 on Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server.
Generally available: IT Service Management Integration with secure webhook
IT Service Management is now integrated with secure webhook, an updated version that allows you to create work items in an ITSM tool when Azure Monitor sends alerts.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps now support log streaming and console connect
You can now connect to a container console and use live log streaming for testing and diagnosis.
Public preview: Static Web Apps support skipping API builds via Azure pipelines
You can now skip the default API build via Azure pipelines.
Public preview: Improved Azure DevOps support in Static Web Apps
You no longer have to go through a series of manual steps to configure your DevOps CI/CD pipeline for your Static Web Apps project.
Generally available: Azure Compute Gallery support for trusted launch Virtual Machines
Azure Compute Gallery now allows you to create and share custom images for Trusted launch virtual machines
Generally available: Azure IoT Edge supports Debian Bullseye on ARM32v7
Target availability: Q2 2022
Debian is included in the Tier 1 OS support list for ARM32v7 devices. Official packages for Bullseye on ARM32v7 are now available on packages.microsoft.com.
Generally available: Azure Arc-enabled servers support for private endpoints
Target availability: Q2 2022
Enhance your security posture by leveraging Azure private endpoints to connect your on-premises servers to Azure Arc privately.
Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 in Australia, Japan, US, and Asia
Confidential computing DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) are in public preview in Australia East, Japan East, South Central US, and Southeast Asia.
Azure VM insights guest health (preview) will be retired on 30 November 2022
Target retirement date: November 30, 2022
Transition to Azure Monitor log alerts for VM guest health by 30 November 2022.
Update your IoT Edge devices on Raspberry Pi OS Stretch
Target retirement date: July 01, 2022
Transition to using Bullseye to continue receiving patches.
Public preview: Control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Service Bus
To enforce stricter security measures, you can now configure your Service Bus namespace to require that clients send and receive data with a minimum version of TLS.
General availability: Virtual Network NAT health checks available via Resource Health
With Azure Resource Health, diagnose and get support for service problems that affect Virtual Network NAT (NAT gateway).
Generally available: Enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall
Latest updates and new enhancements available for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF).
Public preview: Event Grid enables user authorization to create partner topics
Gain a greater security stance by explicitly authorizing a partner to create partner topics or partner destinations in your Azure subscription.
Public preview: Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps
You can now deploy Static Web Apps to staging environments using Azure DevOps.
General availability: Object replication on premium blob storage and rule limit increased
You can now replicate your block blobs to region of your choice with object replication for premium block blobs and rule limit is increased to 1000 containers per replication policy.
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