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RSS feedMay 2022
General availability: App Service landing zone accelerator
Facilitate moving applications from on-premises to App Service using landing zone accelerator.
Public preview: App Service Google Remote Procedure Call support
Host Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC) apps on App Service.
Public preview: App Service new migration capabilities
Facilitates discovery, assessment, and migration to App Service and Azure Kubernetes Service.
April 2022
Public preview: Azure Storage as share in Windows Code in App Service
Mount Azure Files as a local share in Windows Code in Azure App Service.
General availability: App Service - Networking capabilities added to Basic pricing tier
Virtual network integration and private endpoints now supported in Basic pricing tier.
Public preview: App Service - Configure networking in Azure Portal during app creation
VNet integration and private endpoints options now configurable when creating a web application.
Generally available: Java 17 and Tomcat 10.0 on Azure App Service
Use new supported versions of Java and Tomcat to run web applications on Azure App Service.
March 2022
App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate to App Service Environment version 3 by 31 August 2024.
Update your Azure App Service apps to use Microsoft .NET 6 before 13 December, 2022
Target retirement date: December 13, 2022
Extended support for .NET Core 3.1 is ending on 13 December, 2022.
Community support for Node 14 LTS is ending on 30 April 2023
Target retirement date: April 30, 2023
Community support for Node 14 LTS is ending on 30 April 2023 – transition to Node 14 LTS by that date
Premium Container SKU (public preview) will be retired on 30 June 2022
Target retirement date: June 30, 2022
Transition to Premium V3 by 30 June 2022.
Community support for Node 12 LTS is ending on 30 April 2022
Target retirement date: April 30, 2022
Community support for Node 12 LTS is ending on 30 April 2022 – transition to Node 14 LTS by that date
Community support for .NET 5 is ending on 8 May 2022
Target retirement date: May 08, 2022
Community support for .NET 5 will end on 8 May 2022 – transition to .NET 6 by that date
Public preview: Clustering Support for JBoss EAP on Azure App Service
Run highly available Java EE apps with Red Hat JBoss EAP on App Service with new clustering support.
February 2022
Public preview: App Service Environment v3 Migration Feature
Migration guidance allows you to move to App Service Environment v3 and take advantage of refreshed infrastructure, better performance, and the removal of the stamp fee found on older versions.
November 2021
Application Insights auto-instrumentation for .NET6 App Services
With the release of .NET 6.0, Application Insights is offering day-zero auto-instrumentation support for it on Azure App Services
Azure App Service support for .Net 6 now generally available
Deploy and scale .Net 6-based web apps on an enterprise-grade service
General availability: Build and deploy full-stack .NET 6.0 apps with Azure Static Web Apps
Azure Static Web Apps now supports building and deploying .NET 6 Blazor WebAssembly and Azure Functions apps.
Azure App Service Environment v3 support for Windows Containers is now generally available
Migrate on-premise apps that require custom configuration to App Service Environment v3.
Azure App Service - Diagnostic settings feature reaches general availability
Send web app and platform logs on App Service to Azure Monitor, enabling new observability scenarios.
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