Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2023
General availability: Azure SQL updates for early-October 2023
Target availability: Q4 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-October 2023.
Azure Files has been improved to support all valid Unicode characters
Azure Files now supports an expanded character set enabling file and directory names with all valid Unicode characters.
ExpressRoute Traffic Collector is now generally available
Use ExpressRoute Traffic Collector to enable collection of flow logs for traffic sent over your ExpressRoute direct circuit.
LSA payload update for fixes on 15-Jan
On the 15-Jan we are going to fix those 2 values in LSA payload to contain the correct values according to our other alerts services.
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.
Generally Available: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in Azure IoT Hub
Azure IoT Hub now supports the ability to setup an Azure Cosmos DB account as a custom endpoint. This will help route device data from IoT Hub to Azure Cosmos DB directly.
General Availability: Upgrade your existing Azure Gen2 VMs to Trusted Launch
Enable Trusted Launch foundational compute security on existing Azure Generation 2 VMs.
General availability: Microsoft Azure now available from new cloud region in Italy
Target availability: Q4 2023
Microsoft launched its first cloud region in Italy.
Generally Available: Multi-user authorisation for Backup vaults
Multi-user authorization provides enhanced protection for your backup data against unauthorized critical operations.
Generally available: Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup
Enhanced soft delete helps you recover your backup data even after it has been deleted, giving you protection against data loss scenarios like ransomwares, malicious actors, and accidental deletes.
Azure Container Apps is now eligible for Azure savings plan for compute
You can now take advantage of Azure savings plan pricing for Azure Container Apps.
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