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General availability of user-assigned managed identities for App Service and Azure Functions
App Service and Azure Functions support for user-assigned managed identities is now generally available.
Azure SignalR Service introduces Event Grid integration feature
Announcing a new Azure SignalR Service feature that enables the service to publish client events to Event Grid. SignalR applications can subscribe and respond to these client events without the need for a dedicated app server for these events.
Navigator now provides dependency mapping and change analysis in App Service Diagnostics
Navigator is now available in App Service Diagnostics for Windows web apps. Navigator provides a centralized view of an app and its dependencies along with changes made over time.
Easy tables and easy APIs will be removed from Azure App Service on November 11, 2019
Target retirement date: November 11, 2019
Easy tables and easy APIs will be removed from the Azure portal on November 11, 2019.
May 2019
Azure App Configuration is now available in preview
Azure App Configuration provides a service to centrally manage application settings and helps secure their accesses. In addition, it helps developers to ship code faster by being able to easily “flight” their features in production using feature flags.
Application Change Analysis for Azure Monitor is now in public preview
Change Analysis public preview with integration into App Services Diagnose and solve problems tool.
Azure App Service Basic, Standard, Premium v2 Plans Resource GUID change
On July 1, 2019, some resource GUIDs for Azure App Service Basic, Standard, and Premium v2 Plans will change as the global region resource GUIDs will break out into regional resource GUIDs.
New networking features for App Service Linux are now in preview
New networking capabilities to enable Linux apps to access resources securely are now available in preview.
Perpetual free tier offering for Linux-based applications on App Service
There’s a new, free tier offering for Linux app developers.
App Service support for Java 11 (Linux and Windows) is now available
App Service now supports Java 11 for both Linux and Windows
Azure App Service new full screen experience is now available
App Service is offering a new, full screen experience that simplifies the application creation and publishing workflow.
April 2019
App Service Migration Assistant for ASP.NET applications is now available
Easily migrate existing .NET applications to Azure App Service with the new Migration Assistant
Public preview: Windows Server 2019 container support in Azure App Service
Windows Server 2019 Container Support is now available in the public preview of Windows Containers on Azure App Service.
March 2019
Public preview: Windows Server container support in Azure App Service
Windows Server containers in Azure App Service are now available in public preview.
Azure Security Center update: Azure App Service recommendation improvements
Azure App Service security recommendations have been improved to provide greater accuracy and environment compatibility.
February 2019
Azure App Service - WildFly on Linux is in preview
WildFly on Azure App Service on Linux is now in preview. Run Java EE apps on Azure and take advantage of the Azure infrastructure for security, and scalability.
November 2018
Tomcat for Azure App Service on Linux now generally available
Azure App Service on Linux now supports Apache Tomcat 8.5 and 9. Azure App Service for Tomcat on Linux allows developers to quickly build, deploy, and scale their Tomcat web applications on a fully managed Linux-based service.
October 2018
Azure App Service Deployment Center now available
Azure App Service Deployment Center is now available. The Deployment Center is a centralized overview for all the deployment methods supported by your app and a guided experience for configuring Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment.
Azure App Service new Virtual Network Integration capability is in preview
VNet Integration capability with Azure App Service is in preview.
App Service sites running Python 3.4.1 being updated to Python 3.6.6
Starting on November 12 and running through December 15, Azure App Service hosted on Windows will upgrade all Python sites running Python 3.4.1 to instead run Python 3.6.6.
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