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General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps
Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature.
November 2023
Azure Container Storage is now available with Azure Linux container host
Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest update, you can deploy Azure Container Storage on Azure Linux container host.
Public Preview: App Service End-to-end (E2E) Encryption for Linux Multi-tenant Resources
Encrypt traffic between multi-tenant App Service front-ends and workers using the new End-to-end (E2E) TLS Encryption (Preview) feature.
May 2023
Public Preview: App Service Minimum TLS Cipher Suite Now on Azure Portal
Disable Weak TLS Cipher Suites for Your App Service Web Apps (Preview)
March 2022
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
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
August 2021
Java 7 will be retired from App Service on 29 July 2022
Target availability: Q3 2022
Transition to Java 11 or 8 by 29 July 2022.
October 2019
Key Vault references in App Service and Azure Functions are now available
Introduce secrets management into your apps without code changes using Key Vault references.
August 2019
Announcing pricing decrease for Azure App Service on the Premium plan
We are happy to announce a price reduction of an average of 35% for Linux App Service on the Premium v2 plan (pricing may vary by regional meters). This price reduction makes the decision point between hosting on a Standard App Service plan or a Premium v2 App Service plan a much simpler one.
General availability of Managed Identity for Linux in App Service and Functions
Managed identity support for App Service on Linux and the Azure Functions Linux Consumption Plan is now generally available.
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.
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.
July 2019
Introducing promotional pricing for the Basic Linux App Service Plan
We’re excited to introduce a promotional price on the Basic app service plan for Linux, which depending on regional meters in your datacenter of choice, leads to a 66 percent price drop! In addition, we are also now offering a free App Service Plan for Linux, making starting out on App Service easier than ever!
May 2019
Java on App Service: Updates and Improvements available
Target availability: Q2 2019
Improvements, bug fixes, and runtime version updates for the Java images on App Service Linux are now available
January 2019
Python 2.7 available for App Service on Linux
Python 2.7 has been added to the public preview of Python on Azure App Service (Linux).
December 2018
Python images for App Service Linux are now in preview
Public Preview of built-in images for Python on Azure App Service
November 2018
User-assigned managed identity support for App Service on Linux/Web App for Containers
Use managed identities with Linux apps and use user-assigned identities on the App Service platform, including Azure Functions hosted under an App Service plan.
October 2018
Azure App Service: Price reductions for App Service on Linux basic and premium tiers
We’ve recently reduced prices for Azure App Service on Linux for the basic and premium tiers.
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