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Generally available: Private Link support for Application Gateway
Application Gateway Private Link allows you to connect your workloads over a private connection spanning across VNets and subscriptions
May 2023
General availability: Seamlessly upgrade your Application Gateway V2 WAF configuration to a policy
Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Application Gateway now supports a fully automated experience when upgrading your WAF from configuration to policy.
April 2023
Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026– Transition to Application Gateway V2
Target retirement date: April 28, 2026
Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026
Public preview: Private Application Gateway v2
Target availability: Q1 2023
Application Gateway v2 is introducing support for private IP only frontend configurations, enhanced control over NSG rules, and support for forced tunneling/route table rules to virtual appliances.
March 2023
Public preview: Listener TLS certificates management available in the Azure portal
You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.
February 2023
General availability: Scale improvements and metrics enhancements on Azure’s regional WAF
Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports improved scale limits, including HTTP listener count, as well as additional metrics dimensions.
December 2022
General availability: Feature enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Azure’s WAF now supports multiple new features - SQLi and XSS detection queries, new built-in Azure policies, and increased exclusions limit with support for exclusions on bot manager rule set.
November 2022
General availability: TLS 1.3 with Application Gateway
Start using the new policies with TLS 1.3 for your Azure Application Gateway to improve security and performance.
General availability: Per Rule Actions on regional Web Application Firewall
Azure's regional Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway now supports customizing actions per rule. This new functionality allows you greater control over how the Web Application Firewall handles incoming traffic.
General availability: Bot Manager Rule Set 1.0 on regional Web Application Firewall
This rule set provides you enhanced protection against bots and provides granular control over bots detected by WAF by categorizing bot traffic as good, bad, or unknown bots.
September 2022
General availability: Improvements to Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) custom rules
Target availability: Q3 2022
Azure regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) supports operators “Any” and “GreaterThanOrEqual”, improving WAF tuning capabilities. Azure's global WAF now supports geo-match filtering using the socket address in addition to remote address.
July 2022
Public preview: TLS 1.3 support on Application Gateway
Use TLS 1.3 in Azure Application Gateway to improve security and performance.
June 2022
General availability: Azure WAF policy and DDoS management in Azure Firewall Manager
Azure Firewall Manager supports the ability to manage DDoS Protection plans and Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies for workloads and applications, within a centralized place, at scale.
Public preview: Private link support in Azure Application Gateway
Learn how private link support for Application Gateway drives more secured network access.
Public preview: Manage Azure Web Application Firewall policies in Azure Firewall Manager
Azure Firewall Manager now supports the ability to manage Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies for application delivery platforms, Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door, at scale within a centralized place.
February 2022
General availability: Application Gateway mutual authentication
Enable frontend mutual authentication and listener specific SSL policies on Application Gateway, now generally available.
November 2021
General availability: Wildcard listener on Application Gateways
Application Gateway now supports wildcard characters for multi-site listeners.
July 2021
General availability: Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot protection on Application Gateway
Try the bot protection rule set alongside your OWASP core rule set (CRS), now generally available for Azure Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway.
General availability: Web Application Firewall (WAF) geomatch custom rules on Application Gateway
Try geomatch custom rules to block or allow traffic based on geo-location, now generally available for Azure Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway.
Public preview of OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set 3.2 for Azure Web Application Firewall
Try our new rule set and increased limits with OWASP Core Rule Set 3.2, now in public preview for Azure Web Application Firewall.
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