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We will be posting weekly updates here, every Thursday.

 

Critical updates and retirements may also be communicated via emails and service health alerts.

 

For additional product retirement information, please reference the Lifecycle Learn search page.

September 2024

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

This post contains information about pre-retirement actions related to the retirement of Microsoft Purview Data Sharing.

Sep 19

NOW AVAILABLE

Access-based enumeration and non-browsable shares for SMB and dual-protocol volumes in Azure NetApp Files is now generally available

Sep 19

NOW AVAILABLE

Cost savings and improved financial predictability with Azure NetApp Files Reserved Capacity

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Azure Maps support for Creator Services APIs V2 & 2023-03-01-preview will be retired on September 30, 2025

Sep 19

NOW AVAILABLE

Customers will now be able to detach the ZRS data disks and attach them to another VM, decreasing the RTO.

Sep 19

IN PREVIEW

Microsoft’s Azure container Networking team is announcing availability of FQDN filtering and HA DNS proxy within Advanced Container Networking Services on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). These new features provide a robust and secure solution for managing network traffic in containerized environments.

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Azure Remote Rendering will be retired on September 30th, 2025. Please plan to stop usage and delete your Remote Rendering account by September 30th, 2025.

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

SQL Insights (preview) will be retired on December 31, 2024.

Sep 19

IN PREVIEW

We are excited to announce a new way of exporting platform metrics from Azure Monitor. This powerful addition allows customers to export metrics for their Azure resources on a large scale, with full fidelity and low latency, along with the ability to select particular metrics while configuring exports.

Sep 19

NOW AVAILABLE

Automated Patching retirement and replacement with Azure Update Manager.

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Support for PowerShell 7.2 on Azure Functions is ending soon. Your apps that are hosted on Azure Functions will continue to run, but security updates will no longer be available, and we’ll no longer provide customer service for PowerShell 7.2. Learn more about Azure Functions stack version support.

Sep 19

NOW AVAILABLE

General Availability of Azure Data Box 80 TB at Azure China

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Azure SQL Edge will be retired on September 30, 2025. Upon retirement, workloads deployed to existing SQL Edge modules and containers will continue to run as-is; there will be no additional support provided for SQL Edge and no further updates will be published. We encourage you to consider migrating to an alternative solution prior to the retirement date to ensure a smooth transition to a fully supported product.

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Microsoft Genomics Service will be retired on January 6, 2025

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Azure Maps support for Azure Maps Data Registry APIs V 2023-06-01 will be retired on September 30th, 2025

Sep 19

NOW AVAILABLE

This update also provides improvement and bug fixes.

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Azure AI Vision Image Analysis 4.0 Custom Image Classification, Custom Object Detection, Product Recognition and Segment (Background Removal) Preview APIs and Spatial Analysis Edge container to be retired.

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Azure Managed Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework Preview support is ending soon. Please migrate any resources to Azure Confidential Ledger.

Sep 12

RETIREMENT

The Azure PostgreSQL migration extension in Azure Data Studio is being retired to focus on more advanced and supported migration services within the Azure Database for PostgreSQL portal and CLI. This change ensures customers have access to up-to-date features for their migration needs.

Sep 12

NOW AVAILABLE

Experience a new way to run Java applications on Azure Container Apps.

Sep 12

IN PREVIEW

We are thrilled to introduce the Public Preview of built-in actions for document parsing and chunking in Logic Apps Standard, designed to streamline RAG-based ingestion for Generative AI applications. With these out-of-the-box operations, you can now easily ingest documents or files, including both structured and unstructured data, into AI Search without writing or managing any code!

Sep 12

IN PREVIEW

Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Linux OS) is now available for private preview.

Sep 12

IN PREVIEW

Azure Firewall enhances the Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) rule configuration to support port translation on its Private IP address.

Sep 12

RETIREMENT

Azure AI Document Intelligence GA AI v2.1 will be retiring soon. Please migrate to newer API version to continue operation.

Sep 12

IN PREVIEW

Seamlessly deliver content over low-bandwidth, high latency, or unreliable networks.

Sep 12

IN PREVIEW

This feature is the ability to increase your Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disk storage capacity without stopping your VM.

Sep 12

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now take advantage of PowerShell 7.4 capabilities with your Functions apps.

Sep 12

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools are now generally available.

Sep 12

NOW AVAILABLE

IoT Edge now supports Ubuntu Server 24.04, Debian 12, and Yocto Scarthgap.

Sep 05

RETIREMENT

This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure App Service Environment v1/v2 on August 31, 2024.

Sep 05

NOW AVAILABLE

Auto-renewal of certificates for on-premises to Azure Site Recovery.

Sep 05

IN PREVIEW

We are excited to announce new enhancements to our GenAI Gateway capabilities, specifically designed for large language model (LLM) use cases. Building on our initial release in May 2024, we are introducing new policies to support a wider range of LLMs via the Azure AI Model Inference API. These new policies offer the same robust functionality as our initial offerings but are now compatible with a broader array of models available in Azure AI Studio.

Sep 05

IN PREVIEW

Learn more about the Public Preview announcement of Azure Container Storage enabled by Azure Arc Edge Volumes.

Sep 05

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Storage Mover with WAN link bandwidth management schedules is now generally available.

Sep 05

NOW AVAILABLE

We are excited to announce that customers can now choose between Replace, Reimage (New), or Restart (New) as the default repair action performed in response to an "Unhealthy" application signal.

Sep 05

IN PREVIEW

We're excited to announce the Public Preview of Templates Support in Azure Logic Apps Standard, providing pre-built workflow solutions to streamline and accelerate integration projects. This new feature allows developers to quickly set up, customize, and deploy workflows, simplifying the process of building and managing applications.

Sep 05

IN PREVIEW

We’re excited to introduce Insights support for Azure Logic Apps Standard, offering curated visualizations to help you monitor your applications and workflows more effectively. With these new dashboards, you gain a comprehensive view of your Logic Apps Standard environments, enabling better oversight of your integration scenarios.

Sep 05

IN PREVIEW

Entra ID support for SSH connections is now supported in the portal experience for a quicker, more secure, one click experience.

Sep 05

RETIREMENT

This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure API Management stv1 on August 31, 2024.

Sep 05

RETIREMENT

This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment (ISE) on August 31, 2024.

Sep 05

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Public IPs are now zone redundant by default in 12 regions.

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