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RSS feedMarch 2020
Azure Container Registry support for Private Link now in preview
Azure Container Registry now supports Private Link, a means to limit network traffic of resources within the virtual network.
Announcing Azure Private Link GA for Azure Services
Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in Preview and GA.
ACR built-in audit policies for Azure Policy is now in preview
Azure Container Registry now supports built-in audit policies for Azure Policy
Managed keys for Azure Container Registry is now in preview
Bring your own encryption key for Azure Container Registry.
February 2020
Update servers and applications to TLS 1.2 by March 13, 2020
Target availability: Q1 2020
Update your servers and applications that communicate with Azure Container Registry to use transport layer security (TLS) 1.2 by March 13, 2020, to improve secure communication and to avoid any service interruptions.
November 2019
Azure Container Registry repository-scoped RBAC permissions are now in preview
Announcing the public preview of repository-scoped RBAC permissions for Azure Container Registry (ACR).
Azure Container Registry—Diagnostic logs are now in preview
Diagnostic logs for Azure Container Registry are now in preview.
General availability: Azure Container Registry OCI artifact support
Customers can now store content formats such as Helm charts, OCI Artifacts and images built to the Open Container Initiative (OCI) Image Format Specification, in addition to Docker containers. Use a single unified registry for all container related artifacts, whether those are Docker images, Helm charts or OCI Artifacts.
October 2019
Azure Container Registry is now generally available in UAE North region
Azure Container Registry is now generally available in the UAE North region, bringing the total number of Azure regions that it's available in to 33. See the list of all regions where Azure Container Registry is available and where it's coming next.
July 2019
Azure Container Registry—Buildpacks support in Tasks is now in preview
Use Container Registry Tasks to assemble Buildpacks and base stack tracking for OS and framework patching.
Azure Container Registry—Support for scheduling in Container Registry Tasks
Container Registry Tasks, which supports cloud build and graph execution of containers, now supports automated scheduling.
Azure Container Registry—Self diagnostic health check support in the Azure CLI
Easily self-diagnose the most common issues with registry connectivity using Azure Container Registry Health Check APIs.
June 2019
Azure Container Registry is now generally available in South Africa North
Azure Container Registry is now generally available in South Africa North. See where Azure Container Registry is available and where it's coming next in the list of Azure products available by region.
May 2019
Azure Container Registry—Helm 3 support is now in preview
Helm 3 support is now in preview. This update brings support for storing Helm 3 charts, the next version of Helm, which brings an improved security model, and a new Lua based scripting engine.
Azure Container Registry—Open Container Initiative (OCI) new artifact registry types supported (in preview)
Azure Container Registry –OCI new artifact registry types support is now in preview.
Azure Container Registry virtual network and firewall rules support is now in preview
Virtual network and firewall rules support is now available in Azure Container Registry in preview.
Azure Container Registry content trust is now available
Azure Container Registry content trust is now available to the public.
Azure Container Registry Helm webhooks is now in preview
The Azure Container Registry Helm webhooks feature enables new continuous integration/continuous deployment workflows based on new or updated Helm charts.
Azure Container Registry tag locking policy is now generally available
Tag locking, which allows for building a trusted workflow, is now generally available.
April 2019
Azure Container Registry singularity image files (SIF) support is now in preview
Support for storing singularity image files (SIF) in Azure Container Registry based on the OCI distribution-based container registries specification is now available in preview.
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