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December 2023

Dec 1

Application Insights Availability Tests TLS 1.3 Enablement

IN DEVELOPMENT

TLS 1.3 will be enabled for Availability Tests in Azure Monitor Application Insights starting on 4 December 2023

  • Application Insights
  • Azure Monitor
  • Compliance

November 2023

Nov 10

Azure support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will end by 31 October 2024

Target retirement date: October 31, 2024

If you have resources that interact with Azure services and still use TLS 1.1 or earlier, transition them to TLS 1.2 or later by 31 October 2024

  • Retirements
Nov 9

Public Preview: App Service End-to-end (E2E) Encryption for Linux Multi-tenant Resources

IN PREVIEW

Encrypt traffic between multi-tenant App Service front-ends and workers using the new End-to-end (E2E) TLS Encryption (Preview) feature.

  • App Service (Linux)
  • Security
  • Features
Nov 1

TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage

IN DEVELOPMENT

Target availability: Q4 2024

TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage

  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Compliance
  • Security

October 2023

Oct 26

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.10 expected on November 8

NOW AVAILABLE

Participate in retail evaluation now to ensure compatibility. The Azure Sphere team has also updated the trusted keystore of Azure Sphere devices, resulting in an additional reboot for production devices.

  • Operating System
  • SDK and Tools
Oct 6

Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 on Azure Cache for Redis ending on 30 September 2024

Target retirement date: October 01, 2024

Azure Cache for Redis support for TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 30 September 2024.

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Retirements

September 2023

Sep 25

General availability: Domain fronting update on Azure Front Door and Azure CDN

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Front Door supports the use of different values for the TLS SNI extension and the host header, provided that both values are added as domains in the same Azure subscription.

  • Azure Front Door (classic)
  • Content Delivery Network
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features

July 2023

Jul 27

Updated default TLS policy for Azure Application Gateway

NOW AVAILABLE

The default TLS policy for new deployments of Azure Application Gateway is now set to AppGwSslPolicy20220101.

  • Application Gateway
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features

June 2023

Jun 12

General availability: Azure Sphere version 23.05 is delayed to 20 June, and the updated OS has been issued to Retail Eval

NOW AVAILABLE

Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides seven days for backward compatibility testing.

  • Operating System
  • SDK and Tools

May 2023

May 30

General availability: Azure Sphere version 23.05 is delayed, new OS will be issued to Retail Eval

NOW AVAILABLE

Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.

  • Operating System
  • SDK and Tools
May 24

Private Preview: Kafka Input and Output with Azure Stream Analytics

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

You can connect directly to Kafka to ingest from Kafka clusters or output data to Kafka clusters in your Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) job.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
  • Open Source
May 23

Public preview: Free managed TLS certificates for Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now use managed certificates with Azure Container Apps

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 9

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.05 expected on May 24

NOW AVAILABLE

Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.

  • Operating System
May 9

Public Preview: App Service Minimum TLS Cipher Suite Now on Azure Portal

IN PREVIEW

Disable Weak TLS Cipher Suites for Your App Service Web Apps (Preview)

  • App Service
  • App Service (Linux)
  • Security
  • Features

April 2023

Apr 28

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

  • Application Gateway
  • Security
  • Retirements
Apr 10

General Availability: NGINXaaS - Azure Native ISV Service

NOW AVAILABLE

Natively integrated software as a service (SaaS) solution for advanced traffic management and monitoring on Azure.

  • Services

March 2023

Mar 17

Public preview: Listener TLS certificates management available in the Azure portal

IN PREVIEW

You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.

  • Application Gateway
  • Services
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features

November 2022

Nov 15

General availability: TLS 1.3 with Application Gateway

NOW AVAILABLE

Start using the new policies with TLS 1.3 for your Azure Application Gateway to improve security and performance.

  • Application Gateway
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features
Nov 11

Azure Resource Manager — Migrating to TLS 1.2 with Deprecation of Outdated Security Protocols

Target retirement date: September 01, 2023

Azure Resource Manager will be deprecating support for TLS 1.1 and older in Fall 2023. To maintain an uninterrupted connection with Azure Resource Manager, update your operating systems and work environments to support TLS 1.2.

  • Azure Resource Manager
  • Security
  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
Nov 10

Public preview: Microsoft Azure Managed HSM TLS Offload Library

IN PREVIEW

Azure Managed HSM now supports SSL/TLS Offload for F5 and Nginx.

  • Security

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