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RSS feedMay 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)
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
General Availability: NGINXaaS - Azure Native ISV Service
Natively integrated software as a service (SaaS) solution for advanced traffic management and monitoring on Azure.
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.
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.
Azure Resource Manager — Migrating to TLS 1.2 with Deprecation of Outdated Security Protocols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.
Public preview: Microsoft Azure Managed HSM TLS Offload Library
Azure Managed HSM now supports SSL/TLS Offload for F5 and Nginx.
October 2022
Generally available: Control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Service Bus
Configure your Service Bus namespace to require that clients send and receive data with a minimal version of transport layer security (TLS).
September 2022
Azure Batch TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 31 March 2023
Target retirement date: April 01, 2023
Retirement notice: Transition to Azure Batch TLS 1.2 by 31 March 2023.
August 2022
Azure Firewall Premium is now ICSA labs certified
Azure Firewall Premium Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) certification from ICSA Labs is now available.
Generally available: Enforcement mode of machine configuration (previously guest configuration)
Set the configuration of your Azure Virtual Machine or Azure Arc-enabled server using the enforcement mode of machine configuration (formerly guest configuration).
July 2022
Public preview: TLS 1.3 support on Application Gateway
Use TLS 1.3 in Azure Application Gateway to improve security and performance.
Generally available: Azure IoT Edge 1.3.0 release
The Azure IoT Edge release 1.3 is available with support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and requires that inbound/outbound communication use TLS 1.2 by default.
June 2022
General availability: Azure Advisor support for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
Get personalized recommendations based on your Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server usage.
Generally available: Azure Container Apps support for custom domains and TLS certificates
You can now use custom domains and secure them with TLS certificates.
May 2022
Public preview: NGINX for Azure
Natively integrate SaaS solution for advanced traffic management and monitoring on Azure.
Public preview: Control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Service Bus
To enforce stricter security measures, you can now configure your Service Bus namespace to require that clients send and receive data with a minimum version of TLS.
February 2022
General availability: Application Gateway mutual authentication
Enable frontend mutual authentication and listener specific SSL policies on Application Gateway, now generally available.
January 2022
Generally available: Azure NetApp Files features
Azure NetApp Files features - dual protocol, ADDS LDAP over TLS and SMB3 protocol encryption have reached general availability.
November 2021
General availability: ExpressRoute now supports Azure Virtual Desktop Shortpath RDP over Private Peering
ExpressRoute enables direct connectivity between on-premises and Microsoft global network. You can connect to virtual machines and private endpoints defined in an Azure virtual network with private peering.
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