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Announcing the Azure Firewall Premium general availability
Utilize next-generation firewall capabilities in Azure Firewall Premium
General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.07 expected on July 21, 2021
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The 21.07 OS evaluation period provides 21 days for backward compatibility testing.
June 2021
General availability: Turn your phone into an IoT device with the new IoT Plug and Play mobile app
Use the IoT Plug and Play phone app as an IoT device to get started quickly with IoT Central or IoT Hub.
Azure Sphere OS version 21.06 is now generally available
This quality release of the OS includes bug fixes for apps using SPI Flash.
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 21.06 expected on June 23
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
May 2021
Public preview: Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics Adds Question Answering Feature
The new, standard Question Answering feature provides users the capability to answer questions over a passage of text without having to create knowledgebases and manage additional storage
General availability: Azure Applied AI Services
Azure AI is introducing a new category of services called Azure Applied AI Services. These services accelerate time-to-value in building AI solutions for common business processes. Within this category, there are important enhancements and status updates for Azure Bot Service and Azure Metrics Advisor.
Azure Applied AI Services public preview updates for Build 2021
Azure AI is introducing a new category of services called Azure Applied AI Services. These services accelerate time-to-value in building AI solutions for common business processes. Within this category, Azure Video Analyzer is now in public preview. The service brings Live Video Analytics and Video Indexer together so developers can quickly build AI-powered video analytics solutions.
Azure Sphere 21.05 will not be released - 21.06 coming in June
This month, Azure Sphere will not release an updated OS or SDK for 21.05. The next software update will be generally available in June.
April 2021
Azure Sphere version 21.04 is now generally available
The latest release of Azure Sphere brings enhancements and features to the OS, SDKs, and Visual Studio extensions.
Azure Site Recovery now supports Azure Policy in public preview
Leverage Azure Policy to enable Azure Site Recovery for your VMs at scale and ensure organizational standards.
Public preview: Stateful and 1-minute frequency log alerts in Azure Monitor
Log search based alerts can now be automatically resolved, and query can be evaluated every minute for faster time to fire.
General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.04 expected on April 29, 2021
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
March 2021
Azure Sphere OS version 21.03 is now generally available
This quality release of the Azure Sphere OS includes bug fixes and updates to mitigate against the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) mentioned in the article.
Azure Sphere OS version 21.03 is now available for evaluation
The 21.03 OS quality update includes enhancements to mitigate against 5 CVEs.
General availability: Azure monitor for containers now supports Pods & Replica set live logs in AKS resource view
View live logs of your pods & replica-sets in Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) resource view. Filter, search, and troubleshoot your pods and replica-sets.
Azure Sphere version 21.02 is now available
The 21.02 release includes new features in the Azure Sphere CLI v2 and promotion from Beta to release.
Public preview: Azure Purview Bulk Edit enhancements
Azure Purview's bulk editing capability for data assets now supports classifications and contacts along with glossary terms.
Public preview: Azure Purview powered search in Azure Synapse Analytics workspaces
Enable effortless discovery of trustworthy, valuable data with an Azure Purview powered search within Synapse Studio.
Azure Sphere OS version 21.02 Update 1 is now available for evaluation
This update to the evaluation release of 21.02 includes a security fix.
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