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Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs will be retired on 30 September 2025
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs are retiring on September 30th, 2025
Pod Security Policy is being deprecated with AKS 1.25 and 2023-06-01 API version
Target retirement date: October 14, 2025
Migrate your AKS cluster from Pod Security Policy to Pod Security Admission
Azure Object Anchors Retirement
Target retirement date: May 21, 2024
Please note that Azure Object Anchors (AOA) will be retired on May 20, 2024. Object anchoring capability is generally available (GA) in Dynamics 365 Guides.
Azure Spatial Anchors Retirement
Target retirement date: November 21, 2024
Please note that Azure Spatial Anchors (ASA) will be retired on November 20, 2024.
Application Insights Availability Tests TLS 1.3 Enablement
TLS 1.3 will be enabled for Availability Tests in Azure Monitor Application Insights starting on 4 December 2023
November 2023
General Availability: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.2 runbooks
Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.2 runbooks (General Availability).
Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Defender for APIs
Target availability: Q4 2023
The general availability of Defender for APIs, a new offering as part of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, that helps organizations prevent, detect, and respond to API threats with an integrated cloud security context.
Public Preview: Create and manage Azure Monitor managed Prometheus rules in Azure portal
Target availability: Q4 2023
You can now create and manage Azure Managed Prometheus rule groups, alert rules and recording rules in the Azure Portal
Extended support for .NET 6 (LTS) ends on 12 November 2024
Target retirement date: November 12, 2024
Extended support for .NET 6 (LTS) ends 12 November 2024 - upgrade your apps to .NET 8 (LTS)
Extended support for .NET 7 (STS) ends on 14 May 2024
Target retirement date: May 14, 2024
Extended support for .NET 7 (STS) ends on 14 May 2024 - upgrade your apps to .NET 8 (LTS)
General Availability - Azure Backup for AKS
Azure Backup is announcing General Availability of Azure Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
Public Preview: Kafka Input and Output with Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q4 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.
Public preview: Schema migration for target Azure SQL DB
Target availability: Q4 2023
Transfer your database schema from source to target Azure SQL DB using DMS from the Azure Portal.
Public Preview Preview: Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) with Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q4 2023
You can ingest events in protobuf format into Azure Stream Analytics using a built-in deserializer.
General availability: Azure Portal experience for Azure Database Migration Service
Target availability: Q4 2023
The new Azure Portal experience for Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) allows you to perform seamless migrations from SQL Server on-premises to Azure SQL Targets using DMS.
General availability: SKU recommendation in Azure SQL Migration extension - Azure Data Studio
Target availability: Q4 2023
Support for SKU recommendation in the Azure SQL Migration extension for Azure Data Studio is in GA.
General Availability: pgvector 0.5.1 extension
Target availability: Q4 2023
Pgvector 0.5.1, includes support for HSNW indexing, l1_distance, and sum aggregates since the prior supported version 0.4.0
Public Preview: Server logs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
Target availability: Q4 2023
Enhance your database monitoring with the new server log feature for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, offering customizable retention and straightforward downloading for operational excellence.
General availability: Time travel in Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB
Target availability: Q4 2023
We are announcing the general availability of the time travel capability in Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL and MongoDB API.
General availability: Change data capture in Azure Cosmos DB analytical store
Target availability: Q4 2023
We are announcing the general availability of the CDC capability from Azure Cosmos DB analytical store.
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