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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)
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
Game Dev VM Marketplace Application will be retired on February 1st, 2024
Target retirement date: February 01, 2024
Announcement of Azure Game Dev VM retirement
October 2023
Changes to My Groups admin controls
Target retirement date: June 30, 2024
New settings will enable admins to restrict end users from viewing and editing security groups in My Groups. The existing settings that allow enabling or disabling of My Groups will be retired in June 2024.
Default outbound access for VMs in Azure will be retired— updates and more information
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Default outbound access connectivity for virtual machines will be retired in September 2025 -- updates and more information
Azure Functions support for Python 3.8 is ending on 14 October 2024
Upgrade Azure Functions to use Python 3.9 or above.
Migrate to Azure Resource Manager control plane API version 2021-11-01 by 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Older control plane APIs in Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Relay will be retired.
Retirement notice: Bing Speech will be retired on 3 November 2023
Target retirement date: November 03, 2023
Migrate from Bing Speech to Speech Services and the Speech SDK by 3 November 2023
Azure Cosmos DB built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired March 30, 2024
Target retirement date: March 30, 2024
On 30 March 2024, the Azure Cosmos DB preview of built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired. If you’re using notebooks to interact with your Azure Cosmos DB account, transition to run these notebooks using Visual Studio Code’s support for Jupyter notebooks, or your preferred notebooks client.
Azure Activity Logs Legacy solution is replaced by Diagnostic settings
Target retirement date: September 15, 2026
Deprecation of Azure Activity Logs legacy solution and auto migration
Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 on Azure Cache for Redis ending on 31 October 2024
Target retirement date: November 01, 2024
Azure Cache for Redis support for TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 31 October 2024.
Support for Azure Machine Learning Explanation and Fairness Dashboards is ending on 14 March 2025
Target retirement date: March 14, 2025
The Explanation and Fairness Dashboard will be retired on 14 March 2025, please transition to the Responsible AI Dashboard (generally available) by that date. The Responsible AI dashboard will have feature parity and new additional features. You can still create and view the Explanation and Fairness dashboards with our open-source offerings (InterpretML and Fairlearn respectively), which are free for public use on GitHub and will continue to be maintained.
Migrate to Azure Monitor agent–based VM insights by 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Log Analytics agent–based VM insights will be retired.
Some Azure Service Bus SDK libraries will be retired on 30 September 2026—migrate to the latest SDKs
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Azure Service Bus SDK libraries that don't conform to Azure SDK guidelines will be retired and support will end.
September 2023
Azure API for FHIR retiring on 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Migrate your data from Azure API for FHIR to Azure Health Data Services FHIR service for richer data integration and analytics capabilities.
Azure Internet Analyzer will be retired on 15 March 2024 – delete profiles
Target retirement date: March 15, 2024
Azure Internet Analyzer will be retired on 15 March 2024
Transition to the ContainerLogV2 table by 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
With the upgraded offering of ContainerLogV2 becoming generally available, on 30th September 2026, the ContainerLog table will be retired. If you currently ingest container insights data to the ContainerLog table, please make sure to transition to using ContainerLogV2 prior to that date.
Support for select marketplace images for Batch pools will be retired
Target retirement date: January 10, 2024
End of life announcement for select marketplace images for Batch pools
Azure Batch pool list usage metrics API will be retired on 30 September 2024
Target retirement date: October 01, 2024
End of Life Announcement of Azure Batch Pool List Usage Metrics API on 30 September 2024
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