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We will be posting weekly updates here, every Thursday.
Critical updates and retirements may also be communicated via emails and service health alerts.
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September 2024
Sep 12
NOW AVAILABLE
Experience a new way to run Java applications on Azure Container Apps.
Sep 12
IN PREVIEW
We are thrilled to introduce the Public Preview of built-in actions for document parsing and chunking in Logic Apps Standard, designed to streamline RAG-based ingestion for Generative AI applications. With these out-of-the-box operations, you can now easily ingest documents or files, including both structured and unstructured data, into AI Search without writing or managing any code!
Sep 12
IN PREVIEW
Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Linux OS) is now available for private preview.
Sep 12
IN PREVIEW
Azure Firewall enhances the Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) rule configuration to support port translation on its Private IP address.
Sep 12
RETIREMENT
Azure AI Document Intelligence GA AI v2.1 will be retiring soon. Please migrate to newer API version to continue operation.
Sep 12
IN PREVIEW
Seamlessly deliver content over low-bandwidth, high latency, or unreliable networks.
Sep 12
IN PREVIEW
This feature is the ability to increase your Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disk storage capacity without stopping your VM.
Sep 12
NOW AVAILABLE
Designed for customers, especially developers or small enterprises who are looking for a cost-effective Application Load Balancer solution and don’t require high scalability and advanced features.
Sep 12
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now take advantage of PowerShell 7.4 capabilities with your Functions apps.
Sep 12
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools are now generally available.
Sep 12
NOW AVAILABLE
IoT Edge now supports Ubuntu Server 24.04, Debian 12, and Yocto Scarthgap.
Sep 05
RETIREMENT
This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure App Service Environment v1/v2 on August 31, 2024.
Sep 05
NOW AVAILABLE
Auto-renewal of certificates for on-premises to Azure Site Recovery.
Sep 05
IN PREVIEW
We are excited to announce new enhancements to our GenAI Gateway capabilities, specifically designed for large language model (LLM) use cases. Building on our initial release in May 2024, we are introducing new policies to support a wider range of LLMs via the Azure AI Model Inference API. These new policies offer the same robust functionality as our initial offerings but are now compatible with a broader array of models available in Azure AI Studio.
Sep 05
IN PREVIEW
Learn more about the Public Preview announcement of Azure Container Storage enabled by Azure Arc Edge Volumes.
Sep 05
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Storage Mover with WAN link bandwidth management schedules is now generally available.
Sep 05
NOW AVAILABLE
We are excited to announce that customers can now choose between Replace, Reimage (New), or Restart (New) as the default repair action performed in response to an "Unhealthy" application signal.
Sep 05
IN PREVIEW
We're excited to announce the Public Preview of Templates Support in Azure Logic Apps Standard, providing pre-built workflow solutions to streamline and accelerate integration projects. This new feature allows developers to quickly set up, customize, and deploy workflows, simplifying the process of building and managing applications.
Sep 05
IN PREVIEW
We’re excited to introduce Insights support for Azure Logic Apps Standard, offering curated visualizations to help you monitor your applications and workflows more effectively. With these new dashboards, you gain a comprehensive view of your Logic Apps Standard environments, enabling better oversight of your integration scenarios.
Sep 05
IN PREVIEW
Entra ID support for SSH connections is now supported in the portal experience for a quicker, more secure, one click experience.
Sep 05
RETIREMENT
This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure API Management stv1 on August 31, 2024.
Sep 05
RETIREMENT
This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment (ISE) on August 31, 2024.
Sep 05
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Public IPs are now zone redundant by default in 12 regions.
August 2024
Aug 29
IN PREVIEW
We are excited to announce the public preview of managed linting support for API Analysis in Azure API Center. This feature offers robust linting capabilities to ensure your API definitions comply with organizational style rules, providing detailed reports and seamless integration for enhanced API quality.
Aug 29
NOW AVAILABLE
Unlock unprecedented scalability for your Kubernetes deployments. Azure Red Hat OpenShift now supports clusters with up to 250 nodes, empowering enterprises to run larger workloads with enhanced performance.
Aug 29
RETIREMENT
This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure API Management stv1 on August 31, 2024.
Aug 29
RETIREMENT
This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment (ISE) on August 31, 2024.
Aug 29
RETIREMENT
Azure HDInsight on AKS is nearing retirement.
Aug 29
NOW AVAILABLE
Take advantage of larger and more powerful options for your Redis workloads.
Aug 29
RETIREMENT
Remove any outstanding dependencies on TLS 1.0 and 1.1 before October 31, 2024
Aug 29
RETIREMENT
Migrate from Azure Monitor experience (preview) in Azure HDInsight to Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) before January 31, 2025
Aug 22
IN PREVIEW
Increase your security posture and generate a non-intrusive mitigation when a request matches a WAF bot rule or custom rule using Azure WAF JS challenge.
Aug 22
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure NetApp Files storage with cool access is now generally available with support for all service levels.
Aug 22
NOW AVAILABLE
Workspaces in Azure API Management, now generally available, enable organizations to manage APIs more productively, securely, and reliably by isolating API runtime and administrative access for teams.
Aug 22
IN PREVIEW
You can now specify multiple different VM sizes and an allocation strategy in Virtual Machine Scale Sets with flexible orchestration mode.
Aug 22
The ability to attach and detach of Virtual Machines on Virtual Machine Scale Sets with a fault domain count of 1 is now generally available.
Aug 22
NOW AVAILABLE
Easily find the Azure Sphere catalog that a given device has been claimed to, and the device group to which it is currently assigned.
Aug 22
RETIREMENT
This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure API Management stv1 on August 31, 2024.
Aug 22
RETIREMENT
This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment (ISE) on August 31, 2024.
Aug 22
IN PREVIEW
Azure Storage is excited to announce customer managed planned failover is now available in public preview.
Aug 16
RETIREMENT
This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure App Service Environment v1/v2 on 31 August 2024.
Aug 16
IN PREVIEW
Use private Azure Container Registry (ACR) with the extensibility model in Azure Deployment Environments for more secure, customizable deployments.
Aug 16
IN PREVIEW
Volume enhancement: Azure NetApp Files now supports 50 GiB minimum volume sizes.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Resource specific tables provide a dedicated and optimized way to store and query logs for Application Gateway. The resource specific tables allow for better data manipulation and enhanced performance in terms of ingestion latency and query times.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Backup now supports performing Cross-Region Restore of SQL and HANA backups from a vault which has Private Endpoints enabled.
Aug 16
RETIREMENT
Ensure that your client applications can support TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.3.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Multiple encryption layers for increased data security.
Aug 16
IN PREVIEW
You can now enable or disable FIPS on an existing node pool in AKS.
Aug 16
IN PREVIEW
You now have greater control over your network traffic within your Kubernetes environment in AKS.
Aug 16
IN PREVIEW
You can now implement and manage dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 network configurations on your Windows nodepools in AKS clusters.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
This AKS extension update for the Visual Studio Code includes several new features including deployment file generation, GitHub Actions, and more.
Aug 15
NOW AVAILABLE
Enable multifactor authentication to maintain access to admin portals.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Chaos Studio now supports a new Network Isolation fault for virtual machines
Aug 16
RETIREMENT
Effective September 12th, 2024, disablement of jobs running on Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 will be executed.
Aug 16
IN PREVIEW
Using the new High Scale mode in Container Insights, customers can send up to 50K logs per second per node from their AKS clusters.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Use Terraform to perform geo-restore for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Disable access keys for Azure Cache for Redis authentication when using Microsoft Entra ID.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Help ensure compliance and security with Azure Policy support for Azure PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Discover enhanced navigation and data management with the latest Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer update.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-August 2024.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Use HSM-backed encryption keys to protect data at rest in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Simplify your development process with Dev Container templates for Azure SQL Database.
Aug 08
IN PREVIEW
Customers now have the capability to operate latency-sensitive workloads in close proximity to end-users, all within a framework that supports data residency needs.
Aug 08
NOW AVAILABLE
Replicate Azure NetApp Files volumes from one availability zone to another in a fast and cost-effective way, protecting your data from unforeseeable zone failures
Aug 08
NOW AVAILABLE
Populate previously deployed, existing volumes with the logical availability zone information to enable failure domain protection for workloads in specific availability zones.
Aug 08
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports Prometheus Operator model and Custom Resource Definitions for Service and Pod Monitors.
Aug 08
RETIREMENT
Effective August 29th, 2024, disablement of jobs running on Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.1 will be executed.
Aug 08
IN PREVIEW
Azure API Center Visual Studio Code extension is now adding a pre-release version allowing developers to get an early look at some of the upcoming features.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
Fine-tuning and inferencing with adapters is now supported on open-source Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO).
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now trigger a node image upgrade between one Linux SKU to another on an existing nodepool in AKS.
Aug 01
IN PREVIEW
Get the latest release in Windows Server and portability between container hosts and container images.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
App Configuration references are now available on App Service
Aug 01
IN PREVIEW
Customers can now transition existing volumes from platform-managed keys (PMK) to customer-managed keys (CMK) without data migration
Aug 01
IN PREVIEW
Empowering Azure developers and IT professionals to optimize the carbon footprint from cloud usage.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
Lifecycle management rules in Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage now provide more control over returning rehydrated objects back to archive tier with support for daysAfterLastTierChangeGreaterThan.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Container Storage, industry’s first platform-managed container-native storage solution in the public cloud, is now generally available with full support for Ephemeral Disks (Local NVMe/Temp SSD) and Azure Disks.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
We are certifying IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) on Washington version of ServiceNow.
Aug 01
RETIREMENT
Effective August 15th, 2024, disablement of jobs running on Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 2.4 will be executed.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
Support for .NET integration with Semantic Kernel in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB.
Aug 01
IN PREVIEW
Configure long-term retention for CMK-enabled Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Servers.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
Enable storage autogrow for read replicas in Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
Vaulted backup for Azure Blob Storage, now generally available, can help you comprehensively protect your data in Azure Blob Storage against data loss.
Aug 01
RETIREMENT
As we near the August 31, 2024, deadline, it has become imperative for you to complete your upgrade from Integration Service Environments (ISE) to Logic Apps Standard.
Aug 01
RETIREMENT
The August 31st deadline to upgrade from Azure API Management stv1 to stv2 is rapidly approaching. After this date, your stv1 platform will no longer receive the latest updates and additional features available in stv2.
Aug 01
IN PREVIEW
Azure API Management is announcing a new WordPress plugin to enable our customers to easily deploy a highly customizable developer portal on WordPress hosted on Azure App Service. Customers can now take advantage of site capabilities in WordPress to customize and add features to API Management developer portal including localization, collapsible and expandable menus, custom stylesheets, file downloads, and more.
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