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github: Start your new repository with Copilot coding agent

GitHub

2025-09-30

GitHub added a new Prompt field on the New repository page that lets you use the Copilot coding agent to kickstart work when creating a repository, announced on the GitHub Blog changelog.

github: Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 is in public preview for Copilot coding agent

GitHub

2025-09-30

GitHub Copilot’s asynchronous coding agent now supports Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5. The integration is available in public preview and connects Copilot coding agent with Anthropic’s most advanced model for coding and real‑world agent tasks.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Soft Delete feature in Azure Compute Gallery

Azure Updates

2025-09-30

Azure Compute Gallery now has a Public Preview of a Soft Delete feature that lets you recover accidentally deleted images within a 7-day retention period.

github: Premium requests analytics page is now generally available

GitHub

2025-09-30

GitHub launched a new Premium Requests analytics dashboard (generally available Sept 29, 2025) that offers comprehensive insights into premium request activity with data back to August 1, 2025.

github: GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — September update

GitHub

2025-09-30

The September 2025 GitHub Copilot update for Visual Studio adds new Profiler and .NET Modernization agents, enhances MCP interactions, and introduces smarter code review capabilities to speed debugging, modernization, and developer workflows.

github: Secret scanning adds validators for MongoDB, Meta, and Microsoft Azure

GitHub

2025-09-30

GitHub Secret Scanning has added validity-check validators for secrets related to MongoDB, Meta, and Microsoft Azure. These new checks augment existing validators to improve detection of provider-specific credentials and prevent accidental commits of valid secrets.

azure: Retirement: Support for Service Connector (preview) on Azure Container Apps will end on March 30th, 2026

Azure Updates

2025-09-30

Microsoft will end support for Service Connector (preview) on Azure Container Apps on March 30, 2026. After that date the preview Service Connector will no longer be supported on Azure Container Apps; consult the original update for details and next steps.

azure: Retirement: NVv4-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on September 30, 2026

Azure Updates

2025-09-30

Microsoft Azure will retire the NVv4-series virtual machines (listed SKUs) on September 30, 2026.

github: Copilot coding agent remembers context within the same pull request

GitHub

2025-09-30

GitHub's Copilot coding agent — an asynchronous background developer agent that opens draft pull requests, makes changes, and requests review — now remembers context within the same pull request, allowing it to maintain continuity across related tasks.

github: GitHub Spark in public preview for Copilot Enterprise subscribers

GitHub

2025-09-30

GitHub announced GitHub Spark, a new offering intended to help organizations move ideas into working software more quickly. Spark is now available in public preview for Copilot Enterprise subscribers and aims to reduce time spent on specs and mocks that never reach production.

azure: Retirement: Spark Native Connector for Semantic Link

Azure Updates

2025-09-30

Microsoft announces the retirement of the Spark native connector effective October 1, 2025, citing low usage, high maintenance costs, and potential security vulnerabilities; source text is truncated before completing the stated goal.

security: Empowering defenders in the era of agentic AI with Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-09-30

Microsoft Sentinel is expanding into an agentic security platform: the Sentinel data lake is generally available, and Sentinel graph plus the Sentinel Model Context Protocol (MCP) server are available in public preview to enable richer data, graph-based analysis, and model-aware agentic workflows for defenders.