Azure Updates
2025-09-26
Azure App Service on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes will be retired beginning September 30, 2025. After that date customers will no longer be able to install the extension; Microsoft requests customers migrate to other solutions to continue hosting application workloads.
GitHub
GitHub added the ability to start and monitor Copilot coding agent sessions from the GitHub CLI. The Copilot coding agent works asynchronously: you delegate a task, it makes changes in the background, opens a draft pull request, and requests a review when finished.
2025-09-25
GitHub announced that Copilot can now create issues that include relevant code snippets and files. The capability is available in public preview and aims to make issue reports more actionable by automatically adding code context.
GitHub announced that the new pull request “Files changed” page (public preview) now supports adding comments anywhere in a changed file, including on lines that haven’t changed.
GitHub announced the scheduled deprecation of the GitHub Copilot CLI extension (gh-copilot) for the GitHub CLI; the extension will stop working on October 25, 2025.
GitHub announced that GitHub Copilot CLI is available in public preview, bringing the Copilot coding agent into the terminal so developers can work locally with AI-assisted coding in their command line workflow.
.NET
Aspire 9.5 introduces a preview 'aspire update' command, single-file AppHost support, improved CLI and dashboard UX, and new integrations for AI, DevTunnels, and other tooling.
Azure NetApp Files Flexible service level is now generally available. It lets you independently configure storage capacity and throughput so you can right-size performance and cost, avoiding overprovisioning by using customizable throughput settings separate from capacity.
GitHub announced that the Copilot coding agent — an asynchronous, autonomous developer agent — is now generally available to all paid Copilot subscribers. Users can delegate tasks to the agent and it will act on their behalf, for example by opening draft pull requests.
Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft announced the launch of the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace, a unified and trusted destination for cloud solutions, AI apps and agents designed to connect thousands of solutions with millions of customers and empower organizations to become 'Frontier'.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified a new variant of the XCSSET malware that targets Xcode projects used by developers building Apple and macOS applications, detailed in a Microsoft Security Blog post.
Kubernetes Official Blog
Kubernetes announces alpha support for a Changed Block Tracking API that lets CSI drivers report allocated and changed blocks between snapshots to enable faster, incremental backups for block volumes. The feature requires a SnapshotMetadataService CRD, an external-snapshot-metadata sidecar, and CSI SnapshotMetadata gRPC RPCs (GetMetadataAllocated and GetMetadataDelta) with streaming responses.