Azure Updates
2025-10-15
Azure has updated the Locations API metadata for UK-based regions by changing the geographyGroup and regionalDisplayName fields to meet evolving compliance and regulatory requirements. The changes are in effect October 2025.
Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft Security Blog warns that customer support tools, now more connected and data-rich, are increasingly targeted by cyberattacks. Hardening these systems is essential to safeguard customer trust, protect sensitive data, and maintain business continuity.
.NET
2025-10-14
A brief recap announcing the October 2025 servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework. The post on the .NET Blog summarizes the latest fixes and directs readers to the official release information.
Microsoft announced .NET 10 Release Candidate 2, emphasizing final quality, reliability, and stabilization across the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and related components.
Azure Event Grid announced General Availability of multiple features that enhance support for real-time telemetry, automation, and hybrid workloads. One highlighted GA feature is MQTT OAuth 2.0 authentication, enabling MQTT clients to authenticate using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs).
GitHub
GitHub announced that CodeQL now generally supports scanning Rust projects and scanning C/C++ projects without requiring builds. Both features have exited public preview and are available in GitHub code scanning.
Microsoft AI Foundry Blog
Azure AI Foundry provides a streamlined platform for smarter, faster, and more accessible fine-tuning so developers can customize models for practical business problems — from reasoning agents to adaptive tools and scalable workflows — accompanied by best practices, hands-on resources, and recent innovations to accelerate development, testing, and deployment.
GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.18 is now generally available. The release focuses on improving deployment efficiency, monitoring, code security, and policy management, and introduces the ability for enterprise administrators to define custom properties.
Microsoft announced the .NET Security Group, a program that gives partners early access to CVE information and coordinates delivery of .NET security patches so distributors can ship fixes at the same time as Microsoft.
Microsoft introduced ExCyTIn-Bench, an open-source benchmarking tool that evaluates how effectively AI systems perform real-world cybersecurity investigations, aiming to standardize measurement and improve AI-driven defensive capabilities.
The GitHub MCP Server adds native support for GitHub Projects via a new management tool and deploys multiple strategies to reduce the server's footprint, alongside other improvements noted in the changelog.
Azure announced the general availability of Spot Placement Score, a feature that lets you assess the likelihood of successful deployments for Spot virtual machines by evaluating spot capacity availability across different Azure locations and VM size combinations.