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github: Fine-grain permissions for Copilot usage metrics now available

GitHub

2025-11-17

GitHub added a fine-grain enterprise role—"View enterprise Copilot metrics"—that grants access to the Copilot Usage Metrics APIs and the Copilot Usage Dashboard so assigned users can view enterprise-level Copilot usage data.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Seamless failback for HyperV-to-Azure: Managed Disk support in Azure Site Recovery

Azure Updates

2025-11-17

Azure Site Recovery is now generally available with seamless failback support from Azure VMs that use managed disks back to on-premises Hyper-V, even when the original replication used a storage account.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Capacity guidance for Azure Site Recovery

Azure Updates

2025-11-17

Azure Site Recovery is generally available with a new capacity guidance feature that recommends alternative VM sizes during failover when the originally targeted VM size may have limited allocation availability due to capacity constraints, improving disaster recovery options.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Support for Linux major OS upgrades with Azure Site Recovery

Azure Updates

2025-11-17

Azure Site Recovery is in public preview for supporting major Linux OS version upgrades without disabling replication or losing recovery points; supported on RHEL and SLES (for example, RHEL 8 → RHEL 9).

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Support 5x churn in Azure Site Recovery

Azure Updates

2025-11-17

Azure Site Recovery is available in Public Preview with support for up to 5x churn, enabling up to 500 MB/s per VM. This update improves replication throughput so customers can protect high‑IOPS, high‑throughput workloads with Site Recovery.

azure: Retirement: Support for Python 3.10 ends on October 1st, 2026

Azure Updates

2025-11-14

Microsoft Azure will end extended support for Python 3.10 on October 1, 2026; apps on App Service will keep running but will no longer receive security updates or customer support.

azure: Retirement: Windows Server 2022 on Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc

Azure Updates

2025-11-14

Microsoft announces the retirement of Windows Server 2022 on Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc in October 2026.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Pod CIDR expansion in Azure CNI Overlay for AKS

Azure Updates

2025-11-14

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now provides Pod CIDR expansion in the Azure CNI Overlay as a public preview to help clusters support larger and more dynamic Kubernetes workloads.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: eBPF host routing in Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) for AKS

Azure Updates

2025-11-14

Azure has announced public preview of eBPF host routing in Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) for AKS. The feature uses eBPF-based host routing to improve networking performance for containerized applications across distributed environments and integrates with Azure CNI.

github: Configure Copilot coding agent as a bypass actor for rulesets

GitHub

2025-11-13

GitHub added an option to configure the Copilot coding agent as a bypass actor for repository rulesets, so Copilot-driven activity can be exempted from rules that would otherwise block automation or generated commits.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager UseExisting Mode for UDR management

Azure Updates

2025-11-13

Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) UDR management is generally available with a new UseExisting mode that detects existing user-defined routes (UDRs) and appends required routes rather than replacing customer route entries, giving customers more flexibility and compliance control.

github: OpenAI’s GPT-5.1, GPT-5.1-Codex and GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini are now in public preview for GitHub Copilot

GitHub

2025-11-13

GitHub Copilot has begun a public preview rollout of OpenAI’s latest 5.1-series models—GPT-5.1, GPT-5.1-Codex, and GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini—bringing the new general and code-specialized models (including a smaller, low‑cost/low‑latency Codex-Mini) to Copilot users. The announcement was posted on the GitHub Blog.