.NET
2025-12-08
The article announces networking improvements in .NET 10, highlighting updates across HTTP, WebSockets, security, and related areas to enhance performance, reliability, and the developer experience.
Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft announced a new collaboration with Beazley naming them an incident response partner to strengthen cyber resilience by aligning with ecosystem partners and improving security for customers.
GitHub
GitHub added a model picker to the Copilot coding agent so Copilot Pro and Pro+ subscribers can choose which model the asynchronous background agent uses when starting tasks from the agents UI.
GitHub added two enhancements to repository custom properties: a GraphQL API for managing them and a new URL property type, to help organize and manage repositories at scale.
Microsoft AI Foundry Blog
2025-12-07
Foundry IQ Knowledge Bases can be integrated into the Microsoft Agent Framework in about 20 lines of Python. The Azure AI Search Context Provider enables intelligent, multi-hop retrieval so agents can use consolidated knowledge without fragmented pipelines.
Azure Updates
2025-12-05
Zonal Placement for Azure Files Premium LRS is now generally available in select regions, allowing you to pin storage accounts to a specific availability zone for explicit control over zone locality, improved high availability, fault isolation, and more predictable behavior.
Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security, highlighting the innovative capabilities of Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
GitHub added Copilot lines-of-code (LoC) metrics to the code generation insights dashboard. Administrators can view these metrics for their enterprise via the Enterprises page.
2025-12-04
Mistral Large 3, a frontier-class open-weight model licensed under Apache 2.0, is now available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure in Public Preview, offering enterprise-grade reliability, long-context comprehension, and multimodal reasoning suitable for production use.
GitHub Actions workflow_dispatch triggers now accept up to 25 inputs (previously 10), making manually triggered workflows easier to parameterize for more complex scenarios.
.NET Conf 2025 recap highlighting major announcements including .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026, AI features, community stories, and links to video recordings, slides, and demos so you can catch up on the event.
GitHub improved handling of notifications from spammy repositories and users so that notifications triggered by known spam accounts are now correctly hidden, producing clearer and more accurate notification counts.