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azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Voice Live integration with Microsoft Foundry Agent Service

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Microsoft Foundry Agent Service is now generally available for Voice Live integration. Developers can connect real-time speech-to-text and text-to-speech to a Foundry Agent without building a custom audio pipeline.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Policy Coverage for Model Router in Foundry Models

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Policy now supports centralized governance for deployments that use the model router in Foundry Models. This lets organizations define and enforce routing standards to align model selection with security, compliance, and operational requirements.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Rolling updates in Flex Consumption

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Rolling updates are now generally available in Azure Functions Flex Consumption. They allow code and configuration changes to be applied without force-restarting all instances, enabling zero-downtime deployments with a simple configuration change.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: OpenTelemetry Metrics, Visualizations, and Enhanced Monitoring in Azure Monitor for Azure VMs and Arc Servers

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Monitor for Azure VMs and Arc Servers now generally available with OpenTelemetry metrics and visualizations, providing a unified monitoring experience. The release consolidates key monitoring capabilities into a single experience.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Github Copilot modernization

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

GitHub Copilot modernization agent is now generally available. It provides coordinated orchestration from estate to code to help scale application assessments and upgrades across an app portfolio.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Dynamic threshold for Log search alerts

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

General availability of Dynamic threshold for Log search alerts. Dynamic thresholds automatically calculate appropriate alert thresholds, reducing the need to set a fixed threshold manually.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Sphere OS version 26.06 is now available

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Sphere OS version 26.06 is now available in the Retail feed. This release updates the OS only; there is no SDK update.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Event Grid - MQTT v5 Subscription Identifier

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Event Grid Standard Namespace now generally supports MQTT v5 subscription identifiers. MQTT subscriptions can include an identifier that is delivered with incoming messages for immediate event routing.

azure: [Launched] Azure Container Linux (ACL) now generally available on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Container Linux (ACL) is now generally available for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) node pools. It provides a minimal, immutable, container-focused host OS based on Flatcar Container Linux and Azure Linux RPM packages.

azure: [In preview] Public preview: Azure Linux 4.0 for Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Linux 4.0 is in public preview for Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets. It introduces a newer platform stack, including Linux kernel 6.18 LTS and the dnf5 package manager.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Automatic OS Image Upgrades for VMSS Flex

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Automatic OS image upgrades are now in public preview for Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) using Flexible Orchestration. The feature extends automated fleet-wide image upgrades to VMSS Flex to reduce manual update work.

azure: [In development] Private Preview: Storage optimized Lasv5 and Laosv5 Azure VM series

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Lasv5 and Laosv5 storage-optimized Azure VM series are now in private preview. They use 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) processors and target storage-intensive workloads, with Lasv5 focused on high disk capacity, throughput, and I/O.