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October (4)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Functions zero-downtime deployments with rolling updates in Flex Consumption

Azure Updates

2025-10-30

Azure Functions (Public Preview) adds rolling updates for the Flex Consumption plan, enabling zero-downtime deployments by gracefully updating instances instead of force-restarting them; enabled with a simple configuration change.

azure: Retirement: Support for Node.js 20 ends on April 30, 2026 – upgrade your apps to Node.js 22

Azure Updates

2025-10-30

Azure Functions will stop supporting Node.js 20 on April 30, 2026. Apps running on Node.js 20 will continue to run, but they will no longer receive security fixes or performance updates; you should plan and perform an upgrade to Node.js 22 beforehand.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Python 3.13

Azure Updates

2025-10-17

Azure Functions now generally supports Python 3.13: you can develop functions locally with Python 3.13 and deploy them to Azure. Alongside this release, Functions introduces an opt-in runtime version control feature that lets you target specific versions of the Functions Python runtime.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Availability Zones and network restricted Key Vault and App Configuration references for Flex Consumption

Azure Updates

2025-10-15

Azure Functions Flex Consumption features are now generally available: you can enable Availability Zones for apps at creation or after deployment so instances are automatically distributed across zones for improved reliability and fault tolerance. The update also introduces support for network-restricted Key Vault and App Configuration references and notes new region support.

September (4)

azure: Retirement: The Linux Consumption hosting plan of Azure Functions will be retired on September 30, 2028. Migrate to Flex Consumption.

Azure Updates

2025-09-26

Microsoft is retiring the Azure Functions Linux Consumption hosting plan on September 30, 2028 and recommends migrating affected functions to the Flex Consumption plan, which provides faster scaling, advanced networking, cold start mitigation, and concurrency control.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Distributed tracing for Durable Functions

Azure Updates

2025-09-18

Azure announced General Availability of Distributed Tracing V2 for Durable Functions, a robust tracing model that lets developers correlate operations across orchestrations, activities, and durable entities to improve debugging and observability.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Functions .NET 10 support

Azure Updates

2025-09-17

Azure Functions now supports .NET 10 in Public Preview. To use it, change the Functions project's target framework and update Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Sdk to version 2.0.5 or later. The announcement also indicates .NET 10 projects can be deployed to app (source content truncated).

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Functions support for Python 3.13

Azure Updates

2025-09-05

Azure Functions now supports Python 3.13 in public preview, and introduces an opt-in runtime version control feature that lets you target specific Functions Python runtime versions when developing locally and deploying to Azure.

August (2)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Node.js 22

Azure Updates

2025-08-22

Azure Functions now generally supports Node.js 22, allowing development and deployment on all Azure Functions plans for Linux and Windows.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions Flex Consumption plan now supports 512 MB instance size and diagnostic settings

Azure Updates

2025-08-21

Azure Functions Flex Consumption plan now supports a 512 MB memory instance size option, in addition to 2048 MB and 4096 MB. This update helps optimize costs for apps with lower resource needs and supports scaling.