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2025 (12)

October (2)

azure: Retirement: Azure VPN Gateway support for SSTP Protocol will be retired on March 31, 2027

Azure Updates

2025-10-03

Azure VPN Gateway will retire support for the SSTP protocol on March 31, 2027. Microsoft cites limited scalability and suboptimal performance and advises customers to migrate to IKEv2 or OpenVPN, which offer significantly improved capabilities (including support for up to 10,000 connections).

azure: Retirement: Azure Machine Learning - Data labeling Deprecation

Azure Updates

2025-10-01

Azure Machine Learning's built-in data labeling capability will be retired on September 30, 2026. Customers can continue to use the service until that date but should plan to transition to third‑party data labeling providers before the retirement.

September (10)

azure: Retirement: NVv4-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on September 30, 2026

Azure Updates

2025-09-30

Microsoft Azure will retire the NVv4-series virtual machines (listed SKUs) on September 30, 2026.

aks: Release 2025-09-21

Release notes from AKS

2025-09-27

AKS release v20250921 includes new previews and GA features, multiple deprecations and retirements, security and component upgrades, bug fixes, and several behavioural changes. Important actions: upgrade clusters from deprecated Kubernetes/Azure Linux versions, migrate deprecated add-ons, and review node pool and networking defaults to ensure compatibility.

azure: Retirement: Entity Linking from Azure AI Language

Azure Updates

2025-09-26

Microsoft announced the planned retirement of the Entity Linking feature in Azure AI Language and recommends considering replacement solutions; Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Azure AI Language is suggested as an alternative for entity identification. The provided article content is truncated and lacks full details.

azure: Retirement: Upgrade BlobFuse v1 to latest version of Blobfuse v2

Azure Updates

2025-09-26

Azure recommends upgrading from BlobFuse v1 to BlobFuse v2 because future enhancements and innovations for Azure Blob Storage file system access will be focused exclusively on BlobFuse v2 and support for BlobFuse v1 will be discontinued.

github: Product-specific billing APIs are closing down

GitHub

2025-09-26

GitHub is closing down the remaining product-specific billing APIs for Actions, Packages, and shared storage, following earlier notices about Actions workflow usage endpoints.

github: Upcoming deprecation of gh-copilot CLI extension

GitHub

2025-09-25

GitHub announced the scheduled deprecation of the GitHub Copilot CLI extension (gh-copilot) for the GitHub CLI; the extension will stop working on October 25, 2025.

azure: Retirement: Azure Disk Encryption

Azure Updates

2025-09-24

Azure Disk Encryption will be retired on September 15, 2028; customers are advised to transition to Encryption at Host (or other supported OS-disk encryption solutions such as CVM OS disk encryption) before that date.

github: Upcoming deprecation of select Copilot models from Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini

GitHub

2025-09-23

GitHub announced it will deprecate select Copilot models provided by Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini as part of routine model retirement to prioritize newer, more capable models and maintain a fast, high‑quality Copilot experience. The post directs users to the changelog for the specific models and migration timeline and urges customers to update integrations to supported models.

github: Deprecation of Node 20 on GitHub Actions runners

GitHub

2025-09-19

GitHub has started deprecating Node 20 on GitHub Actions runners because Node 20 reaches end-of-life in April 2026. They plan to migrate all actions off Node 20 and communicated this on the GitHub Blog.

github: GitHub Actions: macOS 13 runner image is closing down

GitHub

2025-09-19

GitHub will retire the macOS 13 Actions runner image on December 4, 2025; jobs using macOS 13 will temporarily fail during a scheduled brownout beforehand to raise awareness.