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2026 (12)

November (2)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Geo-Replication on partitioned namespaces for Azure Service Bus Premium

Azure Updates

2026-11-02

Geo-Replication for partitioned Azure Service Bus Premium namespaces is now generally available. It lets you use partitioning for throughput while replicating messages and metadata to a secondary Azure region for resilience.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery for Azure Local

Azure Updates

2026-11-02

Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Local is now generally available. It lets customers protect supported Windows and Linux virtual machines by replicating them for disaster recovery.

October (10)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Large OS Disk Encryption for Azure Confidential VM migrations

Azure Updates

2026-10-29

Large OS Disk Encryption (LOSDE) is now generally available for Azure Confidential VM migration scenarios. It enables migration of larger production workloads with the OS disk fully protected.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: HTTP DDoS ruleset for Azure Front Door Premium WAF

Azure Updates

2026-10-29

Microsoft announced general availability of the HTTP DDoS ruleset for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Front Door Premium. The update adds HTTP-layer DDoS protection to help reduce application downtime from volumetric web attacks.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure MCP Server 3.0

Azure Updates

2026-10-29

Azure MCP Server 3.0 is now generally available. The release expands Azure integration for AI agents and developer tools via the open Model Context Protocol (MCP), including new infrastructure-as-code support through Azure Terraform.

github: Route and orchestrate models with GitHub Copilot Fusion

GitHub

2026-10-28

GitHub Copilot Fusion is now generally available. It lets users choose Fusion instead of selecting a model per task, and Copilot will route and orchestrate which models to use automatically.

github: GitHub Agentic Workflows generally available

GitHub

2026-10-28

GitHub Agentic Workflows is now generally available. It can be used to automate reasoning-based tasks such as issue triage, CI failure analysis, and documentation updates.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Higher limit of Azure Blob Storage accounts per region per subscription

Azure Updates

2026-10-27

Azure Blob Storage account quotas are now generally available at up to 1,000 standard-endpoint storage accounts per region per subscription, increased from the default 250. This allows more storage accounts to be managed within a single subscription.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Front Door profile and route level WAF policies

Azure Updates

2026-10-27

Azure Front Door Premium now supports generally available WAF policies at the profile and route level, instead of only at individual domains. This allows broader baseline protection across an entire Front Door profile or selected routes.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Network Watcher VNet flow logs filtering

Azure Updates

2026-10-26

Azure Network Watcher VNet flow logs filtering is now generally available. It lets you limit logged network traffic using criteria such as IP addresses, ports, protocols, encryption state, flow state, and traffic direction.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Item Level Recovery for Azure VMs with Premium SSDv2 and Ultra Disks in Azure Backup

Azure Updates

2026-10-23

Azure Backup now supports item-level recovery for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks, including both 512-byte and 4KB logical sector sizes. This lets you recover individual files and folders from these VMs.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: ABFS Vectored Read for Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure Updates

2026-10-22

ABFS Vectored Read is now generally available for Azure Data Lake Storage. It reduces request overhead for selective reads by batching nearby file ranges into fewer asynchronous storage requests.