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2025 (12)

November (3)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Ultra Disk’s new flexible provisioning model

Azure Updates

2025-11-06

Azure Ultra Disk is now generally available with a new flexible provisioning model that lets you configure capacity, IOPS and throughput (MBPS) more independently so you can better tailor and optimize disk performance for your workloads.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure MCP Server

Azure Updates

2025-11-06

Azure MCP Server is now generally available. Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), it provides a secure, standards-based bridge that lets agent-based applications and developer workflows access and coordinate across Azure services (examples called out include AKS, ACA, App Service, Cosmos DB, SQL, and AI Foundry). The GA release is aimed at simplifying integration, improving security and interoperability, and enabling cloud-powered agents.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server now supports high availability with dedicated Azure Standard Load Balancer

Azure Updates

2025-11-05

Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server now generally availability (GA) supports a dedicated Azure Standard Load Balancer for servers configured with high availability, delivering a dedicated load-balancing option for HA-enabled deployments.

October (9)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure WAF CAPTCHA Challenge for Azure Front Door

Azure Updates

2025-10-28

Microsoft announced general availability of CAPTCHA protection for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) when used with Azure Front Door to help defend modern web applications from automated threats.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: PgBouncer 1.23.1 support in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

Azure Updates

2025-10-27

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now generally supports PgBouncer 1.23.1 as a built-in connection pooling feature to efficiently manage many client connections with low overhead.

security: Harden your identity defense with improved protection, deeper correlation, and richer context

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-10-23

Microsoft announced expanded Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) capabilities, including the new Microsoft Defender for Identity sensor now generally available, delivering improved protection, deeper correlation across signals, and richer contextual information to help organizations modernize their identity defenses.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for mid-October 2025

Azure Updates

2025-10-22

In mid-October 2025 Azure SQL announced Generally Available updates: the redirect connection type was improved to require only port 1433 and promoted to the default, and you can convert an Azure SQL Database to Hyperscale while preserving existing geo configurations.

github: Claude Haiku 4.5 is generally available in all supported IDEs

GitHub

2025-10-20

Claude Haiku 4.5 is now generally available to Copilot Enterprise, Copilot Business, Copilot Pro, and Copilot Pro+ users and can be used in GitHub Copilot Chat on github.com and in all supported IDEs.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Cloud-to-Cloud migration made simple with Azure Storage Mover

Azure Updates

2025-10-20

Azure Storage Mover's AWS S3 to Azure Blob migration capability is now generally available, enabling organizations to move data directly from AWS to Azure securely, reliably, and at scale while removing the need for manual pipelines.

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: Observed capacity metric in Azure Firewall

Azure Updates

2025-10-16

Azure Firewall now includes the observed capacity metric (Generally Available). The metric reports the number of capacity units actively utilized over time to help administrators understand how their firewalls are scaling in practice.

github: Copilot-generated commit messages on github.com are generally available

GitHub

2025-10-15

GitHub Copilot now provides contextual commit message suggestions for file changes on github.com. The feature, previously in public preview, is now generally available to help make writing commit documentation easier and faster.