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2025 (12)

October (7)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Event Grid new capabilities

Azure Updates

2025-10-14

Azure Event Grid announced General Availability of multiple features that enhance support for real-time telemetry, automation, and hybrid workloads. One highlighted GA feature is MQTT OAuth 2.0 authentication, enabling MQTT clients to authenticate using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs).

github: CodeQL scanning Rust and C/C++ without builds is now generally available

GitHub

2025-10-14

GitHub announced that CodeQL now generally supports scanning Rust projects and scanning C/C++ projects without requiring builds. Both features have exited public preview and are available in GitHub code scanning.

github: GitHub Enterprise Server 3.18 is now generally available

GitHub

2025-10-14

GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.18 is now generally available. The release focuses on improving deployment efficiency, monitoring, code security, and policy management, and introduces the ability for enterprise administrators to define custom properties.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Spot Placement Score

Azure Updates

2025-10-14

Azure announced the general availability of Spot Placement Score, a feature that lets you assess the likelihood of successful deployments for Spot virtual machines by evaluating spot capacity availability across different Azure locations and VM size combinations.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery support for Ultra Disks

Azure Updates

2025-10-14

Azure Site Recovery is now generally available for Virtual Machines using Ultra Disks, enabling cross-region replication, failover, and failback to improve disaster recovery for high‑performance workloads with minimal impact.

azure: [Launched] Generally Avaialbe: Azure NetApp Files short-term clones

Azure Updates

2025-10-07

Azure NetApp Files short-term clones are now generally available. They create temporary thin clones from existing volume snapshots to provide space-efficient, instant read/write access without making full data copies, reducing capacity usage and speeding workflows.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: AI toolchain operator add-on (KAITO) for AKS

Azure Updates

2025-10-07

Microsoft announced general availability of the AI toolchain operator add-on (KAITO) for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). KAITO streamlines deployment of AI inference and fine-tuning workflows using popular open-source frameworks, with vLLM set as the default inference engine to simplify management and scaling of model serving.

September (5)

github: Premium requests analytics page is now generally available

GitHub

2025-09-30

GitHub launched a new Premium Requests analytics dashboard (generally available Sept 29, 2025) that offers comprehensive insights into premium request activity with data back to August 1, 2025.

security: Empowering defenders in the era of agentic AI with Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-09-30

Microsoft Sentinel is expanding into an agentic security platform: the Sentinel data lake is generally available, and Sentinel graph plus the Sentinel Model Context Protocol (MCP) server are available in public preview to enable richer data, graph-based analysis, and model-aware agentic workflows for defenders.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Visualize New Azure Resource Manager Metrics through Azure Monitor

Azure Updates

2025-09-29

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is generally available with enhanced integration into Azure Monitor Metrics, enabling subscription-level visualization of new ARM metrics for deeper visibility and more granular monitoring of Resource Manager operations.

github: Copilot Spaces is now generally available

GitHub

2025-09-24

GitHub announced that Copilot Spaces is now generally available (announced 2025-09-24). Copilot Spaces brings richer project context — such as files, pull requests and other project artifacts — into Copilot so the assistant can understand a repository more like a teammate and provide more relevant, context-aware help.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery Support for Virtual Machines with Premium SSD v2 disks

Azure Updates

2025-09-23

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now generally available for Virtual Machines using Premium SSD v2 disks, enabling seamless disaster recovery across Azure regions and from on-premises to Azure to help maintain business continuity.