General-Availability - 8

2025 (12)

November (7)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure WAF JavaScript challenge on Azure Front Door

Azure Updates

2025-11-11

Azure announced the general availability of a JavaScript (JS) challenge for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Front Door to strengthen bot mitigation.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Application Gateway for Containers with Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Azure Updates

2025-11-10

Azure announces general availability of Web Application Firewall (WAF) support for Application Gateway for Containers, the next evolution of Application Gateway combined with the Application Gateway Ingress Controller.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: labels() function in KQL graph semantics

Azure Updates

2025-11-07

The labels() function in KQL graph semantics is now generally available. It lets you retrieve, filter, and project label information for nodes and edges in graph queries, simplifying work with categorized graph data.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server availability zones expansion in Japan West

Azure Updates

2025-11-07

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server is now generally available in all three availability zones in Japan West, allowing deployments that improve availability and resiliency.

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 (5)

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.