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aks: Release 2025-10-12

Release notes from AKS

2025-10-17

AKS release 2025-10-12 announces OS retirements and upgrades, new billing for AKS Automatic, LTS patch releases, feature additions (GPU skip drivers, Envoy filters for Istio, VPA mode), behavioral changes to autoscaling and node provisioning, and multiple component and image updates across Azure Linux and Ubuntu node images and CSI/CNI/monitoring components.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: New OS SKU enum to migrate to Azure Linux 3.0

Azure Updates

2025-10-17

Azure now provides a new OS SKU enum, 'AzureLinux3', that lets you migrate to Azure Linux 3.0 for clusters running Kubernetes versions 1.28–1.36. The option gives increased control over OS upgrades by decoupling them from Kubernetes upgrades.