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March (4)

azure: Retirement: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL will retire on March 31, 2029

Azure Updates

2026-03-30

Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL will be retired on March 31, 2029. Users must migrate to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Elastic Cluster before that date.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Online migration now uses the pgoutput plugin

Azure Updates

2026-03-25

Azure online PostgreSQL migrations now use the pgoutput plugin for generally available online (minimal-downtime) migration. The change is intended to improve reliability, performance, and compatibility with PostgreSQL logical replication.

k8s: Announcing Ingress2Gateway 1.0: Your Path to Gateway API

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-03-20

Ingress2Gateway 1.0 is a stable migration assistant for moving from Ingress to Gateway API, with expanded Ingress-NGINX annotation support and more detailed warnings for unsupported or lossy translations. The release emphasizes controller-level integration tests and safer migration workflows, including manual review, validation in a dev cluster, and gradual traffic shifting.

azure: Retirement: Migration of Azure Batch Low-Priority VMs to Spot VMs in early March

Azure Updates

2026-03-16

Azure Batch will begin a system-initiated migration from Low-Priority VMs to Spot VMs starting March 1, 2026. Low-Priority VMs were retired on September 30, 2025, and the change aligns Batch with Azure Spot infrastructure.

February (2)

k8s: Before You Migrate: Five Surprising Ingress-NGINX Behaviors You Need to Know

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-02-27

Kubernetes will retire the community Ingress-NGINX controller in March 2026; this post lists five non-obvious routing/rewriting/redirect behaviors that can cause outages when translating to Gateway API unless explicitly replicated.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-February 2026

Azure Updates

2026-02-11

Mid-February 2026 Azure SQL preview adds new Visual Studio Code publishing support for SQL Projects and introduces a Connections Migration dialog to import existing workflows.

January (6)

github: Closing down notice of legacy Copilot metrics APIs

GitHub

2026-01-29

GitHub is closing down three legacy Copilot metrics APIs as it transitions to newer, more comprehensive usage metrics endpoints. Support for the legacy APIs will be limited, and users should plan to migrate to the updated endpoints.

k8s: Ingress NGINX: Statement from the Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-01-29

Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees announced Ingress NGINX will be retired in March 2026. There will be no further releases, bug fixes, or security patches. Roughly 50% of cloud-native environments rely on it, so many clusters are at risk unless teams check and migrate; alternatives (Gateway API or third‑party Ingress controllers) are not direct drop‑in replacements and require planning and engineering time. There are about two months to prepare.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure File Sync in Israel Central

Azure Updates

2026-01-21

Azure File Sync is now generally available in the Israel Central region. It lets you tier data from on-premises Windows Servers to Azure Files to support hybrid scenarios and simplify migrations while preserving on-premises file server performance, flexibility, and compatibility.

k8s: Announcing the Checkpoint/Restore Working Group

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-01-21

Kubernetes has launched the Checkpoint Restore Working Group to advance integration of checkpoint/restore functionality (primarily via the CRIU ecosystem) into Kubernetes. The WG will explore use cases like faster startup, resource optimization for interactive AI workloads, fault-tolerance for long runs, interruption-aware scheduling, live Pod migration, and forensic checkpointing, and invites contributors to join meetings, Slack, and the mailing list.

github: Upcoming deprecation of select GitHub Copilot models from Claude, Google, and OpenAI

GitHub

2026-01-13

GitHub announced on Jan 13, 2026 that it will deprecate select GitHub Copilot models from Claude, Google, and OpenAI as part of routine retirements to prioritize newer, more capable models and maintain a fast, high‑quality Copilot experience.

github: Deprecation of user to organization account transformation

GitHub

2026-01-12

On January 12, 2026 GitHub deprecated the ability to convert a personal user account directly into an organization. Users should use the Move workflow to selectively migrate content instead. The change was announced on the GitHub Blog.