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2026 (12)

September (2)

azure: Announcing: New Windows App client-side endpoints for Azure Virtual Desktop

Azure Updates

2026-09-14

Windows App will start using three new wildcard FQDNs for client-side service traffic to Azure Virtual Desktop beginning in early October 2026. The domains are already part of the cloud-side connectivity requirements.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Firewall auto-learn SNAT routes

Azure Updates

2026-09-01

Azure Firewall auto-learn SNAT routes is now generally available. It periodically learns registered and private destination prefixes and applies them as No-SNAT ranges to preserve original source IPs and reduce manual SNAT management.

August (9)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Multicloud Interconnect

Azure Updates

2026-08-31

Azure Multicloud Interconnect is now in public preview. It provides managed private connectivity between Azure and supported cloud providers, with AWS as the first provider available in preview.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: IPv6 dual-stack support for Azure Bastion

Azure Updates

2026-08-26

Azure Bastion now supports IPv4 and IPv6 dual-stack configurations in public preview. New Bastion deployments can be configured with both IPv4 and IPv6 public IP addresses.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Connect to AKS clusters using Azure Bastion

Azure Updates

2026-08-26

Azure Bastion integration with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available. It lets customers create a secure tunnel from a local machine through Azure Bastion to an AKS cluster API server.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure SRE Agent VNet Integration

Azure Updates

2026-08-26

Azure SRE Agent VNet Integration is now generally available. It lets the agent operate within existing network controls such as NSGs, private DNS, and firewall policies.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: eBPF host routing in Advanced Container Networking Services for AKS

Azure Updates

2026-08-24

eBPF Host Routing for Advanced Container Networking Services in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available. It moves packet forwarding and routing decisions into the Linux kernel to improve Kubernetes networking performance.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Summarized advertised gateway prefixes for route advertisement

Azure Updates

2026-08-20

Azure Gateway now generally supports advertising summarized (aggregated) prefixes to on-premises networks instead of advertising every individual virtual network prefix. This is available for route advertisement in Azure gateways.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure ExpressRoute resiliency guard

Azure Updates

2026-08-07

Azure ExpressRoute resiliency guard is in public preview for ExpressRoute virtual network gateways. A new resiliency model property lets you declare whether a gateway is for single-homed or multi-homed configurations.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network routing appliance

Azure Updates

2026-08-04

Azure Virtual Network routing appliance is now generally available. It provides private connectivity across virtual networks using specialized hardware designed for low latency, high throughput, and improved performance versus virtual machines.

k8s: Gateway API v1.6: TCPRoute and UDPRoute Graduate to Standard

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-08-03

Gateway API v1.6.0 promotes TCPRoute and UDPRoute to Standard/v1, adding GA-level raw TCP and UDP routing. It also moves experimental APIs into a separate gateway.networking.x-k8s.io group with X-prefixed kinds to make the experimental boundary explicit.

July (1)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: NAT64 on StandardV2 NAT Gateway

Azure Updates

2026-07-28

StandardV2 NAT Gateway now supports NAT64. This lets IPv6 workloads reach IPv4-only internet destinations by translating synthesized outbound IPv6 traffic to IPv4, using a DNS64-capable resolver.