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2026 (5)

March (2)

aks: Release Notes - 2026-03-05

Release notes from AKS

2026-03-18

AKS released new Kubernetes patch versions, updated several components and node images, and introduced/expanded features including OTLP gRPC support for Azure Monitor Profile, GA auto-instrumentation, and broader Azure Linux GPU and KAITO support. It also announced deprecations and behavior changes, including retirement dates for Flatcar preview support and deprecation of Kubernetes LTS 1.28.

azure: Retirement: Flatcar Container Linux for AKS (preview)

Azure Updates

2026-03-16

Azure Kubernetes Service support for Flatcar Container Linux for AKS in preview is being retired on June 8, 2026. Users should move to a supported alternative by that date; the preview remains usable until June 7, 2026.

February (3)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: WAF Insights for Application Gateway

Azure Updates

2026-02-23

Azure Application Gateway WAF Insights is now in public preview, adding an interactive view of WAF logs and metrics. It is intended to help investigate blocked requests and analyze attack patterns.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Unified tooling in the AKS MCP server

Azure Updates

2026-02-18

AKS MCP Server adds unified tooling in public preview to reduce tool/context overhead when managing AKS MCP servers. Two new tools are introduced: call_az and call_kubectl.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Cluster mode for the agentic CLI for AKS

Azure Updates

2026-02-18

AKS agentic CLI adds a public preview “cluster mode” to run diagnostic agents with reduced inherited user permissions and avoid per-user deployments.