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November (7)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Multi-disk crash-consistent VM restore points for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks on VMs with SCSI disk controller

Azure Updates

2026-11-04

Azure VM public preview adds multi-disk crash-consistent restore points for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra data disks on VMs using SCSI disk controllers. It supports agent-less capture of crash-consistent restore points.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: JWT validation for Application Gateway for Containers

Azure Updates

2026-11-03

Application Gateway for Containers now supports centralized JWT validation in public preview through the AuthPolicy custom resource. It can validate token signature, issuer, lifetime, and configured audience using signing keys from a trusted HTTP source.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: MCP gateway for Application Gateway for Containers

Azure Updates

2026-11-03

Application Gateway for Containers now supports Model Context Protocol (MCP) routing in preview via a new MCPRoute custom resource. This lets platform teams expose MCP servers behind a stable hostname and path while centralizing TLS and JWT validation through Web Application Firewall features.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Private ingress for Application Gateway for Containers

Azure Updates

2026-11-03

Application Gateway for Containers now supports private frontends in public preview. These frontends are reachable only through approved Azure Private Link private endpoints, keeping internal, shared, and cross-cluster traffic on private networking.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Advanced capacity insights are now available in Azure Storage Discovery

Azure Updates

2026-11-03

Azure Storage Discovery is adding advanced capacity insights in public preview. The update expands visibility into storage usage with insights such as access patterns, data age, storage tiers, object size distribution, and retention-related data.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Extend immutability for PITR backups for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance

Azure Updates

2026-11-03

Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance now support extending immutability for PITR backups in public preview. This lets you lock backup retention to the configured PITR retention period instead of only the default 7 days.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: On-prem NAS share discovery and assessment are now available using Azure Migrate

Azure Updates

2026-11-02

Azure Migrate added public preview support for discovering and assessing on-premises NAS shares. The feature helps plan migrations of Dell PowerScale (OneFS) and NetApp ONTAP storage to Azure.

October (5)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Support database-level managed identity (including FIC) in Create Database Scoped Credential T-SQL

Azure Updates

2026-10-30

Azure SQL Database public preview adds database-level managed identity support, including federated identity credentials (FIC), for creating database scoped credentials in T-SQL. This lets each database use a user-assigned managed identity to access Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 via external tables and OPENROWSET.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Cross Tenant Restore with Azure Backup

Azure Updates

2026-10-28

Azure Backup now supports Cross-Tenant Restore in public preview, allowing Azure VM backups to be restored into a separate Azure tenant. This provides an independent recovery path using the existing backup copy, without needing custom backup infrastructure.

github: Security extension for the GitHub Copilot app

GitHub

2026-10-28

A new GitHub security extension is available in public preview for the GitHub Copilot app. It lets you review and work through repository code scanning alerts without leaving the app.

github: GitHub Copilot supports server-to-server authentication

GitHub

2026-10-27

GitHub Copilot now supports server-to-server authentication for GitHub Apps installed on organizations, in public preview. This lets services and agents built with the GitHub Copilot SDK make authenticated requests on behalf of an app without user-based auth.

github: Public monitoring now available with data residency

GitHub

2026-10-22

GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency now supports public monitoring in public preview. This extends secret scanning beyond internal repositories to monitor public content.