Security Updates - 1

2026 (3)

March (2)

azure: Retirement: Azure Sphere will be retired on July 31, 2031

Azure Updates

2026-03-20

Azure Sphere will be retired on July 31, 2031. After that date, Microsoft will stop providing customer application, OS, bug, and security updates, as well as DAA certificate issuance.

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.

February (1)

azure: Retirement: Managed NGINX Ingress with Application Routing Add-on Retiring November 2026

Azure Updates

2026-02-27

Microsoft will retire the Managed NGINX Ingress used by the AKS Application Routing add-on in November 2026 due to the upstream Ingress-NGINX project deprecating and ending updates after March 2026. Microsoft will provide only critical security patches until 30 Nov 2026, after which the controller is unsupported.

2025 (2)

October (1)

dotnet: Announcing the .NET Security Group

.NET

2025-10-14

Microsoft announced the .NET Security Group, a program that gives partners early access to CVE information and coordinates delivery of .NET security patches so distributors can ship fixes at the same time as Microsoft.

September (1)

github: Conda ecosystem support for Dependabot now generally available

GitHub

2025-09-16

GitHub Dependabot now supports parsing and updating Conda environment.yml files, providing both security and version updates for Conda-based Python projects; the feature is generally available.