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2025 (12)

November (3)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Object Replication Priority Replication for Azure Blob

Azure Updates

2025-11-10

Azure Blob Object Replication Priority Replication is now generally available, letting customers mark replication policy rules for prioritized copying from a source storage account to a destination storage account so selected objects are replicated ahead of others.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Ultra Disk’s new flexible provisioning model

Azure Updates

2025-11-06

Azure Ultra Disk is now generally available with a new flexible provisioning model that lets you configure capacity, IOPS and throughput (MBPS) more independently so you can better tailor and optimize disk performance for your workloads.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL read replicas with Premium SSD v2

Azure Updates

2025-11-06

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now supports configuring read replicas (in-region and geo-replicas) with the Premium SSD v2 storage tier in Public Preview, enabling scale-out for read-heavy workloads and improved performance by offloading read operations.

October (5)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Instant Access Snapshots for Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks Storage

Azure Updates

2025-10-30

Azure announced a Public Preview of Instant Access Snapshots for Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra Disks, allowing immediate restore of new disks from snapshots and providing high-performance restore disks.

github: Actions Runner Controller release 0.13.0

GitHub

2025-10-16

Actions Runner Controller (ARC) 0.13.0 is released with updates that improve storage, networking, platform compatibility, and metrics. The release adds support for container lifecycle hooks to remove previous storage limitations.

azure: [Launched] Generally Avaialbe: Azure NetApp Files short-term clones

Azure Updates

2025-10-07

Azure NetApp Files short-term clones are now generally available. They create temporary thin clones from existing volume snapshots to provide space-efficient, instant read/write access without making full data copies, reducing capacity usage and speeding workflows.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Cross-tenant customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption

Azure Updates

2025-10-03

Azure NetApp Files now generally supports cross-tenant customer-managed keys (CMK) for volume encryption, letting customers use and control their own encryption keys across different Azure tenancies to increase control and flexibility.

azure: Retirement: General Purpose v1 (GPv1) and legacy blob storage accounts

Azure Updates

2025-10-03

Microsoft announced the retirement of all General purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts — including legacy blob storage accounts — as part of efforts to streamline the Azure Storage portfolio and improve performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

September (4)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files Flexible service level

Azure Updates

2025-09-25

Azure NetApp Files Flexible service level is now generally available. It lets you independently configure storage capacity and throughput so you can right-size performance and cost, avoiding overprovisioning by using customizable throughput settings separate from capacity.

k8s: Announcing Changed Block Tracking API support (alpha)

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-09-25

Kubernetes announces alpha support for a Changed Block Tracking API that lets CSI drivers report allocated and changed blocks between snapshots to enable faster, incremental backups for block volumes. The feature requires a SnapshotMetadataService CRD, an external-snapshot-metadata sidecar, and CSI SnapshotMetadata gRPC RPCs (GetMetadataAllocated and GetMetadataDelta) with streaming responses.

k8s: Kubernetes v1.34: Recovery From Volume Expansion Failure (GA)

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-09-19

Kubernetes v1.34 graduates automated recovery from failed persistent volume expansions to GA. Users can correct an over-sized PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) by reducing the requested size (as long as the new request is still larger than the PV's original capacity) without cluster-admin intervention; consumed quota from a failed expansion is returned automatically. The release also introduces improved observability and error reporting for expansion operations, retries with reduced request rates, and several resizing workflow bug fixes.

k8s: Kubernetes v1.34: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to v1beta2

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-09-16

Kubernetes v1.34 advances Volume Group Snapshots to v1beta2. The update adds a VolumeSnapshotInfo type and replaces VolumeSnapshotHandlePairList with VolumeSnapshotInfoList to fix restoreSize handling when CSI drivers do not implement ListSnapshots; objects are migrated from v1beta1 via a conversion webhook and the feature remains CSI-only with GA planned later.