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GitHub Models has deprecated several older models and asks users to transition to the suggested newer versions (for example, Mistral-Nemo users should move to Mistral-small-2503) to continue using improved models with enhanced features.
Azure Functions (Public Preview) adds rolling updates for the Flex Consumption plan, enabling zero-downtime deployments by gracefully updating instances instead of force-restarting them; enabled with a simple configuration change.
Microsoft’s blog post summarizes a new e-book that outlines the main challenges organizations face with generative AI, details the top generative AI security threats, and recommends steps companies can take to strengthen their security posture against unpredictable AI risks.
Azure announced General Availability for High Scale Private Endpoints (HSPE), letting customers raise the per‑Virtual Network limit on Azure Private Endpoints above the previous 1,000 endpoint cap. HSPE enables larger, production‑scale VNet designs that require many private endpoints while keeping the existing Private Endpoint connectivity model.
Azure Functions will stop supporting Node.js 20 on April 30, 2026. Apps running on Node.js 20 will continue to run, but they will no longer receive security fixes or performance updates; you should plan and perform an upgrade to Node.js 22 beforehand.
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.
Microsoft will retire several preview features on March 31, 2026. Affected features include grouping multiple pipeline steps, pipeline job comparison for debugging, importing data into a data labeling project, and using v2 data. Customers should remove dependencies on these preview features before the retirement date.
GitHub’s MCP Server release adds server instructions, improved tooling, and a smaller footprint to enable new and better ways for models to use the server.
Microsoft announced two experimental custom agents for .NET developers — C# Expert and WinForms Expert — designed to help produce better code when used with GitHub Copilot. The agents are tailored to C# and WinForms development and were introduced on the .NET Blog.
GitHub released CodeQL Action v4 on October 7, 2025; v4 runs on the Node.js 24 runtime. CodeQL Action v3 will be deprecated at the same time as GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.19.
Microsoft announced general availability of CAPTCHA protection for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) when used with Azure Front Door to help defend modern web applications from automated threats.
GitHub announced upgrades to Copilot in Visual Studio Code (released to VS Code Insiders) at GitHub Universe 2025, including integration with OpenAI Codex for Copilot Pro+ users.
GitHub redesigned the Copilot coding agent task management experience on github.com into a single “mission control” interface that lets you assign, steer, and track tasks without jumping between pages.
GitHub Code Quality is now available in public preview, bringing in‑context findings, one‑click Copilot fixes, and reliability and maintainability scores directly into pull requests to help improve code during review.
GitHub announced new public preview features for Copilot code review that combine LLM detections and tool-calling with deterministic analyzers (for example ESLint and CodeQL) to produce smarter, more comprehensive reviews and enable a smooth handoff to the Copilot coding agent.
The GitHub app for Slack now integrates with the GitHub Copilot coding agent, enabling users to generate pull requests directly from Slack conversations. The feature is rolling out and announced on the GitHub Blog.
GitHub announced that Copilot for Linear is available in public preview. Users can assign Linear issues to the Copilot coding agent — an asynchronous, autonomous background agent — which will analyze the issue contents.
GitHub announced an enterprise-level experience for administrative functions for AI systems called the agent control plane, now available in public preview to all GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers using Copilot.
GitHub announced that a Copilot usage metrics dashboard and a corresponding API are available in public preview for GitHub Enterprise, allowing organizations to view and programmatically access Copilot usage metrics.
GitHub’s Copilot coding agent can now edit existing pull requests created by humans when you mention @copilot in a comment, in addition to its ability to open new pull requests from scratch.
GitHub announced that Copilot coding agents can now run their development environment on self-hosted GitHub Actions runners managed by Actions Runner Controller (ARC), enabling teams to host agent workloads in their own infrastructure.
The article explains why multiple MCP servers often all register a tool named “search”, causing name collisions when a client aggregates tools from more than one server, and gives short-term and long-term fixes (namespacing, unique IDs, client-side resolution changes, or upstream fixes).
Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 is now available in the Retail Eval feed for a limited 14-day evaluation period. Customers and developers should use this window to confirm that their devices and applications function correctly with the new OS release before wider deployment.
Azure Storage Mover is now generally available for migrating NFS file shares to Azure File Shares using the NFS 4.1 protocol. The fully managed service helps move on-premises files and folders to Azure Storage while minimizing downtime.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now generally supports PgBouncer 1.23.1 as a built-in connection pooling feature to efficiently manage many client connections with low overhead.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) software reservations are Generally Available on Azure again after updates to billing meters and pricing that resolve prior billing issues and align charges with Red Hat’s new pricing.
The .NET Blog announces a new Sponsorship feature on NuGet.org designed to help users recognize and support package maintainers and to strengthen the NuGet community.
CodeQL 2.23.3 is a maintenance release for GitHub’s static analysis engine that adds a new Rust query, improves Rust support, and makes C/C++ scanning easier, helping GitHub code scanning find and remediate security issues more effectively.
On October 23, 2025, GitHub deprecated selected Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions), according to a GitHub Blog changelog post.
GitHub announced a public preview that expands enterprise teams’ capabilities to manage roles and governance in enterprise accounts, building on last month’s preview that enabled managing Copilot Business licenses.
This DevBlogs post provides a step-by-step guide to upgrading a .NET AI chat app to the Microsoft Agent Framework to improve architecture, enable better tool integration, and add intelligent reasoning features.
GitHub announced that organization custom properties are available in public preview. These let you attach metadata to organizations—similar to repository custom properties—to simplify targeting of rulesets and policies across organizations.
Microsoft announced expanded Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) capabilities, including the new Microsoft Defender for Identity sensor now generally available, delivering improved protection, deeper correlation across signals, and richer contextual information to help organizations modernize their identity defenses.
Microsoft announced the planned retirement of the Azure Computer Vision – Image Analysis service, with full support provided through September 25, 2028.
Azure announced a public preview of VM vCore customization that gives customers greater control over virtual CPU configuration. The preview introduces two capabilities: disabling simultaneous multithreading (SMT/Hyper‑Threading) on vCPUs, and constraining the number of cores exposed to the guest. These options help optimize single‑threaded workload performance, reduce license costs by limiting visible cores, and improve CPU isolation and predictable performance. The features are available in public preview and can be configured through Azure management interfaces.
In mid-October 2025 Azure SQL announced Generally Available updates: the redirect connection type was improved to require only port 1433 and promoted to the default, and you can convert an Azure SQL Database to Hyperscale while preserving existing geo configurations.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL now generally supports near-zero downtime scaling for servers with high availability (HA) enabled, reducing scaling interruptions to typically under 30 seconds instead of the previous 2–10 minutes.
Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report 2025 highlights a changing cyberthreat landscape with a rise in financially motivated attacks and ongoing nation-state risks. The article argues that CISOs must focus on organizational response, adaptation, and resilience-building to meet accelerating threats.
The VS Code blog post introduces the new Language Model Chat Provider API and a Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) experience that lets extensions and users choose and integrate different language models for chat functionality, increasing model choice and extensibility in the editor.
Microsoft announced the new Microsoft Security Store, a centralized gateway that helps customers discover, purchase, and deploy vetted security solutions and AI agents from leading partners, aiming to simplify procurement and accelerate partner-driven innovation.
Claude Haiku 4.5 is now generally available to Copilot Enterprise, Copilot Business, Copilot Pro, and Copilot Pro+ users and can be used in GitHub Copilot Chat on github.com and in all supported IDEs.
Azure Storage Mover’s AWS S3 to Azure Blob migration capability is now generally available, enabling organizations to move data directly from AWS to Azure securely, reliably, and at scale while removing the need for manual pipelines.
Azure announced Public Preview support for sharing Capacity Reservation Groups (CRGs) with subscriptions, allowing CRGs to be used beyond the subscription where they were created. Previously, VMs could only be deployed into a CRG within the same subscription.
Azure released two PowerShell scripts to simplify migrating Application Gateway from V1 (Standard or WAF) to V2 (Standard_V2 or WAF_V2): an enhanced cloning script and a public IP retention script. V1 SKUs are scheduled for retirement in April 2026, so customers are advised to migrate early to V2 and take advantage of its features.
Microsoft’s Security Blog highlights that Azure Blob Storage is an attractive, high-value target because it stores massive volumes of unstructured data across many workloads. Threat actors are increasingly using sophisticated attack chains that exploit misconfigurations, exposed credentials, and evolving cloud-specific tactics to compromise Blob Storage.
The article outlines seven common Kubernetes pitfalls the author encountered—missing resource requests/limits, inadequate liveness/readiness probes, overreliance on kubectl logs, treating dev and prod identically, leaving stale resources, jumping into advanced networking too early, and weak security/RBAC—and gives pragmatic, experience-based advice to avoid each one.
This guide demonstrates how to quickly improve image classification accuracy by fine-tuning GPT-4o (a vision-language model) on Azure OpenAI via Azure AI Foundry. It targets ML practitioners, app developers, and curious users, and emphasizes that boosting performance can be done without deep learning expertise through a step-by-step walkthrough.
The Policy Working Group (now completed) worked to standardize and simplify policy management across the Kubernetes ecosystem. Led by co-chairs Jim Bugwadia, Poonam Lamba, and Andy Suderman, the group produced documentation, whitepapers, a CNCF survey, and the Policy Reports API, and helped educate the community about built-in policy APIs and CNCF policy tools. The WG coordinated with SIG Auth and SIG Security, faced contributor-time and consensus challenges, and encouraged newcomers to join meetings and review materials to get involved.
GitHub announced a migration option that lets users convert legacy Copilot knowledge bases into Copilot Spaces ahead of the knowledge bases’ sunset on November 1, 2025.
GitHub announced daily improvements to Copilot CLI, highlighting multiline input support, a set of new MCP enhancements, and the Haiku 4.5 update. The changelog credits developer feedback—bug reports, feature requests, and discussions—for driving these ongoing improvements.
AKS release 2025-10-12 announces OS retirements and upgrades, new billing for AKS Automatic, LTS patch releases, feature additions (GPU skip drivers, Envoy filters for Istio, VPA mode), behavioral changes to autoscaling and node provisioning, and multiple component and image updates across Azure Linux and Ubuntu node images and CSI/CNI/monitoring components.
GitHub updated the GPT-4.1 Copilot code completion model (October update) to better infer developer intent from surrounding code, resulting in more accurate code completion suggestions in GitHub Copilot.
Azure now provides a new OS SKU enum, ‘AzureLinux3’, that lets you migrate to Azure Linux 3.0 for clusters running Kubernetes versions 1.28–1.36. The option gives increased control over OS upgrades by decoupling them from Kubernetes upgrades.
Microsoft is planning a new Azure datacenter region in Malaysia called Southeast Asia 3, currently in private preview. The region will host Microsoft’s most comprehensive and strategic cloud services and represents an expansion of Azure’s digital infrastructure footprint in Southeast Asia. The announcement did not include detailed timelines or exact service availability.
Azure Functions now generally supports Python 3.13: you can develop functions locally with Python 3.13 and deploy them to Azure. Alongside this release, Functions introduces an opt-in runtime version control feature that lets you target specific versions of the Functions Python runtime.
GitHub’s Copilot coding agent — an asynchronous autonomous background agent that can open draft pull requests and make changes for you — can now search the web to gather information and references to inform its code changes and suggestions.
GitHub announced that the Copilot coding agent — the asynchronous background agent that works on delegated tasks and requests reviews — now generates clearer, more descriptive branch names and pull request titles to improve reviewability and repo hygiene.
Grok Code Fast 1 is now generally available in GitHub Copilot and can be accessed in GitHub Copilot Chat. The release is available to Copilot Enterprise, Copilot Business, Copilot Pro, and Copilot Pro+ customers.
Microsoft has been recognized again as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), according to a post on the Microsoft Security Blog.
The public preview of Confidential Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), available since 2023, is being retired as Microsoft streamlines its confidential computing offerings.
Azure Firewall now offers prescaling (general availability), letting administrators provision and reserve capacity units in advance to handle expected traffic loads—such as seasonal peaks or planned business events—helping ensure consistent throughput and faster handling of traffic spikes.
Azure Firewall now includes the observed capacity metric (Generally Available). The metric reports the number of capacity units actively utilized over time to help administrators understand how their firewalls are scaling in practice.
Microsoft reports that extortion and ransomware account for over half of cyberattacks; in 80% of incidents their security teams investigated last year attackers attempted to steal data, driven more by financial gain than intelligence gathering.
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.
Microsoft announced general availability of automation support for Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) using Azure PowerShell (Az.DataMigration and custom cmdlets), the Python SDK, and the Azure CLI (az datamigration), enabling scripted and programmatic database migrations.
Azure Functions Flex Consumption features are now generally available: you can enable Availability Zones for apps at creation or after deployment so instances are automatically distributed across zones for improved reliability and fault tolerance. The update also introduces support for network-restricted Key Vault and App Configuration references and notes new region support.
SAP Business Data Cloud Connect to Azure Databricks is now generally available, providing secure, bi-directional, zero-copy data sharing between SAP BDC and Azure Databricks via Delta Sharing so teams can unify SAP and external data for analytics.
Azure Storage Discovery is now generally available, providing enterprise-wide visibility into your Azure Storage estate so you can analyze capacity and activity, optimize costs, improve security, and support operational decision-making.
Azure announced a public preview of Private Link Service Direct Connect, which removes the requirement to place provider applications behind a Standard Load Balancer. The preview simplifies how service providers expose private endpoints to consumers by allowing more direct connectivity while keeping traffic private and secure.
GitHub Copilot now provides contextual commit message suggestions for file changes on github.com. The feature, previously in public preview, is now generally available to help make writing commit documentation easier and faster.
Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 — a newer, higher-performance and faster model — is rolling out in GitHub Copilot and is now available in public preview.
Microsoft Azure will retire the F, Fs, Fsv2, Lsv2, G, Gs, Av2, Amv2, and B series virtual machines on November 15, 2028. After that date these VM series cannot be used or purchased.
Azure has updated the Locations API metadata for UK-based regions by changing the geographyGroup and regionalDisplayName fields to meet evolving compliance and regulatory requirements. The changes are in effect October 2025.
Microsoft Security Blog warns that customer support tools, now more connected and data-rich, are increasingly targeted by cyberattacks. Hardening these systems is essential to safeguard customer trust, protect sensitive data, and maintain business continuity.
A brief recap announcing the October 2025 servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework. The post on the .NET Blog summarizes the latest fixes and directs readers to the official release information.
Microsoft announced .NET 10 Release Candidate 2, emphasizing final quality, reliability, and stabilization across the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and related components.
Azure Event Grid announced General Availability of multiple features that enhance support for real-time telemetry, automation, and hybrid workloads. One highlighted GA feature is MQTT OAuth 2.0 authentication, enabling MQTT clients to authenticate using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs).
GitHub announced that CodeQL now generally supports scanning Rust projects and scanning C/C++ projects without requiring builds. Both features have exited public preview and are available in GitHub code scanning.
Azure AI Foundry provides a streamlined platform for smarter, faster, and more accessible fine-tuning so developers can customize models for practical business problems — from reasoning agents to adaptive tools and scalable workflows — accompanied by best practices, hands-on resources, and recent innovations to accelerate development, testing, and deployment.
GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.18 is now generally available. The release focuses on improving deployment efficiency, monitoring, code security, and policy management, and introduces the ability for enterprise administrators to define custom properties.
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.
Microsoft introduced ExCyTIn-Bench, an open-source benchmarking tool that evaluates how effectively AI systems perform real-world cybersecurity investigations, aiming to standardize measurement and improve AI-driven defensive capabilities.
The GitHub MCP Server adds native support for GitHub Projects via a new management tool and deploys multiple strategies to reduce the server’s footprint, alongside other improvements noted in the changelog.
Azure announced the general availability of Spot Placement Score, a feature that lets you assess the likelihood of successful deployments for Spot virtual machines by evaluating spot capacity availability across different Azure locations and VM size combinations.
GitHub has removed offset-based pagination parameters (page, first, last) from all Dependabot alerts REST API endpoints; only cursor-based parameters (before, after, per_page) are supported going forward.
The article addresses a common enterprise problem with AWS Bedrock: unknown consumption of AI tokens. It proposes adding explicit bot/user context to model invocation logs so teams can attribute usage, monitor costs, enforce policies, and investigate behavior. The approach uses structured metadata injected at the application or gateway layer and captured in Bedrock invocation logs and downstream observability systems.
Azure Site Recovery is now generally available for Virtual Machines using Ultra Disks, enabling cross-region replication, failover, and failback to improve disaster recovery for high‑performance workloads with minimal impact.
Microsoft announced the general availability of the open-source Containerization Assist MCP Server, a full containerization platform that automates Dockerfile creation and Kubernetes manifest generation to reduce manual, error-prone work. The service is built on the proven AKS Draft technology and aims to be more than a basic AI coding tool by providing end-to-end containerization support.
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 is now generally available inside GitHub Copilot. The model can be accessed in GitHub Copilot Chat and is available to Copilot Enterprise, Copilot Business, Copilot Pro, and Copilot Pro+ customers.
Azure API Management introduces environmental sustainability features in public preview that help organizations reduce the carbon footprint of their API infrastructure by making API traffic and policy behavior carbon-aware.
Microsoft announced the planned retirement of the Azure Custom Vision service and will provide full support to existing customers until September 25, 2028. Customers are encouraged to begin planning their migration or transition during this support window.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now offers PostgreSQL 18 in public preview, providing early access to the latest performance, scalability, and developer productivity improvements.
Microsoft frames building a lasting security culture as a strategic priority and a call to action: security is people-centered, every employee has a role, and embedding secure practices into how people think, work, and collaborate creates a unified, proactive, and resilient defense for Microsoft and its customers.
Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Integrated HSM, a hardware security module (HSM) cache and crypto accelerator for virtual machines, designed to enhance the security and performance of cryptographic operations for customers with heavy crypto workloads.
Microsoft made generally available Python and .NET code samples demonstrating Entra ID token refresh for Azure Database for PostgreSQL to help securely manage authentication tokens when connecting with Entra ID.
GitHub announced incremental updates to GitHub Copilot CLI focused on speed, more concise suggestions, and improved output formatting. The changes reflect daily improvements driven by community feedback and are listed in the GitHub Blog changelog.
CodeQL 2.23.2 is a maintenance release for the static analysis engine used by GitHub code scanning. The release adds additional Rust security detections and improves analysis accuracy across multiple languages.
GitHub updated the blocked users view in organization and personal settings to provide improved transparency and easier record keeping, giving organization admins clearer visibility into moderation history and context.
Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server now generally supports configuring a custom server port (25001–26000) at creation for both public and private access-enabled servers, making it easier to integrate with existing applications and meet security requirements (default MySQL port remains 3306).
Azure Firewall in Virtual WAN secured hubs is now generally available with support for customer-provided public IP addresses, allowing organizations to bring their own public IPs when deploying Azure Firewall in a secured Virtual WAN hub.
This is the release announcement for Visual Studio Code September 2025 (version 1.105). It directs readers to the full article for details about what’s new in this release, including feature updates, improvements, fixes, and extension or API changes.
Microsoft highlights security as a central theme at Ignite 2025, offering dedicated sessions and hands-on experiences focused on securing agentic AI for security professionals and leaders. The blog points readers to the session catalog for details and scheduling.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence reports a financially motivated actor tracked as Storm-2657 conducting “payroll pirate” attacks against US universities by compromising employee accounts, accessing employee profiles, and diverting salary payments to attacker-controlled accounts.
Azure Arc’s firmware analysis capability is now generally available, providing deep visibility into the software that runs on IoT, OT, and network devices to improve security visibility for systems that often operate as black boxes.
Microsoft announced that the Azure AI Health Insights service and the Clinical Trials Matcher and Radiology Insights models will be retired on December 31, 2025. These offerings will no longer be available for use or integration as part of a strategic review of the AI portfolio.
Microsoft announced the Public Preview of Vaulted Backup for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS). Azure Backup now supports vaulted protection for ADLS, providing secure off‑site backups to help ensure business continuity and compliance and to protect data from accidental deletion.
Azure Cache for Redis (Basic, Standard, Premium) will be retired on September 30, 2028. Microsoft recommends migrating workloads to Azure Managed Redis before that date.
Azure is retiring the Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise and Enterprise Flash tiers on March 31, 2027 and recommends migrating workloads to Azure Managed Redis. Beginning April 1, 2026, customers will no longer be able to create new Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise instances.
The .NET 10 Garbage Collector introduces DATAS, a new adaptive mechanism that adjusts heap size automatically. The article explains how DATAS behavior differs from the previous Server GC, and gives guidance on when to tune GC settings or disable DATAS depending on your application’s workload and performance goals.
Azure AI Foundry’s September 2025 update announces GA for GPT-5-Codex and Voice Live, previews for Sora video-to-video, Browser Automation, and Key Vault, the release of Grok 4 Fast, and new knowledge sources for Azure AI Search.
GitHub will deprecate Claude Sonnet 3.5 across all Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) on November 6, 2025. The change signals a move to newer, more capable models. The announcement appeared on The GitHub Blog.
Microsoft will retire Azure Network Policy Manager (NPM) for Windows nodes on AKS on September 30, 2026. Customers must move to alternative networking solutions to keep receiving support, security updates, and deployment compatibility.
GitHub has added social login with Apple (Sign in with Apple), making it easier for iOS developers to sign up and sign in. This builds on GitHub’s earlier social login support for Google.
Practical guidance for reviewing AI-generated .NET code, emphasizing that AI output should be treated as a starting point and validated through tests, linters, security checks, and clear team processes to maintain quality and productivity.
Microsoft highlights that threat actors are abusing Microsoft Teams features across the attack chain and urges defenders to proactively monitor, detect, and respond. The blog recommends layered countermeasures and optimal controls across identity, endpoints, data and app protection, and network controls to better protect enterprise Teams users.
Azure Firewall Policy now generally available supports up to 600 IP Groups per policy (previously 200), allowing administrators to simplify and better organize firewall rules by using more IP Groups instead of long IP lists.
GitHub updated the Secret Protection default pattern set in September 2025, adding new secret detection patterns and upgrading existing ones to improve coverage across different secret types. The changes expand built-in secret scanning so repositories using the default patterns benefit from broader, more accurate detection without manual configuration.
Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) patterns and practices provide practical, practitioner‑led guidance based on Microsoft’s Zero Trust implementation. The guides are designed to help organizations accelerate security maturity, reduce implementation friction, and build systems that are secure by design, by default, and in operation.
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.
On November 11, 2025, GitHub will deprecate several Dependabot-specific pull request comment commands and rely on GitHub’s native pull request features instead; users should update any workflows or automations that depend on those comment commands.
Azure will retire legacy authentication for Azure Monitor - Container Insights on September 30, 2026; customers should migrate to Managed Identity authentication.
Microsoft announced general availability of the AI toolchain operator add-on (KAITO) for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). KAITO streamlines deployment of AI inference and fine-tuning workflows using popular open-source frameworks, with vLLM set as the default inference engine to simplify management and scaling of model serving.
GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers with multiple Enterprise Managed Users (EMU) accounts can now use a single proxy header to block traffic to github.com that originates outside any of their enterprises. This update lifts the prior limitation that tied enterprise access restrictions to a single enterprise, simplifying network configuration for organizations with multiple EMU accounts.
Microsoft’s Incident Response team works effectively amid the disorder caused by fast-moving threat actors, treating compromised environments, missing data, and shaken confidence as the starting point for investigations, as described in the Microsoft Security Blog post “Inside Microsoft Threat Intelligence: Calm in the chaos.”
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now generally supports PostgreSQL minor versions 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, 13.22 and 18 Beta 3; minor-version upgrades are applied automatically during monthly planned maintenance.
Microsoft observed active exploitation of CVE-2025-10035, a deserialization vulnerability in the GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) License Servlet, by the financially motivated actor Storm-1175 (associated with Medusa ransomware). The blog post raises awareness and describes end-to-end protection coverage in Microsoft Defender.
Grok Code Fast 1 is now available in public preview through GitHub Copilot Chat and is integrated into major IDEs including Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, and Eclipse. The preview is accessible to GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plan subscribers.
The Headlamp Karpenter Plugin integrates Karpenter autoscaling visibility into the Headlamp Kubernetes UI, providing real‑time maps, metrics, scaling decisions, pending‑pod diagnostics, and an editable, validated config editor to help users understand, debug, and tune node provisioning and autoscaling behavior.
Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance will be retired on September 30, 2026; customers will no longer be able to access the service after that date. Microsoft recommends transitioning to Operations Manager on-premises to continue monitoring on-premises workloads and consulting the retirement documentation for details.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now provides a generally available Azure CLI command to automatically migrate clusters using Availability Sets and the basic load balancer to the new Virtual Machines node pool and perform the required upgrade. Availability Sets and the basic load balancer are deprecated on September 30, 2025.
GitHub announced updates to Copilot CLI that add enhanced model selection, support for images, and a streamlined user interface following the product’s public preview and active user feedback.
Azure Static Web Apps’ database connections feature (currently in public preview) will be deprecated effective November 30, 2025 due to changes in underlying infrastructure. Customers should refactor deployments using this feature to avoid deployment issues.
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 VPN Gateway will retire support for the SSTP protocol on March 31, 2027. Microsoft cites limited scalability and suboptimal performance and advises customers to migrate to IKEv2 or OpenVPN, which offer significantly improved capabilities (including support for up to 10,000 connections).
Azure NetApp Files is in public preview for integration with FreeIPA, OpenLDAP, and Red Hat Directory Server, providing secure LDAP over TLS connectivity for NFSv3 and NFSv4.1 volumes so enterprises can use these directory services for identity management.
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.
GitHub added a one‑click merge conflict resolution feature to the github.com web interface, letting maintainers resolve pull request conflicts directly on the site when those conflicts are resolvable in the web editor.
Microsoft was named a Leader in IDC’s inaugural Worldwide Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Software MarketScape for 2025, recognized for its deep integration, intelligent automation, and unified security operations solutions, as reported on the Microsoft Security Blog.
Azure Traffic Manager’s new health check infrastructure is now generally available. The update improves the service’s resiliency and scalability, and Microsoft is migrating customers to the new probing infrastructure as the rollout progresses.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is available in public preview through GitHub Copilot Chat for users on Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans, and can be used in Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, and Eclipse.
Azure Machine Learning’s built-in data labeling capability will be retired on September 30, 2026. Customers can continue to use the service until that date but should plan to transition to third‑party data labeling providers before the retirement.
The MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code is available in public preview with built-in connectivity to Microsoft Fabric SQL databases. A new Fabric option in the Connection Dialog lets developers sign in with Microsoft Entra ID and access Fabric resources directly from VS Code, bringing Fabric SQL into the development workflow.
GitHub announced Spark is available in Public Preview for Copilot Enterprise customers, including Enterprise Managed Users (EMU) CE. Organization admins can enable Spark to provide access; the release emphasizes expanded access, improved reliability, and faster iteration history.
Azure will retire Azure Network Policy Manager (NPM) on Linux nodes in AKS on September 30, 2028. Customers must migrate AKS clusters using NPM to Cilium Network Policy before that date to avoid disruptions.
In late September 2025 Azure SQL announced a Public Preview feature that adds immutability to long-term retention (LTR) backups to protect backups from ransomware and tampering.
Microsoft highlights that cybersecurity is as much about people as technology in its Cybersecurity Awareness Month post, “Security starts with you.” The blog directs readers to Microsoft’s resources and practical guidance to help individuals stay safe online and adopt safer habits.
Microsoft announced the Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview), a unified solution for creating, orchestrating, hosting, and observing AI agents in the .NET ecosystem to help developers ship production AI agents faster.
Microsoft announced the open-source Microsoft Agent Framework, an engine designed for building agentic AI applications. The framework addresses the evolving needs of AI agents — which go beyond chatbots and copilots — by enabling autonomous components that can reason about goals, call tools and APIs, collaborate with other agents, and adapt dynamically. The announcement appeared on the Azure AI Foundry Blog.
GitHub announced that auto model selection in Visual Studio Code is now available in public preview for Copilot Business and Enterprise plans; the feature automatically selects the appropriate model for you.