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Zonal Placement for Azure Files Premium LRS is now generally available in select regions, allowing you to pin storage accounts to a specific availability zone for explicit control over zone locality, improved high availability, fault isolation, and more predictable behavior.
Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security, highlighting the innovative capabilities of Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
GitHub added Copilot lines-of-code (LoC) metrics to the code generation insights dashboard. Administrators can view these metrics for their enterprise via the Enterprises page.
Mistral Large 3, a frontier-class open-weight model licensed under Apache 2.0, is now available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure in Public Preview, offering enterprise-grade reliability, long-context comprehension, and multimodal reasoning suitable for production use.
GitHub Actions workflow_dispatch triggers now accept up to 25 inputs (previously 10), making manually triggered workflows easier to parameterize for more complex scenarios.
.NET Conf 2025 recap highlighting major announcements including .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026, AI features, community stories, and links to video recordings, slides, and demos so you can catch up on the event.
GitHub improved handling of notifications from spammy repositories and users so that notifications triggered by known spam accounts are now correctly hidden, producing clearer and more accurate notification counts.
Azure has announced general availability of MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server support for Azure Confidential Ledger. The MCP Server enables streamlined management of Azure resources, including Confidential Ledger, via natural-language prompts, simplifying interactions and operational workflows.
A Microsoft Security Blog post by Damon Becknel, Vice President and Deputy CISO for Regulated Industries at Microsoft, that outlines four cybersecurity priorities organizations should focus on now. The short article provides high-level guidance aimed at regulated industries and security teams; read the original post on the Microsoft Security Blog for the specific recommended actions.
GitHub announced that OpenAI’s GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is rolling out in public preview for GitHub Copilot and will be available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise customers.
CodeQL 2.23.6 has been released, adding support for Swift 6.2.1 and introducing new C# security queries. CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning, used to find and remediate security issues. The announcement appeared on The GitHub Blog.
Azure Databricks now offers Serverless workspaces in Public Preview — a fully managed workspace option that includes preconfigured serverless compute and default storage to provide an enterprise-ready SaaS experience with minimal infrastructure management.
Azure Storage Blob SFTP now generally available with resumable uploads, allowing interrupted or partially transferred files to be reopened and the remaining content appended so transfers can continue without restarting from zero.
The November 2025 update for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2026, added new Copilot actions integrated into the IDE, and rolled out additional improvements; full details are in the GitHub Blog changelog.
AzureML SDK V1 will reach end of life on June 30, 2026. The SDKs that operate with V1 — azureml-train-core, azureml-pipeline, azureml-pipeline-core, azureml-pipeline-internal, and azureml-pipeline-steps — will also be retired and should be removed as dependencies before that date.
GitHub announced that Claude Opus 4.5 is available in public preview for Copilot Enterprise, Copilot Business, Copilot Pro, and Copilot Pro+. The model can be accessed via GitHub Copilot Chat and is integrated into major IDEs including Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, and Eclipse.
GitHub added the ability to assign issues to Copilot via both the GraphQL and REST APIs, with options to set the target repository and base branch and to provide custom instructions and custom agents for how Copilot should handle the issue.
Microsoft announced the Foundry MCP Server (preview), building on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to help AI agents securely connect with apps, data, and systems. At Ignite, Microsoft Foundry also introduced Foundry Tools as a central hub to discover, connect, and manage both public and private MCP tools securely, simplifying integration and expanding interoperability.
Microsoft announced a preview of open, modular Data Ingestion Building Blocks for .NET that help developers create scalable AI data pipelines with easy getting-started experiences, extensibility, and tight integration in the .NET ecosystem.
The pg_squeeze extension is now generally available at version 1.9.1 for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, and you can upgrade your instance to this version.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now supports the ip4r extension (Generally Available). ip4r provides efficient storage and indexing for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and ranges and can be installed on Flexible Server instances.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now supports the credcheck extension (general availability), which enforces password and credential validation policies directly within PostgreSQL.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server is now generally available in the Belgium Central region, enabling customers to deploy managed PostgreSQL Flexible Server instances in that Azure region.
Azure Load Balancer bandwidth metrics are now generally available with a new metric dimension named Protocol. Byte, Packet, and SYN Count metrics in the Azure portal include the Protocol dimension (TCP traffic shown as Protocol=6), enabling protocol-level metric views.
AI Dev Days is a two-day virtual event from Microsoft Reactor that highlights the latest innovations across Microsoft Azure, Foundry, and GitHub, focused on modernizing apps, building with agents, and exploring new AI models to help developers level up and connect with experts.
Announcement of the VS Code Insiders Podcast — a new series serving as an insider’s guide to the features, decisions, and people shaping the future of Visual Studio Code.
GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.19 release candidate is now available, focusing on improved deployment efficiency, enhanced monitoring, stronger code security, and better policy management with a more intuitive flow.
The article argues organizations must future-proof cybersecurity talent by building agile, innovative teams that prioritize continuous learning and adaptability to evolving threats.
GitHub Secret Scanning received updates in November 2025 that added support for 24 new secret types via new provider patterns; details were published in the GitHub Blog changelog.
GitHub announced three major updates to Copilot Spaces: support for public spaces, individual sharing controls, and the ability to add files to a space directly from the github.com code viewer.
GitHub rolled out a new organization-level setting (now generally available) that lets organization owners prevent repository administrators from installing GitHub Apps on repositories, giving owners tighter control over app installation and repository surface area.
This post announces a new cross-platform .NET MAUI sample that demonstrates how to implement age verification across Android, iOS, and Windows by integrating platform-specific APIs (Google Play Age Signals, Apple Declared Age Range, and Windows Age Consent). It provides guidance and a ready-made sample to help developers add compliant age checks to their apps.
Microsoft announced general availability of the Perth Azure Extended Zone — a small-footprint Azure extension in the Perth metro area designed to support low-latency and data residency workloads.