Blogs summary – Wednesday 14 February 2024
Here are some recent posts I found from interesting Azure, Microsoft and .NET blogs.
Azure news
- Public Preview: Azure Monitor introduces Prometheus community recommended alerts
- Generally Available: Continuous model monitoring in Azure Machine Learning
- Generally Available: Azure Stack HCI latest feature release
- Private Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)
- Azure Virtual Network Manager topology view now generally available
- Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in 30 regions
- Support for log alert rules that use cross-workspace queries with resource names or qualified name identifiers will be retired on 31 May 2024
- Announcing General Availability to migrate Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer Cluster to Private Endpoints
- Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Linux Now supports NFS
- Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Canada East
- Generally available: Support for up to 100 TB of storage for the FHIR service
- Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features – Edit Volumes in US Gov Regions
- General Availability: Application consistent restore points supports Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks
- Public preview: Azure SQL migration assessment enabled by Azure Arc
- General availability: Customer managed key encryption for Enterprise tier caches
- Public preview: Migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-February 2024
- Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Change Feed and Object Replication
New from .NET Blog
- Dev Tunnels: A Game Changer for Mobile Developers
- My Top 10 NEW Visual Studio Features of 2023 for .NET Developers
- Resilience and chaos engineering
- .NET February 2024 Updates – .NET 8.0.2, 7.0.16, .NET 6.0.27
- Our Vision for .NET 9
- Introducing ASP.NET Core metrics and Grafana dashboards in .NET 8
New from Azure DevOps Blog
- Azure Boards + GitHub improvements in private preview
- Regenerating secrets for Azure DevOps OAuth applications
- Workload identity federation for Azure deployments is now generally available
- February patches for Azure DevOps Server
New from GitHub Changelog
- Code scanning can now be enabled on repositories before they contain CodeQL supported languages
- Secret scanning adds validity checks for Stripe, Telegram, SendGrid, and more
- Copilot in GitHub Support (GA)
- VS Code Copilot Chat January 2024 (version 0.12)
- GitHub Issues & Projects – Projects without Limits Private Beta
- Enhanced Codespaces Connection
- Secret scanning adds webhook support for validity checks
- Dependabot support for pub private repositories and registries
- Deprecation notice: v1 and v2 of the artifact actions
- Repository Custom Properties GA and Ruleset Improvements
New from Microsoft Learn Blog
New from Visual Studio Blog
- Developing With Accessibility in Mind at Microsoft
- 2023’s Top 10 New Features for .NET in Visual Studio
- A Look Back: Visual Studio’s Profiling Tool Advancements in 2023
- Visual Studio 2022 17.9 Now Available
- Introducing Visual Studio 17.10 – Preview 1 is Here!
Thanks for reading!