Blogs summary – Monday 4 March 2024
Here are some recent posts I found from interesting Azure, Microsoft and .NET blogs.
Azure news
- Announcing NBCROW Compression in Kusto’s TDS Implementation
- Public preview: Azure Application Gateway introduces support for TLS and TCP protocols
- Enable replication for added VMware VM data disks
- General availability: Application Gateway for Containers
- General availability: Azure CLI support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
- General availability: Azure SDKs support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
- General availability: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
- Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-February 2024
- Public preview: AKS support for node soak duration for upgrades
- Public preview: Disable network policy in AKS for migration
- GA: Istio-based service mesh add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service
- Generally Available: Capacity Reservations support in AKS
- Generally Available: Node Soak Duration for Upgrades
- Public preview: OS SKU in-place migration for Linux nodes
- Public preview: Kubernetes 1.29 support in AKS
- Public preview: Azure Functions Support for HTTP Streams in Node.js
- Public preview: Internet inbound for Network Virtual Appliances in Virtual WAN Hubs
- General Availability: Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks is now available in more regions.
- Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
- Public Preview: Well-Architected Framework assessment on Azure Advisor
New from .NET Blog
- WinForms in a 64-Bit world – our strategy going forward
- The FAST and the Fluent: A Blazor story
- .NET MAUI Community Toolkit 2023 Highlights
- GitHub Copilot Analysis, Customized Rules, and more come to the Azure Migrate application and code assessment
New from GitHub Changelog
- CodeQL 2.16.2: New Android queries and improved precision
- New limits on scoped token creation for GitHub Apps
- Secret scanning supports user namespace repositories for Enterprise Managed Users
- GitHub Copilot Enterprise is now generally available
- Repository Rules – configure merge queue rule – public beta
- Copilot – February 27th update
- Enterprise READMEs
- Push protection is enabled for free users on GitHub
- CodeQL 2.16.3: AI-powered autofixes for Python, updated queries, and security fixes
- GitHub Actions and Larger Runners; Windows 11 Beta
New from IoT Tech Community Blog
New from Microsoft Learn Blog
- Microsoft Learn for Organizations: Jump-start team technical training
- Microsoft Credentials roundup: In-demand news for in-demand skills
- Real skills for real-time results with Microsoft Applied Skills credentials
New from Visual Studio Blog
- VisualStudio.Extensibility: Install extensions without restarting Visual Studio!
- A Streamlined Extension Manager comes to Visual Studio 17.9
- Using Copilot Chat with C++ in Visual Studio: Generate code, fix functions, and more..
- A Year of C++ Game Development Improvements in Visual Studio
- Visual Studio’s Full Year in Review (2023)
- WinForms Designer Selection for 32-bit .NET Framework Projects
- Code coverage features in Visual Studio Enterprise
Thanks for reading!