Blogs summary – Thursday 28 March 2024
Here are some recent posts I found from interesting Azure, Microsoft and .NET blogs.
Azure news
- General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps
- Breaking Changes to Azure API Management Workspaces
- Public Preview: Azure SQL Database Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric
- Azure Static Web Apps distributed functions capability now in Public Preview
- Public preview: Change partition key of a container in Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL API)
- Public Preview: On-demand capacity reservations for Specialty SKUs
- General availability: Rate Limiting on ExpressRoute Direct Circuits
- General availability: Migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Public Preview: Real-time text translation using the azure_ai extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Public Preview: Invoke Azure Machine Learning models using the azure_ai extension
- General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-March 2024
- Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-March 2024
- Azure Front Door (classic) will be retired on 31 March 2027
- Public Preview: Azure Container Apps OpenTelemetry collector support
- Public preview: PowerShell 7.4 support for Azure Functions
- Public preview: Support for Key Vault Certificates in Azure Container Apps
- Generally Available: Free managed certificates on Azure Container Apps
- GA: Azure SQL Trigger support for Azure Functions
- General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares
- Generally available: Microsoft Dev Box in Southeast Asia, Brazil South, South Africa North, and Switzerland North
New from .NET Blog
- Introducing .NET Smart Components – AI-powered UI controls
- Adding Apple Privacy Manifest Support to .NET iOS & .NET MAUI apps
- .NET Framework – March 2024 Cumulative Update Preview
- .NET 7 will reach End of Support on May 14, 2024
New from Azure DevOps Blog
New from GitHub Changelog
- Java projects no longer require a build when using code scanning via default setup
- GitHub Copilot General Availability in the CLI
- Improvements to security overview insights, secret scanning metrics
- GitHub Pages with Custom GitHub Actions Workflows are now generally available
- CodeQL can scan Java projects without a build
- WorkOS is now a GitHub secret scanning partner
- Lightspeed is now a GitHub secret scanning partner
- Volcengine is now a GitHub secret scanning partner
- Mergify is now a GitHub secret scanning partner
- Dependabot grouped security updates generally available
New from IoT Tech Community Blog
- Join us at Embedded World 2024
- Azure Sphere (Integrated) is generally available
- Azure Sphere version 24.03 is now available
- Digital Transformation with OPC UA and Microsoft Azure
New from Microsoft Learn Blog
- Equip students with AI and technical skills for today, and tomorrow.
- Microsoft Credentials roundup blog post: March 2024
New from Visual Studio Blog
- Visual Studio and GitHub Copilot at GDC 2024
- Announcing SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for ARM64 Architecture in Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 2
- See Your Pull Request Comments with the Latest Preview
- A new MSBuild editing experience
- In 4 Weeks: Visual Studio LIVE! Chicago 2024
Thanks for reading!