Blogs summary – Sunday 14 April 2024
Here are some recent posts I found from interesting Azure, Microsoft and .NET blogs.
Azure news
- Generally Available: AKS cost views
- Public Preview: Resiliency Review on Azure Advisor
- Public Preview of Azure OpenAI and AI Search in-app connectors for Logic Apps (Standard)
- General Availability of Azure Logic Apps connectors for IBM Mainframe and Midranges
- Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in 45 regions
- Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI
- Public preview: Backup and restore of virtual machines with private endpoint enabled disks
- General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA
- App Service virtual network integration multi plan subnet join
- Azure Load Testing availability in Fairfax (USGov Virginia)
- Native Delta Lake Output Now Generally Available in Azure Stream Analytics
- Run Azure Load Testing on Azure App Service web apps
- Public Preview: Mirroring Azure Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric
- Public Preview: Long-term retention for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
- Generally available: Defender for Cloud supports Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
- General Availability: Virtual private network (VPN) with Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
- General Availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server networking with Azure Private Link
- General availability: Extensible key management using Azure Key Vault for SQL Server on Linux
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift April 2024 updates
- General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-April 2024
New from .NET Blog
- Making AI powered .NET apps more consistent and intelligent with Redis
- Testing Your Native AOT Applications
- .NET April 2024 Updates – .NET 8.0.4, 7.0.18, .NET 6.0.29
- Introducing MSTest SDK – Improved Configuration & Flexibility
New from Azure DevOps Blog
- End of Support for Microsoft products reliant on older Azure DevOps authentication
- AB links on GitHub pull request and scale improvements for large organizations
New from GitHub Changelog
- GitHub Actions: Hardware accelerated Android virtualization now available
- Secret scanning now detects secrets in GitHub wikis
- Actions: Jobs executing on self hosted runners will now timeout in 5 days
- Advanced filtering capabilities for the security overview dashboard
- Introducing Enhanced Code Review on GitHub Mobile
- CodeQL threat model settings are now available for C# (beta)
- GitHub-hosted runner images deprecation notice: Docker Compose v1
- CodeQL 2.17.0: Support for Java 22, Swift 5.10, TS 5.4, C# 12
- GitHub Native IP Allow List expands to EMU User Namespaces – Private Beta
- Secret scanning changes to detection and validation for Google Cloud Platform, Slack
New from IoT Tech Community Blog
New from Microsoft Learn Blog
- Discover the power of Microsoft Certifications for your career
- Key resources to prepare you for the Microsoft Copilot for Security launch
New from Visual Studio Blog
- How to Install GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio
- How to use Comments to Prompt GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio
- Introducing the new Copilot experience in Visual Studio
Thanks for reading!