Blogs summary – Tuesday 14 May 2024
Here are some recent posts I found from interesting Azure, Microsoft and .NET blogs.
Azure news
- General availability: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB RU supports version 5.0 and 6.0
- General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer keyboard shortcuts
- General availability: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
- General availability: Latest version of the TimeScaleDB extension on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
- Public Preview: SQL Server on Azure VM storage configuration deployment experience with support for Premium SSD v2
- General availability: Customer-managed keys on existing accounts
- Public Preview: NFS Azure Files volume mount support in Azure Container Apps
- GA: Support for disabling Windows outboundNAT in AKS
- Public preview: Initialization taints in AKS
- New version of AKS extension in Visual Studio Code now available
- Announcing the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service
- Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
- Five Azure classic networking services will be retired on 31 August 2024
- General availability: Azure Bastion Developer SKU
- Public preview: Azure Application Gateway v2 Basic SKU
- Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)
- Generally Available: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for Azure Virtual Machines
- Azure Front Door server variable enhancement general available
- Introducing GPT-4o: OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model now in preview on Azure
- Public preview: Sensitive data protection for Azure Front Door Web Application Firewall
New from .NET Blog
- Package Management & improved .NET Aspire support come to C# Dev Kit
- Refactor your code with C# collection expressions
- Join the .NET Team at Microsoft Build 2024!
- What’s new in Orleans 8 for Scalable Distributed Applications
New from Azure DevOps Blog
New from GitHub Changelog
- [Public Beta] Repository collaborators for Enterprise Managed Users
- [GA] Guest Collaborators for enterprise managed users
- Code Scanning will stop combining runs from a single upload
- Secret scanning push protection for file uploads
- Actions: New region support for Azure private networking
- Signing up for GitHub Sponsors just got easier
- Security alerts tool trends on the security overview dashboard
- GitHub Copilot Metrics Updates
- dependabot-core is now open source with an MIT license
- GitHub-hosted runners: Public Beta of Ubuntu 24.04 is now available
New from Microsoft Learn Blog
- Boost your career with the help of our latest Azure skilling resources
- Empowering teams, strengthening organizations with Microsoft Applied Skills
- Introducing Plans on Microsoft Learn
- What to expect from Microsoft Learn at Microsoft Build
New from Visual Studio Blog
- Using GitHub Copilot as your Coding GPS
- Mastering Slash Commands with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio
Thanks for reading!