Blogs summary – Tuesday 14 January 2025

• By -JurgenOnAzure

Blogs summary – Tuesday 14 January 2025

• Posted on January 14, 2025
• Posted in Azure, Blogs, Cloud, IoT, Microsoft, Tips and Tricks

Here are some recent posts I found from interesting Azure, Microsoft and .NET blogs.

New from .NET Blog

• .NET Aspire Quick Tip – Managing Container & Data Lifetime

New from Azure DevOps Blog

• Important: Switching CDN providers
• Reducing personal access token (PAT) usage across Azure DevOps

New from GitHub Changelog

• Actions: Xcode 16.2 will replace Xcode 16.0 in macOS-14 Images
• Closing down notice: Dependabot will no longer support Python version 3.8
• Copilot Workspace Changelog (January 6, 2025)
• You can now disable comments on GitHub gists
• GitHub Models introduces JSON schema support for response formats
• Secret scanning expands default pattern support
• Code scanning: CodeQL Action v2 is now retired
• Evolving GitHub Issues (public preview)
• Codestral 25.01 is now available in GitHub Models (GA)
• Audit log streaming of API requests is generally available

New from Visual Studio Blog

• Unlocking insights with Meter Histogram in the profiler
• Benchmarking with Visual Studio Profiler
• Enhanced Change Signature in C++
• Join us at VS Live! 2025 Las Vegas

Thanks for reading!