40 result(s)
Azure AI Foundry’s September 2025 update announces GA for GPT-5-Codex and Voice Live, previews for Sora video-to-video, Browser Automation, and Key Vault, the release of Grok 4 Fast, and new knowledge sources for Azure AI Search.
GitHub will deprecate Claude Sonnet 3.5 across all Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) on November 6, 2025. The change signals a move to newer, more capable models. The announcement appeared on The GitHub Blog.
Microsoft will retire Azure Network Policy Manager (NPM) for Windows nodes on AKS on September 30, 2026. Customers must move to alternative networking solutions to keep receiving support, security updates, and deployment compatibility.
GitHub has added social login with Apple (Sign in with Apple), making it easier for iOS developers to sign up and sign in. This builds on GitHub’s earlier social login support for Google.
Practical guidance for reviewing AI-generated .NET code, emphasizing that AI output should be treated as a starting point and validated through tests, linters, security checks, and clear team processes to maintain quality and productivity.
Microsoft warns that threat actors are increasingly abusing Microsoft Teams features across the attack chain and recommends proactive monitoring, detection, and response. The blog outlines countermeasures and optimal controls across identity, endpoints, data/apps, and network layers to better protect enterprise Teams users.
Azure Firewall Policy now generally available supports up to 600 IP Groups per policy (previously 200), allowing administrators to simplify and better organize firewall rules by using more IP Groups instead of long IP lists.
GitHub updated the Secret Protection default pattern set in September 2025, adding new secret detection patterns and upgrading existing ones to improve coverage across different secret types. The changes expand built-in secret scanning so repositories using the default patterns benefit from broader, more accurate detection without manual configuration.
Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) patterns and practices provide practical, practitioner-focused guidance based on Microsoft’s Zero Trust implementation. The resources aim to help organizations accelerate security maturity, reduce implementation friction, and build systems that are secure by design, default, and in operation.
Azure NetApp Files short-term clones are now generally available. They create temporary thin clones from existing volume snapshots to provide space-efficient, instant read/write access without making full data copies, reducing capacity usage and speeding workflows.
On November 11, 2025, GitHub will deprecate several Dependabot-specific pull request comment commands and rely on GitHub’s native pull request features instead; users should update any workflows or automations that depend on those comment commands.
Azure will retire legacy authentication for Azure Monitor - Container Insights on September 30, 2026; customers should migrate to Managed Identity authentication.
Microsoft announced general availability of the AI toolchain operator add-on (KAITO) for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). KAITO streamlines deployment of AI inference and fine-tuning workflows using popular open-source frameworks, with vLLM set as the default inference engine to simplify management and scaling of model serving.
GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers with multiple Enterprise Managed Users (EMU) accounts can now use a single proxy header to block traffic to github.com that originates outside any of their enterprises. This update lifts the prior limitation that tied enterprise access restrictions to a single enterprise, simplifying network configuration for organizations with multiple EMU accounts.
Microsoft’s Incident Response team works effectively amid the disorder caused by fast-moving threat actors, treating compromised environments, missing data, and shaken confidence as the starting point for investigations, as described in the Microsoft Security Blog post “Inside Microsoft Threat Intelligence: Calm in the chaos.”
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now generally supports PostgreSQL minor versions 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, 13.22 and 18 Beta 3; minor-version upgrades are applied automatically during monthly planned maintenance.
Microsoft observed active exploitation of CVE-2025-10035, a deserialization vulnerability in the GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) License Servlet, by the financially motivated actor Storm-1175 (associated with Medusa ransomware). The blog post raises awareness and describes end-to-end protection coverage in Microsoft Defender.
Grok Code Fast 1 is now available in public preview through GitHub Copilot Chat and is integrated into major IDEs including Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, and Eclipse. The preview is accessible to GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plan subscribers.
The Headlamp Karpenter Plugin integrates Karpenter autoscaling visibility into the Headlamp Kubernetes UI, providing real‑time maps, metrics, scaling decisions, pending‑pod diagnostics, and an editable, validated config editor to help users understand, debug, and tune node provisioning and autoscaling behavior.
Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance will be retired on September 30, 2026; customers will no longer be able to access the service after that date. Microsoft recommends transitioning to Operations Manager on-premises to continue monitoring on-premises workloads and consulting the retirement documentation for details.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now provides a generally available Azure CLI command to automatically migrate clusters using Availability Sets and the basic load balancer to the new Virtual Machines node pool and perform the required upgrade. Availability Sets and the basic load balancer are deprecated on September 30, 2025.
GitHub announced updates to Copilot CLI that add enhanced model selection, support for images, and a streamlined user interface following the product’s public preview and active user feedback.
Azure Static Web Apps’ database connections feature (currently in public preview) will be deprecated effective November 30, 2025 due to changes in underlying infrastructure. Customers should refactor deployments using this feature to avoid deployment issues.
Azure NetApp Files now generally supports cross-tenant customer-managed keys (CMK) for volume encryption, letting customers use and control their own encryption keys across different Azure tenancies to increase control and flexibility.
Azure VPN Gateway will retire support for the SSTP protocol on March 31, 2027. Microsoft cites limited scalability and suboptimal performance and advises customers to migrate to IKEv2 or OpenVPN, which offer significantly improved capabilities (including support for up to 10,000 connections).
Azure NetApp Files is in public preview for integration with FreeIPA, OpenLDAP, and Red Hat Directory Server, providing secure LDAP over TLS connectivity for NFSv3 and NFSv4.1 volumes so enterprises can use these directory services for identity management.
Microsoft announced the retirement of all General purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts — including legacy blob storage accounts — as part of efforts to streamline the Azure Storage portfolio and improve performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
GitHub added a one‑click merge conflict resolution feature to the github.com web interface, letting maintainers resolve pull request conflicts directly on the site when those conflicts are resolvable in the web editor.
Microsoft was named a Leader in IDC’s inaugural Worldwide Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Software MarketScape for 2025, recognized for its deep integration, intelligent automation, and unified security operations solutions, according to the Microsoft Security Blog.
Azure Traffic Manager’s new health check infrastructure is now generally available. The update improves the service’s resiliency and scalability, and Microsoft is migrating customers to the new probing infrastructure as the rollout progresses.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is available in public preview through GitHub Copilot Chat for users on Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans, and can be used in Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, and Eclipse.
Azure Machine Learning’s built-in data labeling capability will be retired on September 30, 2026. Customers can continue to use the service until that date but should plan to transition to third‑party data labeling providers before the retirement.
The MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code is available in public preview with built-in connectivity to Microsoft Fabric SQL databases. A new Fabric option in the Connection Dialog lets developers sign in with Microsoft Entra ID and access Fabric resources directly from VS Code, bringing Fabric SQL into the development workflow.
GitHub announced Spark is available in Public Preview for Copilot Enterprise customers, including Enterprise Managed Users (EMU) CE. Organization admins can enable Spark to provide access; the release emphasizes expanded access, improved reliability, and faster iteration history.
Azure will retire Azure Network Policy Manager (NPM) on Linux nodes in AKS on September 30, 2028. Customers must migrate AKS clusters using NPM to Cilium Network Policy before that date to avoid disruptions.
In late September 2025 Azure SQL announced a Public Preview feature that adds immutability to long-term retention (LTR) backups to protect backups from ransomware and tampering.
Microsoft highlights that cybersecurity is as much about people as technology in its Cybersecurity Awareness Month post, “Security starts with you.” The blog directs readers to Microsoft’s resources and practical guidance to help individuals stay safe online and adopt safer habits.
Microsoft announced the Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview), a unified solution for creating, orchestrating, hosting, and observing AI agents in the .NET ecosystem to help developers ship production AI agents faster.
Microsoft announced the open-source Microsoft Agent Framework, an engine designed for building agentic AI applications. The framework addresses the evolving needs of AI agents — which go beyond chatbots and copilots — by enabling autonomous components that can reason about goals, call tools and APIs, collaborate with other agents, and adapt dynamically. The announcement appeared on the Azure AI Foundry Blog.
GitHub announced that auto model selection in Visual Studio Code is now available in public preview for Copilot Business and Enterprise plans; the feature automatically selects the appropriate model for you.