Features and Retirements

Features and Retirements

Retirement: Azure Lab Services is being retired on June 28, 2027
RETIREMENT
Azure Lab Services will be retired on June 28, 2027, with new sign-ups closing on July 15, 2024. Users should transition to alternative Microsoft VDI services or recommended partner solutions by the retirement date to avoid disruptions.

Public Preview: Upgrade existing Azure Gen1/Gen2 VMSS to Gen2-Trusted launch
IN PREVIEW
We are excited to announce preview support to enable Trusted launch on existing Azure Gen1/Gen2 Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) Uniform by upgrading the VMSS Uniform resource to Gen2-Trusted launch.

Retirement: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2
RETIREMENT
Deprecation of Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2

Retirement: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.3
RETIREMENT
Azure Synapse runtime for Apache Spark 3.3 will be retired and disabled March 2025.

Generally Available: Support for .NET 8 using the in-process model in Azure Functions
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Functions now supports .NET 8 using the in-process model

Generally Available: Redis extension for Azure Functions
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now use Redis as an Azure Function trigger.

Public Preview: Managed Java component (Admin for Spring) in Azure Container Apps
IN PREVIEW
You can now monitor and configure Spring Boot web applications using managed Admin Java component

Public Preview: Managed identity support for scaling rules in Azure Container Apps
IN PREVIEW
You can now use managed identities in your scale rules in Azure Container Apps.

Generally Available: Azure Container Apps support for peer-to-peer encryption
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now encrypt network traffic transmitted between applications within an Azure Container Apps environment using peer-to-peer-encryption.

Generally Available: Support for Azure Key Vault certificates in Azure Container Apps
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now use Azure Key Vault to store and manage your own TLS/SSL certificates for Azure Container Apps at the environment level.

Generally Available: ExpressRoute Traffic Collector support for provider circuits
NOW AVAILABLE
ExpressRoute Traffic Collector can now be enabled on ExpressRoute provider circuits.

Generally Available: ExpressRoute FastPath Support for Vnet Peering & UDR
NOW AVAILABLE
Announcing support for ExpressRoute FastPath Virtual Network Peering and User Defined Routes (UDR) connectivity.

Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager mesh and direct connectivity
NOW AVAILABLE
This feature enables a group of virtual networks to directly communicate to each other without an additional hop, thus improving the latency and management overhead of establish each virtual network's desired connectivity.

Public Preview: Azure Data Box now supports select cross region transfers
IN PREVIEW
Preview of cross region data transfers for Azure Data Box

Retirement: API “Microsoft.AlertsManagement alerts 2018-05-05-preview”
RETIREMENT
The API “Microsoft.AlertsManagement alerts 2018-05-05-preview” that is in preview mode will be deprecated from the date 10-10-2024

General Availability: Pgvector 0.7 support in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
NOW AVAILABLE
Pgvector 0.7 is now available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server.

General Availability: Major version upgrade support for PostgreSQL 16
NOW AVAILABLE
In-place major version upgrade support for PostgreSQL 16 in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server.

**General Availability: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server**
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19

General Availability: Multi-select delete in Azure Cosmos DB with Data Explorer
NOW AVAILABLE
Delete multiple items at once now in Azure Cosmos DB with Data Explorer.

Generally Available: Update records in a Kusto Database
NOW AVAILABLE
The .update command is now Generally Available (GA)