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Latest vendor release: Aug 18, 2026

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Azure Linux on WSL is now in Public Preview (Beta), extending Azure Linux to developer workstations. It helps teams validate production-aligned configurations, reproduce issues more reliably, and use one Microsoft-supported Linux foundation across development, testing, and production.

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Aug 18, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Aug 18, 2026
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Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for mid-August 2026. Azure SQL Database now lets you customize keyboard shortcuts for Quick Queries, the Results Grid, and the Query Editor directly in Visual Studio Code.

Microsoft Azure
Aug 15, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Aug 15, 2026
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Summarized advertised gateway prefixes for route advertisement is generally available for Azure ExpressRoute Gateway and VPN Gateway. It lets you advertise aggregated IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes to on-premises networks while preserving any spoke prefixes outside the summary.

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Aug 1, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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Azure Databricks Lakebase is generally available in four additional Azure regions: North Central US, France Central, Germany West Central, and East Asia. This expands deployment options for Lakebase workloads.

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Aug 1, 2026
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Aug 1, 2026
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Public preview of SQL Formatter in the MSSQL extension for Azure SQL Database. It lets you format SQL scripts in the editor with customizable options for cleaner, more consistent code.

Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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Azure SQL Database provisioning in the MSSQL extension is now generally available. It lets you create and connect to a fully managed cloud database from your editor and includes ready-to-use ARM, Bicep, and Terraform templates.

Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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General Availability of VM vCore Customization for Azure Virtual Machines adds Disable SMT/HT and Configurable Constrained Cores. It is available in all Azure public regions and supports VMSS Uniform orchestration mode.

Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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Azure Site Recovery adds Bring Your Own NIC (BYON) support for Azure-to-Azure test failover and failover. It lets you attach an existing pre-provisioned NIC in the target region to preserve networking configuration and reserved IPs.

Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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Managed Instance on Azure App Service is generally available. It helps migrate Windows-dependent web apps to a fully managed PaaS environment with minimal configuration and no code changes.

Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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Azure Firewall now supports IPv6 in public preview. Customers can configure Azure Firewall and Firewall Policy in dual-stack mode for IPv4 and IPv6 traffic, with native IPv6 network-rule filtering and DNS Proxy support.

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Aug 1, 2026
Security update Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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Public preview of zone redundancy for Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose. It improves resilience by distributing compute and data across availability zones for up to 99.995% uptime without application changes.

Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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Dragon Copilot Physician Apps and Agents are now generally available on Microsoft Marketplace for U.S. customers. The release adds a new discovery and procurement channel with streamlined purchase and consolidated billing through Microsoft.

Security update Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
Security update Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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Control plane metrics collection for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus is now generally available. It adds native observability for key managed control plane components such as the API server, etcd, kube-scheduler, kube-controller-manager, cluster autoscaler, and node auto-provisioning.

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Aug 1, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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GA of Live Resize for shared Premium SSD v2 and Ultra data disks lets you expand disk capacity dynamically without application disruption. Start smaller and grow storage as needed with no downtime.

Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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Pre-upgrade validation checks are now generally available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. Use the Azure portal or Azure CLI `--validate-only` to check major version upgrade readiness before starting the upgrade.

Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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Batch rule updates are now generally available for Azure Front Door Standard and Premium. The feature applies coordinated add, update, delete, and reorder operations to rule sets, improving safety for Terraform and other Infrastructure-as-Code workflows.

Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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Public Preview: Azure Front Door mutual TLS enables client certificate authentication before requests reach an application. It supports four validation modes and forwards certificates to origins via the `X-Azure-ClientCertificate` header.

Security update Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
Security update Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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Public preview of Markdown for Agents in Azure App Service lets AI agents and tools request Markdown and have App Service convert HTML responses automatically without app code changes.

Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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Azure Firewall Premium now delivers up to 22 Gbps throughput with TLS inspection and IDPS in Deny mode, and up to 600 Mbps per TCP connection with IDPS enabled in Alert or Deny mode.

Security update Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
Security update Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
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Azure ExpressRoute resiliency guard is in public preview for ExpressRoute virtual network gateways. It adds a resiliency model property for single-homed or multi-homed deployments and provides portal guidance and safeguards to reduce weak configurations.

Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Aug 1, 2026