Azure App Service drops Java 8, 11 and 17 support in September 2027
Azure App Service will stop supporting Java 8, 11 and 17 on September 1, 2027. Apps keep running after that date, but they stop receiving security updates and Microsoft stops providing customer support for those runtime versions. It is a routine lifecycle notice with a non-routine amount of work hiding behind it, because those three […]
Fabric search gets table-level discovery in the OneLake catalog
Starting October 15, search inside Microsoft Fabric gets a level deeper. Tables from semantic models, lakehouses, and mirrored databases will start showing up as individual search results in the OneLake Catalog, searchable by table name, by description, or by an exact column-name match. It sounds like a small UX change. It actually changes how people […]
Cloudflare’s Web Search API puts grounded search behind one endpoint
Cloudflare quietly shipped one of the more useful pieces of agent infrastructure this month. The new Cloudflare Web Search API went into open beta on October 2, and it does something simple: it gives an AI agent live web results in a predictable format, billed and logged through the same place the agent’s model calls […]
Homa and the Fight to Replace TCP in AI Cluster Networks
The pitch is blunt: Homa could replace TCP inside AI clusters, and the reason training traffic feels slow is the transport protocol, not the network hardware. John Ousterhout, the Stanford professor behind Raft and Tcl, made that case in a talk that hit the Hacker News front page this week, and the discussion around it […]
Azure HorizonDB Adds PostgreSQL 18 Support in Public Preview
Azure HorizonDB, Microsoft’s fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service, added PostgreSQL 18 support to its public preview on September 25, 2026. For teams that want PostgreSQL 18’s performance work without running their own major-version upgrades, this is the managed path, and it is worth understanding both what HorizonDB is architecturally and what the preview does not […]
Ubuntu 26.04 Comes to AKS in Public Preview: Inside the Ubuntu2604 OS SKU
Azure Kubernetes Service added public preview support for Ubuntu 26.04 on September 30, 2026, through a new versioned OS SKU called Ubuntu2604. The SKU is built on Ubuntu Minimal rather than the standard Ubuntu Server image, which changes what lands on your nodes before a single container starts. Anyone who manages Ubuntu node pools should […]
Azure Canvases Bring Cloud Work into the GitHub Copilot App
Microsoft announced Azure canvases for GitHub Copilot on September 30, and the pitch is simple: instead of bouncing between the Azure portal, the CLI, and your editor, the Azure tools you need sit in a shared workspace next to your Copilot conversation. Three canvases ship first: one for building and debugging Azure Functions skills, one […]
Azure SQL Hyperscale goes to 192 vCores, and the September updates round out the platform
Microsoft’s late-September Azure SQL update wave includes one change that database teams have been waiting on since early this year: the 160 and 192 vCore compute sizes for Hyperscale Premium-series hardware are now generally available. That pushes the ceiling for a single Hyperscale database or elastic pool from 128 vCores to 192, which Microsoft says […]
Azure retires the Dv3 and Ev3 VM series
Microsoft has put the Dv3, Dsv3, Ev3, and Esv3 VM series on a retirement clock. The announcement landed on the Azure Updates roadmap on September 30, and the deadline is November 15, 2029 for public cloud regions. That sounds far away. It is not, if you have ever lived through a VM-generation migration at scale. […]
SQL Server on Azure Local now runs without a cloud connection
SQL Server, no internet required SQL Server on Azure Local is now generally available in disconnected environments, per Microsoft’s September 29 update. The capability extends SQL Server support to Azure Local disconnected operations, where instances run with no connection to the Azure public cloud. Until now, running SQL Server on Azure Local assumed you could […]
Azure opens public preview of Mdsv4 and Msv4 VMs for SAP and memory-heavy workloads
Microsoft has opened a public preview of two new memory-optimized Mdsv4 and Msv4 virtual machine series, built for SAP workloads and other jobs that need a lot of RAM per vCPU. The new series run on 6th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, ship with the latest Azure Boost networking and storage offload, and add a […]
.NET 8, .NET 9, and PowerShell 7.4 hit end of support on the same day
Clear your November calendar. .NET 8 and .NET 9 both reach end of support on November 10, and PowerShell 7.4 dies the same day. After that date there are no more security fixes, no servicing updates, and no support tickets honored for any of the three. Microsoft published the Azure Functions side of the notice […]