In public preview, Foundry Agent Service adds Foundry Routines, a native trigger primitive for running published agents automatically. Production agents often need to run on a schedule or when a business event occurs, and today that means assembling exter

eBPF Host Routing in Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available. eBPF Host Routing improves Kubernetes networking performance by moving packet forwarding and routing decisions directly into the Lin

Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for multi-agent orchestration patterns, including the dynamic Magentic pattern that delivered 38 percent on GAIA and competitive results on AssistantBench and WebArena in published benchmarks. The GA

Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for Agent Harness, the production runtime for agents built with the framework. Customers running pilots on the preview harness can now move the same agent code into production with backwards compatibi

Microsoft Agent Framework adds the CodeAct pattern in public preview, which lets agents collapse a multi-step plan into a single executable code block rather than chaining one tool call at a time. In representative workloads, CodeAct cut end-to-end latenc

Microsoft Agent Framework adds episodic procedural memory in public preview, a built-in store that lets agents remember successful task patterns and replay them on similar future requests. The framework records action sequences, tool selections, and inter

Microsoft Agent Framework adds DevUI Agent Inspector in public preview, a local debugging surface that shows agent runs as a navigable tree of model calls, tool invocations, and intermediate state. Developers can pause, replay, and edit prompts mid-run, s

Microsoft Foundry brings Toolboxes to GA, providing a unified endpoint to invoke the most-used tools in prompt agents and callable outside of prompt agents. Today every agent team hand-assembles its own tool list to solve the same tasks, with no shared ar

The Azure Functions extension for VS Code now provides a redesigned Create New Project experience in public preview, featuring a rich, visual template gallery that replaces the multi-step Quick Pick wizard with a searchable, filterable view of project tem

Enhanced maintenance control capabilities are now generally available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. These new capabilities give you greater visibility and flexibility in managing platform maintenance events, helping reduce disruption

With role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Managed Redis data access, you can precisely control who can read, write, or administer your Redis data using Microsoft Entra ID—without relying on shared keys. Built on top of Redis Access Control Lists (AC

Metrics Usage Insights now includes an Ingestion Volume Change dashboard to help you compare ingestion volume over time. Quickly detect spikes or drops in time series counts and event ingestion rates, enabling faster investigation of cost changes and more

Guest RDMA is now in preview on Azure, starting in the UK South region, bringing high-throughput, ultra-low latency networking directly into guest VMs within the same region. By using Azure Boost to enable RDMA in the guest OS, applications can bypass the

In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now supports avatar voice sync with custom voices in the Voice Live API, allowing developers to pair branded or persona-specific text-to-speech voices with real-time avatar experiences. This update helps teams building

AI pipelines for Azure HorizonDB is now available in public preview. AI pipelines let you describe an AI data ingestion workflow, chunking, embedding, extraction, generation, and ranking, declaratively in SQL, and run it as a fault-tolerant pipeline insid

Azure Monitor's support for native ingestion of OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) signals is now generally available. This enables you to send telemetry data directly from OpenTelemetry-instrumented applications and platforms to Azure Monitor. You can configu

Microsoft Foundry adds tool search to Foundry toolboxes in public preview, giving developers and admins a fast way to find the right tool inside large, multi-team catalogs. As your toolbox grows, sending every tool definition on every turn gets expensive.

Microsoft Foundry brings Azure API Management support to all Foundry model integrations in Azure AI Search, now in public preview. Enterprise platform engineers and AI solution teams running large-scale RAG pipelines can place Foundry and Azure OpenAI mod

Microsoft Foundry adds Azure SQL Database as a first-class Knowledge Source in Azure AI Search, available in public preview. Enterprise developers and solution architects building Copilot, RAG, and agentic experiences can now expose authoritative tables a

Microsoft Discovery is now generally available, providing research and development organizations an enterprise platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows across scientific and engineering disciplines. Also available in preview is the Microso