Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is being renamed as part of unification with the expanded Microsoft Entra identity and network access product family. This is a name change only and does not require any direct action from .NET developers.
The Azure Monitor Open Telemetry distro has just been released. This library enables monitoring ASP.NET Core apps with Azure monitor a one line change, based on the infrastructure of Open Telemetry for .NET.
.NET 8 Preview 4 contains many exciting new features for the runtime and libraries, Native AOT improvements, modern build output and simplified paths, NuGet package security auditing, and much more!