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Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes.

A combined May and June recap. A new azd tool command group, the cross-platform azd exec runner, safer multi-layer provisioning, an interactive Ctrl+C cancel prompt, Go support for Azure Functions, self-contained extension bundles, per-tenant subscription filters, and a long list of correctness fixes for parallel Container Apps deploys and authenti...

A roundup of what shipped in the Azure Functions MCP extension since preview: resource and prompt triggers, MCP Apps, built-in MCP authentication, structured and rich content, fluent .NET configuration APIs, and what is coming next.

Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes.

azure-functions-skills gives GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude Code, Codex CLI, and VS Code the skills, MCP configuration, hooks, and instructions needed to create, diagnose, deploy, and validate Azure Functions projects end-to-end.

Stop paying for idle GPUs while model weights copy to disk. Stream them straight into GPU memory instead with Run:AI Streamer from Azure Blob Storage. The Problem: Every Cold Start Costs You More Than Money GPU compute is among the most expensive cloud infrastructure, and every second a GPU is allocated but unavailable for serving is real mo...

Use exponential backoff and circuit breaker patterns in Azure Functions with Service Bus SDK bindings. Control retry storms, protect dependencies, and degrade gracefully under transient failures.

Announcing the stable release of the Azure SDK for Rust. This release includes stable libraries for Core, Identity, Key Vault (Secrets, Keys, Certificates), and Storage (Blobs, Queues).

If you ever built an AI agent demo, you probably had this moment. Everything works: the agent interprets natural language, calls the right tools, and returns the right data. Then you start designing for the real users of the app. You think about data boundaries: what if someone tries to get data they're not supposed to see? For example, imagine ...

The Azure Developer CLI () shipped five releases in April 2026. The biggest theme this month is multi-language hook support: write hooks in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or .NET alongside the existing Bash and PowerShell options. Here's what's in versions 1.23.14, 1.23.15, 1.24.0, 1.24.1, and 1.24.2. To share your feedback and questions, join...