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The October recap for the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`). Preview service deployments before making changes, deploy to Container Apps express, remove stored environment values, and use extension-defined infrastructure providers in generated pipelines. Extension APIs gain stable contracts, and provisioning validation, cancellation, and upgrade recovery...

October's Azure SDK highlights include Azure Core authentication updates, managed identity improvements for Python and Java, and the first stable Cosmos DB libraries for Rust.

Explore the new Azure MCP Server 3.0 stable release, with AI agent tools for Terraform, backup, recovery, and troubleshooting, plus stronger security defaults.

Azure Functions is the event-driven application platform, and Hosted Skills adds AI reasoning to your app. Dynamic Workflows give the app a durable way to carry out AI-led, multi-step work after the triggering invocation is finished. The model writes a plan (a DAG) one time, and Durable Functions runs it. In our benchmark, token use decreased by 56...

Add bounded AI reasoning to Python function apps with Azure Functions Agent bindings, while keeping deterministic application code in control.

Learn how Azure Functions managed connectors provide access to 1,700 services, with triggers and typed clients available for supported service connectors, and walk through a sample that automates RFP intake across SharePoint, Azure Content Understanding, and Teams.