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September 2026 digest
DateRelease
Sep 18[Launched] Generally Available: PG18 support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL elastic clusters
Sep 18[Launched] Generally Available: Logical replication slot sync status metric for Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server
Sep 18[Launched] Generally Available: New and improved troubleshooting guides for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Sep 18[Launched] Generally Available: Publishing Microsoft Foundry agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams
Sep 18[In preview] Public Preview: Foundry Routines in Foundry Agent Service
Sep 18[In preview] Public Preview: Network egress controls for hosted agents in Microsoft Foundry
Sep 18[Launched] Generally Available: Enable and disable controls for Microsoft Foundry agents in Agent 365
Sep 17Mirroring for Google BigQuery in Microsoft Fabric (Generally Available)
Sep 17Soft delete for On-premises data gateways in Microsoft Fabric (Preview)
Sep 17Upcoming changes to legacy Teams and Outlook activities in Fabric Data Factory pipelines
Microsoft FabricDeprecation
Sep 16[In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-September 2026
Sep 16[In preview] Public Preview: PostgreSQL skills and MCP plugin for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Sep 15Moving off ODBC , A self-serve scanner for your ADBC migration
Sep 14Diagnose Fabric Data Warehouse workloads with the SQL DW operations skill (Generally Available)
Sep 10Accelerate JSON workloads with the Native Execution Engine in Microsoft Fabric
Sep 10Lineage-aware AI with the Fabric item relations API (Preview)
Sep 10[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Copilot Troubleshooting Agent
Sep 9Get ready for table discovery in OneLake Catalog search (Preview)
Sep 8Advancing the Microsoft Fabric SQL Query Editor
Sep 8[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Developer CLI (azd) Extension Framework
Sep 3Capacity Operation Events in Real-Time Hub (Preview)
Sep 3Manage Fabric connections at scale with connection recency in Fabric REST APIs
Sep 3Workspace Outbound Access Protection (OAP) for Operations Agent and Fabric Maps (Preview)
Sep 2Fabric Data Agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio (Generally Available)
Sep 2[In development] Private Preview: Reader Endpoint for Azure Database for MySQL
Sep 1Get tenant-wide visibility into workspace networking policies with the Admin API (Generally Available)
Sep 1Start validating today: The ODBC to ADBC driver transition in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric (Generally Available)
Sep 1[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Copilot Observability Agent supports Basic and Auxiliary table plans
Aug 26[In preview] Public Preview: Introducing Live Reports for Azure SRE Agent
Aug 26[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SRE Agent 30-Day Trial
Aug 26[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SRE Agent VNet Integration
Aug 24Announcing: Extended Support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
Aug 20Announcing: Azure Copilot introduces direct access to agents
Aug 19[In preview] Public Preview: SQL Formatter in MSSQL extension
Aug 19[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL Database provisioning in MSSQL extension
Aug 19[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Databricks Lakebase in four additional regions
Aug 19[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for mid-August 2026
Aug 17[In preview] Public Preview: Zone redundancy for Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose
Aug 17[Launched] Generally Available: Dragon Copilot Physician Apps and Agents on Microsoft Marketplace
Aug 14Announcing: Azure Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS will reach end of life on November 1, 2026
Aug 13[Launched] Generally Available: Pre-upgrade validation checks for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
Aug 12Retirement: Containerized data connector agent for the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications
Aug 12[In preview] Public Preview: Markdown for Agents in Azure App Service
Aug 10Announcing: Microsoft Fabric Item Recovery will be enabled by default for tenants without an explicit setting
Aug 6Announcing: Azure Databricks Genie One and Genie Agents Free Usage extended through January 31, 2027
Aug 5[Launched] Generally Available: SharePoint Connector for Azure Databricks
Aug 5[Launched] Generally Available: Unity AI Gateway on Azure Databricks
Aug 3[Launched] Generally Available: Immutability to the most recent seven days of backups on Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
Aug 2026Content provenance in Microsoft Foundry
Aug 2026Cloud evaluations with the Microsoft Foundry SDK
Aug 2026Customer-managed key encryption in Microsoft Foundry
Aug 2026Entra authentication for Foundry Agent trace ingestion (preview)
Aug 2026Evaluate model router for your workload
Aug 2026Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
Aug 2026Foundry prompt agent optimization (preview)
Aug 2026Grok models in Microsoft Foundry
Aug 2026MAI-Thinking-1 in Microsoft Foundry
Aug 2026Multi-agent orchestration with the Azure OpenAI Responses API
Aug 2026Network isolation for Foundry toolboxes
Aug 2026Private skill catalog in Foundry Agent Service

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