The unscheduled updates address Brotli-related memory corruption and Linux tarball ownership issues, while completing fixes from the earlier October release.

The Visual Studio team describes standalone Markdown notes and an opt-in Hot Exit preview that can restore unsaved work after restarting the IDE.

Microsoft distinguishes its Azure DevOps service exposure from the PHP runtimes customers use in their pipelines, containers and applications.

A research-paper retrospective explains how separating query processing, logs, pages and storage changed the scaling behavior of Azure SQL Database.

Microsoft demonstrates Cosmos DB Emulator tests in local and GitHub Actions environments. A Python sample combines Microsoft Agent Framework, FastAPI and local Ollama inference. The CI workflow ...

New REST endpoints allow administrators to retrieve and update Copilot model policies across enterprises, organizations, teams and agent apps.

Infragistics is dedicating engineers to Blazor development through a collaboration with Microsoft, focusing primarily on .NET 11 features and bug fixes that become part of the framework. The company ...

A new Model Context Protocol tool retrieves authorized workplace information and returns citations and metadata for AI agents.

GitHub's multi-model orchestration system gains updated reasoning workflows and a higher-capability option for demanding coding tasks.

GitHub's security remediation agent can inspect code, propose fixes, validate them with CodeQL and open pull requests for review.

Enterprise customers can enforce dependency license policies through repository rulesets, with exceptions and API support.