Deprecations and retirements

Artifact guard with CI/CD integration is deprecated.

It will be shut down on October 30, 2026.

Announcing: Azure Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS will reach end of life on November 1, 2026

Azure Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS, a Databricks-managed runtime available on Azure Databricks, reached end of support on March 18, 2025 and will reach end of life on November 1, 2026.

Retirement: Managed NGINX Ingress with Application Routing Add-on Retiring November 2026

The upstream Ingress-NGINX project is being deprecated and will stop receiving updates after March 2026.

Retirement: Support for PowerShell 7.4 ends on November 10, 2026

Support for PowerShell 7.4 will end on November 10, 2026, please transition to PowerShell 7.6. Your Azure Function apps will continue to run, but security patches and updates will no longer be provided and customer support for PowerShell 7.4 will be discontinued.

Retirement: Support for.NET 8 and.NET 9 ends on November 10, 2026—upgrade your apps to.NET 10

Support for.NET 8 and.NET 9 will end on November 10, 2026. Please transition to.NET 10 by that date. Your Azure Function Apps will continue to operate, but security updates will no longer be provided, and support for.NET 8 and.NET 9 on Azure Functions will end.

Retirement: Support for.NET 8 (LTS) ends on November 10, 2026—upgrade your apps to.NET 10 (LTS)

On November 10, 2026, support for.NET 8 (LTS) will end. Your apps that are hosted on App Service will continue to run, but security updates will no longer be available and we'll no longer provide customer service for.NET 8 (LTS).

All generative features: gemini-2.5-flash and gemini-2.5-flash-lite models will be deprecated by Dec 23, 2026.

Upgrade to newer Gemini models such as gemini-3.1-flash-lite before the deprecation date.

cloudflared to deprecate 32-bit Windows and Intel-based macOS builds in 2027

Starting in 2027, Cloudflare will deprecate 32-bit Windows and Intel-based macOS builds of cloudflared. After the deprecation takes effect, Cloudflare will no longer publish new cloudflared releases for either architecture.

Retirement: Support for Windows Server 2016 Marketplace images on Azure Batch pools will end on January 12, 2027

Azure Batch periodically retires support for operating systems that reach end-of-life status. Support for Windows Server 2016 concluded on January 11, 2022, with extended support scheduled to end on January 12, 2027.

OpenJDK 11 will no longer be supported as of January 14, 2027.

Customer-hosted instances must upgrade to OpenJDK 21.

589.0.0 (2026-10-13)

Breaking Changes

Deprecation of write permissions from the chronicle.readonly OAuth scope

Effective January 25, 2027, write permissions will be removed from the chronicle.readonly OAuth scope, restricting it strictly to read operations. You can continue using chronicle.readonly for read operations.

Retirement: NVv3-series Azure Virtual Machines

On September 30, 2026, Microsoft Azure retired the Standard_NV12s_v3, Standard_NV12hs_v3, Standard_NV24s_v3, Standard_NV24ms_v3, Standard_NV32ms_v3, and Standard_NV48s_v3 virtual machines (VMs) in the NVv3-series VMs.

The deprecation of the Looker Mobile (Legacy) application has been postponed to January 31, 2027.

Starting on January 31, 2027, support for the Looker Mobile (Legacy) app will be discontinued and the app will be unavailable for download from the App Store or Play Store.

The Looker Mobile (Legacy) application is no longer available for download from the App Store or Play Store and support for the app has been discontinued.

Although users will still be able to use the Looker Mobile (Legacy) app if they already have it installed, we recommend that you install the non-legacy Looker mobile app.

Retirement: Migrate from Azure Blueprints by January 31, 2027

In September 2023, we announced Azure Blueprints would retire on July 11, 2026. We're extending that timeline to January 31, 2027, with phased retirement beginning July 31, 2026. What's changing? July 31, 2026, you won't be able to create new blueprint definitions and versions.

Data Security Posture Management is deprecated.

It will be shut down on February 1, 2027. Learn more about the controls and alternative detection capabilities.

Retirement: Azure Deployment Environments will be retired on February 22, 2027

Azure Deployment Environments will retire on February 22, 2027. Beginning on September 14, 2026, Azure Deployment Environments will begin the closing-down process. After retirement, the service will no longer be available.

MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 deprecation

Support for MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 in the MySQL connector is ending:

Retirement: AzureDnsEndpoints for Azure storage accounts will be retired March 2027

AzureDnsZone endpoints (preview) for Azure Blob storage accounts will enter retirement in March 2027. Customers leveraging AzureDnsZone endpoints (preview) should transition to Standard endpoints for all new and existing blob storage account deployments by April 1, 2027.

Deprecate legacy Workers KV namespace API routes

The legacy Workers KV API routes under /accounts/{account_id}/workers/namespaces/* are deprecated as of July 15, 2026, and will stop working on October 15, 2026. Migrate to the documented Workers KV API routes under /accounts/{account_id}/storage/kv/namespaces/* before that date.

Retirement Update: SAP container images removed October 14, 2026

The containerized SAP data connector retired on September 14, 2026 and is unsupported and unmaintained. Existing TLS-compliant agents may continue sending logs through the retired HTTP Data Collector API.

Retirement: GPv1 and Legacy Blob storage account creation

As part of our ongoing efforts to streamline the Azure Storage portfolio and deliver enhanced performance, scalability, and cost efficiency, we are announcing the retirement of all General purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts.

Zero Trust Networks route endpoints and Cloudflare Tunnel connections field retiring on October 5, 2026

On October 5, 2026, two changes take effect across the Zero Trust Networks API and Cloudflare Tunnel API: the CIDR-encoded route endpoints are removed, and tunnel list and get responses no longer include the connections field.

Retirement: Support for Python 3.10 ends on October 1, 2026 – upgrade your Azure Functions apps to Python 3.13

In alignment with the end of community support, on October 1, 2026, support for Python 3.10 in Azure Functions will end.

Retirement: NVv4-series Azure Virtual Machines

On September 30, 2026, Microsoft Azure retired the Standard_NV4as_v4, Standard_NV4ahs_v4, Standard_NV8as_v4, Standard_NV8ahs_v4, Standard_NV16as_v4, Standard_NV16ahs_v4, Standard_NV32as_v4, and Standard_NV32ahs_v4 virtual machines (VMs) in the NVv4-series VMs.

Retirement: Support for Python-2.7; 3.8 and PowerShell- 7.1; 7.2 will be retired on September 30, 2026

Starting October 1, 2026, the specified runtime versions Python 2.7, Python 3.8, and PowerShell 7.1 & 7.2. will no longer be supported by Automation.

Retirement: Azure Functions runtime v3 on Linux Consumption will stop running September 30, 2026

Azure Functions runtime v3 was retired on December 13, 2022. As part of ongoing efforts to reduce reliance on legacy infrastructure and focus investments on supported platforms, Azure will enforce this retirement for Linux Consumption–based Function Apps still running runtime v3.

Retirement: External Data Import & Data Connections in Azure Machine Learning will be retired on September 30, 2026

Import data from external sources (Preview) – S3, Snowflake, Azure SQL Db along with external Data Connections (Preview) in Azure Machine Learning are being deprecated. These features will no longer be available after September 30, 2026. What this means for you:

Retirement: End of life reminder of NVv3 and NVv4-series Azure virtual machine in Azure Batch pools

Microsoft Azure will retire support for NVv3 or NVv4- series VMs on September 30th, 2026, including NVv3 Series (NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPU): Standard_NV12s_v3, Standard_NV12hs_v3, Standard_NV24s_v3, Standard_NV24ms_v3, Standard_NV32ms_v3, Standard_NV48s_v3

Retirement: Transition to Entra ID (formerly known as Azure AD) to query data from Azure Monitor application insights by September 30, 2026

* Note: We have extended the retirement date to September 30, 2026.

Some elements of the Conversational Analytics System Activity dashboard have been renamed.

The dashboard layout and functionality remain the same.

As of September 15, 2026, NVIDIA P100 (nvidia-tesla-p100 and nvidia-tesla-p100-vws) GPUs have reached end of support (EOS) and are shut down.

As of September 15, 2026, NVIDIA P100 ( nvidia-tesla-p100 and nvidia-tesla-p100-vws ) GPUs have reached end of support (EOS) and are shut down. You can no longer create, launch, or access Compute Engine instances or other Google Cloud resources that use NVIDIA P100 GPUs.

Azure Functions-based Microsoft Sentinel connector deprecation

Cloudflare Enterprise customers using the Azure Functions-based Microsoft Sentinel connector must migrate to the Cloudflare for Microsoft Sentinel Codeless Connector Framework (CCF) connector by 2026-09-14.

Retirement: Containerized data connector agent for the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications

On September 14, 2026 we will retire the containerized data connector agent for the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications. After this date the agent will be permanently disabled and will stop sending SAP logs to Microsoft Sentinel.

Retirement: Flatcar Container Linux for AKS (preview)

Azure Kubernetes Service support for Flatcar Container Linux for AKS (preview) will be retired on June 8, 2026, transition to a supported alternative by that date.

Retirement: Nested confidential (cc_v5) VMs will be retired on September 1, 2026

On September 1, 2026, the cc_v5 confidential VM series will be retired and will no longer be available for use or purchase. Any affected VM that has not been resized before that date will deallocated.

Starting August 31, 2026, you can no longer create or edit trace sinks.

Trace sinks were deprecated on February 18, 2026. For more information, see Export trace spans with sinks deprecation.

The Batch Debian 11 operating system (OS) image family has reached end of development due to the end of support (EOS) for Compute Engine Debian 11 images on…

The Batch Debian 11 operating system (OS) image family has reached end of development due to the end of support (EOS) for Compute Engine Debian 11 images on August 31, 2026.

Retirement: Azure VPN Client for Linux (Preview) will be retired on August 31, 2026

The Azure VPN Client for Linux (Preview) has remained in public preview and does not have a path to general availability (GA).

We are deprecating the emotion label response in the API.

Going forward, the API will return UNKNOWN for all emotion related labels.

4.54.00 runs Java in mixed mode: Java 17 for Cassandra and ZooKeeper, Java 21 for the Management Server, Message Processor, Router, and Qpid Broker-J.

Both Oracle JDK and OpenJDK are supported at those versions.

In deployments with Apigee SSO enabled, an integrated OIDC identity broker in apigee-openldap replaces the standalone apigee-sso component and Apache Tomcat…

In deployments with Apigee SSO enabled, an integrated OIDC identity broker in apigee-openldap replaces the standalone apigee-sso component and Apache Tomcat 9.0.x.

Face detection model update

The emotion label response in the Cloud Vision API is deprecated. Going forward, the Cloud Vision API face detection ( FACE_DETECTION feature) will return UNKNOWN for all emotion-related labels.

The following Managed Airflow versions and builds have reached their end of support period: composer-3-airflow-2.9.3-build.35,…

The following Managed Airflow versions and builds have reached their end of support period: composer-3-airflow-2.9.3-build.35, composer-3-airflow-2.10.5-build.15, composer-3-airflow-2.9.3-build.36, composer-3-airflow-2.10.5-build.16, composer-2.14.3-airflow-2.9.3,…

When you set up a connection, self-service modeling will now be available only if a role that grants create_self_service_from_table also selects it through…

When you set up a connection, self-service modeling will now be available only if a role that grants create_self_service_from_table also selects it through that role's model set.

Custom TopoJSON URL validation is updated to improve security.

This change is isolated to Google Maps rendering in preview. Existing dashboards and Looks with the Google Maps Enhancements preview feature enabled that use custom TopoJSON files may be impacted.

Managed Service for Apache Spark (formerly Dataproc on Compute Engine):

End-to-End Encryption for Apache Ranger (HTTPS): Ranger Admin, UserSync, and client plugins now enforce HTTPS on port 6182 for SSL-enabled clusters.

The legacy Monitoring agent has officially reached its end of support.

All standard maintenance and regular bug fixes for the agent have ceased. We recommend migrating to one of the supported alternatives. For more information about this deprecation, see Legacy Monitoring and Logging agent end of support.

Only platform services can write log entries to billing accounts.

These logs have names with the format billingAccounts/[BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID]/logs/[LOG_ID]. For more information, see entries.write.

The legacy Logging agent has officially reached its end of support.

All standard maintenance and regular bug fixes for the agent have ceased. We recommend migrating to one of the supported alternatives. For more information about this deprecation, see Legacy Monitoring and Logging agents end of support.

To improve security, removed the cloudsql.instances.export permission from the following roles:

Cloud SQL Viewer ( roles/cloudsql.viewer )

The following Managed Airflow versions and builds have reached their end of support period: composer-3-airflow-2.9.3-build.33,…

The following Managed Airflow versions and builds have reached their end of support period: composer-3-airflow-2.9.3-build.33, composer-3-airflow-2.10.5-build.13, composer-3-airflow-2.9.3-build.34, composer-3-airflow-2.10.5-build.14, composer-2.14.1-airflow-2.9.3,…

Managed Service for Apache Spark (formerly Google Cloud Serverless for Apache Spark):

Preconfigured Conda channels removed: Preconfigured conda channels (such as conda-forge ) have been removed from configurations. All runtime version aliases now point to the latest runtime version without conda channel configuration.

Agent Platform SDK for Python version 2.0.1 is available

Version 2.0.1 of the Agent Platform SDK for Python ( google-cloud-agentplatform ) is now available.

Appending sqlcommenter tags using the sql_commenter_enabled parameter when executing SQL queries on a Cloud SQL remote MCP server is temporarily disabled.

For more information, see sqlcommenter tags.

Gemini Notebook Enterprise: Website URL ingestion blocked by VPC Service Controls

Projects with VPC Service Controls enabled can't add website URLs as notebook sources in Gemini Notebook Enterprise.

Removed in 1.37

Identity Service for GKE is no longer supported starting in GKE 1.37: Creating new clusters or upgrading existing clusters to GKE version 1.37 or later with Identity Service for GKE enabled is blocked.

Managed Service for Apache Spark (formerly Dataproc on Compute Engine):

Preconfigured Conda channels removed: Preconfigured conda channels (such as conda-forge ) have been removed from configurations. All image version aliases now point to the latest image without conda channel configuration.

In-cluster Cloud Service Mesh 1.27 is no longer supported.

For more information and to view the earliest end-of-life dates for other versions, see Supported versions.