Azure VPN Gateway

Generally Available: Summarized advertised gateway prefixes for route advertisement

Summarized advertised gateway prefixes for route advertisement is now generally available. You can specify aggregated (summarized) prefixes for an Azure gateway to advertise to your on-premises networks, rather than having every individual virtual network address space…

Generally Available: IPv6 support for Azure VPN Gateway

IPv6 support for Azure VPN Gateway enables customers to run IPv6 inner traffic through VPN tunnels in a dual‑stack configuration.

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).

Generally Available: User Groups and IP address pools for P2S connections

User Groups and IP Address Pools for Point-to-Site connections in VPN Gateway enable customers to assign distinct IP address pools to remote users based on their credentials.

Generally Available: site-to-site VPN connections with certificate authentication

Azure Site-to-Site VPN with digital certificate authentication provides an alternative to the traditional pre-shared key (PSK) model by using a certificate-based asymmetric trust model.

Public Preview: Summarized advertised gateway prefixes for route advertisement

Summarized advertised gateway prefixes for route advertisement is now in public preview, enabling you to define summarized prefixes that Azure gateways, including ExpressRoute and VPN Gateway, advertise to on-premises networks, instead of advertising all individual virtual…

Retirement: Manually registered Azure VPN Clients for ​Azure Government and ​Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet clouds will be retired on March 31, 2029

On March 31, 2029, we’ll be retiring manually registered Azure VPN clients for point-to-site connections with Microsoft Entra ID authentication for ​ Azure Government and ​ Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet clouds.