In the Sprint 136 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), we’re introducing some design changes. Source: Microsoft Azure News Modernizing the UI—VSTS Sprint 136 Update

Immutable storage for Azure Storage blobs is in public preview and is available in all Azure public regions. Source: Microsoft Azure News Public preview: Immutable storage for Azure Storage blobs

Starting June 30, all new apps in Azure App Service will be created with TLS 1.2 by default. Source: Microsoft Azure News New App Service apps deployed with TLS 1.2 by default from June 30

Start/Stop VMs during off-hours in Azure Automation has been updated in the areas of email functionality, dependent modules, and runbooks. Source: Microsoft Azure News Start/Stop VMs during off-hours in Azure Automation has been updated

Azure SQL Data Warehouse now supports User-Defined Restore Points. Source: Microsoft Azure News User-Defined Restore Points are now supported for Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Scaling between hardware generations within services tiers and scaling between general-purpose and memory-optimized service tiers are now supported in all available regions. Source: Microsoft Azure News General availability: Scaling across tiers in Azure Database for MySQL

Scaling between hardware generations within services tiers and scaling between general-purpose and memory-optimized service tiers are now supported in all available regions. Source: Microsoft Azure News General availability: Scaling across tiers in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

We recently announced that all Azure App Service and Azure Functions apps could update TLS configuration. Reporting tools should now correctly indicate that lower versions of TLS are blocked. Source: Microsoft Azure News TLS configuration now fixed to block 1.0

Effective August 1, 2018, names for vCore-based Single Database and Elastic Pool compute (Gen4 and Gen5) and storage will change. Source: Microsoft Azure News Name changes: SQL Database Singleton

Effective August 1, 2018, names will change for two SQL Threat Detection services. Source: Microsoft Azure News Name changes: SQL Advanced Threat Protection