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Microsoft's release-health pages say Windows updates released October 13, 2026 might leave SQL Server linked server connections open, with Oracle and PostgreSQL among those known to be affected; The Register differs from a Microsoft page on 26H2.

Microsoft released .NET 11 on November 10 with two years of support. A May 13 MAUI post offered a Mono opt-out through servicing; a Microsoft docs page last updated October 13 and heise say Mono is not supported.

Microsoft's materials give November 10, 2026 as the end-of-support date for .NET 8 (LTS) and .NET 9 (STS), the day .NET 11 shipped; its releases table lists November 14, 2028 for both .NET 10 (LTS) and .NET 11 (STS).

Microsoft's out-of-band .NET release fixes CVE-2026-111497 in Brotli decompression and a Linux tarball ownership flaw, and re-releases two advisories the October 13 release did not fully address.

Visual Studio Code 1.143 makes the Copilot harness the default for new sessions, adds a preview of side-by-side model comparison and an experimental cleanup for inactive agent worktrees.

Microsoft's TypeScript 7.1 beta, announced October 20, adds source phase imports, import attributes in ambient modules, es2026 and content mappers; a release candidate is due in about a month.

ONNX Runtime 1.31.0 promotes model-package and EPContext data APIs to stable, deprecates the ACL execution provider, and makes out-of-range GatherBlockQuantized indices return zeros.

Visual Studio Code 1.140, released September 30, adds a Copilot harness on an agent host process, multi-folder sessions, remote delegation tools, HydraFusion model orchestration and a worktree symlink setting.

Microsoft's open-source WSL containers feature reached general availability on September 29 with WSL 3.0.1, adding a Docker-style wslc.exe CLI, a Windows API, and enterprise controls.

Microsoft has elevated Rust to Tier-1 status alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript, and detailed a new compiler backend linking Rust to MSVC.

Visual Studio Code 1.139 extends Dev Container agent sessions to remote hosts and speeds up large agent session lists by up to 12x, Microsoft says.

Newly unredacted filings in the NYT v. OpenAI and Microsoft copyright suit quote a Microsoft director calling AI scraping practices theft and OpenAI's ChatGPT head calling them an existential threat to publishers.