Blogs summary – Thursday 14 August 2025
Here are some recent posts I found from interesting Azure, Microsoft and .NET blogs.
New from .NET Blog
- The new Dependabot NuGet updater: 65% faster with native .NET
- .NET Conf 2025 – Announcing the Call for Content
- Exploring new Agent Quality and NLP evaluators for .NET AI applications
- .NET and .NET Framework August 2025 servicing releases updates
- 5 Copilot Chat Prompts .NET Devs Should Steal Today
- .NET 10 Preview 7 is now available!
- Announcing the NuGet MCP Server Preview
New from Azure DevOps Blog
- Automate your open-source dependency scanning with Advanced Security
- Real-Time Security with Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) comes to Azure DevOps
- Hunting Living Secrets: Secret Validity Checks Arrive in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
- Azure DevOps OAuth Client Secrets Now Shown Only Once
- Azure Developer CLI: From Dev to Prod with Azure DevOps Pipelines
New from GitHub Changelog
- Dependabot reviewers configuration option is replaced by code owners
- Dependabot version updates now support vcpkg
- OpenAI GPT-5 is now available in public preview in Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, and Eclipse
- Secret scanning adds 12 validators including Cockroach Labs, Polar, and Yandex
- Copilot Spaces supports adding entire repositories
- GitHub MCP Server: Secret scanning, push protection, and more
- GPT-5 mini now available in GitHub Copilot in public preview
- Spark resilience improvements
- Added last_authenticated_at to the Copilot user management API
- Expanded file type support for attachments across issues, pull requests, and discussions
New from Visual Studio Blog
- Visual Studio 2015 Retirement: Support reminder for older versions of Visual Studio
- GPT-5 Now Available in Visual Studio
- From Redmond to San Diego: VS Live! Highlights, Session Examples, and What’s Next
- Improving Codebase Awareness in Visual Studio Chat
Thanks for reading!