Azure App Service - how regular are supported language runtimes added or updated?

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Azure App Service - how regular are supported language runtimes added or updated?

Anonymous

"New stable versions of supported language runtimes (major, minor, or patch) are periodically added to App Service instances." (source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/overview-patch-os-runtime#when-are-supported-language-runtimes-updated-added-or-deprecated)
What does periodically exactly mean here?
How regular or in what cycle are supported language runtimes (major and minor) added or updated?
Thanks for your help!

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Ryan Hill 30,281 Microsoft Employee Moderator

The best thing to do is follow https://azure.github.io/AppService/ in addition to https://github.com/Azure/app-service-announcements @Anonymous with regards to when a supported runtime has been released or scheduled to be released.

To answer your question with regards to how periodically, there isn't a specific every x months or every Xth quarter. Even as runtimes are released by providers (NodeJS, PHP, etc.) doesn't necessarily mean those runtimes will be immediately released on the App Services platform.

Anonymous

2022-05-10T14:27:48.353+00:00

Thanks for the links - I directly signed up for the notifications on github.
I am specifically looking for Updates of the Java Runtime for Azure WebApp. Since the end of last month (april 2022) you can choose Java 17 as an option for the runtime for Azure WebApp.
The thing is in both of your links I can't find any notifications about that. So it seems to me that following these notifications won't give me any heads-up in advance.

Is there any other documentation when updates are scheduled to be released?

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