You can now try out Kubernetes 1.29 preview version with AKS and get ready for Kubernetes 1.29 GA in your production environment.

You can now migrate nodes from one Linux OS to another without having to create new nodes.

You can set a low soak time value during a node upgrade to wait between draining a node and proceeding to reimage it.

You can now better manage your changing workload demands by using capacity reservation groups.

You can deploy an officially supported Istio addon for AKS

You can now temporarily disable your network policy engines to perform a migration.