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The Blueprints wind-down is already running and locks in phases. On 31 January 2027 the API disappears, unexported data is permanently deleted, and blueprint locks stop working. Artifact mapping to Deployment Stacks and an export via REST.
The largest MCP revision since the protocol began removes sessions, the handshake, and SSE resumability. For hosting that is good news — a remote MCP server is now an ordinary stateless HTTP workload. Blast radius and what it means in Azure.
Managed NGINX on AKS gets its last security patch in November 2026. The replacement is App Routing with Gateway API and Envoy. Annotation mapping, an audit script, and the three annotations with no equivalent at all.