Release 2025-04-25

Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.14 is now Generally Available. Azure Red Hat OpenShift 4.12 will not be supported after July 17th, 2024. Clusters running unsupported Red Hat OpenShift releases aren't covered by the Azure Red Hat OpenShift SLA. Upgrade your clusters to continue to receive support for your clusters.

New Features

Azure Red Hat OpenShift enables OpenShift Container Platform 4.14. For details see the OCP 4.14 release notes.

Release 2023-12-15

Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.13 is now Generally Available. Azure Red Hat OpenShift 4.11 will not be supported after January 15th, 2024. Clusters running unsupported Red Hat OpenShift releases aren't covered by the Azure Red Hat OpenShift SLA. Upgrade your clusters to continue to receive support for your clusters.

New Features

Azure Red Hat OpenShift enables OpenShift Container Platform 4.13. For details see the OCP 4.13 release notes.

Release 2023-08-19

Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.12 is now Generally Available. Azure Red Hat OpenShift 4.10 will not be supported after September 18, 2023. Clusters running unsupported Red Hat OpenShift releases aren’t covered by the Azure Red Hat OpenShift SLA. Upgrade your clusters to continue to receive support for your clusters.

Starting with ARO version 4.12, the support lifecycle for new versions will be set to 14 months from the day of general availability. That means that the end date for support of each version will no longer be dependent on the previous version (as shown in the table above for version 4.12.) This does not affect support for the previous version; two generally available (GA) minor versions of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform will continue to be supported.

New Features

Azure Red Hat OpenShift enables OpenShift Container Platform 4.12. For details, see the OCP 4.12 release notes.

Release 2023-06-20

Removed dependencies on service endpoints

The addition of the egress lockdown feature provided access to key Azure resources through the ARO Private Link service, thus removing the need to access ACR and storage accounts through a service endpoint and leveraging a private endpoint instead. With this release, dependencies on service endpoints have been removed, and new clusters will not create service endpoints on VNets.

Release 2023-04-20

New supported virtual machine sizes have been added to Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.11. See Supported virtual machines sizes for the complete list.

Release 2023-03-02

Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.11 is now Generally Available. Azure Red Hat OpenShift 4.9 will not be supported after April 15, 2023. Clusters running unsupported Red Hat OpenShift releases aren’t covered by the Azure Red Hat OpenShift SLA. Upgrade your clusters to continue to receive support for your clusters.

New Features

• Multi-version support. This enables customers to select specific Y and Z version of the release. See Red Hat OpenShift versions for more information about versions.
  Customers can still deploy 4.10 clusters if that version is specified. See Selecting a different ARO version for more information.
• Improved portal experience including:
  • Pre-populated domain prefix
  • Service Principal creation flow
  • Improved parameter validation
• Public IP removal. See Create a private cluster without a public IP address for more information.
• OVN as the CNI for clusters 4.11 and above
• Accelerated networking VMs
• UltraSSD support
• Gen2 VM support

Release 2022-05-20

As of 20 May 2022, support for OpenShift 4.8 clusters on Azure Red Hat OpenShift will be ending. Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.10 is now Generally Available (GA) and Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.8 is no longer available for new deployments. Clusters running unsupported Red Hat OpenShift releases aren’t covered by the Azure Red Hat OpenShift SLA. Upgrade your clusters to continue to receive support for your clusters.

The version 4.10 release will begin rolling out to regions on 23 May 2022 and is expected to complete all regions in the following two weeks.

With version 4.10, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is available in US West 3.

New Features

• Managed-upgrade-operator (MUO): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/openshift/howto-upgrade
• FIPS for Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/openshift/howto-enable-fips-openshift
• Customer-managed key (CMK): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/openshift/howto-byok

Release 2022-02-28

As of 28 February 2022, support for OpenShift 4.6 clusters on Azure Red Hat OpenShift will be ending. Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.9 is now Generally Available (GA) and Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.7 is no longer available for new deployments. Clusters running unsupported Red Hat OpenShift releases aren’t covered by the Azure Red Hat OpenShift SLA. Upgrade your clusters to continue to receive support for your clusters.

With version 4.9, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is available in US West 3.

New features

• Red Hat OpenShift egress lockdown: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/openshift/concepts-egress-lockdown
• Additional storage security features: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/openshift/openshift-faq#how-are-my-storage-accounts-secured

Release-2022-02-21

As of 21 February 2022, support for OpenShift 4.4 clusters on Azure Red Hat OpenShift will be ending. Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.7 is now Generally Available (GA) and Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.4 is no longer available for new deployments. Clusters running unsupported Red Hat OpenShift releases aren’t covered by the Azure Red Hat OpenShift SLA. Upgrade your clusters to continue to receive support for your clusters.

Release 2021-02-24

As of 26 March 2021, support for OpenShift 4.4 clusters on Azure Red Hat OpenShift will be ending. Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.6 is now Generally Available (GA) and Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.4 is no longer available for new deployments. Clusters running unsupported Red Hat OpenShift releases aren’t covered by the Azure Red Hat OpenShift SLA. Upgrade your clusters to continue to receive support for your clusters.

Learn more about the Azure Red Hat OpenShift release schedule.