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Short notes on Power Platform releases, Microsoft 365 changes, and applied AI tooling. Each entry links the source and says what actually changed. Where something is minor, it says that too.
datasette 1.0a38 patches a SQL injection vulnerability affecting instances that serve a mix of public and private tables from the same database using Datasette's built-in permissions system. Administrators running access-controlled multi-table instances should update immediately. Instances serving only public data, or where all tables share the same access level, are not affected.
Simon WillisonMicrosoft's PostgreSQL engineering team describes an AI-assisted schema conversion workflow in Visual Studio Code for Oracle-to-Azure Database for PostgreSQL migrations. Mapping Oracle's type system, constraints, and PL/SQL constructs to PostgreSQL equivalents is typically the most time-consuming phase before any data moves, and doing this from within the editor reduces context-switching. The article does not confirm whether the tooling is generally available or in preview, so verify before using it in a production migration plan.
Microsoft Tech CommunityThis Microsoft Foundry post describes five orchestration patterns for multi-agent systems — concurrent, sequential, group chat, handoff, and Magentic — with code examples using Azure AI Foundry's FoundryChatClient. It is an educational walkthrough of available patterns rather than a product announcement; the post does not indicate any capability is newly released. Useful as a named-pattern reference if you are designing coordination logic on Foundry and want working code alongside the taxonomy.
Microsoft Tech CommunityMicrosoft added governance capabilities to Agent 365 aimed at organizations running agents across multiple tenants and a mix of agent platforms. The problem is real - agent sprawl tends to arrive faster than anyone's inventory of it - but this is a monthly roundup rather than a single release, so read it for the list rather than for one change. Worth a look if you already have agents deployed and no current answer to who owns them.
Microsoft Tech CommunitySentinel's Codeless Connector Framework now handles nested API responses, in public preview. Nested payloads were a common reason connector authors had to abandon CCF and write custom ingestion code, so this closes a real gap. Preview status means it is not yet something to put a production ingestion path on.
Microsoft Tech CommunityA comparison of two tools that market themselves almost identically but solve different problems: n8n wires APIs together and can be self-hosted, while UiPath drives software that never exposed an API in the first place. That distinction is the right first question when choosing between workflow automation and RPA, and it is more useful than either vendor's own positioning. Note the source is a competitor to both, and weight it accordingly.
Zapier BlogPrompt Columns reached general availability. You define a natural-language prompt once against a business table and the resulting classification or summary is persisted as column data rather than computed on each request, which makes AI output queryable and reportable like any other field. Understand the refresh behaviour before you build reporting on it - persisted values and changing source rows are the obvious place this gets awkward.
Power Platform BlogThe Dataverse plugin is now listed in the OpenAI and Codex marketplaces. This is distribution news rather than new capability - the plugin already existed, and this widens where it can be installed from. Relevant only if your team already works in those agents.
Power Platform BlogPower Pages now has a conversational AI agent in the Design Studio Security workspace, in preview, that can review authentication settings, configure table permissions and web roles, set up identity providers, and recommend changes to CSP and HTTP security headers. It does not apply any change automatically - every modification requires explicit approval before it takes effect. Useful for Power Pages admins navigating a broad security surface, though changes should be tested in a dev environment before production.
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