Generally Available: Azure Functions now supports hosting MCP Apps
Microsoft announced a preview of this Azure Functions update in February 2026.
Launched1 version
Facts
- Microsoft id
562099- Status
- Launched
- Products
- Azure Functions
- Update type
- Features, Microsoft Build, Services
- Product categories
- Compute, Containers, Internet of Things
- Preview
- February 2026
- Status pages
- Azure Functions status
- First captured by us
- (from our first import of this list)
- Microsoft last modified
- Source
- Azure Updates · open the original at Microsoft
Microsoft says
Developers building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers often rely on plain text responses even when user interactions required richer experiences, such as
What Microsoft changed
One version so far. If Microsoft edits it, each change shows here with what was removed and added.
First version we captured ·
As first seen: Launched
- Status
- Launched
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Related changes
Other changes for Azure Functions
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- Retirement: Support for .NET 6 ends on 12 November 2024—upgrade your Azure Functions apps to .NET 8
- Retirement: Support for the in-process model for .NET apps in Azure Functions ends 10 November 2026.
- Public preview: SDK type bindings for Azure Blob Storage with Azure Functions in Python · In preview
- Public preview: PowerShell 7.4 support for Azure Functions · In preview
- Retirement: Support for .NET 7 ends on 14 May 2024—upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8
- Azure Functions brings new flexibility with scale, VNet and long execution time · In development
- Public preview: Get started with Azure Functions using Visual Studio Code for the Web · In preview
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