Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 on Tuesday as the newest monthly update to this in-house Linux distribution used throughout the company and by external parties.

Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 brings many security updates as usual. A variety of packages were patched for CVE fixes from CMake to glibc, GRUB2, PostgreSQL, Ruby, sudo, Valkey, and many others.

This July update to Azure Linux 3.0 also now adds Image Customizer configurations for linuxguard, baremetal, hyperv-guest, qemu-guest, marketplace-gen1, and marketplace-gen2 images. The Azure Linux 3.0 update also adds a minimal OS image configuration for ARM64, various package build fixes, and select package feature updates like moving to Apache Cassandra 5.0.

Downloads and more details on the Azure Linux 3.0 operating system update for July 2025 via the [1]GitHub announcement .

Microsoft also released [2]Azure Linux 2.0.20250701 yesterday as the newest update to the Azure Linux 2.0 series with various security (CVE) fixes.



[1] https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux/releases/tag/3.0.20250702-3.0

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux/releases/tag/2.0.20250701-2.0