January 2026 monthly summary for Azure/azure-rest-api-specs focusing on Dev Center API versioning and Dev Box enhancements. Delivered the 2026-01-01-preview API version with new operations and customization options, enabling clients to adopt newer capabilities and accelerate deployment workflows. The work also includes enhancements to the dataplane and alignment with REST specs to improve consistency across the developer experience.

December 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments and business impact for the Azure REST API specs work.

October 2025: Delivered the DevCenter 2025-10-01-preview API for the control plane in azure-rest-api-specs, introducing project policies, catalog settings, and group assignments. Updated existing models to support the new API version and deprecated older settings. No major bugs fixed this period. This release strengthens governance capabilities and positions us for the upcoming GA release, aligning with the roadmap and customer needs.

Focus: API specification hygiene and maintainability in Azure/azure-rest-api-specs. Key work: rename the control plane swagger to DevCenterRP.json to distinguish from dataplane, and apply suppressions to manage potential issues with additional properties and resource model properties. Commit b308cef084344356690143de4630a43e5b90836f documents changes. Major bugs fixed: none this month. Business impact: reduces contributor confusion, lowers downstream client risk, improves maintainability and future-proofing for Dev Center integration. Technologies: OpenAPI/Swagger, naming conventions, suppression rules, Git history and traceability.

August 2025: Delivered key API surface improvements for the Azure REST API Specs, focusing on the DevCenter Dataplane, along with a critical spec correction. Implemented the 2025-08-01-preview API version, enhanced the DevBox action model (Delete action type; Admin and Project sources), and introduced scheduleDeleteAction to enable scheduled Dev Box deletions. Also fixed the DevBox API spec to use NoContentResponse for the affected endpoint, aligning behavior with actual API responses. These changes improve release readiness, reliability, and developer experience for consumers.

July 2025: Delivered DevCenter 2025-07-01-preview API versions for Dataplane and Control Plane, including Single Sign-On status, day-of-week based active hours, and updated API specifications and documentation. Updated Dataplane examples to align with the new preview. Three commits completed to implement the new preview version and improve examples, smoothing early adoption for customers and internal stakeholders.

April 2025 performance: Delivered the 2025-04-01-preview API for the DevCenter dataplane, including provisioning state refinements, pool alignment, and Dev Box addon/tunnel support. Added new and refined operations for approvals and addon management to align with the updated API surface. No major bugs reported this period. Overall impact: accelerates DevCenter provisioning workflows and governance with a production-ready preview surface in the azure-rest-api-specs repo. Key technologies demonstrated: API versioning, REST surface design, and repo maintenance for large API specifications.

March 2025 focused on delivering a new preview API for the Microsoft.DevCenter dataplane, enabling Dev Box operations (Align and setActiveHours) and enhanced pool active hours. This release, together with documentation updates, paves the way for automated Dev Center workflows and faster spin-up of development environments for teams.

February 2025 monthly summary for mikeharder/azure-rest-api-specs. Focused on delivering a stable API release and aligning docs/assets to ensure reliable downstream integration. Key actions included upgrading to the stable Microsoft.DevCenter API version 2025-02-01, adjusting documentation and assets to reflect the release, applying formatting improvements, suppressing a known types issue, and removing examples for features not included in the stable release. This work enhances stability, compatibility, and maintainability for client integrations and tooling.