November 4, 2026 · AzureIn preview
Public Preview: Azure Firewall IPv6 now supports application rules
Azure Firewall now supports application rules in IPv6 Public Preview, enabling layer 7 filtering for IPv6 HTTP and HTTPS traffic. The enhancement extends application-level controls to IPv6 and dual-stack deployments, helping customers maintain consistent policies across IPv4 and IPv6 environments.
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More Azure Firewall changes
Learns private destination prefixes periodically and applies them as No-SNAT rangesGA
Dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 mode with network-rule filtering and DNS Proxy supportPreview
Applications send HTTP and HTTPS traffic directly to the firewall through proxy settingsGA
Make multiple policy changes in a draft, then deploy them together instead of 2–4 minutes per changeGA