Merge pull request #205332 from ElazarK/programming-languages

programming languages

Author: 19BMG00

articles/defender-for-cloud/release-notes.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: Release notes for Microsoft Defender for Cloud
 description: A description of what's new and changed in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
 ms.topic: reference
-ms.date: 07/19/2022
+ms.date: 07/25/2022
 ---
 
 # What's new in Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ To learn about *planned* changes that are coming soon to Defender for Cloud, see
 Updates in July include:
 
 - [General availability (GA) of the Cloud-native security agent for Kubernetes runtime protection](#general-availability-ga-of-the-cloud-native-security-agent-for-kubernetes-runtime-protection)
+- [Defender for Container's VA adds support for the detection of language specific packages (Preview)](#defender-for-containers-va-adds-support-for-the-detection-of-language-specific-packages-preview)
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 ### General availability (GA) of the Cloud-native security agent for Kubernetes runtime protection
 
 We're excited to share that the Cloud-native security agent for Kubernetes runtime protection is now generally available (GA)!
@@ -41,6 +43,14 @@ You can also review [all available alerts](alerts-reference.md#alerts-k8scluster
 
 Note, if you're using the preview version, the `AKS-AzureDefender` feature flag is no longer required.
 
+### Defender for Container's VA adds support for the detection of language specific packages (Preview)
+
+Defender for Container's vulnerability assessment (VA) is able to detect vulnerabilities in OS packages deployed via the OS package manager. We have now extended VA's abilities to detect vulnerabilities included in language specific packages.
+
+This feature is in `preview` and is only available for Linux images.
+
+To see all of the included language specific packages that have been added, check out Defender for Container's full list of [features and their availability](supported-machines-endpoint-solutions-clouds-containers.md#registries-and-images).
+
 ## June 2022
 
 Updates in June include: