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Author: mattmcinnes

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+title: What's new for Azure Shared Image Gallery
+description: Learn about what's new for virtual machines in Azure.
+author: sandeepraichura
+ms.service: virtual-machines
+ms.subservice: gallery
+ms.topic: whats-new
+ms.workload: infrastructure
+ms.date: 01/13/2023
+ms.author: mattmcinnes
+ms.reviewer: cynthn
+---
+
+# What's new for virtual machines
+
+This article describes what's new for Shared Image Gallery in Azure.
+
+## Highlights for 2022-9
+
+- Zn planning completed for SIG and all committed/deferred/rejected items are tracked
+- Onboarded over 200 customers for ‘Direct shared gallery’ feature since public preview (July’ 2022)
+- Active VM usage for SIG increased by 14% MoM in September.
+
+## Highlights for 2022-8
+
+- Presented about Community gallery at ‘Nest with Fedora 2022’ conference, thanks to ‘Jack Aboutboul’ for delivering the session to the broader community
+- Unblocked RedHat to publish ‘ARM64’ type SIG images using Terraform
+
+## Highlights for 2022-7
+
+- Launched public preview of Direct shared gallery on 07/25 and onboarded over 15 customers since we announced public preview. 
+- Monthly VM usage for Direct shared gallery had significant increase since public preview.
+- AlmaLinux started publishing their images to ‘Community gallery’ and we have an active engagement with them 
+
+
+## Next steps
+
+For updates and announcements about Azure, see the [Microsoft Azure Blog](https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/).