In May 2018, Octopus Deploy released version 2018.5, which enhances its Azure support by incorporating the latest Azure SDK and PowerShell Modules, and introduces dynamic management of Azure deployment targets using PowerShell Cmdlets. This update reintroduces Azure Web Apps and Azure Cloud Services as deployment targets and adds Azure Service Fabric Clusters, improving infrastructure visibility and enabling multi-region deployments. The release also features dynamic creation of PaaS targets, the ability to set Azure Accounts as variables, improved support for PEM certificate chains, and updates to licensing, where Azure targets now contribute to licensing limits. Notably, the update requires a minimum environment of Microsoft .NET 4.5.2 and PowerShell 5.0, and users are urged to switch from the soon-to-be-retired Service Management API to Service Principals for Azure accounts.