* Update to Visual Studio 2026 18.6.0 Build Tools / MSVC 19.51.
* Skipped opencv2 entirely. opencv2 depends on `std::tr1` parts which has been removed in that compiler release. opencv2 is long unmaintained by the opencv developers; the last version is from 2019. I have not deindexed it because @cenit seems like he cares about it, and we still have some places where it works.
* Add tools that vcpkg usually needs to the build machine to avoid needing to fetch/unpack these every build:
* CMake
* Ninja
* 7Zip
* Git
* Azure CLI 2.86.0
* Python 3.14.5
* Fixed the "provision-entire-image.ps1" workflow for creating local VMs claiming that it was downloading from the internet even when it was using a side by side local installer.
* Deduplicated some of the installation logic from the deploy .ps1s.
* Ensure that all the .ps1s have LF line endings.
GPT 5.4 made contributions to the PowerShell improvements. It was unable to fix any of the regressions on its own, but it may have been able to do so if the line endings bug was fixed. (This bug causes copilot-cli to destroy every .patch/.diff it touches) https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/issues/1148
* Cherry-pick https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/pull/15598
* Hook deploy-inteloneapi into create-vmss.ps1.
* Add script to resolve https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/17521
* Move tls settings deployment to the front and respond to script triggering a reboot.
* Go back to provisioning an extra disk to workaround https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/18379
* Disallow public access to blob storage and require TLS 1.2.
* Update Pools.
* Update tool to 2021-06-19
* [simage] Skip simage on uwp platforms as it appears broken by 16.10.
* [tensorflow-cc] Skip because changes in our MacOS hardware broke the port.
Billy O'Neal