> An in-place upgrade to a new major version (for example, upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04) causes a disconnection between the data plane and the [control plane](/azure/architecture/guide/multitenant/considerations/control-planes) of the VMs. Azure capabilities such as [Auto guest patching](/azure/virtual-machines/automatic-vm-guest-patching), [Auto OS image upgrades](/azure/virtual-machine-scale-sets/virtual-machine-scale-sets-automatic-upgrade), [Hotpatching](/windows-server/get-started/hotpatch?toc=%2Fazure%2Fvirtual-machines%2Ftoc.json), and [Azure Update Manager](/azure/update-manager/overview) won't be available. To use these features, we recommend that you create a new VM by using your preferred operating system instead of performing an in-place upgrade.
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