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RSS feedNovember 2023
Generally available: Partitioned namespaces for Azure Service Bus Premium
Partitoned namespaces for Azure Service Bus, allowing the use of partitioning for the premium messaging tier, is now generally available.
October 2023
Migrate to Azure Resource Manager control plane API version 2021-11-01 by 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Older control plane APIs in Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Relay will be retired.
Some Azure Service Bus SDK libraries will be retired on 30 September 2026—migrate to the latest SDKs
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Azure Service Bus SDK libraries that don't conform to Azure SDK guidelines will be retired and support will end.
December 2022
Public preview: Performance improving features for Azure Service Bus premium
Scale your Azure Service Bus premium namespaces far beyond the current limitations with two new features.
November 2022
General availability: 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers
With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.
October 2022
Generally available: Service Bus Explorer for the Azure portal
Manage and work with your messages directly in the portal integrated version of Service Bus Explorer.
Generally available: Control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Service Bus
Configure your Service Bus namespace to require that clients send and receive data with a minimal version of transport layer security (TLS).
June 2022
Public preview: Service Bus Explorer capabilities in the Azure Portal
Send, receive, and peek messages on queues, topics, and subscriptions.
May 2022
Public preview: Control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Service Bus
To enforce stricter security measures, you can now configure your Service Bus namespace to require that clients send and receive data with a minimum version of TLS.
November 2021
Azure Service Bus large message support reaches general availability
This new capability removes need for workarounds and enables migration of legacy payloads to Azure
October 2021
Reminder: Azure Service Management API for Messaging Services will be retired on 1st November 2021
Target retirement date: December 01, 2021
Transition to Azure Resource Manager by 1st November 2021.
July 2021
Public preview: Azure Service Bus support for large messages
You can now send and receive message payloads of up to 100MB in Azure Service Bus premium tier namespaces.
February 2021
General availability support for Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 API on Azure Service Bus Premium
Use existing applications that leverage JMS 2.0 API to talk to Service Bus without any code changes. Only configuration changes are required.
August 2020
Simplify and Modernize your Java and Spring workloads with Azure Service Bus
In order to provide Azure Service Bus to more customers irrespective of their application stack and application ecosystem, and in keeping with that vision, we’re announcing feature parity with Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 over AMQP.
May 2020
Service Bus Explorer on the Azure portal is now available in preview
Send, receive and peek from queues, topics and subscriptions, now from the Azure portal (in preview).
Azure Private Link is now available for multiple new Azure services
Azure Private Link now supports multiple new Azure services in general availability and preview.
Azure Private Link is now generally available in US Government regions
Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in GA.
March 2020
Announcing Azure Private Link GA for Azure Services
Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in Preview and GA.
May 2019
Event Grid can now publish events to Service Bus
Service Bus is now available as an event handler in Event Grid.
April 2019
Service Bus Standard Base Unit name change
On 1st June 2019, the unit of measure for the Service Bus Standard Base Unit Germany resource GUID will change.
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