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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 June 1, 2019, the unit of measure for the Service Bus Standard Base Unit Germany resource GUID will change.
Upgrade your existing Service Bus standard namespaces to premium in-place
Upgrade existing multi-tenant Service Bus standard namespaces to dedicated premium namespaces by using our new migration tool.
February 2019
Public preview: Azure Service Bus for Node.js
A new AMQP-based package for Azure Service Bus for Node.js is now available.
Service Bus unit of measure change
Effective March 1, 2019, the names for Service Bus Standard Base Unit will change.
Public preview: Azure Service Bus for Go
Send messages asynchronously between your Go services by using the new preview package for Azure Service Bus.
Public preview: Azure Service Bus for Python
A package for using Azure Service Bus from Python over AMQP is now available in preview.
January 2019
Service Bus and Event Hubs Availability Zones now generally available (GA)
Availability Zones support is now generally available for Azure Service Bus premium and Azure Event Hubs standard in every Azure region that has zone redundant datacenters.
December 2018
Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs Virtual Networks and Firewall rules are now generally available
Virtual Networks and Firewall rules for both Azure Event Hubs and Azure Service Bus are now generally available.
November 2018
Service Bus name changes
Effective January 1, 2019, the names for Azure Service Bus Messaging will change.
April 2018
GUID migration: Azure Service Bus, US Government regions
Starting on May 1, 2018, you’ll be billed at an hourly rate for Service Bus standard base units and Service Bus premium messaging units.
GUID migration: Azure Service Bus
On May 1, 2018, Azure Service Bus Standard Base Unit and Service Bus Premium Messaging Units will start being billed at an hourly rate from the current daily rate.
July 2017
General availability: Azure Relay Hybrid Connections
Azure Relay Hybrid Connections is generally available.
August 2016
Service Bus messaging in the Azure portal
You can now use the new Azure portal to create and manage Service Bus messaging resources (namespaces, queues, and topics).
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