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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 1 December 2021
Target retirement date: December 01, 2021
Transition to Azure Resource Manager by 1 December 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 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.
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