Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2024
Public preview: Azure Functions support for HTTP streams in Python
Use HTTP streams in Python for processing large data streaming OpenAI responses and delivering dynamic content
Azure Static Web Apps offers new Dedicated plan in preview
Enterprise-grade features for advanced use cases
Generally Available: Azure Functions Support for HTTP Streams in Node.js
You can now stream HTTP requests to, and responses from, your Functions Apps.
Generally Available: Azure Functions extension for Dapr
You can now use Dapr’s powerful cloud native building block API with Azure Functions.
Public preview: Azure Functions extension for OpenAI
The Azure Functions extension for OpenAI enables you to build intelligent applications with OpenAI.
Public Preview: Azure Functions brings new flexibility with Azure Functions Flex Consumption
Flex consumption is a new Azure Functions hosting plan that provides fast scaling and networking features with a serverless billing model.
Public preview: Get started with Azure Functions using Visual Studio Code for the Web
You can now use a fully browser based end-to-end development environment for Azure Functions, starting from the Azure Portal.
Public preview: SDK type bindings for Azure Blog Storage with Azure Functions in Python
SDK type bindings for Azure Blob Storage with Azure Functions in Python allow you to easily integrate event and data sources with function applications.
Generally Available: Azure Functions can now run on Azure Container Apps
You can now quickly build event driven, cloud native apps, with the flexibility to run functions along with other microservices, APIs, websites, workflows or any container hosted programs.
General availability: Azure Cache for Redis triggers and bindings for Azure Functions
Target availability: Q2 2024
Trigger serverless functions through Azure Cache for Redis.
Announcing the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service
Target availability: Q2 2024
We are thrilled to announce the general availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on the Azure OpenAI Service, which processes both text and image inputs and replaces several preview models. This multimodal model has already been used by customers in various industries to enhance efficiencies and innovate, with case studies to be featured at the upcoming Build conference. For deployment details and future enhancements, including JSON mode and function calling for image inputs, please refer to our Azure OpenAI Service resources and updates.
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