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Generally available: Azure Health Data Services DICOM service with Azure Data Lake Storage
With the integration of Azure Data Lake Storage and the DICOM service, organizations can now enjoy full control over their imaging data and increased flexibility for accessing and working with that data through the Azure storage ecosystem and APIs.
January 2024
New Features for graph-match KQL Operator: Enhanced Pattern Matching and Cycle Control
Target availability: Q1 2024
The graph-match operator in Kusto Query Language (KQL) allows you to query your data as a graph and find matches for a specified pattern. The latest update introduces two new features: the cycles parameter and the nonlinear patterns. These features enable you to control how cycles are matched and express more complex and flexible patterns in your graph queries.
General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities
Kusto now has three new geospatial functions: geo_polygon_to_h3cells(), geo_angle() and geo_azimuth(). These functions are designed to help you better understand and analyze your geospatial data.
December 2023
Store and manage medical imaging data with Azure Data Lake Storage (Preview)
With the integration of Azure Data Lake Storage and the DICOM service, organizations can now enjoy full control over their imaging data and increased flexibility for accessing and working with that data through the Azure storage ecosystem and APIs.
November 2023
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for November
Target availability: Q4 2023
Three features now available in public preview enable you to choose which models/datasets are right for you without having to run any job, seamlessly read/write data from a Fabric datastore; and Model-as-a-Service with inference APIs and hosted fine-tuning.
September 2023
Azure Service Fabric 10.0 Release
This release includes new features and quality improvements.
Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Sixth Refresh Release
This release includes quality improvements.
July 2023
Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Tenth Refresh Release
This release includes bug fixes and quality improvements.
Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Fifth Refresh Release
This release includes bug fixes and quality improvements.
April 2023
Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Third Refresh Release
This release includes new features and fixes.
March 2023
Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Second Refresh Release
This release includes quality improvements.
New Azure for Operators products and partner programs released
Azure for Operators announces the next wave of services to empower operators to modernize and monetize their 5G investments, enable enterprises with ubiquitous computing from cloud to edge.
September 2021
General availability: Azure API Management updates - August 2021
The availability zones feature in Azure API Management has been updated to provide better support in four new regions, in addition to other API Management updates.
February 2021
Support for Azure API Management certificates in Azure Key Vault has reached general availability.
You can now enhance security by storing, managing, and referencing API Management’s certificates in Azure Key Vault.
January 2021
Azure Service Fabric Mesh Preview Retirement
Target retirement date: April 28, 2021
Today, we are announcing the retirement of the Azure Service Fabric Mesh public preview. New deployments will no longer be available but we will continue to support existing deployments until April 28, 2021.
November 2020
Service Fabric release 7.2 is now available
This release brings new features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements.
October 2020
Public preview: Service Fabric managed clusters
Service Fabric managed clusters reduce complexity and issues associated with managing a cluster made up of multiple resources.
June 2020
Azure Service Fabric 7.1 First Refresh Release
The Azure Service Fabric 7.1 first refresh release includes bug fixes and performance enhancements for standalone and Azure environments.
May 2020
Azure DevTest Labs environments are now available in Azure Government
Azure DevTest Labs environments are now available in Azure Government.
March 2020
Azure Service Fabric 7.0 fourth refresh release is now rolling out
Azure Service Fabric 7.0 fourth refresh release, which includes bug fixes and performance enhancements for standalone and Azure environments, has started rolling out to various Azure regions.
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