Welcome back to another release of the unified Azure Data client libraries. For the most part, the API surface areas of the SDKs have been stabilized based on your feedback. Thank you to everyone who has been submitting issues on GitHub and keep the feedback coming.
Please grab the October preview libraries and try them out—throw demanding performance scenarios at them, integrate them with other services, try to debug an issue, or generally build your scenario and let us know what you find.
Our goal is to release these libraries before the end of the year but we are driven by quality and feedback and your participation is key.
Getting started
As we did for the last three releases, we have created four pages that unify all the key information you need to get started and give feedback. You can find them here:
For those of you who want to dive deep into the content, the release notes linked above and the changelogs they point to give more details on what has changed. Here we are calling out a few high-level items.
APIs locking down
The surface area for Azure Key Vault and Storage Libraries are nearly API-complete based on the feedback you’ve given us so far. Thanks again to everyone who has sent feedback, and if anyone has been waiting to try things out and give feedback, now is the time.
Batch API support in Storage
You can now use batching APIs with the SDKs for Storage to handle manipulating large numbers of items in parallel. In Java and .NET you will find a new batching library package in the release notes while in JavaScript and Python the feature is in the core library.
Unified credentials
The Azure SDKs that depend on Azure Identity make getting credentials for services much easier.
Each library supports the concept of a DefaultAzureCredential and depending on where your code runs, it will select the right credential for logging in. For example, if you’re writing code and have signed into Visual Studio or performed an az login from the CLI, the client libraries can automatically pick up the sign-in token from those tools. When you move the code to a service environment, it will attempt to use a managed identity if one is available. See the language specific READMEs for Azure Identity for more.
Working with us and giving feedback
So far, the community has filed hundreds of issues against these new SDKs with feedback ranging from documentation issues to API surface area change requests to pointing out failure cases. Please keep that coming. We work in the open on GitHub and you can submit issues here:
In addition, we’re excited to say we’ll be attending Microsoft Ignite 2019, so please come and talk to us in person. Finally, please tweet at us at @AzureSdk.
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