Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2023
Generally available: Azure Files scalability improvement for Azure Virtual Desktop and other workloads that open root directory handles
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure Files has increased the root directory handle limit per share from 2,000 to 10,000 for standard and premium file shares.
Now Available: Resource-centric log queries in the Azure Monitor Query libraries
Resource-centric log query support is available in the latest stable release of the Azure Monitor Query client libraries. Query logs by Azure resource ID using .NET, Go, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions.
Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in Brazil South, UK South, East US, East US 2, and South-Central US.
General availability: Azure Sphere version 23.05 is delayed, new OS will be issued to Retail Eval
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
General availability: NLog Sink for Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer now supports ingestion of data from .NET Applications via the NLog Sink.
General availability: Azure CNI powered by Cilium
Target availability: Q2 2023
Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing.
Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions for Stream Analytics Jobs
Are you using GitHub for managing your Stream Analytics project and looking to leverage GitHub's powerful CI/CD pipeline? Follow this comprehensive guide and learn to set up a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions for your Stream Analytics jobs.
GA: Logic Apps (Standard) adds support for .NET Framework extensibility in XSLT data.
Developers can now add .NET Framework methods to XSLT data transformations in Azure Logic Apps (Standard).
Generally available: Apache MirrorMaker 2 support in Azure Event Hubs
Users now can utilize MirrorMaker2 for effortless data replication from their on-premises or managed Kafka cluster directly to Event Hubs.
Generally Available – New Azure Event Grid events for Azure API Management Self-hosted gateway
We are announcing the support for 11 new Azure Event Grid event types in Azure API Management.
Generally available: Kafka Connect support in Azure Event Hubs
With Kafka Connect support GA, users can seamlessly and reliably stream data between Azure Event Hubs and external systems such as databases, key-value stores, file systems and other data sources.
Generally Available – Custom domain support for self-hosted gateway configuration endpoint v2
We are announcing the support of custom domain for the self-hosted gateway configuration endpoint v2.
Generally available: Managed Identities support for Capture in Event Hubs
Users now can use managed identities when capturing event streams to storage services such as Azure Storage Services or Azure Data Lake storage 2.
Generally available: Kafka compaction support in Azure Event Hubs
Log compaction in Event Hubs introduces a key-based retention mechanism where the most recent value associated with each event key in an event hub or Kafka topic is retained.
Generally Available: Exactly Once Delivery to ADLS Gen2 Output
Azure Stream Analytics supports for end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Generally Available: Exactly Once Delivery to Event Hub Output
Stream Analytics now supports end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Event Hub output.
General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available.
Build 2023: New Azure App Service plans fuel greater choice and savings
New plans for Microsoft Azure App Service customers with two new offerings in the Premium v3 (Pv3) service tier, and expansion in the Isolated v2 tier.
Generally Available: V2 programming model for Azure Functions using Python
A simplified programming model for Python developers.
Azure Key Vault Access Configuration Update
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure RBAC is now the recommended authorization system for the Azure Key Vault data plane.
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