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General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA
Target availability: Q3 2024
Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now Generally Available
March 2024
Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support
Target retirement date: July 08, 2024
End of Support for Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2. Apache Spark 3.2 will be retired and disabled as of July 8, 2024.
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.
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
General availability: Reservations for Microsoft Fabric
You can now save up to 40.5% on Microsoft Fabric capacity when you commit to one-year reservations.
October 2023
General availability: Azure Synapse Link for existing MongoDB collections
Target availability: Q4 2023
Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB enables near real time analytics, now available for existing MongoDB collections in Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB.
General availability: Azure Synapse Link compatibility with Cosmos DB continuous backup
Target availability: Q4 2023
Now Azure Cosmos DB customers using continuous backup can enable Synapse Link in their database accounts.
September 2023
Generally available: Custom partitioning in Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now partition your data in analytical store using keys that are critical for your business logic to achieve better query and data load performance.
June 2023
Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link
Now generally available: managed ingestion from Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer in near real time.
May 2023
Public Preview: Time-travel for Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB
Rewind to read previous transactions in Synapse Link containers to analyze previous versions of your document with time-travel for Azure Synapse Link
March 2023
Public Preview: Change data capture for Azure Cosmos DB analytical store
Build CDC data flows from Azure Cosmos DB analytical store, at no RUs cost, with Azure Synapse Analytics or Azure Data Factory.
January 2023
Generally available: Azure Active Directory authentication for SQL Server 2022
Customers with SQL Server 2022 can enable Azure Active Directory authentication, single sign-on, unify SQL Server authentication and leverage multi-factor authentication.
Public preview: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.3
You can now create Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.3. The essential changes include features which come from upgrading Apache Spark to version 3.3.1, and upgrading Delta Lake.
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link
Target availability: Q1 2023
Now in public preview: managed ingestion from Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer in near real time.
November 2022
Generally available: Azure Synapse Link for SQL
Azure Synapse Link for SQL enables seamless near-real-time data movement from relational sources in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2022 to analytical stores without needing to build ETL pipelines.
Generally available: Increasing Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance up to 77%
Faster Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance at no cost.
October 2022
Public preview: Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API
Unlock near real time analytics on your graph data with Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API.
Generally available: MERGE command for Azure Synapse Analytics
Runs insert, update, or delete operations on a target table from the results of a join with a source table.
September 2022
General availability: Managed private endpoint support to Synapse SQL output
You can now connect your Stream Analytics jobs running on a dedicated cluster to your synapse dedicated SQL pool using managed private endpoints.
July 2022
Public preview: Azure Synapse Analytics Spark elastic pool storage
Reduce job failures by using elastic pool storage.
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