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Azure Service Fabric 7.0 third refresh release
The Azure Service Fabric 7.0 third refresh release, which includes bug fixes, preview features, and performance enhancements, has started rolling out to various Azure regions.
Hyperledger Fabric on Azure Kubernetes Service is now in preview
Deploy and configure a Hyperledger Fabric blockchain network on Azure Kubernetes Service quickly with a new template (now in preview) that allows you to customize scenarios and applications.
Azure Service Fabric 7.0 Second Refresh Release
The Azure Service Fabric 7.0 Second refresh release, which includes bug fixes, preview features, and performance enhancements, has started rolling out to various Azure regions.
December 2019
Azure Service Fabric 7.0 is now available
The new Azure Service Fabric release introduces several new features as well as stability and performance improvements.
November 2019
Azure Blockchain Service enhancements are now in preview
Azure Blockchain Service keeps getting better with the addition of a new blockchain data manager and support for additional ledgers.
October 2019
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 fifth refresh release
The Azure Service Fabric 6.5 fifth refresh release includes bug fixes and performance enhancements.
SR-IOV availability on NCv3 Virtual Machines SKU
We are announcing enhancements to enable support for all MPI implementations and versions, and RDMA verbs for InfiniBand-equipped virtual machines, beginning with NCv3 coming in early November 2019.
August 2019
Service Fabric Azure Files Volume Driver is now generally available
Service Fabric Azure Files Volume Driver is now generally available. The Azure Files volume plugin is a Docker volume plugin that provides Azure Files based volumes for Docker containers.
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 third refresh release is now available
The Azure Service Fabric 6.5 third refresh release, which includes bug fixes and performance enhancements, has started rolling out to various Azure regions. The updates for .NET SDK, Java SDK, and Service Fabric Runtime will soon be available for all regions through Web Platform Installer, NuGet packages, and Maven repositories.
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Second Refresh Release is Now Available
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Second Refresh Release rolled out last month with key announcements, along with bug fixes, and performance enhancements.
Service Fabric Azure Resource Manager (ARM) application and service deployment is now generally available
The deployment of Service Fabric applications as resources via Azure Resource Manager is now generally available.
Public Preview of Managed Identity for Azure Service Fabric applications
Azure Service Fabric applications now support user-assigned and system-assigned managed identities.
July 2019
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Refresh Release is now available
The bugs identified in 6.5 Release of the Service Fabric runtime has been fixed in this refresh release and started rolling out to the various Azure regions along with tooling and SDK updates. For more details, please read the release notes.
June 2019
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Release is now available
Service Fabric 6.5 release version has been rolled out to the various Azure regions along with tooling and SDK updates. The release contains many new features, bug fixes, supportability, reliability and performance improvements. For the full list of all the changes, refer to the release notes.
May 2019
Cross availability zones support for Azure Service Fabric clusters is now available
Cross availability zones allows Azure Service Fabric customers to have increased reliability via cross availability zone support for Service Fabric clusters.
April 2019
Service Fabric Mesh preview - spring update for features in development
Service Fabric Mesh preview is being updated with some new features, and improvements based on feedback we’ve received.
Service Fabric Version 6.4 CU5 Refresh Release
General availability of Azure Service Fabric version 6.4 CU5 with the corresponding SDK and tooling.
Service Fabric version 6.5 runtime and SDK are in development
Service Fabric version 6.5 runtime and SDK are in development with new features and improvements.
March 2019
Service Fabric control plane audit logging in development
Investigate suspicious requests, collect statistics, monitoring alerts and track who initiated and applied changes to the Service Fabric cluster via Azure AD accounts
Availability Zones support for Service Fabric clusters
Achieve higher reliability and resiliency by using Availability Zones (AZ)
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