Azure SDK Release (August 2021)

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Release Highlights: New Releases

Welcome to the August release of the Azure SDK. The following new libraries have been updated:

Azure Cognitive Services – Question Answering for .NET and Python (version 1.0)
- Initial preview release of the Question Answering SDK (formerly QnA Maker). Includes support for asking questions of knowledge bases and text records.
Azure Communication Network Traversal for JavaScript and Python (version 1.0)
- Initial preview release.
- Adds CommunicationRelayClient.get_relay_configuration in preview.
Azure Cosmos DB Encryption for Java (version 4.18)
- Initial preview release.

Stable Releases

App Configuration for JavaScript (version 1.3)
Azure Communication Services
- Communication Common for JavaScript (version 1.1)
Azure Cosmos DB for Java (version 4.18) and JavaScript (version 3.12)
Azure Form Recognizer for JavaScript (version 3.2)
Azure Resource Management Libraries for Java (version 2.7)
Azure Storage
- Blob Storage (version 12.7), Data Lake Storage (version 12.6), Files (version 12.7), and Queue Storage (version 12.6) for JavaScript
- Blob Storage, Common Storage, Data Lake Storage, and Files for C++ (version 12.1)
Event Grid for .NET and Java (version 4.6), JavaScript (version 4.4), and Python (version 4.5)
Event Hubs for .NET (version 5.6)
Identity for C++ (version 1.1) and JavaScript (version 1.5)
Key Vault
- Key Vault Administration for JavaScript (version 4.1)
- Key Vault Certificates for JavaScript (version 4.3)
- Key Vault Keys for JavaScript (version 4.3) and C++ (version 4.0)
- Key Vault Secrets for JavaScript (version 4.3)
Microsoft Azure Attestation for JavaScript (version 1.0)

Preview Releases

App Configuration for .NET (version 1.2) and JavaScript (version 1.3)
Azure Cognitive Search for Java (version 11.5) and JavaScript (version 11.3)
- Enables support for Azure Active Directory-based authentication.
Azure Cognitive Services – Speech SDK (version 1.18)
- View release notes.
- Simplifies intent recognition in C++.
- Continuous Language Identification (LID) in Python.
- Receives valid activation phrases during enrollment for independent speaker recognition scenarios in .NET, C++, Java, and JavaScript.
- Voice profiles created in Preview will stop functioning 90 days after GA.
Azure Communication Services
- Communication Chat for Java, JavaScript, Python, and Android (version 1.1)
Azure Monitor Query (version 1.0)
- .NET
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
Azure Synapse Analytics
- Synapse Access Control for .NET, Java, JavaScript (version 1.0), and Python (version 0.7)
- Synapse Artifacts for Java, JavaScript (version 1.0), and Python (version 0.8)
- Synapse Managed Private Endpoints for .NET, Java, JavaScript (version 1.0), and Python (version 0.4)
- Synapse Spark for .NET, Java, JavaScript (version 1.0), and Python (version 0.6)
Azure SDK for Go has released new libraries covering more Azure services.
Azure Web PubSub for .NET and Java (version 1.0) and Web PubSub Express for JS (version 1.0)
Container Registry for .NET and Python (version 1.0)
Identity
- .NET (version 1.5)
- Java (version 1.4)
- JavaScript (version 2.0) – The version 2.0 @azure/identity package introduces an Identity “extensions” API comprised of two new npm packages:
  - @azure/identity-vscode – This Visual Studio Code authentication functionality previously existed in version 1.x of the @azure/identity package. It has been extracted to isolate the native machine-code dependency (keytar).
  - @azure/identity-cache-persistence – This package enables persistent token caching. It ships outside of @azure/identity to isolate the native machine-code dependencies (keytar and @azure/msal-node-extensions).
- Python (version 1.7)
Key Vault
- Key Vault Administration for .NET (version 4.1) and JavaScript (version 4.2)
- Key Vault Certificates for .NET (version 4.3) and JavaScript (version 4.3)
  - Adds KeyVaultCertificateIdentifier to parse certificate URIs.
  - Adds CertificateClient.DownloadCertificate and DownloadCertificateAsync to download an X509Certificate2 with private key.
- Key Vault Keys for .NET (version 4.3), Java and JavaScript (version 4.4), Python (version 4.5)
- Key Vault Secrets for .NET (version 4.3) and JavaScript (version 4.3)
  - Adds KeyVaultSecretIdentifier to parse certificate URIs.
Service Bus for .NET (version 7.3)
- Adds the ReleaseSession method to ProcessSessionMessageEventArgs, which allows processing for a session to be terminated early.
- Adds protected constructors to ServiceBusProcessor, ServiceBusReceiver, ServiceBusSender, and ServiceBusSessionProcessor to allow these types to be extended.
- Adds UpdateConcurrency methods to ServiceBusProcessor and ServiceBusSessionProcessor to allow concurrency to be changed for an already created processor.
Text Analytics for NET, Java, JavaScript, and Python (version 5.2)
Translator for .NET and Python (version 1.0)

Release Supportability

From July 2021 onward, updated JavaScript libraries will drop support for Node.js 8, which reached end of life in January 2020. For more details, see our support policy.

Release Notes

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