February 26th, 2026
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Azure SDK Release (February 2026)

Ronnie Geraghty
Product Manager

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Release highlights

Azure.Core 1.51.0 for .NET

This release adds core support for Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration and Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection, enabling better integration with ASP.NET Core applications and other .NET hosts. The update also implements support for client certificate rotation in the Azure.Core transport layer, enabling dynamic token binding scenarios where transport instances can be updated with new client certificate configurations at runtime without requiring full pipeline reconstruction. Additionally, the release fixes a NullReferenceException that occurred when calling GetHashCode() on default(AzureLocation).

corehttp 1.0.0b7 for Python

This release introduces native tracing support with OpenTelemetry integration for Python SDK operations. The new OpenTelemetryTracer class provides a wrapper around the OpenTelemetry tracer for creating spans. SDK clients can now define an _instrumentation_config class variable to configure the tracer, and users can configure tracing per-operation using a new TracingOptions TypedDict. The release also includes improved exception handling with better granularity for timeout scenarios, fixes for retry policies ignoring retry_backoff_max, and proper chaining of exceptions raised during claims challenge handling.

Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools 1.0.0b1 for Python

This version is the initial beta release of the Azure AI Content Understanding client library for Python. The library introduces the ContentUnderstandingClient for analyzing documents, audio, and video content using Azure AI Foundry’s content understanding capabilities. Developers can now extract meaningful insights from various content types through a unified API.

Initial stable releases

Initial beta releases

Release notes

Category
Azure SDK

Author

Ronnie Geraghty
Product Manager

Product Manager for the Azure SDK covering C/C++, Rust, Event Grid, Event Hubs, Schema Registry and Service Bus.

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