Azure SDK Release (March 2021)

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Release Highlights

• Azure Mixed Reality client library for .NET is generally available.
• Event Grid client libraries are now generally available. Read more in this blog post: “Announcing the new Azure Event Grid Client Libraries”
  • The libraries support the Cloud Event schema, Custom Event schema, as well as the Event Grid Event schema native to the Event Grid Service.
  • This includes a new .NET bridge library providing integration with the CNCF CloudEvents package.
• Azure Cosmos DB client library for Java is generally available.
• Java libraries upgraded to support Jackson from 2.11.3 to 2.12.1, Reactor from 3.3.12.RELEASE to 3.4.3 and reactor-netty from 3.3.12.RELEASE to 3.4.3.
• Java Azure Core library is releasing a new GA.
  • Adds default interface APIs to SerializerAdapter, ObjectSerializer and Tracer classes and introduces CloudEventModel which conforms to the Cloud Event Specification.
• Azure Communication Services Phone Numbers library has added support for Azure Active Directory Authentication.
• JavaScript/TypeScript Azure Core Client 1.0.0 is GA and Azure Core Rest Pipeline 1.0.0 is GA
  • This is the next generation of Azure.Core, which is the foundation of all other SDK libraries. The new version features a more modular design, allows easier customization of the request pipeline, improves the performance of majority usages.

Release Notes

• All release notes
• .NET release notes
• Java release notes
• Python release notes
• JavaScript/TypeScript release notes
• C++ release notes
• iOS release notes
• Android release notes

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Azure SDK Links

• Azure SDK Website: aka.ms/azsdk
• Azure SDK Intro (3 minute video): aka.ms/azsdk/intro
• Azure SDK Intro Deck (PowerPoint deck): aka.ms/azsdk/intro/deck
• Azure SDK Releases: aka.ms/azsdk/releases
• Azure SDK Blog: aka.ms/azsdk/blog
• Azure SDK Twitter: twitter.com/AzureSDK
• Azure SDK Design Guidelines: aka.ms/azsdk/guide
• Azure SDKs & Tools: azure.microsoft.com/downloads
• Azure SDK Central Repository: github.com/azure/azure-sdk
• Azure SDK for .NET: github.com/azure/azure-sdk-for-net
• Azure SDK for Java: github.com/azure/azure-sdk-for-java
• Azure SDK for Python: github.com/azure/azure-sdk-for-python
• Azure SDK for JavaScript/TypeScript: github.com/azure/azure-sdk-for-js
• Azure SDK for Android: github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-android
• Azure SDK for iOS: github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-ios
• Azure SDK for Go: github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go
• Azure SDK for C: github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-c
• Azure SDK for C++: github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-cpp