The Azure SDK team is pleased to announce our April 2025 client library releases.

40 packages released this month.

Stable Packages (10)

  • AI Evaluation

  • Communication Rooms

  • Core - Client - Core

  • Resource Management - Compute

  • Resource Management - Container Service

  • Resource Management - Data Box

  • Resource Management - Event Grid

  • Resource Management - IoT Hub

  • Resource Management - Postgresqlflexibleservers

  • Storage - Files Data Lake

Patch Updates (5)

  • Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry

  • Document Intelligence

  • Machine Learning

  • Service Bus

  • Storage - Blobs

Beta Packages (20)

  • AI Projects

  • App Configuration Provider

  • Azure AI Search

  • Core - Client - Core HTTP

  • Core - Client - Tracing Opentelemetry

  • Cosmos DB

  • Key Vault - Administration

  • Key Vault - Certificates

  • Key Vault - Keys

  • Key Vault - Secrets

  • OpenTelemetry Exporter

  • Resource Management - Arizeaiobservabilityeval

  • Resource Management - Azure AI Search

  • Resource Management - Durabletask

  • Resource Management - Edge Zones

  • Resource Management - Hybrid Connectivity

  • Resource Management - Hybrid Kubernetes

  • Resource Management - Pineconevectordb

  • Resource Management - SQL

  • Resource Management - Weightsandbiases

Release highlights

AI Evaluation 1.4.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • Enhanced binary evaluation results with customizable thresholds
  • Added threshold support for QA and ContentSafety evaluators
  • Evaluation results now include both the score and threshold values
  • Configurable threshold parameter allows custom binary classification boundaries
  • Default thresholds provided for backward compatibility
  • Quality evaluators use “higher is better” scoring (score ≥ threshold is positive)
  • Content safety evaluators use “lower is better” scoring (score ≤ threshold is positive)
  • New Built-in evaluator called CodeVulnerabilityEvaluator is added.
  • It provides capabilities to identify the following code vulnerabilities.
  • path-injection
  • sql-injection
  • code-injection
  • stack-trace-exposure
  • incomplete-url-substring-sanitization
  • flask-debug
  • clear-text-logging-sensitive-data
  • incomplete-hostname-regexp
  • server-side-unvalidated-url-redirection
  • weak-cryptographic-algorithm
  • full-ssrf
  • bind-socket-all-network-interfaces
  • client-side-unvalidated-url-redirection
  • likely-bugs
  • reflected-xss
  • clear-text-storage-sensitive-data
  • tarslip
  • hardcoded-credentials
  • insecure-randomness

  • It also supports multiple coding languages such as (Python, Java, C++, C#, Go, Javascript, SQL)

  • New Built-in evaluator called UngroundedAttributesEvaluator is added.
  • It evaluates ungrounded inference of human attributes for a given query, response, and context for a single-turn evaluation only,

  • where query represents the user query and response represents the AI system response given the provided context.

  • Ungrounded Attributes checks for whether a response is first, ungrounded, and checks if it contains information about protected class

  • or emotional state of a person.

  • It identifies the following attributes:

  • emotional_state
  • protected_class
  • groundedness
  • New Built-in evaluators for Agent Evaluation (Preview)
  • IntentResolutionEvaluator - Evaluates the intent resolution of an agent’s response to a user query.
  • ResponseCompletenessEvaluator - Evaluates the response completeness of an agent’s response to a user query.
  • TaskAdherenceEvaluator - Evaluates the task adherence of an agent’s response to a user query.
  • ToolCallAccuracyEvaluator - Evaluates the accuracy of tool calls made by an agent in response to a user query.

Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed error in GroundednessProEvaluator when handling non-numeric values like “n/a” returned from the service.
  • Uploading local evaluation results from evaluate with the same run name will no longer result in each online run sharing (and bashing) result files.

AI Evaluation 1.5.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • New RedTeam agent functionality to assess the safety and resilience of AI systems against adversarial prompt attacks

AI Projects 1.0.0b8 Changelog

Features added

  • New parameters added for Azure AI Search tool, with corresponding sample update.
  • Fabric tool REST name updated, along with convenience code.

Bugs Fixed

  • Fix for a bug in Agent tracing causing event handler return values to not be returned when tracing is enabled.
  • Fix for a bug in Agent tracing causing tool calls not to be recorded in traces.
  • Fix for a bug in Agent tracing causing function tool calls to not work properly when tracing is enabled.
  • Fix for a bug in Agent streaming, where agent_id was not included in the response. This caused the SDK not to make function calls when the thread run status is requires_action.

App Configuration Provider 2.1.0b1 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Updates the feature flag telemetry to use the provided endpoint instead of the endpoint of the store the feature flag was loaded from.
  • Removes Feature Id from feature flag telemetry.

Azure AI Search 11.6.0b11 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed the issue that could not deserialize document_debug_info. #40138

Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry 1.6.6 Changelog

Features Added

  • Add logging_format as configuration option in api (#40057)
  • Enable Azure AI Agents instrumentation (#40043)

Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry 1.6.7 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Adapt to OpenTelemetry dependency resolver change. (#40463)

Communication Rooms 1.2.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • General Availability version of participant Collaborator role.

Core - Client - Core 1.33.0 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where the traceparent header was not being set correctly in the DistributedTracingPolicy. The traceparent header will now set based on the context of the HTTP client span. #40074

Features Added

  • Added native OpenTelemetry tracing to Azure Core which enables users to use OpenTelemetry to trace Azure SDK operations without needing to install a plugin. #39563
  • To enable native OpenTelemetry tracing, users need to:
    1. Have opentelemetry-api installed.
    2. Ensure that settings.tracing_implementation is not set.
    3. Ensure that settings.tracing_enabled is set to True.
  • If setting.tracing_implementation is set, the tracing plugin will be used instead of the native tracing.
  • If settings.tracing_enabled is set to False, tracing will be disabled.
  • The OpenTelemetryTracer class was added to the azure.core.tracing.opentelemetry module. This is a wrapper around the OpenTelemetry tracer that is used to create spans for Azure SDK operations.
  • Added a get_tracer method to the new azure.core.instrumentation module. This method returns an instance of the OpenTelemetryTracer class if OpenTelemetry is available.
  • A TracingOptions TypedDict class was added to define the options that SDK users can use to configure tracing per-operation. These options include the ability to enable or disable tracing and set additional attributes on spans.
  • Example usage: client.method(tracing_options={"enabled": True, "attributes": {"foo": "bar"}})
  • The DistributedTracingPolicy and distributed_trace/distributed_trace_async decorators now uses the OpenTelemetry tracer if it is available and native tracing is enabled.
  • SDK clients can define an _instrumentation_config class variable to configure the OpenTelemetry tracer used in method span creation. Possible configuration options are library_name, library_version, schema_url, and attributes.
  • DistributedTracingPolicy now accepts a instrumentation_config keyword argument to configure the OpenTelemetry tracer used in HTTP span creation.

Breaking Changes

  • Removed automatic tracing enablement for the OpenTelemetry plugin if opentelemetry was imported. To enable tracing with the plugin, please import azure.core.settings.settings and set settings.tracing_implementation to "opentelemetry". #39563
  • In DistributedTracingPolicy, the default span name is now just the HTTP method (e.g., “GET”, “POST”) and no longer includes the URL path. This change was made to converge with the OpenTelemetry HTTP semantic conventions. The full URL is still included in the span attributes.
  • Renamed span attributes in DistributedTracingPolicy:
  • “x-ms-client-request-id” is now “az.client_request_id”
  • “x-ms-request-id” is now “az.service_request_id”

Core - Client - Core HTTP 1.0.0b6 Changelog

Breaking Changes

  • The get_token method has been removed from the TokenCredential and AsyncTokenCredential protocols. Implementations should now use the new get_token_info method to acquire tokens. #38346
  • The AccessToken class has been removed and replaced with a new AccessTokenInfo class. #38346
  • BearerTokenCredentialPolicy and AsyncBearerTokenCredentialPolicy now rely on credentials having the get_token_info method defined. #38346

Features Added

  • The TokenCredential and AsyncTokenCredential protocols have been updated to include a new get_token_info method. This method should be used to acquire tokens and return an AccessTokenInfo object. #38346
  • Added a new TokenRequestOptions class, which is a TypedDict with optional parameters, that can be used to define options for token requests through the get_token_info method. #38346
  • Added a new AccessTokenInfo class, which is returned by get_token_info implementations. This class contains the token, its expiration time, and optional additional information like when a token should be refreshed. #38346
  • BearerTokenCredentialPolicy and AsyncBearerTokenCredentialPolicy now check if a credential has the get_token_info method defined. If so, the get_token_info method is used to acquire a token. #38346
  • These policies now also check the refresh_on attribute when determining if a new token request should be made.
  • Added model attribute to HttpResponseError to allow accessing error attributes based on a known model. #39636
  • Added auth_flows support in BearerTokenCredentialPolicy. #40084

Core - Client - Tracing Opentelemetry 1.0.0b12 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where the original context was not properly restored after exiting an OpenTelemetrySpan context in certain scenarios. (#39994)

Features Added

  • If a span exits with an exception, the exception name is now recorded in the error.type attribute. (#34619)
  • Added support for passing a schema version to fetch available attribute mappings and set the schema URL on the tracer’s instrumentation scope. (#40161)
  • Added additional span suppression logic to prevent unnecessary spans from being created. (#39994)
  • SpanKind.INTERNAL spans are suppressed if their parent span is of type SpanKind.INTERNAL, SpanKind.CLIENT, or SpanKind.PRODUCER.
  • Update OpenTelemetrySpan.change_context to also accept spans of type OpenTelemetrySpan. (#39994)

Cosmos DB 4.10.0b2 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed bug preventing health check in some scenarios. See PR 39647
  • Fixed partition_key filter for query_items_change_feed API. See PR 39895

Cosmos DB 4.10.0b3 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed too many health checks happening when skipping the recommended client startup. See PR 40203.

Cosmos DB 4.10.0b4 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed bug introduced in 4.10.0b3 with explicitly setting etag keyword argument as None causing exceptions. See PR 40282.

Document Intelligence 1.0.2 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Fix polling for begin_copy_classifier_to() to stop on success response from the “Operation-Location” endpoint and correctly parse the result.

Key Vault - Administration 4.6.0b1 Changelog

Features Added

  • Added support for service API version 7.6-preview.2
  • Added KeyVaultBackupClient.begin_pre_backup and KeyVaultBackupClient.begin_pre_restore methods for checking if it is possible to perform a full key backup or full key restore #37507

Key Vault - Certificates 4.10.0b1 Changelog

Features Added

  • Added support for service API version 7.6-preview.2
  • Added a preserve_certificate_order keyword-only argument when creating or importing certificates to allow preserving a certificate chain’s original order, and corresponding a preserve_certificate_order property to CertificateProperties and CertificateOperation models (#37507)

Key Vault - Keys 4.11.0b1 Changelog

Features Added

  • Added support for service API version 7.6-preview.2
  • KeyClient has a get_key_attestation method that can be used to retrieve a key along with its attestation blob (stored in a new KeyProperties.attestation property) from a managed HSM #37507

Key Vault - Secrets 4.10.0b1 Changelog

Features Added

  • Added support for service API version 7.6-preview.2

Machine Learning 1.26.1 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Handle missing duration value in deployment poller result

Machine Learning 1.26.2 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Made AI Search connections property optional while creating capability host.

OpenTelemetry Exporter 1.0.0b36 Changelog

Features Added

  • Support syntheticSource from user_agent.synthetic.type semantic convention (#40004)
  • Support server.address attributes when converting Azure SDK messaging spans to envelopes (#40059)
  • Update AKS check to use KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST (#39941)
  • Enabled Entra ID Credential configuration via env var (#40237)

Resource Management - Arizeaiobservabilityeval 1.0.0b1 Changelog

Resource Management - Azure AI Search 9.2.0b3 Changelog

Resource Management - Compute 34.1.0 Changelog

Resource Management - Container Service 34.2.0 Changelog

Resource Management - Data Box 3.1.0 Changelog

Resource Management - Durabletask 1.0.0b1 Changelog

Resource Management - Edge Zones 1.0.0b2 Changelog

Resource Management - Event Grid 10.4.0 Changelog

Resource Management - Hybrid Connectivity 2.0.0b1 Changelog

Resource Management - Hybrid Kubernetes 1.2.0b2 Changelog

Resource Management - IoT Hub 4.0.0 Changelog

Resource Management - Pineconevectordb 1.0.0b2 Changelog

Resource Management - Postgresqlflexibleservers 1.1.0 Changelog

Resource Management - SQL 4.0.0b21 Changelog

Resource Management - Weightsandbiases 1.0.0b1 Changelog

Service Bus 7.14.2 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

Storage - Blobs 12.25.1 Changelog

Other Changes

  • Updated dependency for azure-storage-file-datalake type hints.

Storage - Files Data Lake 12.20.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • Updated type hints across the entire package and enabled MyPy to run during CI. Some public types may have been adjusted if they were previously erroneous or incomplete.

Latest Releases

View all the latest versions of Python packages here.

Installation Instructions

To install the latest beta version of the packages, copy and paste the following commands into a terminal:

$> pip install azure-ai-documentintelligence==1.0.2
$> pip install azure-ai-evaluation==1.4.0
$> pip install azure-ai-evaluation==1.5.0
$> pip install azure-ai-ml==1.26.1
$> pip install azure-ai-ml==1.26.2
$> pip install azure-ai-projects==1.0.0b8
$> pip install azure-appconfiguration-provider==2.1.0b1
$> pip install azure-communication-rooms==1.2.0
$> pip install azure-core==1.33.0
$> pip install azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry==1.0.0b12
$> pip install azure-cosmos==4.10.0b2
$> pip install azure-cosmos==4.10.0b3
$> pip install azure-cosmos==4.10.0b4
$> pip install azure-keyvault-administration==4.6.0b1
$> pip install azure-keyvault-certificates==4.10.0b1
$> pip install azure-keyvault-keys==4.11.0b1
$> pip install azure-keyvault-secrets==4.10.0b1
$> pip install azure-mgmt-arizeaiobservabilityeval==1.0.0b1
$> pip install azure-mgmt-compute==34.1.0
$> pip install azure-mgmt-containerservice==34.2.0
$> pip install azure-mgmt-databox==3.1.0
$> pip install azure-mgmt-durabletask==1.0.0b1
$> pip install azure-mgmt-edgezones==1.0.0b2
$> pip install azure-mgmt-eventgrid==10.4.0
$> pip install azure-mgmt-hybridconnectivity==2.0.0b1
$> pip install azure-mgmt-hybridkubernetes==1.2.0b2
$> pip install azure-mgmt-iothub==4.0.0
$> pip install azure-mgmt-pineconevectordb==1.0.0b2
$> pip install azure-mgmt-postgresqlflexibleservers==1.1.0
$> pip install azure-mgmt-search==9.2.0b3
$> pip install azure-mgmt-sql==4.0.0b21
$> pip install azure-mgmt-weightsandbiases==1.0.0b1
$> pip install azure-monitor-opentelemetry==1.6.6
$> pip install azure-monitor-opentelemetry==1.6.7
$> pip install azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter==1.0.0b36
$> pip install azure-search-documents==11.6.0b11
$> pip install azure-servicebus==7.14.2
$> pip install azure-storage-blob==12.25.1
$> pip install azure-storage-file-datalake==12.20.0
$> pip install corehttp==1.0.0b6

Feedback

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