The Azure SDK team is pleased to announce our January 2026 client library releases.

7 packages released this month.

Stable Packages (5)

  • Storage - Blobs

  • Storage - Common

  • Storage - Files Data Lake

  • Storage - Files Share

  • Storage - Queues

Patch Updates (2)

  • Core

  • Identity

Release highlights

Core 1.16.2 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • [#6817] Fix CPU spinning when curl_easy_send returns 0 bytes on SSL socket writes. (A community contribution, courtesy of harshitkr12)

Identity 1.13.3 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • [#6897] DefaultAzureCredential causes an access violation if cast to a TokenCredential reference.

Storage - Blobs 12.16.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • Features in 12.16.0-beta.1 are now generally available.

Storage - Common 12.12.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • Features in 12.12.0-beta.1 are now generally available.

Storage - Files Data Lake 12.14.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • Features in 12.14.0-beta.1 are now generally available.

Storage - Files Share 12.16.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • Features in 12.16.0-beta.1 are now generally available.

Storage - Queues 12.6.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • New features in 12.6.0-beta.1 are now generally available.

Latest Releases

View all the latest versions of C++ packages here.

Installation Instructions

To install the packages, copy and paste the following commands into a terminal:

$> vcpkg add port azure-core-cpp
$> vcpkg add port azure-identity-cpp
$> vcpkg add port azure-storage-blobs-cpp
$> vcpkg add port azure-storage-common-cpp
$> vcpkg add port azure-storage-files-datalake-cpp
$> vcpkg add port azure-storage-files-shares-cpp
$> vcpkg add port azure-storage-queues-cpp

You can also install the packages from source:

# From Source
git clone https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-cpp
# git checkout <tag_name>
# For example:
git checkout azure-storage-blobs_12.0.0

Feedback

If you have a bug or feature request for one of the libraries, please post an issue to GitHub.