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

16 packages released this month.

Stable Packages (7)

  • Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry

  • Create Playwright

  • Playwright

  • Resource Management - Azure VMware Solution

  • Resource Management - Container Service

  • Resource Management - Log Analytics

  • Resource Management - Network Cloud

Patch Updates (1)

  • Event Hubs

Beta Packages (7)

  • AI Projects

  • OpenTelemetry Exporter

  • Resource Management - Container Registry

  • Resource Management - Container Service

  • Resource Management - Container Service Fleet

  • Text Translation

  • unknown

Release highlights

AI Projects 2.0.0-beta.3 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • fix response json schema deserializer

Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry 1.15.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • Allow configuring additional metric views through AzureMonitorOpenTelemetryOptions and pass them to the NodeSDK.
  • Honor OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_METRICS_DEFAULT_HISTOGRAM_AGGREGATION for selecting default histogram aggregation (explicit or exponential).

  • Support OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER/OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER_ARG environment variables for sampler selection.

  • Add support for automatic instrumentation in ESM environments.

Create Playwright 1.1.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • Added reporting configuration support in service config.

Event Hubs 6.0.2 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed dangling promises in the library to prevent UnhandledPromiseRejection errors that could crash applications. #36250

Features Added

  • Added React Native ESM dialect support for React Native environments. #36281

OpenTelemetry Exporter 1.0.0-beta.37 Changelog

Features Added

  • Populate the microsoft.applicationId resource attribute from the Application Insights connection string when it is not already provided.

Playwright 1.1.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • Added Azure Playwright Reporter that uploads Playwright HTML test reports to Azure Storage after test execution completes.

Bugs Fixed

  • Improved error handling for authentication scenarios.
  • Changed test run creation failures from fatal to non-fatal errors.

Resource Management - Azure VMware Solution 7.1.0 Changelog

Resource Management - Container Registry 12.0.0-beta.1 Changelog

Resource Management - Container Service 24.1.0 Changelog

Resource Management - Container Service 24.2.0-beta.1 Changelog

Resource Management - Container Service Fleet 2.1.0-beta.2 Changelog

Resource Management - Log Analytics 10.0.0 Changelog

Resource Management - Log Analytics 10.1.0 Changelog

Resource Management - Network Cloud 1.3.0 Changelog

Text Translation 2.0.0-beta.1 Changelog

Features Added

  • Added support for the Azure AI Translator API 2025-10-01-preview, including translations using LLM models, adaptive custom translation, tone variant translations, and gender-specific translations.
  • Added TranslationTarget for configuring translation options.

Breaking Changes

  • Added Models property to GetSupportedLanguagesResultOutput to list the LLM models available for translations.
  • Removed transliteration in TranslationTextOutput.
  • Removed sourceText in TranslatedTextItemOutput.
  • Dictionary, sentence boundaries and text alignments features have been deprecated and relevant classes and properties have been removed.

unknown 1.0.0-beta.2 Changelog

Features Added

  • Added Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for integrating external tools and services
  • MCPServer tool type for connecting to MCP servers
  • MCP approval workflow with MCPApprovalType and approval request/response items
  • MCP tool listing events (ServerEventMcpListToolsInProgress, ServerEventMcpListToolsCompleted, ServerEventMcpListToolsFailed)
  • MCP call execution with streaming support (ResponseMCPCallItem, ServerEventResponseMcpCallArgumentsDelta, ServerEventResponseMcpCallArgumentsDone, ServerEventResponseMcpCallInProgress, ServerEventResponseMcpCallCompleted, ServerEventResponseMcpCallFailed)
  • MCP approval request and response items (ResponseMCPApprovalRequestItem, ResponseMCPApprovalResponseItem)
  • Added avatar configuration enhancements
  • AvatarConfigTypes enum with support for video-avatar and photo-avatar
  • PhotoAvatarBaseModes enum with vasa-1 model support
  • AvatarOutputProtocol enum for choosing between webrtc and websocket output
  • Enhanced AvatarConfig with type, model, and outputProtocol properties
  • Added image content support
  • RequestImageContentPart for including images in conversation input
  • RequestImageContentPartDetail for controlling image detail levels
  • Added new voice options
  • Marin and Cedar voice types
  • Enhanced voice configuration with style, pitch, rate, volume properties
  • Added customLexiconUrl, preferLocales, and locale options for voice customization
  • Added automatic proxy support with environment variable detection (HTTPS_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY)

Latest Releases

View all the latest versions of JavaScript packages here.

Installation Instructions

To install the packages, copy and paste the below into a terminal.

$> npm install @azure-rest/ai-translation-text@2.0.0-beta.1
$> npm install @azure/ai-projects@2.0.0-beta.3
$> npm install @azure/ai-voicelive@1.0.0-beta.2
$> npm install @azure/arm-avs@7.1.0
$> npm install @azure/arm-containerregistry@12.0.0-beta.1
$> npm install @azure/arm-containerservice@24.1.0
$> npm install @azure/arm-containerservice@24.2.0-beta.1
$> npm install @azure/arm-containerservicefleet@2.1.0-beta.2
$> npm install @azure/arm-networkcloud@1.3.0
$> npm install @azure/arm-operationalinsights@10.0.0
$> npm install @azure/arm-operationalinsights@10.1.0
$> npm install @azure/create-playwright@1.1.0
$> npm install @azure/event-hubs@6.0.2
$> npm install @azure/monitor-opentelemetry@1.15.0
$> npm install @azure/monitor-opentelemetry-exporter@1.0.0-beta.37
$> npm install @azure/playwright@1.1.0

Feedback

If you have a bug or feature request for one of the libraries, please post an issue at the azure-sdk-for-js repository