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

22 packages released this month.

Stable Packages (9)

  • AI Evaluation

  • Core - Client - Core

  • Machine Learning

  • Resource Management - Azure VMware Solution

  • Resource Management - Networkcloud

  • Storage - Blobs

  • Storage - Files Data Lake

  • Storage - Files Share

  • Storage - Queues

Patch Updates (4)

  • Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry

  • Cosmos DB

  • Resource Management - Log Analytics

  • Resource Management - Mobile Network

Beta Packages (9)

  • AI Projects

  • Azure AI Transcription

  • Conversations Authoring

  • Cosmos DB

  • Resource Management - Container Service

  • Resource Management - Container Service Fleet

  • Resource Management - MySQL Flexible Servers

  • Resource Management - Resource Connector

  • Text Translation

Release highlights

AI Evaluation 1.14.0 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Updated CodeVulnerability and UngroundedAttributes evaluators for RedTeam to use the binary true/false scoring pattern so their results align with service responses.
  • Fixed GroundednessEvaluator with query not honoring is_reasoning_model (and credential) when reloading the query prompty, which could cause max_tokens to be sent to reasoning models. #44385

AI Projects 2.0.0b3 Changelog

Breaking changes

  • Rename class AgentObject to AgentDetails
  • Rename class AgentVersionObject to AgentVersionDetails
  • Rename class MemoryStoreObject to MemoryStoreDetails
  • Tracing: removed outer “content” from event content format wrapper and unified type-specific keys (e.g., “text”, “image_url”) to generic “content” key.
  • Tracing: replaced “gen_ai.request.assistant_name” attribute with gen_ai.agent.name.
  • Tracing: removed “gen_ai.system” - the “gen_ai.provider.name” provides same information.
  • Tracing: changed “gen_ai.user.message” and “gen_ai.tool.message” to “gen_ai.input.messages”. Changed “gen_ai.assistant.message” to “gen_ai.output.messages”.
  • Tracing: changed “gen_ai.system.instruction” to “gen_ai.system.instructions”.
  • Tracing: added the “parts” array to “gen_ai.input.messages” and “gen_ai.output.messages”.
  • Tracing: removed “role” as a separate attribute and added “role” to “gen_ai.input.messages” and “gen_ai.output.messages” content.
  • Tracing: added “finish_reason” as part of “gen_ai.output.messages” content.
  • Tracing: changed the tool calls to use the api definitions as the types in traces. For example “function_call” instead of “function” and “function_call_output” instead of “function”

Features Added

  • The package now takes dependency on openai and azure-identity packages. No need to install them separately.
  • Tracing: support for tracing the schema when an Agent is created with structured output definition.

Bugs Fixed

  • Tracing: fixed a bug with computer use tool call output including screenshot binary data even when binary data tracing is off.

Azure AI Transcription 1.0.0b2 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed API reference link

Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry 1.8.4 Changelog

Features Added

  • Added support for OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER (#44535)
  • Added ability to add additional Log Record Processors and Metric Readers via configure_azure_monitor (#44367)

Conversations Authoring 1.0.0b3 Changelog

Features Added

  • Added support for service version 2025-11-01.

Core - Client - Core 1.38.0 Changelog

Breaking Changes

  • Changed the continuation token format. Continuation tokens generated by previous versions of azure-core are not compatible with this version.

Cosmos DB 4.15.0b2 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed bug where sdk was not properly retrying requests in some edge cases after partition splits.See PR 44425

Cosmos DB 4.14.4 Changelog

Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed bug where sdk was not properly retrying requests in some edge cases after partition splits.See PR 44425

Machine Learning 1.31.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • Added support for default_deployment_template property in Model entity, allowing models to specify a default deployment template for online deployments.
  • Online deployments now display informational messages when deploying models with configured default deployment templates.

Resource Management - Azure VMware Solution 10.0.0 Changelog

Resource Management - Container Service 41.0.0b3 Changelog

Resource Management - Container Service Fleet 4.0.0b2 Changelog

Resource Management - Log Analytics 13.1.1 Changelog

Resource Management - Mobile Network 3.3.1 Changelog

Resource Management - MySQL Flexible Servers 1.1.0b2 Changelog

Resource Management - Networkcloud 2.2.0 Changelog

Resource Management - Resource Connector 2.0.0b1 Changelog

Storage - Blobs 12.28.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • Stable release of features from 12.28.0b1

Storage - Files Data Lake 12.23.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • Stable release of features from 12.23.0b1

Storage - Files Share 12.24.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • Stable release of features from 12.24.0b1

Storage - Queues 12.15.0 Changelog

Features Added

  • Stable release of features from 12.15.0b1

Text Translation 2.0.0b1 Changelog

Breaking Changes

  • Dictionary, sentence boundaries and text alignments features have been removed, and relevant models and properties have been removed.
  • Added models property to GetSupportedLanguagesResult to include the list of LLM models available for translations.
  • Renamed property confidence to score in DetectedLanguage.
  • Removed property source_text in TranslatedTextItem.

Features Added

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

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-evaluation==1.14.0
$> pip install azure-ai-language-conversations-authoring==1.0.0b3
$> pip install azure-ai-ml==1.31.0
$> pip install azure-ai-projects==2.0.0b3
$> pip install azure-ai-transcription==1.0.0b2
$> pip install azure-ai-translation-text==2.0.0b1
$> pip install azure-core==1.38.0
$> pip install azure-cosmos==4.15.0b2
$> pip install azure-cosmos==4.14.4
$> pip install azure-mgmt-avs==10.0.0
$> pip install azure-mgmt-containerservice==41.0.0b3
$> pip install azure-mgmt-containerservicefleet==4.0.0b2
$> pip install azure-mgmt-loganalytics==13.1.1
$> pip install azure-mgmt-mobilenetwork==3.3.1
$> pip install azure-mgmt-mysqlflexibleservers==1.1.0b2
$> pip install azure-mgmt-networkcloud==2.2.0
$> pip install azure-mgmt-resourceconnector==2.0.0b1
$> pip install azure-monitor-opentelemetry==1.8.4
$> pip install azure-storage-blob==12.28.0
$> pip install azure-storage-file-datalake==12.23.0
$> pip install azure-storage-file-share==12.24.0
$> pip install azure-storage-queue==12.15.0

Feedback

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