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

5 packages released this month.

Beta Packages (5)

  • Storage - Blobs

  • Storage - Common

  • Storage - Files Data Lake

  • Storage - Files Share

  • Storage - Queues

Release highlights

Storage - Blobs 12.19.0-beta.1 Changelog

Features Added

  • Bumped up API version to 2026-10-06.
  • Added support for Apache Arrow response format on ListBlobs / ListBlobsByHierarchy.
  • Added AccessTier, IsAccessTierInferred, AccessTierChangedOn, and SmartAccessTier fields in DownloadBlobDetails.
  • Added AdditionalTransactionalContentHash field in results of write operations (UploadBlockBlob/FromUri, StageBlock/FromUri, AppendBlock/FromUri, UploadPages/FromUri).

Storage - Common 12.15.0-beta.1 Changelog

Features Added

  • Bumped up Account SAS version to 2026-10-06.

Storage - Files Data Lake 12.17.0-beta.1 Changelog

Other Changes

  • Updated the default concurrency for upload and download operations. It now scales with the number of hardware threads available, clamped between 8 and 96 (previously a fixed value of 5).

Storage - Files Share 12.19.0-beta.1 Changelog

Features Added

  • Bumped up API version to 2026-10-06.
  • Added ShareFileClient::GetAllRangeList and ShareFileClient::GetAllRangeListDiff, paged variants of GetRangeList / GetRangeListDiff.

Storage - Queues 12.8.0-beta.1 Changelog

Other Changes

  • No public changes in this release.

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-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.