The Azure SDK team is pleased to make available the April 2020 client library GA release.

This release includes the following:

Preview

  • Text Analytics
  • Service Bus
  • Event Hubs
  • Search Documents
  • Identity
  • Form Recognizer

Installation Instructions

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

pip install azure-appconfiguration
pip install --pre azure-eventhub
pip install azure-eventhub-checkpointstoreblob
pip install azure-eventhub-checkpointstoreblob-aio
pip install azure-storage-blob
pip install azure-storage-file-datalake
pip install azure-storage-file-share
pip install azure-storage-queue
pip install azure-keyvault-certificates
pip install azure-keyvault-keys
pip install azure-keyvault-secrets
pip install --pre azure-identity
pip install --pre azure-ai-textanalytics
pip install --pre azure-search-documents
pip install --pre azure-servicebus
pip install azure-ai-formrecognizer

Feedback

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

Changelog

Detailed change logs are linked to in the Quick Links below. Here are some critical call outs.

Text Analytics Changelog

  • We are no longer supporting the recognize_pii_entities endpoint for this release
  • We are removing TextAnalyticsApiKeyCredential and are now using AzureKeyCredential from azure.core.credentials as our API key credential.

Service Bus Changelog

  • This release simplifies the client hierarchy and many common flows, such as spawning senders and receivers directly from the ServiceBusClient. Recommend reading migration guide and full changelog for details.
  • Support for Azure Identity based authentication.
  • Exception hierarchy has been overhauled and made more precise to better denote failure reasons.
  • Batch creation is now initiated off of the sender via create_batch.
  • Users should be aware that this is a preview release with only support for queues, full featureset will be included in upcoming previews.

Event Hubs Changelog

  • Added EventHubConsumerClient.receive_batch() to receive and process events in batches instead of one by one. #9184
  • EventHubConsumerCliuent.receive() has a new param max_wait_time. on_event is called every max_wait_time when no events are received and max_wait_time is not None or 0.
  • Param event of PartitionContext.update_checkpoint is now optional. The last received event is used when param event is not passed in.
  • EventData.system_properties has added missing properties when consuming messages from IoT Hub. #10408

Search Documents Changelog

  • Added index service client
  • Accepted an array of RegexFlags for PatternAnalyzer and PatternTokenizer
  • Removed SearchApiKeyCredential and now using AzureKeyCredential from azure.core.credentials as key credential

Identity Changelog

  • All get_token methods consistently require at least one scope argument, raising an error when none is passed. Although get_token() may sometimes have succeeded in prior versions, it couldn’t do so consistently because its behavior was undefined, and dependened on the credential’s type and internal state.
  • The host of the Active Directory endpoint credentials should use can be set in the environment variable AZURE_AUTHORITY_HOST. See azure.identity.KnownAuthorities for a list of common values.

Form Recognizer Changelog

  • The first preview with new API design for the Azure Cognitive Services Form Recognizer client library
  • New namespace/package azure-ai-formrecognizer which replaces the package azure-cognitiveservices-formrecognizer
  • Adds FormRecognizerClient to analyze custom forms, receipts, and form content/layout
  • Adds FormTrainingClient to train custom models (with/without labels), and manage the custom models on your account
  • Asynchronous APIs added under azure.ai.formrecognizer.aio
  • Authentication with API key supported using AzureKeyCredential("<api_key>") from azure.core.credentials
  • For stream methods, content-type is automatically detected

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