Azure SDK for JavaScript (February 2021)

The Azure SDK team is pleased to make available the February 2021 client library release.

GA

Azure Search Documents
Azure Event Hubs

Updates

Azure Storage Blob
Azure Storage Queue
Azure File Datalake
Azure File Share
Azure Identity

Beta

Azure Text Analytics
Azure Metrics Advisor
Azure Form Recognizer
Azure Identity
Azure Key Vault Keys
Azure Key Vault Admin
Azure Storage Blob
Azure File Datalake
Azure Event Grid
Azure Data Tables
Azure Communication Common
Azure Communication Identity
Azure Communication Chat

Installation Instructions

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

$> npm install @azure/search-documents
$> npm install @azure/event-hubs
$> npm install @azure/storage-blob
$> npm install @azure/storage-file-datalake
$> npm install @azure/storage-file-share
$> npm install @azure/storage-queue
$> npm install @azure/ai-text-analytics@next
$> npm install @azure/ai-metrics-advisor@next
$> npm install @azure/ai-form-recognizer@next
$> npm install @azure/identity@next
$> npm install @azure/keyvault-keys@next
$> npm install @azure/keyvault-admin@next
$> npm install @azure/storage-blob@next
$> npm install @azure/storage-file-datalake@next
$> npm install @azure/eventgrid@next
$> npm install @azure/data-tables@next
$> npm install @azure/communication-common@next
$> npm install @azure/communication-identity@next
$> npm install @azure/communication-chat@next

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

Release highlights

Azure Search Documents

We’re releasing a new GA for the Azure Search Documents client.

@azure/search-documents Changelog

New Features in @azure/search-documents@11.1.0

Adds support for indexing search documents with intelligent batching, automatic flushing, and retries for failed indexing actions.

Azure Event Hubs

We’re releasing a new GA for the Azure Event Hubs client with new features and a major fix.

@azure/event-hubs Changelog

New Features in @azure/event-hubs@5.4.0

You can now specify custom endpoint address as a client constructor option to use when communicating with the Event Hubs service, which is useful when your network does not allow communicating to the standard Event Hubs endpoint.
Added a helper method parseEventHubConnectionString that can be used to validate and parse a given connection string for Azure Event Hubs.

Azure Identity

Identity is releasing a patch with a dependency fix and a bug fix, and a beta that includes MSAL 2.0 with PKCE support.

@azure/identity Changelog

Major Fixes in @azure/identity@1.2.3 (Changelog)

Fixed a bug that appeared while using InteractiveBrowserCredential to authenticate against Azure Stack from NodeJS (for local apps that would ask for authentication using a browser window). Azure Stack has specific authentication requirements that were missed on our previous InteractiveBrowserCredential release.

Changes in @azure/identity@1.2.4-beta.1 (Changelog)

In this beta we’ve updated InteractiveBrowserCredential to use by default the Auth Code Flow with PKCE rather than the Implicit Grant Flow to better support browsers with enhanced security restrictions.

Azure Key Vault

We’re releasing some beta updates for the clients of the Key Vault service with small updates and breaking changes only from the last beta updates released.

@azure/keyvault-admin Changelog

Changes on @azure/keyvault-admin@4.0.0-beta.2

Backup and restore operations will now return a BackupResult and RestoreResult as appropriate.

New Features on @azure/keyvault-admin@4.0.0-beta.2

In this beta release we added support for custom role definitions which includes creating, updating, and deleting custom role definitions.

Major Fixes on @azure/keyvault-admin@4.0.0-beta.2

The logging of HTTP requests wasn’t properly working - now it has been fixed and tests have been written that verify the fix.
Backup / Restore polling will now correctly propagate any errors to the awaited call.

@azure/keyvault-keys Changelog

New Features on @azure/keyvault-keys@4.2.0-beta.3

A new createOctKey method to support easily creating oct / oct-HSM keys.
CryptographyClient can now support “local only” mode by instantiating it with only a JsonWebKey, a new constructor overload was added to support this.
Users can now get the keyId property from a CryptographyClient.

Azure Text Analytics

We’re releasing a new beta for the Text Analytics service including new features and some renamed properties and methods.

@azure/ai-text-analytics Changelog

New Features in @azure/ai-text-analytics@5.1.0-beta.4

A new option to control how the offset is calculated by the service. For more information, see the Text Analytics documentation.

Breaking Changes on @azure/ai-text-analytics@5.1.0-beta.4

The healthcare entities returned by beginAnalyzeHealthcareEntities are now organized as a directed graph where the edges represent a certain type of healthcare relationship between the source and target entities. Edges are stored in the relatedEntities property.

Azure Metrics Advisor

We are releasing a new preview version for metrics advisor with AAD support feature

@azure/ai-metrics-advisor Changelog

New Features in @azure/ai-metrics-advisor@1.0.0@beta.3

Metrics Advisor is releasing support for Azure Active Directory Authentication and the rotation of the API and Subscription Keys.

Breaking Changes in @azure/ai-metrics-advisor@1.0.0@beta.3

Renamed a method listDimensionValuesForDetectionConfig() to listAnomalyDimensionValues().
Changed the response types for update methods.
Added mapping of metric id to metric name in Datafeed object.

Azure Form Recognizer

We’re releasing a new beta client for the Azure Form Recognizer service with an upgrade for one TypeScript type.

@azure/ai-form-recognizer Changelog

Breaking Changes in @azure/ai-form-recognizer@3.1.0-beta.2

Reworked the type of the appearance field and its children of the FormLine type to have more specific names.

Azure Storage

We released hot fix versions and also beta versions for new service features in Azure Storage Service API version 2020-06-10.

@azure/storage-blob Changelog

Major Fixes in @azure/storage-blob@12.4.1 (Changelog)

Fixed a compile time failure in resolving the crypto module in Angular projects which got introduced in a previous update.
Fixed an issue where the download stream returned by BlobClient.download method would not release underlying resources unless it’s fully consumed.

New Features in @azure/storage-blob@12.5.0-beta.1 (Changelog)

Now support Batch operations scoped to the Container level. You can use ContainerClient.getBlobBatchClient() to get such a BlobBatchClient.

@azure/storage-file-datalake Changelog

Major Fixes in @azure/storage-file-datalake@12.3.1 (Changelog)

Fixed a compile time failure in resolving the crypto module in Angular projects which got introduced in a previous update.

New Features in @azure/storage-file-datalake@12.4.0-beta.1 (Changelog)

Added support for Container Soft Delete. You can restore a deleted filesystem via DataLakeServiceClient.undeleteFileSystem(). And the DataLakeServiceClient.listFileSystems() now support an includeDeleted option to include soft deleted filesystems in the response.

@azure/storage-file-share@12.4.1

This release contains bug fixes to improve quality.

storage-queue Changelog

@azure/storage-queue@12.3.1