azuredatastudio

Version 1.26.1

• Release date: February 25, 2021
• Release status: General Availability

Hotfix release

• Fixes https://github.com/microsoft/azuredatastudio/issues/14382

What's new in this version

• Release date: February 22, 2021
• Release status: General Availability
• New notebook features
  • Improved Jupyter server start-up time by 50% on Windows
  • Added support to edit Jupyter Books through right-click
  • Added URI notebook parameterization support
• Extension Updates:
  • Azure Arc
    • Multiple data controllers now supported
    • New connection dialog options like kube config file
    • Postgres dashboard enhancements
  • Azure Data CLI
  • Kusto
  • Machine Learning
  • Profiler
  • Server Reports
  • Schema Compare
  • SQL Server Dacpac
  • SQL Database Projects
• Bug Fixes

What's new in this version

Version 1.26.0

• Release date: February 22, 2021
• Release status: General Availability
• New notebook features
  • Improved Jupyter server start-up time by 50% on Windows
  • Added support to edit Jupyter Books through right-click
  • Added URI notebook parameterization support
• Extension Updates:
  • Azure Arc
    • Multiple data controllers now supported
    • New connection dialog options like kube config file
    • Postgres dashboard enhancements
  • Azure Data CLI
  • Kusto
  • Machine Learning
  • Profiler
  • Server Reports
  • Schema Compare
  • SQL Server Dacpac
  • SQL Database Projects
• Bug Fixes

What's new in this version

Version 1.25.3

• Release date: February 10, 2021
• Release status: General Availability

Hotfix release

• Update Electron to 9.4.3 to incorporate critical upstream fixes

What's new in this version

Release date: January 22, 2021
Release status: General Availability
Kusto extension improvements
SQL Project extension improvements
Notebook improvements
Azure Browse Connections Preview performance improvements

Version 1.25.2

• Release date: December 10, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

Hotfix release

• Fixes https://github.com/microsoft/azuredatastudio/issues/13899

What's new in this version

Release date: January 22, 2021
Release status: General Availability
Kusto extension improvements
SQL Project extension improvements
Notebook improvements
Azure Browse Connections Preview performance improvements

Version 1.25.1

• Release date: December 10, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

Hotfix release

• Fixes https://github.com/microsoft/azuredatastudio/issues/13751

What's new in this version

Release date: December 8, 2020
Release status: General Availability
Kusto extension improvements
SQL Project extension improvements
Notebook improvements
Azure Browse Connections Preview performance improvements
Bug Fixes

Version 1.24.0

• Release date: November 12, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

What's new in this version

• SQL Project improvements
• Notebook improvements, including in WYSIWYG editor enhancements
• Azure Arc improvements
• Azure SQL Deployment UX improvements
• Azure Browse Connections Preview
• Bug Fixes

Version 1.23.0

• Release date: October 14, 2020
• Release status: General Availability
• Added deployments of Azure SQL DB and VM
• Added PowerShell kernel results streaming support
• Added improvements to SQL Database Projects extension
• Bug Fixes
• Extension Updates:
  • SQL Server Import
  • Machine Learning
  • Schema Compare
  • Kusto
  • SQL Assessment
  • SQL Database Projects
  • Azure Arc
  • azdata

What's new in this version

Version 1.22.1

• Release date: September 30, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

What's new in this version

Version 1.22.0

• Release date: September 22, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

What's new in this version

• New Notebook Features
  • Supports brand new text cell editing experience based on rich text formatting and seamless conversion to markdown, also known as WYSIWYG toolbar (What You See Is What You Get)
  • Supports Kusto kernel
  • Supports pinning of notebooks
  • Added support for new version of Jupyter Books
  • Improved Jupyter Shortcuts
  • Introduced perf loading improvements
• Added Azure Arc extension - Users can try out Azure Arc public preview through Azure Data Studio. This includes:
  • Deploy data controller
  • Deploy Postgres
  • Deploy Managed Instance for Azure Arc
  • Connect to data controller
  • Access data service dashboards
  • Azure Arc Jupyter Book
• Added new deployment options
  • Azure SQL Database Edge
  • (Edge will require Azure SQL Edge Deployment Extension)
• Added SQL Database Projects extension - The SQL Database Projects extension brings project-based database development to Azure Data Studio. In this preview release, SQL projects can be created and published from Azure Data Studio.
• Added Kusto (KQL) extension - Brings native Kusto experiences in Azure Data Studio for data exploration and data analytics against massive amount of real-time streaming data stored in Azure Data Explorer. This preview release supports connecting and browsing Azure Data Explorer clusters, writing KQL queries as well as authoring notebooks with Kusto kernel.
• SQL Server Import extension GA - Announcing the GA of the SQL Server Import extension, features no longer in preview. This extension facilitates importing csv/txt files. Learn more about the extension in this article.
• Address issues in September 2020 Milestone

Version 1.21.0

• Release date: August 12, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

What's new in this version

• New Notebook Features
  • Move cell locations changd
  • Added action to convert cells to Text Cell or Code cell
• Jupyter Books picker to open Jupyter Books directly from Github
• Search bar added to Notebooks Viewlet for searching through Jupyter Books
• Address issues in August 2020 Milestone

Version 1.20.1

• Release date: July 17, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

What's new in this version

Known Issue

• Some users have reported connection errors from the new Microsoft.Data.SqlClient v2.0.0 included in this release. Users have found following these instructions to successfully connect. This issue was caused by a client driver update which fixed an issue where TLS encryption wasn't enforced correctly. See https://github.com/dotnet/SqlClient/blob/master/release-notes/2.0/2.0.0.md#breaking-changes-1 and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/native-client/features/using-encryption-without-validation for more information.

Version 1.20.0

• Release date: July 15, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

What's new in this version

• Feature Tour
• New Notebook Features
  • Header support in Markdown Toolbar
  • Side-by-side Markdown preview in Text Cells
• Drag and drop columns and tables into Query Editor
• Azure Account icon added to Activity Bar
• Address issues in July 2020 Milestone
• Bug fixes

Version 1.19.0

• Release date: June 15, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

What's new in this version

• Address issues in https://github.com/microsoft/azuredatastudio/milestone/55?closed=1
• Bug fixes

Version 1.18.1

• Release date: May 27, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

What's new in this version

• Hotfix for https://github.com/microsoft/azuredatastudio/issues/10538
• Hotfix for https://github.com/microsoft/azuredatastudio/issues/10537

Version 1.18.0

• Release date: May 20, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

What's new in this version

• Announcing Redgate SQL Prompt extension
• Announcing the new machine learning extension
• Added new Python dependencies wizard
• Added support for parameterization for Always Encrypted
• Improvements to the notebook markdown toolbar
• Bug fixes

Version 1.17.1

• Release date: April 29, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

What's new in this version

• Hotfix for https://github.com/microsoft/azuredatastudio/milestone/54?closed=1

Version 1.17.0

• Release date: April 27, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

What's new in this version

• New Welcome Page
• New Notebook features
  • New Markdown editor toolbar
  • Books viewlet now works with notebooks
• Improved dashboard
• Always encrypted support
• Accessibility bugs
• VS Code merge

Version 1.16.1

• Release date: March 23, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

March Hotfix release

• Fixes issues in https://github.com/microsoft/azuredatastudio/milestone/52?closed=1

Version 1.16.0

• Release date: March 18, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

What's new in this version

• Notebooks:
  • Charting
  • Creating Jupyter books
• Postgres extension update - Users can now authenticate to Azure Postgres servers with their linked Azure account
• Accessibility bugs
• VS Code merge
• In the next release, GitHub releases will no longer contain the binary files to the latest version. Rather, they will contain links to the latest release. This will have no impact on users using the in-app update functionality.

Version 1.15.1

• Release date: February 19, 2020
• Release status: General Availability

What's new in this version

• Resolved #9145 Edit Data render the result grid incorrectly when using custom query.
• Resolved #9149 Show Active Connections.