Release History

12.13.0 (2024-09-17)

Features Added

• Features in 12.13.0-beta.1 are now generally available.

12.13.0-beta.1 (2024-08-07)

Features Added

• Added ability to retrieve SAS string to sign for debugging purposes.

Other Changes

• [#5765] Fix libcxx build. (A community contribution, courtesy of rschu1ze)

Acknowledgments

Thank you to our developer community members who helped to make Azure Storage Blobs better with their contributions to this release:

• Robert Schulze _(GitHub)_

12.12.0 (2024-07-16)

Features Added

• Features in 12.12.0-beta.1 are now generally available.

12.12.0-beta.1 (2024-06-11)

Features Added

• Bumped up API version to 2024-08-04.
• Added BlobContainerClient::GetAccountInfo() and BlobClient::GetAccountInfo APIs.
• Added more detailed messaging for authorization failure cases.

12.11.0 (2024-05-07)

Features Added

• Features in 12.11.0-beta.1 are now generally available.

12.11.0-beta.1 (2024-04-17)

Features Added

• Bumped up API version to 2023-11-03.

12.10.0 (2023-11-07)

Features Added

• Features in 12.10.0-beta.1 are now generally available.

12.10.0-beta.1 (2023-10-17)

Features Added

• Added new extendable enum BlobAudience
• Added new field Audience in BlobClientOptions

12.9.0 (2023-09-12)

Features Added

• Features in 12.9.0-beta.1 and 12.9.0-beta.2 are now generally available.

12.9.0-beta.2 (2023-08-12)

Features Added

• TenantId can now be discovered through the service challenge response, when using a TokenCredential for authorization.
  • A new property is now available on BlobClientOptions called EnableTenantDiscovery. If set to true, the client will attempt an initial unauthorized request to the service to prompt a challenge containing the tenantId hint.
• Added a new field SourceAuthorization in options for copy operations, which can be used to specify authorization for copy source.

12.9.0-beta.1 (2023-08-08)

Features Added

• Added RehydratePendingToCold value to ArchiveStatus enum.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed a bug where PageBlobClient::GetPageRangesDiff and PageBlobClient::GetManagedDiskPageRangesDiff crash when getting the second page.

12.8.0 (2023-07-11)

Features Added

• Features in 12.8.0-beta.1 are now generally available.

12.8.0-beta.1 (2023-05-31)

Features Added

• Bumped up API version to 2022-11-02.
• Content length limit for AppendBlobClient::AppendBlock() and AppendBlobClient::AppendBlockFromUri() was raised from 4 MiB to 100 MiB.

12.7.0 (2023-03-07)

Features Added

• Features in 12.7.0.beta.1 are now generally available.

12.7.0-beta.1 (2023-02-07)

Features Added

• Bumped up API version to 2021-12-02.
• Added support for new access tier Cold.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed a bug where setting premium page blob tier operations always fail.

12.6.2 (2022-10-11)

Other Changes

• No public changes in this release.

12.6.1 (2022-09-16)

Other changes

• No public changes in this release.

12.6.0 (2022-09-06)

Features Added

• Features in 12.6.0.beta.1 are now generally available.

Bugs Fixed

• Empty file or existing file won't be created/overwritten if the blob to be downloaded doesn't exist.

12.6.0-beta.1 (2022-08-09)

Features Added

• Bumped up API version to 2021-04-10.
• Added support for encryption scope SAS (ses query parameter in SAS token).
• Added encryption scope support for BlobClient::CopyFromUri().
• Added support for filtering blobs on container level.
• Added support for tags copy mode (replace or copy from source) when copying blobs from URL.
• Added support for permanent delete permission in SAS.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed listing blobs failure when blob name contains invalid characters in xml.

12.5.0 (2022-08-08)

Features Added

• Features in 12.5.0.beta1 and 12.5.0.beta2 are now generally available.

12.5.0-beta.2 (2022-07-07)

Features Added

• Added support for Blob Batch.

12.5.0-beta.1 (2022-06-07)

Features Added

• Bumped up API version to 2020-10-02.
• Added new API: BlockBlobClient::Query().
• Added ContinuationToken and PageSizeHint in GetPageRangesOptions.
• Added support for listing system containers.
• Added support for listing deleted root blob with active versions.

12.4.0 (2022-04-06)

Other changes

• No public changes in this release.

12.4.0-beta.1 (2022-03-09)

Features Added

• Bumped up API version to 2020-08-04.
• Bumped up SAS token version to 2020-08-04.
• Added support for immutability policy.
• New API: BlobClient::CopyFromUri(), BlobClient::SetImmutabilityPolicy(), BlobClient::DeleteImmutabilityPolicy(), BlobClient::SetLegalHold(), BlockBlobClient::UploadFromUri() and BlobServiceClient::RenameBlobContainer().
• Added lease access condition support for BlobClient::SetTags() and BlobClient::GetTags().

12.3.0 (2022-02-14)

Features Added

• Added VersionId in SetBlobMetadataResult.

12.2.1 (2021-11-08)

Other Changes

• DefaultEncryptionScope and PreventEncryptionScopeOverride in BlobContainerProperties were changed to optional.

12.2.0 (2021-09-08)

Breaking Changes

• StartsOn and ExpiresOn in SignedIdentifier were changed to nullable.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed a bug where prefix cannot contain & when listing blobs.

Other Changes

• Create less threads if there isn't too much data to transfer.

12.1.0 (2021-08-10)

Features Added

• Added lease ID access condition and tags access condition for BlobClient::SetAccessTier().
• Added source ETag access conditions and last-modified access conditions for PageBlobClient::UploadPagesFromUri().
• Added three new fields IsServerEncrypted, EncryptionKeySha256 and EncryptionScope into SetBlobMetadataResult.
• Added support for setting blob tags when creating or copying blobs.
• Added new fields AccessTierChangedOn, ArchiveStatus, RehydratePriority, CopyId, CopySource, CopyStatus, CopyStatusDescription, IsIncrementalCopy, IncrementalCopyDestinationSnapshot, CopyProgress, CopyCompletedOn, Tags, DeletedOn and RemainingRetentionDays into BlobItemDetails.
• Added support for including blob tags when listing blobs.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed a bug where lease ID didn't work for BlobContainerClient::GetAccessPolicy().
• Fixed a bug where sequence number access conditions didn't work for page blob operations.
• Fixed a bug where BlobItemDetails::EncryptionKeySha256 was always null because it wasn't correctly parsed from xml.
• Fixed a bug where BlockBlobClient::GetBlockList threw exception if the blob is not committed.

12.0.1 (2021-07-07)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where transactional MD5 hash was treated as blob MD5 hash when downloading partial blob.

12.0.0 (2021-06-08)

Other Changes and Improvements

• Added and updated some samples.
• Fixed a read consistency issue.

12.0.0-beta.11 (2021-05-19)

Breaking Changes

• Added final specifier to classes and structures that are are not expected to be inheritable at the moment.
• Renamed HasMorePages() in paged response to HasPage().
• Default chunk size for concurrent upload was changed to nullable.
• BlobLeaseClient::Change() updates internal lease id.
• Removed ContentType from GetBlockListResult.
• Moved GetPageRangesResult to detail namespace.
• BlobServiceClient::UndeleteBlobContainer doesn't support restoring a deleted container under a different name anymore.
• Changed the type of block count to int32_t.

12.0.0-beta.10 (2021-04-16)

Breaking Changes

• Removed Azure::Storage::Blobs::PackageVersion.
• Renamed GetUserDelegationKeyOptions::startsOn to StartsOn.
• Replaced all paginated collection functions that have the SinglePage suffix with pageable functions returning a PagedResponse<T>-derived type. The options are also renamed accordingly.
  • BlobServiceClient::ListBlobContainers().
  • BlobServiceClient::FindBlobsByTags().
  • BlobContainerClient::ListBlobs().
  • BlobContainerClient::ListBlobsByHierarchy().
  • PageBlobClient::GetPageRanges().
  • PageBlobClient::GetPageRangesDiff().
  • PageBlobClient::GetManagedDiskPageRangesDiff().
• Renamed FilterBlobItem to TaggedBlobItem.
  • FindBlobsByTags() now returns FindBlobsByTagsPagedResponse and the field FindBlobsByTagsSinglePageResult::Items was renamed to FindBlobsByTagsPagedResponse::TaggedBlobs.

12.0.0-beta.9 (2021-03-23)

New Features

• Added support for telemetry options.
• Added Azure::Storage::Blobs::PackageVersion.
• Added ShareFileClient::GetRangeListDiff.

Breaking Changes

• Changed the return type of StartCopyFromUri and StartCopyIncremental API from a Response<T> to the particular Operation<T> type called StartBlobCopyOperation directly.
• String conversion functions of extensible enums were renamed from Get() to ToString().
• Moved SecondaryHostForRetryReads out of retry options, now it's under BlobClientOptions.
• Changed the return types of the following APIs:
  • BlobServiceClient::DeleteBlobContainer now returns DeleteBlobContainerResult.
  • BlobServiceClient::GetUserDelegationKey now returns UserDelegationKey.
  • BlobServiceClient::GetProperties now returns BlobServiceProperties.
  • BlobServiceClient::GetAccountInfo now returns AccountInfo.
  • BlobServiceClient::GetStatistics now returns ServiceStatistics.
  • BlobContainerClient::DeleteBlob now returns DeleteBlobResult.
  • BlobContainerClient::GetProperties now returns BlobContainerProperties.
  • BlobContainerClient::GetAccessPolicy now returns BlobContainerAccessPolicy.
  • BlobClient::GetProperties now returns BlobProperties.
  • BlobClinet::GetTags now returns std::map<std::string, std::string>.
  • BlobClient::AbortCopyFromUri now returns AbortBlobCopyFromUriResult.
  • PageBlobClient::UploadPages now returns UploadPagesResult.
  • PageBlobClient::UploadPagesFromUri now returns UploadPagesFromUriResult.
  • PageBlobClient::ClearPages now returns ClearPagesResult.
  • PageBlobClient::GetPageRanges, PageBlobClient::GetPageRangesDiff and PageBlobClient::GetManagedDiskPageRangesDiff now return GetPageRangesResult.
• Renamed some options:
  • Renamed UploadPageBlobPagesOptions to UploadPagesOptions.
  • Renamed UploadPageBlobPagesFromUriOptions to UploadPagesFromUriOptions.
  • Renamed ClearPageBlobPagesOptions to ClearPagesOptions.
  • Renamed GetPageBlobPageRangesOptions to GetPageRangesOptions.
  • Renamed StartCopyBlobFromUriOptions to StartBlobCopyFromUriOptions.
  • Renamed StartCopyPageBlobIncrementalOptions to StartBlobCopyIncrementalOptions.
• Removed Blob from the name of lease options and return types, like AcquireBlobLeaseOptions was renamed to AcquireLeaseOptions.
• Removed Blob prefix from the name of structs BlobGeoReplication, BlobLeaseStatus, BlobLeaseState, BlobLeaseDurationType, BlobAnalyticsLogging, BlobMetrics, BlobCorsRule, BlobRetentionPolicy, BlobStaticWebsite, BlobArchiveStatus and BlobGeoReplicationStatus.
• Removed RequestId from return types.
• Changed BodyStream parameter of UploadBlob, Upload, UploadPages and AppendBlockfunctions from pointer to reference.
• Renamed access tier members in return types and options from Tier to AccessTier.
• Renamed BlockListTypeOption to BlockListType.

12.0.0-beta.8 (2021-02-12)

Breaking Changes

• Removed BreakBlobLeaseResult::Leasetime.
• Moved Azure::Core::Context out of options bag of each API, and make it the last optional parameter.

12.0.0-beta.7 (2021-02-03)

New Features

• Added RequestId in API return types.
• Added some new properties in GetBlobPropertiesResult, DownloadBlobResult and DownloadBlobToResult.
• Added RangeHashAlgorithm in DownloadBlobOptions.
• Added UploadBlob in BlobContainerClient.

Breaking Changes

• UserDelegationKey was changed to a member of GetUserDelegationKeyResult rather than a typedef like before.
• AccessType in CreateBlobContainerOptions was changed to non-nullable.
• ListType in GetBlockListOptions was changed to non-nullable.
• Added BlobLeaseClient, all lease related APIs are moved to BlobLeaseClient.
• Type for lease duration in requests was changed to std::chrono::seconds, in response was changed to enum.
• PublicAccessType::Private was renamed to PublicAccessType::None.
• startsOn parameter for GetUserDelegationKey was changed to optional.
• Removed IfUnmodifiedSince from SetBlobContainerMetadataOptions.
• Return types of BlobClient::StartCopyFromUri and PageBlobClient::StartCopyIncremental were changed to StartCopyBlobResult, supporting poll operations.
• Fixed typo Expiries in model types.
• Removed PreviousContinuationToken from ListBlobContainersSinglePageResult, ListBlobsByHierarchySinglePageResult and ListBlobsSinglePageResult.
• ListBlobContainersIncludeItem was renamed to ListBlobContainersIncludeFlags.
• ListBlobsIncludeItem was renamed to ListBlobsIncludeFlags.
• Concurrency, ChunkSize and InitialChunkSize were moved into DownloadBlobToOptions::TansferOptions.
• Concurrency, ChunkSize and SingleUploadThreshold were moved into UploadBlockBlobFromOptions::TransferOptions.
• Removed TagValue from FilterBlobItem, removed Where from FindBlobsByTagsSinglePageResult.
• Type for ETag was changed to Azure::Core::ETag.
• Removed BlobPrefix struct, use std::string instead.
• Refined BlobContainerItem, BlobItem, DownloadBlobResult and DownloadBlobToResult.

12.0.0-beta.6 (2021-01-14)

New Features

• Added CreateIfNotExists and DeleteIfExists for blob containers and blobs.
• Added IsHierarchicalNamespaceEnabled in GetAccountInfoResult.
• Added PageBlobClient::GetPageRangesDiff and PageBlobClient::GetManagedDiskPageRangesDiff.
• Added CreateBlobContainer, DeleteBlobContainer, UndeleteBlobContainer into BlobServiceClient.
• Added DeleteBlob to BlobContainerClient.
• Support setting blob SAS permission with a raw string.

Breaking Changes

• Renamed AppendBlobAccessConditions::MaxSize to IfMaxSizeLessThanOrEqual.
• Renamed AppendBlobAccessConditions::AppendPosition to IfAppendPositionEqual.
• BlobServiceProperties.DefaultServiceVersion is now nullable.
• Renamed DeleteBlobSubRequest::containerName to blobContainerName.
• Renamed SetBlobAccessTierSubRequest::containerName to blobContainerName.
• Renamed BlobSasBuilder::ContainerName to BlobContainerName.
• Renamed BlobSasResource::Container to BlobContainer.
• Renamed AccountSasResource::Container to BlobContainer
• Renamed some structs:
  • CreateContainerResult to CreateBlobContainerOptions
  • CreateContainerOptions to CreateBlobContainerOptions
  • DeleteContainerResult to DeleteBlobContainerResult
  • DeleteContainerOptions to DeleteBlobContainerOptions
  • GetContainerPropertiesResult to GetBlobContainerPropertiesResult
  • GetContainerPropertiesOptions to GetBlobContainerPropertiesOptions
  • SetContainerMetadataResult to SetBlobContainerMetadataResult
  • SetContainerMetadataOptions to SetBlobContainerMetadataOptions
  • GetContainerAccessPolicyResult to GetBlobContainerAccessPolicyResult
  • GetContainerAccessPolicyOptions to GetBlobContainerAccessPolicyOptions
  • SetContainerAccessPolicyResult to SetBlobContainerAccessPolicyResult
  • SetContainerAccessPolicyOptions to SetBlobContainerAccessPolicyOptions
  • AcquireContainerLeaseResult to AcquireBlobContainerLeaseResult
  • AcquireContainerLeaseOptions to AcquireBlobContainerLeaseOptions
  • RenewContainerLeaseResult to RenewBlobContainerLeaseResult
  • RenewContainerLeaseOptions to RenewBlobContainerLeaseOptions
  • ReleaseContainerLeaseResult to ReleaseBlobContainerLeaseResult
  • ReleaseContainerLeaseOptions to ReleaseBlobContainerLeaseOptions
  • ChangeContainerLeaseResult to ChangeBlobContainerLeaseResult
  • ChangeContainerLeaseOptions to ChangeBlobContainerLeaseOptions
  • BreakContainerLeaseResult to BreakBlobContainerLeaseResult
  • BreakContainerLeaseOptions to BreakBlobContainerLeaseOptions
  • ContainerAccessConditions to BlobContainerAccessConditions
  • ListContainersSegmentResult to ListBlobContainersSegmentResult
  • ListContainersSegmentOptions to ListBlobContainersSegmentOptions
• API signature for CommitBlockList has changed. BlockType doesn't need to be specified anymore.
• PageBlobClient::GetPageRanges doesn't support getting difference between current blob and a snapshot anymore. Use PageBlobClient::GetPageRangesDiff instead.
• Moved Blob SAS into Azure::Storage::Sas namespace.
• Replaced all transactional content MD5/CRC64 with the ContentHash struct.
• EncryptionKeySha256 is changed to binary (std::vector<uint8_t>).
• ContentMd5 HTTP header is renamed to ContentHash, the type is also changed to ContentHash.
• ServerEncrypted fields are renamed to IsServerEncrypted, and changed to non-nullable type.
• Added Is prefix to bool variable names. Like IsAccessTierInferred, IsDeleted.
• IsServerEncrypted, EncryptionKeySha256 and EncryptionScope are removed from ClearPageBlobPagesResult, since they are never returned from storage server.
• ListBlobsFlatSegment is renamed to ListBlobsSinglePage.
• ListBlobsByHierarchySegment is renamed to ListBlobsByHierarchySinglePage.
• ListBlobContainersSegment is renamed to ListBlobContainersSinglePage.
• FindBlobsByTags is renamed to FindBlobsByTagsSinglePage.
• MaxResults in list APIs are renamed to PageSizeHint.
• All date time related strings are now changed to Azure::Core::DateTime type.
• Replaced std::pair<int64_t, int64_t> with Azure::Core::Http::Range to denote blob ranges.
• Made version strings private by moving them into the Details namespace.
• Replaced scoped enums that don't support bitwise operations with extensible enum.
• Continuation token of result types are changed to nullable.
• Renamed Models::DeleteSnapshotsOption::Only to OnlySnapshots.
• Renamed SourceConditions in API options to SourceAccessConditions.
• Removed Blob Batch.
• DownloadBlobResult::Content-Range is changed to an Azure::Core::Http::Range, an extra field BlobSize is added.
• Removed Undelete from BlobContainerClient.
• BlobRetentionPolicy::Enabled is renamed to BlobRetentionPolicy::IsEnabled, BlobStaticWebsite::Enabled is renamed to BlobStaticWebsite::IsEnabled.
• Changed type for metadata to case-insensitive std::map.
• Changed parameter type for token credential from Azure::Identity::ClientSecretCredential to Azure::Core::TokenCredential.
• Renamed member function GetUri of client types to GetUrl.
• BlobClient::GetBlockBlobClient, BlobClient::GetAppendBlobClient and BlobClient::GetPageBlobClient are renamed to BlobClient::AsBlockBlobClient, BlobClient::AsAppendBlobClient and BlobClient::AsPageBlobClient respectively.

12.0.0-beta.5 (2020-11-13)

New Features

• Support for replaceable HTTP transport layer.
• Add version.hpp.

Breaking Changes

• Move header azure/storage/blobs/blob.hpp to azure/storage/blobs.hpp.
• Service API return types which are typically suffixed with Result are moved to the Models sub-namespaces and everything else from the protocol layer is made private by moving to the Details namespace.
• Make XML serializer and deserializer private by moving them to the Details namespace.
• Remove BlockBlobClientOptions, AppendBlobClientOptions and PageBlobClientOptions, use BlobClientOptions instead.
• Rename BlobSasBuilder::ToSasQueryParameters to BlobSasBuilder::GenerateSasToken.

Other Changes and Improvements

• Default uploading/downloading concurrency is changed from 1 to 5.
• Remove support for specifying SAS version.

1.0.0-beta.4 (2020-10-16)

New Features

• Bump up API version to 2020-02-10.
• Support for Last Accessting Time.
• Add TagCount and ExpiryTime in the responses of getting properties and downloading blobs.

Breaking Changes

• Variable name change: BreakContainerLeaseOptions::breakPeriod -> BreakContainerLeaseOptions::BreakPeriod.
• Variable name change: BreakBlobLeaseOptions::breakPeriod -> BreakBlobLeaseOptions::BreakPeriod.
• CreateFromConnectionString now accepts unencoded blob name.
• TagConditions is changed to nullable.
• Variable name change: Marker is renamed to ContinuationToken for ListContainersSegmentOptions, FindBlobsByTagsOptions and ListBlobsSegmentOptions.
• Variable name change: Marker is renamed to PreviousContinuationToken, NextMarker is renamed to ContinuationToken for FilterBlobsSegmentResult, ListContainersSegmentResult, ListBlobsByHierarchySegmentResult and ListBlobsFlatSegmentResult.

Bug Fixes

• Unencoded Container/Blob name is now encoded.

1.0.0-beta.2 (2020-09-09)

New Features

• Support for Blob Batch.
• Support for Blob Index.
• Release based on azure-core_1.0.0-beta.1.

1.0.0-beta.1 (2020-08-28)

New Features

• Added support for Blob features:
  • BlobServiceClient::ListBlobContainersSegment
  • BlobServiceClient::GetUserDelegationKey
  • BlobServiceClient::SetProperties
  • BlobServiceClient::GetProperties
  • BlobServiceClient::GetAccountInfo
  • BlobServiceClient::GetStatistics
  • BlobContainerClient::Create
  • BlobContainerClient::Delete
  • BlobContainerClient::GetProperties
  • BlobContainerClient::SetMetadata
  • BlobContainerClient::ListBlobsFlat
  • BlobContainerClient::ListBlobsByHierarchy
  • BlobContainerClient::Undelete
  • BlobContainerClient::GetAccessPolicy
  • BlobContainerClient::SetAccessPolicy
  • BlobClient::GetProperties
  • BlobClient::SetHttpHeaders
  • BlobClient::SetMetadata
  • BlobClient::SetAccessTier
  • BlobClient::StartCopyFromUri
  • BlobClient::AbortCopyFromUri
  • BlobClient::Download
  • BlobClient::DownloadToFile
  • BlobClient::DownloadToBuffer
  • BlobClient::CreateSnapshot
  • BlobClient::Delete
  • BlobClient::Undelete
  • BlockBlobClient::Upload
  • BlockBlobClient::UploadFromFile
  • BlockBlobClient::UploadFromBuffer
  • BlockBlobClient::StageBlock
  • BlockBlobClient::StageBlockFromUri
  • BlockBlobClient::CommitBlockList
  • BlockBlobClient::GetBlockList
  • AppendBlobClient::Create
  • AppendBlobClient::AppendBlock
  • AppendBlobClient::AppendBlockFromUri
  • AppendBlobClient::Seal
  • PageBlobClient::Create
  • PageBlobClient::UploadPages
  • PageBlobClient::UploadPagesFromUri
  • PageBlobClient::ClearPages
  • PageBlobClient::Resize
  • PageBlobClient::GetPageRanges
  • PageBlobClient::StartCopyIncremental
• Support for blob versioning.
• Support for blob lease and container lease.
• Support for account SAS and blob SAS.
• Support for transactional checksum.