What's new in Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory is improved on an ongoing basis. To stay up to date with the most recent developments, this article provides you with information about:
- The latest releases.
- Known issues.
- Bug fixes.
- Deprecated functionality.
- Plans for changes.
This page is updated monthly, so revisit it regularly. For older months' updates, refer to the What's new archive.
Check out our What's New video archive for all of our monthly update videos.
August 2024
Data movement
- Azure Table Storage connector now supports two more authentication types: system-assigned managed identity authentication and user-assigned managed identity authentication. Learn more
- Azure Files connector now supports two more authentication types: system-assigned managed identity authenticatino and user-assigned managed identity authentication. Learn more
June 2024
Data movement
The new ServiceNow connector provides improved native support in Copy and Lookup activities. Learn more
April 2024
Data flow
We're updating Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows to use Spark 3.3.
Data movement
Pipeline activity limit lifted to 80 activities. Learn more
March 2024
Data movement
- PostgreSQL Connector available for Copy activity with improved native PostgreSQL support and better copy performance. Learn more
- Google BigQuery Connector available for Copy activity with improved native support and better copy performance. Learn more
- Snowflake Connector available for Copy activity with support for Basic and Key pair authentication for both source and sink. Learn more
- New connectors available for Microsoft Fabric Warehouse, for Copy, Lookup, Get Metadata, Script and Stored procedure activities. Learn more
February 2024
Data movement
- Mysql Connector driver upgrade available for Copy activity. Learn more
- MariaDB Connector driver upgrade available for Copy activity. Learn more
- We added native UI support of parameterization for the following linked services: SAP HANA; MariaDB; Google BigQuery. Learn more
January 2024
Data movement
- The new Salesforce connector now supports OAuth authentication on Bulk API 2.0 for both source and sink. Learn more
- The new Salesforce Service Cloud connector now supports OAuth authentication on Bulk API 2.0 for both source and sink. Learn more
- The Google Ads connector now supports upgrading to the newer driver version with the native Google Ads Query Language (GAQL). Learn more
Region expansion
Azure Data Factory is now available in Israel Central and Italy North. You can co-locate your ETL workflow in this new region if you are utilizing the region for storing and managing your modern data warehouse. Learn more
November 2023
Continuous integration and continuous deployment
Azure Data Factory now supports Azure DevOps Server 2022 for Git integration, including on-premises ADO server. Learn more
October 2023
Data movement
General Availability of Time to Live (TTL) for Managed Virtual Network Learn more
Region expansion
Azure Data Factory is generally available in Poland Central Learn more