What's new in Azure Data Factory

  • Article

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.

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

October 2023

Data movement

General Availability of Time to Live (TTL) for Managed Virtual Network Learn more

Related content