Functions 0.5.10398 (1.0.0-beta1-10398)

Main things in this release are called out below.

• New F# programming model! (Breaking)
  • F# is now first class like C#, no longer using an out of proc execution model
• New Twilio output binding allowing you to easily send Twilio SMS messages from your functions!
• HttpTrigger binding improvements
  • Now support binding expressions for C# (addresses #334 and #230)
  • E.g. you can now bind to values from the request body or query string. See example function here
• Moved to Node.js 6.4.0
• C# Package Restore improvements (addresses #312 #469)
  • We now identify when a restore needs to be run and do it automatically
• Tracing Changes + Throttling
  • File logging (which drives the Portal logs via log streaming) is now only enabled during Portal sessions
  • If the Portal hasn't connected in 15 minutes, file logging is turned off. For historical logs, use the Dashboard view
  • In addition, we now throttle tracing to a maximum of 250 lines per second
  • Addresses issues #557 and #100
• Allow EventHub receiver options to be configured via host.json
  • You can now add an eventHub config section and configure values maxBatchSize and prefetchCount
  • See here for details
• Improvements to multi-instance logging (addresses #164)
• Allow File Watch directories to be configured
  • In addition to the default directories and files we watch, we allow you to specify additional folders to watch
  • You can add additional directories by adding a watchDirectories value to host.json (example here)
  • Addresses #608
• Fixed ManualTrigger input (addresses #602)
• Normalized context.bindingData property casing (addresses #426) (Breaking)
  • casing is now normalized to camel case
• Lots of other bug fixes