Functions 1.0.10774

Main things in this release:

• Shadow copy assemblies (#1169)
  • addresses file locking deployment issues for .NET languages
• Automatic runtime restart on managed dependency updates
  • addresses issues where a manual restart was required to reflect assembly updates (#1023)
• Added support for relative script file references (#1132)
  • you can now use the scriptFile function.json metadata property to point to the primary function file, e.g. "scriptFile": "..\Shared\queueProcessor.js"
• Fix issues with handling of duplicate http query parameters (#1154)
• Improving validation for Table binding filter values (Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk#984)
  • auto escape string literal values by escaping single quotes
  • auto format DateTime values
• Fix JSON array handling for script languages (#1156)
• Improved host error/restart logic by adding exponential backoff (#1172)
• Allow TimerTrigger functions to resolve schedule from app settings (Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-extensions#181)
  • e.g. you can now define a schedule like "schedule": "%MY_SCHEDULE%" where MY_SCHEDULE is the name of an app setting containing the actual CRON schedule value
• Added verbose,warning,error log methods to context.log object for Node functions (#1058)
• Make Powershell module loader recursive (#1072)
• Various other bug fixes

Functions 1.0.10690

Main things in this release:

• Added ability to deploy a pre-compiled assembly to a function (instead of script code)
• QueueTrigger binding: exposing VisibilityTimeout for configurability via host.json visibilityTimeout property to allow the delay between failed message retries to be configured
• ServiceBus binding: exposing AutoRenewTimeout for configurability via host.json autoRenewTimeout property (#1026)
• Fixes for F# compilation (resolves #1044, #1027, #985, mitigates #178)
• Improvements to C#/F# compilation error logging
• Improvements to private assembly loading for C#/F# (#953)
• Added schema files for host.json/function.json to support intellisense in VS and Functions portal
• Monitoring fixes (Functions Portal Monitor tab)
  • Fix issue where aborted functions would show as running forever (Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk#916)
  • Performance improvements for log data retrieval (Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk#930)
• Enhancements/fixes for function file change notification/monitoring

Functions 1.0.10661

Main things in this release:

• Fixes for Node function type handling (#814)
• Adjusted EventHubTrigger MaxBatchSize to 64 and PrefetchCount to 256 to improve throughput
• Fixed response truncation issue with text/plain media type formatting (#1014)
• Moved to latest BotFramework extension
• Other small bug fixes

Functions 1.0.10635

Main things in this release:

• Fixes to F# assembly resolution (addresses #752 #861 #893)
• Fix http header truncation issue (#913)
• Add support for datetime system binding, and expanding rand-guid support (#731)
  • you can now use expressions like {datetime}, {datetime:yyyy-mm-dd}, {datetime:G} in your binding expressions
  • You can now specify the format for rand-guid, e.g. rand-guid:N which outputs a guid w/o hyphens
  • the format expression after the ':' can be any valid format expression for the target type (e.g see doc for DateTime format strings here
• Fix input binding issue for PHP and other languages (#787)
• Fix watchDirectories shared script monitoring for Node functions (#954)
• Other miscellaneous bug fixes

Functions 1.0.10604

Main items in this release:

• startup performance improvements
• fixes to http content negotiation (PRs 841afb8 96abcf5) [Breaking]
• moved to latest versions of all our package dependencies
• bug fixes

Functions 0.9.10574 (1.0.0-beta1-10574)

Main items in this release:

• Improved startup performance
• Host ID change
  • Fix to avoid host ID collisions between deployment slots and prevent conflicts when performing storage operations
• Other bug fixes and enhancements

Functions 0.8.10564 (1.0.0-beta1-10564)

IMPORTANT: if you're using an older functions runtime, you must upgrade to this release, otherwise you will not see any logs in the Monitor tab.

Main items in this release:

• Enhanced Node.js HTTP programming model
  • Express like programming model for Node.js functions
  • see example here
• Managed code functions (C# and F#) optimization level
  • Now default to Release optimization level
  • Debug optimization level automatically set in remote debugging scenarios or through app setting
  • see PR for details
• Multi-key secret file format and secret encryption enabled by default
  • function and host secrets are now encrypted at rest by default
  • function and host secrets now default to the format that supports multiple keys
  • breaking change if automated processes were accessing files directly through VFS or other mechanism
• Updated package/SDK references
  • Azure Storage SDK 7.2.1
  • Azure DocumentDB SDK 1.10.0
  • Azure Mobile Apps Client SDK 3.0.3
  • Sendgrid 8.0.5
• Other bug fixes and enhancements

Functions 0.7.10532 (1.0.0-beta1-10532)

Here are the main changes in this release:

• Custom Http Routes - support for custom routes and route templates/constraints
  • ability to specify custom routes for functions, with arbitrarily complex route constraints (e.g. "route": "products/{Category:alpha}/{Id:int}"). Documentation on supported constraint formats can be found here. Basically this is just regular Asp.Net WebApi routing.
  • integrates captured route parameters with our binding data pipeline
  • allow for the default "api" route prefix to be customized or completely removed via host.json
  • see PR for details
• Secret Encryption and Multi-Key support
  • secret files are now encrypted at rest
  • support for multiple keys per function + the ability to roll keys
  • introduced key management APIs to allow our Portal and other 3rd parties to manage keys
• SendGrid v3 - moved the SendGrid binding to their latest v3 APIs (breaking)
  • the v3 APIs are quite different and the move results in quite a few breaking changes
  • see our updated SendGrid templates or the following PR for migration details
  • see PR for details
• Multi-Table Support for Function Logs (breaking)
  • log tables contain a month of logging data, and automatically roll to new tables
  • allows for efficient log purging + history management
  • see core SDK PR
• Cardinality Support for input bindings
  • e.g. we now allow a Node.js EventHub trigger binding to receive an array of events
  • declared via a new cardinality binding property (e.g. cardinality: 'many')
  • addresses #618

Functions 0.6.10462 (1.0.0-beta1-10462)

Few minor fixes for the previous release. Fixes include:

• ServiceBus Topic trigger portal invoke fix (#585)
• Fixing compilation warning for $return output bindings

Functions 0.6.10453 (1.0.0-beta1-10453)

Main things in this release are called out below.

• Enabling function timeouts (#18)
  • Default execution timeout of 5 minutes is enforced. If a function runs longer than that it will be terminated.
  • timeout is only enforced on Dynamic SKUs
  • timeout can be configured via functionTimeout property in host.json
• Imposing some naming restrictions on function names + binding names (#15). See Renaming a Function for instructions on renaming if you have a name that doesn't match the new rules.
• Support for function return bindings (#675)
  • naming an output binding $return maps it to the function return value
  • for C#/F#/Node, this allows simpler, more idiomatic code to be written (i.e. no out/byref parameters required)
• Allow Node.js functions to return Promises (#158)
• Moved to Node.js version 6.5.0
• EventHub Consumer group fix (#570)
• Binding fixes for ManualTrigger (#628)
• lots of additional bug fixes