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description: In this article, you'll find an archive of new and significant changes in the Azure Data Explorer documentation
ms.reviewer: orspodek
ms.topic: reference
ms.date: 11/10/2024
ms.date: 12/11/2024
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# What's new in Azure Data Explorer documentation archive

Welcome to what's new in Azure Data Explorer archive. This article is an archive of new and significantly updated content in the Azure Data Explorer documentation.

## November 2023

**General**

| Article title | Description |
|--|--|
| [Migrate a Virtual Network injected cluster to private endpoints (Preview)](security-network-migrate-vnet-to-private-endpoint.md)| New article. Describes how to migrate a Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer Cluster to private endpoints.|
| - [Ingest data from Splunk Universal Forwarder](ingest-data-splunk-uf.md) <br/> - [Ingest data with Apache Flink](ingest-data-flink.md) <br/> - [Data connectors overview](integrate-data-overview.md)| New articles that describe how to ingest data with Splunk Universal Forwarder and Apache Flink, and updated data connector overview.|
| [Use follower databases](follower.md)| Updated article. Update limitations for clusters using customer-managed keys.|
| [Create Power Apps application to query data in Azure Data Explorer](power-apps-connector.md)| Updated article. Refreshed content.|
| [Create a Microsoft Entra application registration in Azure Data Explorer](provision-entra-id-app.md)| Updated article. Added section on creating a Microsoft Entra service principal.|

**Management**

| Article title | Description |
|--|--|
| [Materialized views use cases](/kusto/management/materialized-views/materialized-view-use-cases?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true)| New article. Describes common and advanced use cases for materialized views.|

## October 2023

**General**
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description: What's new in the Azure Data Explorer documentation
ms.reviewer: orspodek
ms.topic: reference
ms.date: 11/10/2024
ms.date: 12/11/2024
---
# What's new in Azure Data Explorer documentation

Welcome to what's new in Azure Data Explorer. This article details new and significantly updated content in the Azure Data Explorer documentation.
Welcome to what's new in Azure Data Explorer. This article details new and updated content in the Azure Data Explorer documentation.

## November 2024

**API**

|Article title | Description|
|--|--|
| [App authentication methods](/kusto/api/get-started/app-authentication-methods?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | New article. Learn about the different authentication methods that can be used in apps using Kusto client libraries. |
| [Kusto connection strings](/kusto/api/connection-strings/kusto?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | Updated article. Refreshed content and updated code. |
| [Request properties](/kusto/api/rest/request-properties?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=trued) | Updated article. Refreshed content and added a section that lists which request properties can't be set with a set statement. |

**Functions library**

|Article title | Description|
|--|--|
| [detect_anomalous_new_entity_fl()](/kusto/functions-library/detect-anomalous-new-entity-fl?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | New article. Learn how to use the detect_anomalous_new_entity_fl() function to detect the appearance of anomalous new entities. |
| [plotly_gauge_fl()](/kusto/functions-library/plotly-gauge-fl?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | New article. Learn how to use the plotly_gauge_fl() user-defined function. |
| [Functions library](/kusto/functions-library/functions-library?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | Updated article. Added detect anomalous new entity and use of a Plotly template to render a gauge chart. |
| [plotly_anomaly_fl()](/kusto/functions-library/plotly-anomaly-fl?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | Updated article. Added use of a Plotly template to render a gauge chart. |

**General**

|Article title | Description|
|--|--|
| [Create a managed private endpoint](security-network-managed-private-endpoint-create.md) | Updated article. Refreshed content and added information about creating multiple managed private endpoints and automatic approval. |

**Management**

|Article title | Description|
|--|--|
| [Managed Identity policy](/kusto/management/managed-identity-policy?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | Updated article. Added *ai_embed_text* plugin for `AzureAI` to the list of managed identity usages. |

**Query**

|Article title | Description|
|--|--|
| [graph-shortest-paths operator (Preview)](/kusto/query/graph-shortest-paths-operator?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | New article. Learn how to use the graph_shortest_paths operator to efficiently find the shortest paths from a given set of source nodes to a set of target nodes within a graph. |
| [graph-mark-components operator (Preview)](/kusto/query/graph-mark-components-operator?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | New article. Learn how to use the graph_mark_components operator to find and mark all connected components of a graph. |
| [ai_embed_text plugin (Preview)](/kusto/query/ai-embed-text-plugin?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | New article. Learn how to use the ai_embed_text plugin to embed text via language models, enabling various AI-related scenarios such as RAG application and semantic search. |
| [Graph operators](/kusto/query/graph-operators?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | Updated. Added new graph operators. |
| [make-graph operator](/kusto/query/make-graph-operator?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | Updated article. Refreshed content and added information about default nodes. |
| [toint() function](/kusto/query/toint-function?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | Updated article. Refreshed content and added instruction on how to convert a decimal value into a truncate integer. |

## October 2024

## Management
**Management**

|Article title | Description|
|--|--|
| [Change column type without data loss](/kusto/management/change-column-type-without-data-loss?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | New article. Learn how to preserve preexisting data by changing column type without data loss. |
| [Change column type without data loss](/kusto/management/change-column-type-without-data-loss?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | New article. Learn how to preserve pre-existing data by changing column type without data loss. |
| [.alter column command](/kusto/management/alter-column?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | Updated article. Updated information for changing column type without data loss. |

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|-[Scalar function types at a glance](/kusto/query/scalar-functions?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) <br/> -[series_cosine_similarity()](/kusto/query/series-cosine-similarity-function?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) <br/> - [series_magnitude()](/kusto/query/series-magnitude-function?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) <br/> - [series_sum()](/kusto/query/series-sum-function?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) | New articles. Describes how to calculate series elements, and added to scalar functions overview.|
|[series_dot_product()](/kusto/query/series-dot-product-function?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true)| Updated article. Added section on performance optimization.|

## November 2023

**General**

| Article title | Description |
|--|--|
| [Migrate a Virtual Network injected cluster to private endpoints (Preview)](security-network-migrate-vnet-to-private-endpoint.md)| New article. Describes how to migrate a Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer Cluster to private endpoints.|
| - [Ingest data from Splunk Universal Forwarder](ingest-data-splunk-uf.md) <br/> - [Ingest data with Apache Flink](ingest-data-flink.md) <br/> - [Data connectors overview](integrate-data-overview.md)| New articles that describe how to ingest data with Splunk Universal Forwarder and Apache Flink, and updated data connector overview.|
| [Use follower databases](follower.md)| Updated article. Update limitations for clusters using customer-managed keys.|
| [Create Power Apps application to query data in Azure Data Explorer](power-apps-connector.md)| Updated article. Refreshed content.|
| [Create a Microsoft Entra application registration in Azure Data Explorer](provision-entra-id-app.md)| Updated article. Added section on creating a Microsoft Entra service principal.|

**Management**

| Article title | Description |
|--|--|
| [Materialized views use cases](/kusto/management/materialized-views/materialized-view-use-cases?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true)| New article. Describes common and advanced use cases for materialized views.|
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