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.

February 2024

Data movement

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

September 2023

Pipelines

Added support for metadata driven pipelines for dynamic full and incremental processing in Azure SQL Learn more

August 2023

Change Data Capture

  • Azure Synapse Analytics target availability in top-level CDC resource Learn more
  • Snowflake connector in Mapping Data Flows support for Change Data Capture in public preview Learn more

Data flow

  • Integer type available for pipeline variables Learn more
  • Snowflake CDC source connector available in top-level CDC resource Learn more
  • Native UI support of parameterization for more linked services Learn more

Data movement

  • Managed private endpoints support for Application Gateway and MySQL Flexible Server Learn more
  • Managed virtual network time-to-live (TTL) general availability Learn more

July 2023

Change Data Capture

Top-level CDC resource now supports schema evolution. Learn more

Data flow

Merge schema option in delta sink now supports schema evolution in Mapping Data Flows. Learn more

Data movement

  • Comment Out Part of Pipeline with Deactivation. Learn more
  • Pipeline return value is now generally available. Learn more