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What's new in Azure Data Factory

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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.

This page is updated monthly, so revisit it regularly. For older months' updates, refer to the What's new archive.

Check out our What's New video archive for all of our monthly update videos.

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

Region expansion

Azure Data Factory is now available in Israel Central and Italy North. You can co-locate your ETL workflow in this new region if you are utilizing the region for storing and managing your modern data warehouse. Learn more

November 2023

Continuous integration and continuous deployment

Azure Data Factory now supports Azure DevOps Server 2022 for Git integration, including on-premises ADO server. Learn more

October 2023

Data movement

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

Region expansion

Azure Data Factory is generally available in Poland Central 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

Integration runtime

Self-hosted integration runtime now supports self-contained interactive authoring (Preview) Learn more

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