This release will be deployed gradually in phases and batches, following the safe deployment practices framework. The rollout will span several weeks across all Azure regions, so your services may not have the new features and fixes until the deployment is complete.
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New features and improvements
- Azure OpenAI token limit policy now fully supports prompts that include images.
- Azure OpenAI token limit policy and LLM token limit policies can now also enforce overall token quota.
- Backend identifier can now be used as a dimension in any of the emit metric policies.
- Workspaces are now available in the Germany West Central region.
- Synthetic GraphQL requests, especially those with large schemas or multiple complex resolvers, perform much faster now.
Bug fixes
- Requests to an API in an open product and containing a subscription key for a different product are not being rejected anymore.
- Validate content policy now works correctly with nullable properties in JSON payloads, including those defined by the
oneOf,anyOf, andallOfschema constructs. - Redirect content URLs policy doesn't add redundant slashes to the output URLs like it used to in some cases.
- Validate Entra ID token policy now correctly puts decrypted token into the context variable specified in the
output-token-variable-nameattribute. - Rate limit by key policy now returns correct value in the
Retry-Afterheader in all cases. - Array fields are now returned when included in Synthetic GraphQL subscriptions.
- You can now successfully add a workspace to a service configured with a custom hostname.
Self-hosted developer portal releases
Self-hosted gateway container image releases
- None
Self-hosted gateway Helm chart releases
- None