Storage Client Library 7.0.2-preview

• Blobs (WinRT): Fixed a bug that caused DownloadToFile() to infinite loop for one overload.
• All : CoreCLR projects were updated to use the RC2 release of .Net Core 1.0

Storage Client Library 7.0.0

• All: TestConfigurations.xml has been deleted and added to the .gitignore file to keep users from accidentally leaking their credentials. To continue running tests, simply add the same file back after you get the latest code.
• All: Support for 2015-07-08 REST version. Please see our REST API documentation and blogs for information about the related added features. If you are using the Storage Emulator, please update to Emulator version 4.3.
• All (WinRT): All apis now return Task objects instead of IAsync* objects. Please see our blog post for more info.
• All: Ensure disposal of CancellationTokenSource in StreamExtensions.WriteToAsync.
• All: Virtualized all service call APIs and unsealed their classes.
• All: Updated the UserAgent string to match the Azure Storage standard.
• All: Windows Runtime no longer uses WrappedStorageExceptions or HResults. Catch StorageException and check HTTP status code instead.
• All: Changed use of HttpClient in Windows Runtime from instance-per-request to singleton instance shared across all requests.
• All: SetServiceProperties APIs no longer instantiates Logging, HourMetrics, MinuteMetrics, or Cors instance variables. New LoggingProperties, MetricsProperties, and CorsProperties objects will need to be set for those variables before they can be assigned.
• All: LoggingProperties and MetricsProperties Version now defaults to "1.0" or Constants.AnalyticsConstants.MetricsVersionV1 or LoggingVersionV1.
• All: Removed deprecated SharedKeyLiteAuthenticationHandler, use SharedKeyAuthenticationHandler instead.
• All: Removed deprecated request options setters on the *Client class object in favor of setting request options on Client's DefaultRequestOptions object.
• All: When creating a SAS token with a non-null SharedAccessProtocol, only valid enum values are permitted. All other values will now throw an ArgumentException.
• All: Fixed a bug that caused the PCL to not work correctly when only targeting Win8.
• Blobs: Removed deprecated (Begin/End)StartCopyFromBlob(Async) APIs in favor of using (Begin/End)StartCopy(Async) APIs.
• Blobs: Removed deprecated GetSubdirectoryReference API in favor of GetDirectoryReference.
• Blobs: Removed FileMode parameter for UploadFromFile* and AppendFromFile* APIs since there is only 1 valid option (FileMode.Open).
• Blobs: When downloading blob to local file fails, file created for download will be cleaned up.
• Blobs: proposedLeaseId for minimum AcquireLease API overloads defaults to null.
• Blobs/Files: Fixed bug in DownloadToFile APIs where existing files could be deleted if users call API with Create or CreateNew FileModes.
• Tables: Removed deprecated AtomPub payloadFormat support.
• Tables: Fixed a bug in table batch operations where storage exceptions resulted in operation contexts with incorrect HttpStatusMessage.
• Tables: Batching validation was added for batch sizes exceeding 100 operations.
• Tables: Batching validation was added for null partition keys and row keys.
• Tables: Removed deprecated overloads for Table.Retrieve APIs.
• Tables: Add ProjectSystemProperties to TableRequestOptions to allow opt-out on system properties (PartitionKey, RowKey, Timestamp).
• Files: When downloading file to local system file fails, file created for download will be cleaned up.
• Queues: Removed deprecated EndBeginClear API in favor of EndClear.

Storage Client Library 6.2.0

All: Refreshed ASP.NET 5 targets to work with latest RC bits (DNX Core 5.0, rc1).
•All: The dnx and net target frameworks have been unified, and DNXCore target framework has been renamed to Dotnet5.4. All DNX4.5.1 projects will take a dependency on the regular Windows Desktop dll.
•All: Fixed bug that caused issue with Windows Phone 8.1 Apps.
•Tables: Added overloads to retrieve API that don't include the optional selectedColumns param to maintain backwards compatibility.
•Tables: Fixed bug where creating a table with an EncryptionPolicy set resulted in an exception.

Storage Client Library 6.1.0

• All: Refreshed ASP.NET 5 targets to work with latest RC bits (DNX 4.5.1 and DNX Core 5.0, beta8).
• All: Added support for Account Shared Access Signatures to the PCL, enabling scenarios such as ListContainers, CreateTable, GetQueueServiceProperties, etc.
• Blobs: Added a performance enhancement - uploading data using client-side encryption used to always call PutBlock + PutblockList, even if the library should be calling PutBlob.
• Blobs: Fixed a bug where uploading data using client-side encryption, async or APM, and with an access condition, will in some cases upload the data unencrypted.
• Tables: Added support for projecting columns with the Retrieve operation.
• Tables: Fixed a bug where some table queries with client-side decryption were not formatted correctly, resulting in empty entity results.
• Files: Fixed bug in Windows Runtime where FetchAttributes API did not update copyState.

Storage Client Library 6.0.0

• All: Support for 2015-04-05 REST version. Please see our REST API documentation and blogs for information about the related added features.
• All: Refreshed ASP.NET 5 targets to work with latest RC bits (DNX 4.5.1 and DNX Core 5.0, beta7).
• All: Removed deprecated Shared Access Signature methods that take version as a parameter.
• Tables: Altered default settings for echoContent and payloadFormat. AtomPub payloadFormat is now obsolete.
• Tables: Fixed a bug where filter conditions for doubles were improperly formatted.
• Tables: Clarified the error message for batch transactions.
• Tables: Added JSON support for Universal Apps, Windows Runtime, PCL, DNX 4.5.1, and DNX Core 5.0 targets.
• Tables: Added echo content configurability support for Universal Apps, Windows Runtime, PCL, DNX 4.5.1, and DNX Core 5.0 targets.
• Tables: Fixed a bug where a select on a non-existent field resulted in a null reference exception if the corresponding field in the TableEntity was not nullable.
• Files: Added support for Minute and Hour Metrics to FileServiceProperties and added support for File Metrics to CloudAnalyticsClient.

Storage Client Library 5.0.2

• Blobs: Fixed a bug in the min AppendTextAsync overload that caused overwrite behavior instead of append behavior. Please upgrade to 5.0.2 as soon as possible to avoid this bug.

Storage Client Library 5.0.0

• All: Support for 2015-02-21 REST version. Please see our REST API documentation and blogs for information about the related added features.
• All: Added GA support for Client Side Encryption. For more information about our encryption, please see our documentation and samples.
• All: Deprecated the overload for GetSharedAccessSignature that takes a SAS version because the SAS tokens generated using the current version work fine with old libraries.
• All: Updated the error message for the error that is thrown for having more than 5 shared access policy identifiers to include shares.
• All: Made SyncMemoryStream, a MemoryStream implementation that runs synchronously even when asynchronous overloads are called public.
• All: Updated OData dependencies to v5.6.4 and Newtonsoft.Json dependency to 6.0.8. Removed Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ConfigurationManager dependency.
• All: Changed behavior to stop stripping out query parameters passed in with the resource URI. Some query parameters such as comp, restype, snapshot and api-version will still be removed.
• Blobs: MultiBufferMemoryStream objects passed as argument to upload methods are not disposed by the client library.
• Blobs: Added CloudAppendBlob class. For more information on this, please refer to the REST API link.
• Blobs: Deprecated StartCopyFromBlob() using the Obsolete attribute. Use StartCopy() instead.
• Blobs: CreateCloudBlobClient does not throw an exception when the credentials are null to support anonymous access.
• Blobs/Files: Fixed a bug which in very rare cases could cause streaming writes to hang.

Storage Client Library 4.4.0 Preview

• All: Added preview support for client side encryption for blobs, queues and tables.
• All: Added preview support for building applications via Portable Class Library (Profile 111), as well as Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android.
• All: Added StringToSign to the client logs in the Shared Access Signature case.
• Blobs: Created a CloudBlob instantiable class. Users can now get/set properties, metadata, download blobs, create snapshots, copy blobs and perform leasing actions on blobs without knowing the type of the blob. CloudPageBlob and CloudBlockBlob now derive from this class.
• Blobs: Added GetBlobReference on CloudBlobContainer to get a reference to a CloudBlob object that can be used for common operations across blob types. This api does not make a service call.
• Blobs (ASP.NET): Added missing overloads for StartCopyFromBlob in CloudBlockBlob and CloudPageBlob.
• Blobs (Windows Runtime): Added missing custom encoding support for UploadTextAsync() and DownloadTextAsync() API in CloudBlockBlob.

Storage Client Library 4.3.2 Preview

• All: Removed incorrect dependencies.

Storage Client Library 4.3.1 Preview

• All: Support building ASP.NET 5 based applications, in preview.
• All: All requests add x-ms-version header.