0.5.8

This update adds tools for Azure AI Foundry knowledge indexes, Function App details, Azure Managed Lustre, guided cloud architecture design, and a MySQL management suite (SELECT-only query). It also renames a couple of Storage options (account-name→account, blob-names→blobs), improves reliability and performance with a Resource Graph–based SQL implementation and safer KQL escaping, standardizes Storage command descriptions, enables service-area telemetry, and prepares for .NET 10 SDK packaging, alongside AOT-focused dependency updates.

The current individual tool count is: 131

📃 Refer to the CHANGELOG for a full list of changes in this and previous versions.
📦 You can also find the published package on the following platforms:

• VS Code Extension: ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-mcp-server
• npm: @azure/mcp - npm
• Microsoft Artifact Registry: azure-sdk/azure-mcp

0.5.7

This update adds a full deploy & quota toolkit (deployment plans, CI/CD guidance, IaC rules, architecture diagrams, app logs, region availability and quota usage checks) plus new Service Health status commands, ACR repository listing, Function App listing, Key Vault certificate import, and Storage blob upload. It also improves server guidance for LLMs and advances AOT readiness with updated Bicep type packages.

The current individual tool count is: 118

📃 Refer to the CHANGELOG for a full list of changes in this and previous versions.
📦 You can also find the published package on the following platforms:

• VS Code Extension: ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-mcp-server
• npm: @azure/mcp - npm
• Microsoft Artifact Registry: azure-sdk/azure-mcp

0.5.6

This update adds new commands to list Azure Function Apps and retrieve detailed Azure Storage account metadata. It also centralizes --resource-group option handling across all commands for more consistent validation and error messages, and updates several Azure SDK dependencies to improve .NET AOT readiness.

📃 Refer to the CHANGELOG for a full list of changes in this and previous versions.
📦 You can also find the published package on the following platforms:

• VS Code Extension: ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-mcp-server
• npm: @azure/mcp - npm
• Microsoft Artifact Registry: azure-sdk/azure-mcp

0.5.5

This update introduces new commands for Azure Container Registry (ACR) listing and expands Azure Storage capabilities with account creation, queue messaging, blob details, and container creation. The release also brings a breaking change to the storage account list output format, improves best practices tool reliability, and consolidates telemetry logic for better diagnostics.

📃 Refer to the CHANGELOG for a more detailed rundown of all the changes included in this and previous versions.
📦 You can also find the published package on the following platforms:

• VS Code Extensions: ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-mcp-server
• npm: @azure/mcp - npm
• Microsoft Artifact Registry: azure-sdk/azure-mcp

0.5.4

This update fixes subscription parameter handling across all Azure MCP services to consistently support both subscription IDs and names, resolves duplicate telemetry activities, and improves the VS Code experience with a cleaner display name. The release also includes enhanced command group descriptions for better agent usage across Azure AI Search and Storage tools.

📃 Refer to the CHANGELOG for a more detailed rundown of all the changes included in this and previous versions.
📦 You can also find the published package on the following platforms:

• VS Code Extensions: ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-mcp-server
• npm: @azure/mcp - npm
• Microsoft Artifact Registry: azure-sdk/azure-mcp

0.5.3

This update adds support for Azure Virtual Desktop commands, Azure File Shares listing, and enhanced App Configuration capabilities. It includes parameter name simplifications across 25+ parameters in 12+ Azure service areas, removing unnecessary "-name" suffixes (e.g., --account-name → --account). It also fixes blob batch tier handling issues and adds Cosmos DB caching improvements.

📃 Refer to the CHANGELOG for a more detailed rundown of all the changes included in this and previous versions.
📦 You can also find the published package on the following platforms:

• VS Code Extensions: ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-mcp-server
• npm: @azure/mcp - npm
• Microsoft Artifact Registry: azure-sdk/azure-mcp

0.5.2

This update adds support for batch setting access tier for multiple Azure Storage blob, removes the --partner-tenant-id option from the azmcp-marketplace-product-get command, and removes toast notifications related to Azure MCP server registration and startup instructions in VS Code.

📃 Refer to the CHANGELOG for a more detailed rundown of all the changes included in this and previous versions.
📦 You can also find the published package on the following platforms:

• VS Code Extensions: ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-mcp-server
• npm: @azure/mcp - npm
• Microsoft Artifact Registry: azure-sdk/azure-mcp

0.5.1

This update adds support for listing SQL databases and reading an Azure subscription id from environment variables. It also temporarily removes the get operations for Key Vault keys and secrets while work on more robust data redaction is underway.

📃 Refer to the CHANGELOG for a more detailed rundown of all the changes included in this and previous versions.
📦 You can also find the published package on the following platforms:

• VS Code Extensions: ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-mcp-server
• npm: @azure/mcp - npm
• Microsoft Artifact Registry: azure-sdk/azure-mcp

0.5.0

This update changes the default tool listing to group tools by namespace (e.g., Storage, Key Vault), reducing the overall count. It also adds new tools for Azure Key Vault, Workbooks, Storage DataLake, and AKS, unifies "best practices" tools, and fixes a race condition affecting clients that start the server and call tools from separate processes.

📃 Refer to the CHANGELOG for a more detailed rundown of all the changes included in this and previous versions.
📦 You can also find the published package on the following platforms:

• VS Code Extensions: ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-mcp-server
• npm: @azure/mcp - npm
• Microsoft Artifact Registry: azure-sdk/azure-mcp

0.4.1

This version adds operations interacting Azure Data Lake, Azure Functions, Azure Load Testing, Azure Marketplace, Azure Quick Review CLI, Azure SQL Elastic Pools, and Azure SQL Firewall Rules. It also improves reliability by fixing issues related to using the Azure CLI on Windows, tool discovery in hosts that use separate processes to list tools and to call them, and communication with MCP hosts at server startup time.

📃 Refer to the CHANGELOG for a more detailed rundown of all the changes included in this and previous versions.
📦 You can also find the published package on npm: @azure/mcp - npm