Azure Data Science Virtual Machine release notes

In this article, learn about Azure Data Science Virtual Machine releases. For a full list of tools included, along with version numbers, check out this page.

See the list of known issues to learn about known bugs and workarounds.

December 3, 2021

New image for Windows Server 2019.

Version: 21.12.03

Main changes:

  • Updated pytorch to version 1.10.0
  • Updated tensorflow to version 2.7.0
  • Fix for Azure Machine Learning SDK & AutoML environment
  • Windows Security update
  • Improvement of stability and minor bug fixes

November 4, 2021

New image for Ubuntu 18.04.

Version: 21.11.04

Main changes:

  • Changed .NET Framework to version 3.1.414
  • Changed Azcopy to version 10.13.0
  • Changed Azure CLI to version 2.30.0
  • Changed CUDA to version 11.5
  • Changed Docker to version 20.10.10
  • Changed Intellijidea to version 2021.2.3
  • Changed NVIDIA Drivers to version 495.29.05
  • Changed NVIDIA SMI to version 495.29.05
  • Changed Nodejs to version v16.13.0
  • Changed Pycharm to version 2021.2.3
  • Changed VS Code to version 1.61.2
  • Conda
    • azureml_py36_automl
      • Changed azureml-core to version 1.35.0
    • py38_default
      • Changed Jupyter Lab / jupyterlab to version 3.2.1
      • Changed Jupyter Notebook / notebook to version 6.4.5
      • Changed Jupyter Server / jupyter_server to version 1.11.2
      • Changed PyTorch Profiler TensorBoard Plugin / torch-tb-profiler to version 0.3.1
      • Changed azure-core to version 1.19.1
      • Changed matplotlib to version 3.4.3
      • Changed mkl to version 2021.4.0
      • Changed onnx to version 1.10.2
      • Changed opencv-python to version 4.5.4.58
      • Changed pandas to version 1.3.4
      • Changed pytorch to version 1.10.0
      • Changed scikit-learn to version 1.0.1
      • Changed tensorflow-gpu to version 2.6.2

October 7, 2021

New image for Ubuntu 18.04.

Version: 21.10.07

Main changes:

  • Changed pytorch to version 1.9.1
  • Changed Docker to version 20.10.9
  • Changed Intellijidea to version 2021.2.2
  • Changed Nodejs to version v14.18.0
  • Changed Pycharm to version 2021.2.2
  • Changed VS Code to version 1.60.2
  • Fixed AutoML environment (azureml_py36_automl)
  • Fixed Azure Storage Explorer stability
  • Improvement of stability and minor bug fixes

August 11, 2021

New image for Windows Server 2019.

Version: 21.08.11

Main changes:

  • Windows Security update
  • Update of Nvidia CuDNN to 8.1.0
  • Update of Jupyter Lab -to 3.0.16
  • Added MLFLow for experiment tracking
  • Improvement of stability and minor bug fixes

July 12, 2021

New image for Ubuntu 18.04.

Main changes:

  • Updated to PyTorch 1.9.0
  • Updated Azure CLI to 2.26.1
  • Updated Azure CLI Azure Machine Learning extension to 1.29.0
  • Update VS Code version 1.58.1
  • Improvement of stability and minor bug fixes

June 22, 2021

New image for Windows Server 2019.

Version: 21.06.22

Main changes:

  • Updated to PyTorch 1.9.0
  • Fixed a bug where git was not available

June 1, 2021

New image for Ubuntu 18.04.

Version: 21.06.01

Main changes are:

  • Docker is enabled by default
  • JupyterHub is using JupyterLab by default
  • Updated Python versions to fix CVE-2020-15523
  • Updated IntelliJ IDEA to version 2021.1 to fix CVE-2021-25758
  • Updated PyCharm Community to 2021.1
  • Updated TensorFlow to version 2.5.0

Removed several icons from desktop.

May 22, 2021

New image for Windows Server 2019.

Version: 21.05.22

Selected version updates are:

  • CUDA 11.1
  • Python 3.8
  • PyTorch 1.8.1
  • TensorFlow 2.5.0
  • Spark 3.1.1
  • Java 11
  • R 4.1.0
  • Julia 1.0.5
  • NodeJS 16.2.0
  • Visual Studio Code 1.56.2 incl. Azure ML extension
  • PyCharm Community Edition 2021.1.1
  • Jupyter Lab 2.2.6
  • RStudio 1.4.1106
  • Visual Studio Community Edition 2019 (version 16.9.6)
  • Azure CLI 2.23.0
  • Storage Explorer 1.19.1
  • AzCopy 10.10.0
  • Power BI Desktop 2.93.641.0 64-bit (May 2021)
  • Azure Data Studio 1.28.0
  • Microsoft Edge browser

Removed Firefox, Apache Drill and Microsoft Integration Runtime.
Dark mode, changed icons on desktop, wallpaper background change.

May 12, 2021

New image for Ubuntu 18.04.

Selected version updates are:

  • CUDA 11.3, cuDNN 8, NCCL2
  • Python 3.8
  • R 4.0.5
  • Spark 3.1 incl. mmlspark, connectors to Blob Storage, Data Lake, CosmosDB
  • Java 11 (OpenJDK)
  • Jupyter Lab 3.0.14
  • PyTorch 1.8.1 incl. torchaudio torchtext torchvision, torch-tb-profiler
  • TensorFlow 2.4.1 incl. TensorBoard
  • dask 2021.01.0
  • VS.Code 1.56
  • Azure Data Studio 1.22.1
  • Azure CLI 2.23.0
  • Azure Storage Explorer 1.19.1
  • azcopy 10.10
  • Microsoft Edge browser (beta)

Added docker. To save resources, the docker service is not started by default. To start the docker service, run the following command-line commands: 
sudo systemctl start docker

Note

If your machine has GPU(s), you can make use of the GPU(s) inside the containers by adding a --gpus parameter to your docker command.

For example, running

sudo docker run --gpus all -it --rm -v local_dir:container_dir nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:18.04-py3

will run an Ubuntu 18.04 container with PyTorch pre-installed and all GPUs enabled. It will also make a local folder local_dir available in the container under container_dir.

February 24, 2020

Data Science Virtual Machine images for Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 2019 images are now available.

October 8, 2019

Updates to software on the Windows DSVM

  • Azure Storage Explorer 1.10.1
  • Power BI Desktop 2.73.55xx
  • Firefox 69.0.2
  • PyCharm 19.2.3
  • RStudio 1.2.50xx

Default Browser for Windows updated

Earlier, the default browser was set to Internet Explorer. Users are now prompted to choose a default browser when they first sign in.