What's new in Azure Synapse Analytics?
This article lists updates to Azure Synapse Analytics that are now available as of October 2021.
Each update links to the Azure Synapse Analytics blog and an article that provides more information.
October 2021 Update
The following updates are new to Azure Synapse Analytics this month.
General
- Manage your cost with Azure Synapse pre-purchase plans blog article
- Move your Azure Synapse workspace across Azure regions blog article
Apache Spark for Synapse
- Spark performance optimizations blog
Security
- All Synapse RBAC roles are now generally available for use in production blog article
- Leverage User-Assigned Managed Identities for Double Encryption blog article
- Synapse Administrators now have elevated access to dedicated SQL pools blog article
Governance
Integrate
- Use Stringify in data flows to easily transform complex data types to strings blog article
- Control Spark session time-to-live (TTL) in data flows blog article
CI/CD & Git
- Deploy Synapse workspaces using GitHub Actions blog article
- More control creating Git branches in Synapse Studio blog article
Developer Experience
- Enhanced Markdown editing in Synapse notebooks preview blog article
- Pandas dataframes automatically render as nicely formatted HTML tables blog article
- Use IPython widgets in Synapse Notebooks blog article
- Mssparkutils runtime context now available for Python and Scala blog article