Azure Service Fabric 8.2 Sixth Refresh is now available!
We are excited to announce that the 8.2 Sixth Refresh release of the Service Fabric runtime has completed rolling out to the various Azure regions along with tooling and SDK updates. The updates for .NET SDK, Java SDK, and Service Fabric runtimes can be downloaded from the links provided in Release Notes. The SDK, NuGet packages, and Maven repositories are already available in all regions.
This release will only be available through manual upgrades. Clusters set to automatic upgrades will not receive this release. For how to configure upgrades, please see classic or managed documentation.
Key Announcements
Packages and Versions
Breaking Changes
Customers running Azure Service Fabric Linux Clusters will not be able to scale out or reimage (manual or auto via VMSS OS Image Update) nodes or create new Linux clusters without first upgrading to Service Fabric version 9.0.1086.1. Also, if your application requires JDK, then you will need to install a JDK of your choice since SF will not install the JDK as part of the SF installation. Starting 8/19/2022, the following versions have been deprecated and will not be available on Linux for new cluster creation or node reimage/scale out operations:
9.0 CU2/CU1/RTO
8.2 CU4/CU3/CU2.1/CU2/CU1/RTO
Details: Service Fabric Runtime (for Linux) placed a dependency on Zulu for Azure build of OpenJDK which is no longer supported as announced in their dev blog. Since the creation of new Linux clusters or scale-out/reimage of nodes required all the dependencies to be installed, these workflows broke when the dependency became unavailable.
Beginning with the 9.0 CU 2.1 release, Service Fabric Runtime will no longer install any JDK dependency which will ensure that customers can scale out, reimage, or create new Linux clusters. If your application needs JDK, please utilize an alternate mechanism to provision a JDK. To get the latest Service Fabric Runtime releases with this change, follow the upgrade documentation. If your application depends on a JDK, please be sure to install one of the available choices.
For more information see: Breaking change for Azure Service Fabric Linux customers
Breaking Changes with BackupRestoreService: If a Service Fabric cluster has periodic backup enabled on any of the app/service/partition, post upgrade to 8.2.1686.9590, BRS will fail to deserialize old BackupMetadata. BRS will also stop taking backup and restore on the partition/service/app in question with changes in the new release even though the user app, cluster, and BRS shows healthy. Additional information regarding the breaking change is available in Release Notes
For more details, please read the release notes