Azure Storage version removal and continued support for SF 6

We have SF 6.1 deployed to Azure, and Microsoft recently announced that it will end support for older versions of the Azure Storage API in December of 2015. The earliest version of the Azure SDK that will continue to support Azure Storage is 2.1, while SF 6 was built against version 1.8.

Question: does this mean that an upgrade to SF 7 will be absolutely necessary?

View the announcement here: http://aka.ms/Qga48e

 (this is also posted to the Google+ group here)

Good question, Id like to see a table of SF versions (including minor versions) and their dependency on Azure Storage API versions. The Microsoft announcement was not sufficiently detailed in relating to SF.

Here's an update:

• I considered using assembly redirects to force SF to use a newer version of the Azure Storage API, but there are breaking changes in the earliest supported version, so that's out of the question.
• I found out upgrading to SF 7 won't solve the issue, since it continues to use the old version of the Storage API (1.7)

 I've concluded that a new version of Sitefinity that supports an updated Azure Storage API will have to be released if existing sites in Azure are going to continue storing their logs after December 2015

Hi all,

Yes, we are aware of this official Microsoft announcement, which will impact all versions earlier than SItefinity 7.0 as described in our Windows Azure SDK supported versions documentation article.

For the moment we cannot provide any additional information, but we will take further action regarding this.

Regards,
Vassil Vassilev
Telerik

Vassil,

My investigations showed that despite the upgrade to Azure SDK 2.2 with Sitefinity 7.0, the Azure Storage API was never upgraded. When I look at the Telerik.Sitefinity.dll for SF 7.x in JustDecompile, it still references Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient version 1.7, which will no longer function after December 2015.

 In that case, Sitefinity 7.x will also be affected, correct?

 Thanks,

Nicholas

Hello Nicholas,

Is a fix for this issue on the roadmap for 8.x?

Nicholas 

Hello Nicholas,

Unfortunately, I do not possess any further information regarding the Azure version. The upcoming features for 8.0 have already been posted and the beta released. We will keep the features thread posted about future releases. Currently, I cannot state any further information regarding this, than my colleague Vassil already provided.

Regards,
Nikola Zagorchev
Telerik