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Updated Azure.Identity from 1.17.1 to 1.18.0.

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1.18.0

1.18.0 (2026-02-25)

Features Added

• Added experimental Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration and Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection integration for Azure SDK clients. For details, see the Configuration and Dependency Injection documentation.

• The WorkloadIdentityCredentialOptions.IsAzureProxyEnabled property, which enables Azure Kubernetes token proxy mode, is only available in beta releases of this package.

• AzureDeveloperCliCredential now parses JSON error output from azd auth token to extract clean error messages instead of including raw JSON in exceptions. Error messages like {"type":"consoleMessage","data":{"message":"ERROR: fetching token: ..."}} are now displayed as ERROR: fetching token: ....

1.18.0-beta.3

1.18.0-beta.3 (2026-02-20)

Breaking Changes

• Renamed WorkloadIdentityCredentialOptions.IsAzureKubernetesTokenProxyEnabled to IsAzureProxyEnabled to follow .NET naming conventions for boolean properties.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed a NullReferenceException that occurred during X509Chain validation on Linux when using the Identity Bindings feature.

• Disabled MSAL's internal retry logic for ConfidentialClientApplication and PublicClientApplication to prevent double retries when combined with Azure SDK's retry policy. Only the configured Azure SDK retry policy is applied, avoiding unexpected additional retry attempts.

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Updated Microsoft.Azure.AppConfiguration.AspNetCore from 8.4.0 to 8.5.0.

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8.5.0-preview

Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.AzureAppConfiguration 8.5.0-preview - November 14th, 2025

Enhancements

• Added a new method ConnectAzureFrontDoor to AzureAppConfigurationOptions, which can be used to load configuration settings from Azure App Configuration via an Azure Front Door endpoint. This enables client (browser) applications to take advantage of CDN benefits, such as scale, when fetching configuration. #​706

Microsoft.Azure.AppConfiguration.AspNetCore 8.5.0-preview - November 14th, 2025

• Updated Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.AzureAppConfiguration reference to 8.5.0-preview. See the release notes for more information on the changes.

Microsoft.Azure.AppConfiguration.Functions.Worker 8.5.0-preview - November 14th, 2025

• Updated Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.AzureAppConfiguration reference to 8.5.0-preview. See the release notes for more information on the changes.

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Updated Microsoft.Identity.Web from 4.3.0 to 4.4.0.

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4.4.0

New features

• Add AOT-compatible web API authentication for .NET 10+. See #​3705 and #​3664.
• Propagate long-running web API session key back to callers in user token acquisition. See #​3728.
• Add OBO event initialization for OBO APIs. See #​3724.
• Add support for calling WithClientClaims flow for token acquisition. See #​3623.
• Add OnBeforeTokenAcquisitionForOnBehalfOf event. See #​3680.

Bug fixes

• Throw InvalidOperationException with actionable message when a custom credential is not registered. See #​3626.
• Fix event firing for InvokeOnBeforeTokenAcquisitionForOnBehalfOfAsync. See #​3717.
• Update OnBeforeTokenAcquisitionForOnBehalfOf to construct ClaimsPrincipal from token. See #​3714.
• Add a retry counter for acquire token and updated tests with a fake secret. See #​3682.
• Fix OBO user error handling. See #​3712.
• Fix override merging for app token (and others). See #​3644.
• Fix certificate reload logic to only trigger on certificate-specific errors. See #​3653.
• Update ROPC flow CCA to pass SendX5C to MSAL. See #​3671.

Dependencies updates

• Bump qs in /tests/DevApps/SidecarAdapter/typescript. See #​3725.
• Downgrade Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Binder to 2.1.0 on .NET Framework. See #​3730.
• Update .NET SDK to 10.0.103 to address DOTNET-Security-10.0 vulnerability. See #​3726.
• Upgrade to Microsoft.Identity.Abstractions 11 for AoT compatibility. See #​3699.
• Update to MSAL 4.81.0. See #​3665.

Documentation

• Add documentation for auto-generated session key for long-running OBO session. See #​3729.
• Improve the Aspire doc article and skills. See #​3695.
• Add an article and agent skill to add Entra ID to an Aspire app. See #​3689.
• Fix misleading comment in CertificatelessOptions.ManagedIdentityClientId. See #​3667.
• Add Copilot explore tool functionality. See #​3694.

Fundamentals

• Remove unnecessary warning suppression. See #​3715.
• Migrate labs to Lab.API 2.x (first pass). See #​3710.
• Update Sidecar E2E test constants. See #​3693.
• Fix intermittent failures in CertificatesObserverTests. See #​3687.
• Add validation baseline exclusions. See #​3684.
• Add dSTS integration tests. See #​3677.
• Fix FIC test. See #​3663.
• Update IdentityWeb version, build logic, and validation. See #​3659.

New Contributors

• @​XiaoxinMS2 made their first contribution in Add dSTS integration tests AzureAD/microsoft-identity-web#3677
• @​RyAuld made their first contribution in Fix intermittent failures in CertificatesObserverTests AzureAD/microsoft-identity-web#3687
• @​agocke made their first contribution in Update AOT annotations AzureAD/microsoft-identity-web#3664
• @​MZOLN made their first contribution in Remove unnecessary flag switch that causes official build to break. AzureAD/microsoft-identity-web#3700
• @​christian-posta made their first contribution in Fix override merging for app token (and others) AzureAD/microsoft-identity-web#3644
• @​4gust made their first contribution in Added retry counter for acquire token and modified added a test with … AzureAD/microsoft-identity-web#3682
• @​rayluo made their first contribution in Update OnBeforeTokenAcquisitionForOnBehalfOf event to construct ClaimsPricipal from token AzureAD/microsoft-identity-web#3714

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