⚠️ Deprecation Notice

AutoRest is deprecated and will be retired on July 1, 2026.

AutoRest is no longer under active development. No new features, language generators, or plugins will be added.

✅ Recommended replacement: TypeSpec

The recommended successor to AutoRest is TypeSpec — a modern, actively developed API description language and code generation platform.

📌 Deprecation tracking issue for more details: https://github.com/Azure/autorest/issues/5175

AutoRest

The AutoRest tool generates client libraries for accessing RESTful web services. Input to AutoRest is a spec that describes the REST API using the OpenAPI Specification format.

Release notes

Packages

| Name | Changelog | Latest | Next | | ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | | Core functionality | | autorest | Changelog | | | | @autorest/core | Changelog | | | | @autorest/modelerfour | Changelog | | | | Language generators | | @autorest/csharp | Changelog | | | | @autorest/go | Changelog | | | | @autorest/java | Changelog | | | | @autorest/powershell | Changelog | | | | @autorest/python | Changelog | | | | @autorest/swift | Changelog | | | | @autorest/typescript | Changelog | | | | Internal packages | | @autorest/codemodel | Changelog | | | | @autorest/common | Changelog | | | | @autorest/configuration | Changelog | | | | @autorest/extension-base | Changelog | | | | @azure-tools/extension | Changelog | | | | @azure-tools/codegen | Changelog | | | | @azure-tools/openapi | Changelog | | | | @azure-tools/deduplication | Changelog | | | | @azure-tools/datastore | Changelog | | | | @azure-tools/oai2-to-oai3 | Changelog | | | | @azure-tools/jsonschema | Changelog | | |

Getting Started using AutoRest

View our docs readme as a starting point to find both general information and language-generator specific information

Contributing

Contributing guide

Check our internal developer docs to learn about our development process, how to propose bugfixes and improvements, and how to build and test your changes to Autorest.

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

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