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March 2024

5 Mar

Azure Sphere OS version 24.03 is now available for evaluation

NOW AVAILABLE

Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation for this release period provides 28 days for backward-compatibility testing.

  • SDK and Tools
  • Operating System

November 2023

15 Nov

MQTT broker feature, PubSub capabilities now available for Azure Event Grid

NOW AVAILABLE

Bi-directional communication and flexible consumption patterns - at scale.

  • Event Grid
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2023

26 Oct

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.10 expected on November 8

NOW AVAILABLE

Participate in retail evaluation now to ensure compatibility. The Azure Sphere team has also updated the trusted keystore of Azure Sphere devices, resulting in an additional reboot for production devices.

  • SDK and Tools
  • Operating System
5 Oct

Generally Available: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in Azure IoT Hub

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure IoT Hub now supports the ability to setup an Azure Cosmos DB account as a custom endpoint. This will help route device data from IoT Hub to Azure Cosmos DB directly.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Services

July 2023

18 Jul

General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade

NOW AVAILABLE

All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between July 2023 and November 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services

June 2023

12 Jun

General availability: Azure Sphere version 23.05 is delayed to 20 June, and the updated OS has been issued to Retail Eval

NOW AVAILABLE

Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides seven days for backward compatibility testing.

  • SDK and Tools
  • Operating System

May 2023

30 May

General availability: Azure Sphere version 23.05 is delayed, new OS will be issued to Retail Eval

NOW AVAILABLE

Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.

  • SDK and Tools
  • Operating System
9 May

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.05 expected on May 24

NOW AVAILABLE

Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.

  • Operating System

April 2023

26 Apr

Update your IoT Edge devices on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS reaches the end of standard support on May 31st, 2023. To continue to receive support and security updates, we highly recommend that you update your host OS to a Tier 1 supported platform. 

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Operating System
  • Features
  • Security

November 2022

21 Nov

Public preview: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in IoT Hub

IN PREVIEW

Azure IoT Hub now supports the ability to setup an Azure Cosmos DB account as a custom endpoint. This will help route device data from IoT Hub to Azure Cosmos DB directly.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
15 Nov

General availability: Azure Sphere TKS updated; OS version 22.11 expected December 1

NOW AVAILABLE

Participate in retail evaluation now to ensure compatibility. The Azure Sphere team has also updated the trusted keystore of Azure Sphere devices, resulting in an additional reboot for production devices.

  • Operating System
  • Security
3 Nov

General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade

NOW AVAILABLE

All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between November 2022 and April 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
1 Nov

Generally available: Device Update for IoT Hub

NOW AVAILABLE

Use Device Update for IoT Hub to publish, distribute, and manage over-the-air updates for everything from tiny sensors to gateway-level devices.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
  • Features

July 2022

12 Jul

Generally available: Azure IoT Edge 1.3.0 release

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure IoT Edge release 1.3 is available with support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and requires that inbound/outbound communication use TLS 1.2 by default.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
  • Open Source
  • Features

June 2022

22 Jun

General availability: Microcontroller-based device security platform

NOW AVAILABLE

Microsoft and STMicroelectronics have partnered to address the growing concern for security as a key barrier for cloud IoT market adoption with a security platform targeting microcontroller-based devices (MCUs).

  • Azure RTOS
  • Operating System
  • Features
  • Security

May 2022

24 May

IoT Hub IP address change notification

IoT Hub will be updating the underlying infrastructure and will go through an internal service update. The update will change the underlying DNS record for IoT Hub, resulting in a change of the IP address.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services

March 2022

24 Mar

Generally available: Azure Data Explorer supports multiple databases per data connection

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2022

Dynamically route Azure Data Explorer data to an alternate database

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Event Grid
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Management
  • Features
17 Mar

IoT Hub on Azure Stack Hub public preview will be retired on 30 September 2022

Target retirement date: July 31, 2022

Migrate to Azure IoT Edge gateway by 30 September 2022.

  • Azure Stack Hub
  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Retirements
17 Mar

Update: Event Grid on Azure IoT Edge preview will retire on 31 March 2023

Target retirement date: March 31, 2023

Migrate to Azure IoT Edge Hub before 31 March 2023.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Event Grid
  • Retirements

February 2022

8 Feb

Generally available: Find developer resources easily with the IoT Central GitHub repository

NOW AVAILABLE

Easily find developer resources and sample code for building Azure IoT Central solutions at the new Azure IoT Central GitHub repository.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features

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