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Azure Sphere OS version 24.03 is now available for evaluation
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation for this release period provides 28 days for backward-compatibility testing.
November 2023
MQTT broker feature, PubSub capabilities now available for Azure Event Grid
Bi-directional communication and flexible consumption patterns - at scale.
October 2023
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.10 expected on November 8
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.
Generally Available: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in Azure IoT Hub
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.
July 2023
General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade
All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between July 2023 and November 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub.
June 2023
General availability: Azure Sphere version 23.05 is delayed to 20 June, and the updated OS has been issued to Retail Eval
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides seven days for backward compatibility testing.
May 2023
General availability: Azure Sphere version 23.05 is delayed, new OS will be issued to Retail Eval
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.05 expected on May 24
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
April 2023
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.
November 2022
Public preview: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in IoT Hub
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.
General availability: Azure Sphere TKS updated; OS version 22.11 expected December 1
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.
General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade
All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between November 2022 and April 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub.
Generally available: Device Update for IoT Hub
Use Device Update for IoT Hub to publish, distribute, and manage over-the-air updates for everything from tiny sensors to gateway-level devices.
July 2022
Generally available: Azure IoT Edge 1.3.0 release
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.
June 2022
General availability: Microcontroller-based device security platform
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).
May 2022
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.
March 2022
Generally available: Azure Data Explorer supports multiple databases per data connection
Target availability: Q1 2022
Dynamically route Azure Data Explorer data to an alternate database
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.
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.
February 2022
Generally available: Find developer resources easily with the IoT Central GitHub repository
Easily find developer resources and sample code for building Azure IoT Central solutions at the new Azure IoT Central GitHub repository.
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