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March 2024

13 Mar

Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu Core Snaps

NOW AVAILABLE

We are expanding the Azure IoT Edge supported platforms to include Ubuntu Core Snaps on IoT Edge as a Tier 1 supported operating system.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Operating System
  • Features

May 2023

4 May

General availability: Azure IoT Edge supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

NOW AVAILABLE

The latest Azure IoT Edge releases provide official packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 on AMD64 devices.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Operating System
  • Features

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
  • Security
  • Operating System
  • Features

March 2023

9 Mar

General availability: Yocto Kirkstone recipes for IoT Edge 1.4 LTS

NOW AVAILABLE

Announcing the addition of Kirkstone compatible recipes to build the latest IoT Edge 1.4.x LTS release.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Operating System
  • Features
  • Open Source

February 2023

21 Feb

General availability: Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu 22.04

NOW AVAILABLE

The latest Azure IoT Edge releases provide official packages for Ubuntu 22.04 on AMD64 and ARM64 devices.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Operating System
  • Features

January 2023

12 Jan

General availability: IoT Edge Metrics Collector 1.1

NOW AVAILABLE

This refresh updates the module's dependencies and base image.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Services

December 2022

14 Dec

General availability: Yocto recipes for IoT Edge 1.4 LTS

NOW AVAILABLE

Announcing refreshed recipes for IoT Edge to build the latest 1.4 LTS release.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Operating System
  • Features
  • Open Source

November 2022

9 Nov

Generally available: Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) update

NOW AVAILABLE

The update brings enhancements to IoT Edge 1.4 and more.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Windows for IoT
  • Services
  • Operating System
  • Features

August 2022

30 Aug

Generally available: IoT Edge 1.4

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure IoT Edge release 1.4 is the long term servicing (LTS) release of IoT Edge. The companion release of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) 1.4 long term servicing will be coming later this fall.

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

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
  • Features
  • Open Source

May 2022

9 May

Generally available: Azure IoT Edge supports Debian Bullseye on ARM32v7

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2022

Debian is included in the Tier 1 OS support list for ARM32v7 devices. Official packages for Bullseye on ARM32v7 are now available on packages.microsoft.com.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Operating System
  • Features
6 May

Update your IoT Edge devices on Raspberry Pi OS Stretch

Target retirement date: July 01, 2022

Transition to using Bullseye to continue receiving patches.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Retirements

March 2022

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

4 Feb

Generally available: Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu Server 20.04 and ARM64

NOW AVAILABLE

The latest Azure IoT Edge releases provide official packages for Ubuntu Server 20.04 on AMD64 and ARM64 devices.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Operating System
  • Features
3 Feb

General Availability: IoT Edge monitoring with Azure Monitor

NOW AVAILABLE

Use the latest IoT Edge Metrics collector module to send metrics to Azure Monitor and leverage updated visualizations to monitor and troubleshoot your IoT Edge devices.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure IoT Central
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Management
  • Features
  • Open Source
2 Feb

Public preview: Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) continuous release

IN PREVIEW

The update brings enhancements to IoT Edge 1.2, Microsoft Defender for IoT, and chipset support.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Windows for IoT
  • Operating System
  • Features

January 2022

18 Jan

Generally available: Azure IoT Edge tools for Visual Studio extension now supports Visual Studio 2022

NOW AVAILABLE

Download and install the Azure IoT Edge tools for Visual Studio extension that includes latest features and .NET 6 support in Visual Studio 2022.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Features

July 2021

19 Jul

Public preview: IoT Edge Metrics Collector module 1.0.1 release

IN PREVIEW

This update provides security and reliability improvements, and support for government and regional clouds.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure Monitor
  • Security
  • Features

June 2021

23 Jun

Azure IoT Edge for Linux now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Leverage existing Windows expertise and seamlessly connect Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows devices to Microsoft Azure and quickly bring cloud intelligence to your edge.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure SQL Edge
  • Services
  • Operating System
  • Features

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