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July 2019

23 Jul

Azure IoT Edge 1.0.8 release is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure IoT Edge 1.0.8 release is available with multiple improvements.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Features
17 Jul

Update 19.07 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation

IN PREVIEW

The Azure Sphere public preview 19.07 quality release is now available via the Retail Evaluation feed. The Retail Evaluation feed will provide the new OS for 14 days before we release it to the Retail feed. It is meant for backwards compatibility testing.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
8 Jul

Update 19.06 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed

IN PREVIEW

The Azure Sphere public preview 19.06 quality release is now available via the Retail feed.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
3 Jul

Azure Monitor Log now supports log search on multiple Azure resources

NOW AVAILABLE

Many Azure services added support for new and easier way to search their logs

  • Azure Monitor
  • Management
  • Features

June 2019

24 Jun

Update 19.06 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation

IN PREVIEW

The Azure Sphere public preview 19.06 quality release is now available via the Retail Evaluation feed. The Retail Evaluation feed will provide the new OS for 14 days before we release it to the Retail feed. The Retail OS feed will continue to deliver version 19.05; we plan to upgrade it to 19.06 in two weeks.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System

May 2019

29 May

IoT Hub device telemetry events in Event Grid - public preview

IN PREVIEW

IoT Hub expands its capabilities as an event source in Event Grid by enabling subscribing to device telemetry events.

  • Event Grid
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
  • Features
16 May

Update 19.05 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation

IN PREVIEW

The Azure Sphere public preview 19.05 feature release is available today via the Retail Evaluation feed. The regular Retail OS feed will continue to deliver version 19.04; we plan to upgrade it to 19.05 in two weeks.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
6 May

Public Preview of Azure Data Explorer capabilities to integrate deeper with ADLS Gen 2

IN PREVIEW

At Build, Azure Data Explorer will preview the capability for enterprises to query data from ADLS Gen 2 without ingesting data

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Services
  • Features

April 2019

24 Apr

Update 19.04 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed

IN PREVIEW

The Azure Sphere public preview 19.04 quality release is available today via the Retail feed.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
10 Apr

Update 19.04 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation

IN PREVIEW

The Azure Sphere public preview 19.04 quality release is available today via the Retail Evaluation feed. The regular Retail OS feed will continue to deliver version 19.03; we plan to upgrade it to 19.04 in two weeks.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
3 Apr

Azure Security Center for IoT in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure is now the first major public cloud with end-to-end security for IoT for your devices, hubs and cloud resources. We are adding advanced threat protection for IoT to three key services: Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel and Azure IoT Hub.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure Sphere
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Security

March 2019

29 Mar

Update 19.03 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed

IN PREVIEW

The 19.03 release marks the beginning of a planned release schedule of one major feature release and two minor quality releases per quarter.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
25 Mar

IoT Hub supports new Azure Monitor metric alerts

NOW AVAILABLE

Announcing the new Azure Monitor metric alerts in IoT Hub. These new metric alerts are faster and more flexible than the older classic alerts, and they're also easier to set up.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure Monitor
  • Retirements
  • Features
15 Mar

Update 19.03 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation

IN PREVIEW

We now support both a Retail Evaluation feed and a Retail feed for the Azure Sphere OS.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System

February 2019

25 Feb

Azure Event Grid Availability in Azure US Gov regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Event Grid is now generally available in US Gov Texas, Arizona, and Virginia regions.

  • Event Grid
  • Services
  • Features

December 2018

19 Dec

Azure IoT Edge 1.0.5 release

NOW AVAILABLE

The 1.0.5 update of Azure IoT Edge enables a better experience on devices with slow connections, provides improved error messages, and moves Windows to RS5.

  • Features

November 2018

14 Nov

Azure Functions 2.0 available in IoT Edge

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Functions runtime 2.0 is now available on IoT Edge.

  • Azure Functions
  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Services
5 Nov

Azure IoT Edge 1.0.4 release

NOW AVAILABLE

The 1.0.4 update of Azure IoT Edge contains connectivity improvements, puts C# functions in general availability, and allows for longer createOptions fields.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Features
5 Nov

Upcoming Azure Sphere 18.11 release

IN PREVIEW

We plan to publish the 18.11 release of Azure Sphere during the week of November 12. This release includes substantial investments in our security infrastructure, and it incorporates user feedback.

  • Azure Sphere
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features

October 2018

12 Oct

Azure IoT Edge 1.0.3 release

NOW AVAILABLE

The 1.0.3 update of Azure IoT Edge includes only a fix for a security vulnerability in a dependency of the runtime.

  • Features

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