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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
  • Features
  • 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
  • Security
  • Features
  • Operating System

March 2023

16 Mar

Now available: Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is a Microsoft supported lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is fine tuned to run on edge devices with constrained resources.

  • Azure Arc
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Windows IoT Enterprise
  • Services
  • Operating System
  • Pricing & Offerings
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
  • Open Source
  • Features
  • Operating System

February 2023

22 Feb

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.02

NOW AVAILABLE

This quality release includes bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
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
  • Features
  • Operating System
9 Feb

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.02 expected on February 21

NOW AVAILABLE

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

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System

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
  • Open Source
  • Features
  • Operating System
2 Dec

General Availability: Azure Sphere version 22.11

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure Sphere version 22.11 release includes various new features and developer resources.

  • Azure Sphere
  • SDK and Tools
  • Operating System

November 2022

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.

  • Security
  • Operating System
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 IoT Enterprise
  • Services
  • Features
  • Operating System

October 2022

31 Oct

Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure US Government Cloud

NOW AVAILABLE

All Azure Windows VMs provisioned in Azure US Government Cloud after 1 February, 2023, will be activated via aazkms.core.usgovcloudapi.net, which points to one new KMS IP address, 52.126.105.2.

  • Services
  • Operating System
26 Oct

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.10

NOW AVAILABLE

This quality release includes bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
13 Oct

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.10 expected on October 25

NOW AVAILABLE

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

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
12 Oct

General availability: AMD-based confidential VMs for Azure Kubernetes Service

NOW AVAILABLE

Announcing the general availability of confidential node pools on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with AMD SEV-SNP confidential VMs.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Services
  • Features
  • Operating System
12 Oct

Generally available: Azure Hybrid Benefit for AKS and Azure Stack HCI

NOW AVAILABLE

We are expanding Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server Software Assurance (SA) customers to easily modernize with Azure, wherever they are.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Operating System
  • Pricing & Offerings
12 Oct

Generally available: Azure Automanage for Azure Virtual Machines and Arc-enabled servers

NOW AVAILABLE

Announcing the general availability for Azure Automanage with expanded configuration options.

  • Azure Automanage
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Services
  • Management
  • Operating System

September 2022

28 Sep

General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.09

NOW AVAILABLE

The 22.09 release includes a decrease in cold boot time and optimized manufacturing scripts.

  • Azure Sphere
  • SDK and Tools
  • Operating System
19 Sep

Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure China Cloud

NOW AVAILABLE

All Azure Windows VMs provisioned in Azure China Cloud after December 15, 2022, will be activated via azkms.core.chinacloudapi.cn, which points to two new KMS IP addresses, 159.27.28.100 and 163.228.64.161.

  • Services
  • Operating System
13 Sep

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.09 expected on September 22

NOW AVAILABLE

Participate in the 22.09 retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System

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