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General availability: Azure IoT Edge supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
The latest Azure IoT Edge releases provide official packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 on AMD64 devices.
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.
March 2023
Now available: Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials
Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is a Microsoft supported lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is fine tuned to run on edge devices with constrained resources.
General availability: Yocto Kirkstone recipes for IoT Edge 1.4 LTS
Announcing the addition of Kirkstone compatible recipes to build the latest IoT Edge 1.4.x LTS release.
February 2023
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.02
This quality release includes bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS.
General availability: Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu 22.04
The latest Azure IoT Edge releases provide official packages for Ubuntu 22.04 on AMD64 and ARM64 devices.
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.02 expected on February 21
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
December 2022
General availability: Yocto recipes for IoT Edge 1.4 LTS
Announcing refreshed recipes for IoT Edge to build the latest 1.4 LTS release.
General Availability: Azure Sphere version 22.11
The Azure Sphere version 22.11 release includes various new features and developer resources.
November 2022
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.
Generally available: Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) update
The update brings enhancements to IoT Edge 1.4 and more.
October 2022
Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure US Government Cloud
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.
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.10
This quality release includes bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS.
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.10 expected on October 25
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
General availability: AMD-based confidential VMs for Azure Kubernetes Service
Announcing the general availability of confidential node pools on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with AMD SEV-SNP confidential VMs.
Generally available: Azure Hybrid Benefit for AKS and Azure Stack HCI
We are expanding Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server Software Assurance (SA) customers to easily modernize with Azure, wherever they are.
Generally available: Azure Automanage for Azure Virtual Machines and Arc-enabled servers
Announcing the general availability for Azure Automanage with expanded configuration options.
September 2022
General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.09
The 22.09 release includes a decrease in cold boot time and optimized manufacturing scripts.
Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure China Cloud
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.
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.09 expected on September 22
Participate in the 22.09 retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
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