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Azure IoT Edge nesting capabilities are now generally available
Our commitment is to simplify IoT for mainstream adoption. As such, we are announcing general availability of nesting capabilities for Azure IoT Edge for industrials to connect their equipment to the cloud through multiple network layers as recommended by the ANSI/ISA-95 standard.
Azure IoT Edge 1.2.0 release is now generally available
Azure IoT Edge 1.2.0 enables Azure Device Update for IoT Hub and IoT Edge devices in a nested configuration.
March 2021
Azure IoT Central new and updated features—February 2021
February updates include device model, API, dashboard, and documentation improvements.
February 2021
Azure IoT Edge 1.1.0 release is now generally available
Azure IoT Edge 1.1.0 is our first long term servicing (LTS) release.
November 2020
Azure IoT Central new and updated features—October 2020
October updates job scheduling, enhanced IoT Edge support, dashboard improvements, and documentation updates.
October 2020
Azure IoT Edge 1.0.10 release is now available
The Azure IoT Edge 1.0.10 release is available with support for diagnostic metrics, message priorities, module startup order, and arrays in twins.
September 2020
New IoT Event Learning Path
A new Event Learning Path is now available for solution architects, business decision makers, and developers interested in IoT Solutions with Azure IoT Services.
Announcing the unified Azure Certified Device program
A unified and enhanced Azure Certified Device program was announced at Microsoft Ignite, expanding on previous Microsoft certification offerings that validate IoT devices meet specific capabilities and are built to run on Azure. This program offers a low-cost opportunity for device builders to increase visibility of their products while making it easy for solution builders and end customers to find the right device for their IoT solutions.
IoT Security updates for September 2020
New Azure IoT Security product updates include improvements around monitoring, edge nesting and the availability of Azure Defender for IoT.
Announcing Azure SQL Edge now in general availability
You can reduce cost, drive innovation, and improve operational efficiencies by using Azure SQL Edge to stream, store, and analyze IoT data.
August 2020
New Azure IoT Central App Template - Video Analytics is now available
Microsoft and Intel have collaborated to build end-to-end video analytics solutions using Azure IoT Central & Live Video Analytics. IoT Central application template is removing the complexity and challenges related to Video Analytics solution development and deployment.
July 2020
Azure IoT Central UI new and updated features—June 2020
June 2020 feature updates for Azure IoT Central are now available.
Azure IoT Central UI and documentation updates—June 2020
June 2020 UI and documentation updates for Azure IoT Central are now available.
May 2020
Azure IoT Central - Build 2020 announcements
New Azure IoT Central features, including new template and support for Azure Sphere and Azure IoT Edge, are now available.
Azure Real-Time Operating System
Azure Real-Time Operating System, which helps make IoT development even easier to help you get to market faster, is now generally available.
April 2020
March 2020
Azure IoT Edge 1.0.9 release is now available
The Azure IoT Edge 1.0.9 release is available with support for x.509 certs and the 'iotedge support-bundle' command.
November 2019
The latest Azure IoT Edge release is now available
The latest version of Azure IoT Edge includes the following improvements. See the full release notes on the GitHub release page.
IoT Hub new features now available for device and module twins
Announcing several feature improvements for Azure IoT Hub device and module twins, namely the support for deep property nesting, and increases to the twin document max size and key/value lengths.
Azure Stream Analytics—C# custom deserializers in Cloud and IoT edge
Take advantage of the power of Stream Analytics to process data in Protobuf, XML, or any custom format.
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