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RSS feedMarch 2024
Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu Core Snaps
We are expanding the Azure IoT Edge supported platforms to include Ubuntu Core Snaps on IoT Edge as a Tier 1 supported operating system.
November 2023
MQTT broker feature, PubSub capabilities now available for Azure Event Grid
Bi-directional communication and flexible consumption patterns - at scale.
October 2023
Generally Available: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in Azure IoT Hub
Azure IoT Hub now supports the ability to setup an Azure Cosmos DB account as a custom endpoint. This will help route device data from IoT Hub to Azure Cosmos DB directly.
July 2023
General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade
All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between July 2023 and November 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub.
May 2023
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.
March 2023
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 IoT Edge supports Ubuntu 22.04
The latest Azure IoT Edge releases provide official packages for Ubuntu 22.04 on AMD64 and ARM64 devices.
January 2023
General availability: IoT Edge Metrics Collector 1.1
This refresh updates the module's dependencies and base image.
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.
November 2022
Generally available: Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) update
The update brings enhancements to IoT Edge 1.4 and more.
General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade
All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between November 2022 and April 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub.
Generally available: Device Update for IoT Hub
Use Device Update for IoT Hub to publish, distribute, and manage over-the-air updates for everything from tiny sensors to gateway-level devices.
October 2022
Generally available: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Build distributed PostgreSQL applications that scale globally with cross-region read replicas with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL.
General availability: Azure Data Explorer output from Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q4 2022
Azure Data Explorer output from Azure Stream Analytics is now generally available.
August 2022
Generally available: IoT Edge 1.4
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.
July 2022
Generally available: Guided tour experience added to Azure IoT Central
You now have the option to take the phone as a device guided tour when creating a new application in Azure IoT Central.
Generally available: CI/CD Guidance for Azure IoT Central
CI/CD Guidance and sample code now available for Azure IoT Central deployment pipelines.
Generally available: Exporting device customizations and cloud properties in Azure IoT Central
Device capability customizations and cloud properties are now included in exported device templates in Azure IoT Central.
Generally available: Azure IoT Edge 1.3.0 release
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.
Generally available: Azure Digital Twins Data history
Data history is an integration feature of Azure Digital Twins.
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