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March 2024

Mar 13

Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu Core Snaps

NOW AVAILABLE

We are expanding the Azure IoT Edge supported platforms to include Ubuntu Core Snaps on IoT Edge as a Tier 1 supported operating system.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Operating System
  • Features

November 2023

Nov 15

MQTT broker feature, PubSub capabilities now available for Azure Event Grid

NOW AVAILABLE

Bi-directional communication and flexible consumption patterns - at scale.

  • Event Grid
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2023

Oct 5

Generally Available: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in Azure IoT Hub

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Services

July 2023

Jul 18

General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade

NOW AVAILABLE

All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between July 2023 and November 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services

May 2023

May 4

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
  • Operating System
  • Features

March 2023

Mar 9

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
  • Operating System
  • Features
  • Open Source

February 2023

Feb 21

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
  • Operating System
  • Features

January 2023

Jan 12

General availability: IoT Edge Metrics Collector 1.1

NOW AVAILABLE

This refresh updates the module's dependencies and base image.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Services

December 2022

Dec 14

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
  • Operating System
  • Features
  • Open Source

November 2022

Nov 9

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 for IoT
  • Services
  • Operating System
  • Features
Nov 3

General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade

NOW AVAILABLE

All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between November 2022 and April 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
Nov 1

Generally available: Device Update for IoT Hub

NOW AVAILABLE

Use Device Update for IoT Hub to publish, distribute, and manage over-the-air updates for everything from tiny sensors to gateway-level devices.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
  • Features

October 2022

Oct 12

Generally available: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

NOW AVAILABLE

Build distributed PostgreSQL applications that scale globally with cross-region read replicas with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Services
  • Management
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
  • Open Source
Oct 12

General availability: Azure Data Explorer output from Azure Stream Analytics

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2022

Azure Data Explorer output from Azure Stream Analytics is now generally available.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

August 2022

Aug 30

Generally available: IoT Edge 1.4

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
  • Features
  • Open Source

July 2022

Jul 27

Generally available: Guided tour experience added to Azure IoT Central

NOW AVAILABLE

You now have the option to take the phone as a device guided tour when creating a new application in Azure IoT Central.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
Jul 20

Generally available: CI/CD Guidance for Azure IoT Central

NOW AVAILABLE

CI/CD Guidance and sample code now available for Azure IoT Central deployment pipelines.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
Jul 14

Generally available: Exporting device customizations and cloud properties in Azure IoT Central

NOW AVAILABLE

Device capability customizations and cloud properties are now included in exported device templates in Azure IoT Central.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
Jul 12

Generally available: Azure IoT Edge 1.3.0 release

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
  • Features
  • Open Source
Jul 6

Generally available: Azure Digital Twins Data history

NOW AVAILABLE

Data history is an integration feature of Azure Digital Twins.

  • Azure Digital Twins
  • Features

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