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Generally available: Find developer resources easily with the IoT Central GitHub repository
Easily find developer resources and sample code for building Azure IoT Central solutions at the new Azure IoT Central GitHub repository.
Generally available: Improved getting started material in Azure IoT Central documentation
New FAQ articles and a re-organized landing page and table of contents improves your ability to find the information you need about Azure IoT Central.
Generally Available: Search results page improvements in Azure IoT Central
Filtering and highlighting matched values have been added to IoT Central search results allowing for richer search experience.
Generally available: Regional deployments for all new and existing IoT Central applications
All previously created IoT Central applications in a geography are now mapped to standard Azure region.
Generally available: Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu Server 20.04 and ARM64
The latest Azure IoT Edge releases provide official packages for Ubuntu Server 20.04 on AMD64 and ARM64 devices.
General Availability: IoT Edge monitoring with Azure Monitor
Use the latest IoT Edge Metrics collector module to send metrics to Azure Monitor and leverage updated visualizations to monitor and troubleshoot your IoT Edge devices.
January 2022
Generally available: Azure IoT Edge tools for Visual Studio extension now supports Visual Studio 2022
Download and install the Azure IoT Edge tools for Visual Studio extension that includes latest features and .NET 6 support in Visual Studio 2022.
Generally available: Support for copying dashboards added to Azure IoT Central
Start reusing tiles and dashboards through the new Copy Dashboard feature in Azure IoT Central.
Generally available: Data mapping for transforming data at ingress in Azure IoT Central
Target availability: Q1 2022
Transform complex device telemetry into structured data inside Azure IoT Central so you can use that telemetry within Rules, Analytics, Dashboards and Data Export.
Generally available: Display limits on tiles increased to 100 homogeneous devices
You can now select and display up to 100 devices on a single tile within IoT Central.
November 2021
General availability: Data transformation at Export in Azure IoT Central
This update allows the ability for you to transform device data in IoT Central into your preferred structure and export that transformed data to an external destination.
General availability: Secure Data Egress via Managed Identity in Azure IoT Central
Azure IoT Central now supports System Assigned Managed Identity allowing you to configure secure data exports.
General availability: Improved legends in IoT Central Analytics charts
Grouping by Device Name is now supported in IoT Central Analytics charts.
General availability: IoT Central - Organizations
IoT solution builders can now build an IoT solution once and onboard multiple tenants into it – keeping cost down and reducing management overhead.
October 2021
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 RTM for OEMs
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021, the operating system offering for embedded and IoT device has gone RTM for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).
General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.10
Version 21.10 is a feature update for the Azure Sphere OS, the SDK, supporting tools, and customer documentation.
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—September 2021
September updates include dashboard and analytics enhancements, improvements to device registration, and support for bring your own device keys.
September 2021
Azure IoT middleware for FreeRTOS in general availability
Announcing the release of a solution to simplify the connection of devices running FreeRTOS to Azure IoT services.
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—August 2021
August updates include support for multitenant applications, UI enhancements, REST API refresh, and regional deployments.
Windows Server IoT 2022 now generally available
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