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August 2021

Aug 13

General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—July 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

July updates include enhancements to device information displays and new features to help you manage your IoT Edge devices.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features

July 2021

Jul 15

General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—June 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

June updates include dashboard enhancements, the IoT Plug and Play smartphone app including updated quickstarts, rule condition enhancements, a new responsive UI, and a new Learn module.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
Jul 1

General availability: Skip X.509 certificate proof of possession for IoT Hub and DPS

NOW AVAILABLE

To make it easier to get started with X.509 authentication with IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Services (DPS), we're removing the requirement to prove possession of uploaded certificates.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service
  • Security

June 2021

Jun 24

General availability: Azure Digital Twins plugin for Azure Data Explorer 

NOW AVAILABLE

Adding context to IoT data just became easier. Azure Digital Twins and Azure Data Explorer now seamlessly integrate, allowing you to allow you to contextualize time-series IoT data.

  • Azure Digital Twins
  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Features
Jun 24

General availability: Turn your phone into an IoT device with the new IoT Plug and Play mobile app

NOW AVAILABLE

Use the IoT Plug and Play phone app as an IoT device to get started quickly with IoT Central or IoT Hub.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Features
Jun 23

Azure IoT Edge for Linux now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Leverage existing Windows expertise and seamlessly connect Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows devices to Microsoft Azure and quickly bring cloud intelligence to your edge.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure SQL Edge
  • Services
  • Features
  • Operating System
Jun 15

General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—May 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

May updates include device template DTDL editing, displaying external content on dashboards, other UI and doc enhancements, and CDE parity with CDE v1.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features

May 2021

May 18

General availability: IoT Hub service API support for Azure Active Directory based access control

NOW AVAILABLE

IoT Hub support for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is now generally available for service APIs. This means you can secure your service connections to IoT Hub with much more flexibility and granularity.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Security
May 11

General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—April 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

April updates include API general availability, new guidance articles, dashboard updates, IoT Edge updates, and device connectivity events.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features

April 2021

Apr 15

General availability: Event source start options in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2

NOW AVAILABLE

The new event source start options feature in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 gives you flexibility when configuring an event source.

  • Azure Time Series Insights
  • Features
Apr 14

Azure IoT Edge nesting capabilities are now generally available

NOW 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
  • Features
Apr 13

General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—March 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

March updates include jobs, data export, monitoring, and documentation improvemnets.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
Apr 12

Azure IoT Edge 1.2.0 release is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure IoT Edge 1.2.0 enables Azure Device Update for IoT Hub and IoT Edge devices in a nested configuration.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Open Source
  • Features

March 2021

Mar 25

General availability: IoT Hub Azure portal extension update

NOW AVAILABLE

If you're using IP filter, add your computer's IP address to the allow list to keep using IoT Hub in Azure portal.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Security
Mar 16

Azure IoT Central new and updated features—February 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

February updates include device model, API, dashboard, and documentation improvements.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features

February 2021

Feb 16

Azure IoT Edge 1.1.0 release is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure IoT Edge 1.1.0 is our first long term servicing (LTS) release.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Open Source
  • Services
  • Features
Feb 5

Azure IoT Central new and updated features—January 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

January updates include jobs improvements, new API features, new data export features, and documentation enhancements.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features

January 2021

Jan 15

Azure Sphere OS version 21.01 is now available for evaluation

NOW AVAILABLE

Learn more about compatibility testing with Azure Sphere OS version 21.01.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System

December 2020

Dec 17

Azure Sphere OS version 20.12 is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Learn more about what's new in Azure Sphere OS version 20.12.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
Dec 14

Azure Digital Twins is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Digital Twins is generally available and read for production deployments. Features include: Flexible modelling and general graph topology, richer compute, bring your own IoT Hub for easier integration, and improved scalability.

  • Azure Digital Twins
  • Services

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