In a recent report, McKinsey shared the findings from a survey of IoT practitioners at 300 businesses with mature IoT programs (those that have expanded beyond pilot projects) Their focus was on what distinguishes leaders from laggards.

At a high level leaders are more aggressive, better at aligning a common sense of direction, and more practical in execution.

We will be hosting a Meetup this Wednesday, January 16th in San Francisco on IoT Application Prototyping with Debian and BeagleBone and we hope you can make it. You can find the details here.

Other upcoming events include our participation at FOSDEM in Brussels on February 2nd and 3rd: Mender will have both a stand (H-4) and a talk on the latest developments of the Mender open source pro...

If you are using a Raspberry Pi with the Raspbian OS, a new way to update it remotely is available!

We are happy to announce the production releases Mender 1.7.0 and 1.6.1!

The key features of Mender 1.7 are covered below, and you can see the detailed items in the release notes of Mender 1.7.0 and Mender 1.6.1.

We are happy to see an increase in community contributions with Mender 1.7! A big thank you to the contributors for investing your time in developing new features as well as everyone providing feedback and support! To give due credit, the changelog for Mender 1.7 and later includes contributor statistics.

The focus for Mender 1.7 is to make Linux support much easier, including binary Linux distributions! The key features of Mender 1.7 are covered below, and you can see the detailed items in the Mender 1.7.0 release notes.

Mender's Drew Moseley gave a talk at the recent Embedded Linux Conference/OpenIoT Summit in Edinburgh on the considerations device manufacturers should have when designing Linux-based connected devices.