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We are excited to release Mender 2.3 beta!

The focus for Mender 2.3 is to easily update all your device software.

This Mender release includes a ready-to-flash OTA-enabled Raspbian image, a new way to snapshot into system updates and support for generating application updates directly from the Mender server! All new features of Mender 2.3 are fully open source under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.

The key features of Mender 2.3 beta are covered below, and you can see the detailed items in the Mender 2.3.0 beta release notes.

We invite you to see us at Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany. Do you want to see a demo of the latest Mender version, talk business, partnership opportunities, or have a plain low-level geek conversation, we are excited to meet new and existing users and customers.

Also, Mender's co-founder and CTO Eystein Måløy Stenberg will give a talk on OTA software updates for connected devices. Join u...

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