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Get started easily: New onboarding in Hosted Mender
An easier way to get started with over-the-air updates has been released to Hosted Mender!
The new onboarding tutorial will take you through installing Mender and deploying a demo application on your existing device and OS, which should take less than 10 minutes.
After this you will be guided through creating your own update and deploying this to your device as well.
Thanks to the Mend...
Read the articleMender and Microsoft Azure IoT Facilitate Robust and Secure Device Software Management Update
We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with the Azure IoT team at Microsoft for reference integration of Mender, an end-to-end open source OTA software update manager for IoT products. Microsoft Azure IoT is a secure, open and scalable cloud platform to connect, monitor, and control billions of IoT assets.
In developing today’s Internet of Things (IoT) products, support for both analyt...
Read the articleMender 2.0 released: Application updates
We are happy to announce the production releases of Mender 2.0.0 and 1.7.1!
The focus for Mender 2.0 is support for Application updates, with full control and customizability over how a software is installed. This makes Mender unique for providing both robust system- and application level updates and it is this combination that enables Mender to solve all your needs for OTA updates.
Targeted application-level updates, which can be just a few kilobytes in size (compared to potentially hundreds of megabytes for system-level updates), enables much lower bandwidth usage, faster updates and more frequent deployments.
The key features of Mender 2.0 are covered below, and you can see the detailed items in the Mender 2.0 release notes.
Read the articleMender tools available in official Debian repositories
Thanks to the work of Andreas Henriksson the following packages are now available in official Debian repositories:
Read the articleMender 2.0 beta: Application updates
Mender 2.0 beta is here and ready for you to try!
We are happy to see a further increase in community contributions with Mender 2.0! A big thank you to the contributors for investing your time in developing new features as well as everyone providing feedback and support! The Mender 2.0 beta release notes include all the contributor credits.
The focus for Mender 2.0 is support for Application updates, including package managers, file distributions and docker containers! The key features of Mender 2.0 beta are covered below, and you can see the detailed items in the Mender 2.0.0 beta release notes.
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