What's new in Windows 10 IoT Core Dashboard 1.0.1711.13001

Nov 14, 2017
  • PRIVACY STATEMENT:
  • What's New in Fall Creators Update:
  • .NET for UWP apps, the set of managed types that can be used to build Universal Windows Platform apps using C# or Visual Basic, has been augmented with thousands of new APIs to make it compliant with .NET Standard 2.0.
  • Updated language support on Windows 10 IoT Core including English (en-US and en-GB), French (fr-FR and fr-CA), Spanish (es-ES and es-MX), and Simplified Chinese (zh-CN). You can create FFUs supporting multiple languages - see MultiLangSample and SingleLangSample for more information.
  • Support for Emergency Management Services on Windows 10 IoT Core.
  • Improved ink support on Windows 10 IoT Core. With a compatible pen digitizer, you can now utilize DirectInk APIs for highlighter, pencil, and vector-based ink. We've also added XAML ink controls for UWP, including InkCanvas and InkToolbar, which enable stencils like rulers and protractors, and multi-modal interactions such as simultaneous pen and touch on compatible hardware. Smart Ink features such as ink recognition and ink analysis are not supported.
  • Additional support for controlling line displays including customization of the cursor style, brightness, blink rate, and character sets. We've also added support for custom glyphs, transaction descriptors, and marquee mode for scrolling text.
  • On Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, we've enabled access to industry standard buses like GPIO, I2C, SPI, and UART from user mode through the Windows.Devices APIs.
  • Assigned Access is a feature in Windows 10 IoT Enterprise which lets you restrict a specific user account to using only one Universal Windows app. We've expanded Assigned Access support to allow running multiple UWP and Win32 apps in a lockdown experience and manage those settings from the cloud.
  • You can change the system language using IoTSettings.exe or new APIs. For details, see the language configuration section of the Command Line Utils and Language Support documentation.
  • Updates to Raspberry Pi UEFI to enable Boot Volume Monitor.
  • Added SMSC network driver to all architectures of Windows 10 IoT Core.
  • Enabled exclusive-mode audio streams for audio endpoint devices on Windows 10 IoT Core.
  • Added new APIs in WinRT for setting the system date and time on Windows 10 IoT Core.
  • Added support for Universal BSP (wm.xml). Use the iot-adk-addonkit v4.0 with the current version of the ADK.
  • Added language selection and localized layouts to On-Screen Keyboard. For more details, see On-Screen Keyboard Layouts.
  • Features in Preview for Dev and Test Scenarios:
  • Component Update Service [Preview] allows OEMs to globally manage their apps and push updates for the operating system, apps, settings, and files from the cloud to devices to keep them up to date and secure.
  • Support for hosting Nano Server Containers on 64-bit editions of Windows 10 IoT Core and Enterprise, enabling applications and their data can be isolated from each other and quickly moved from development to production or cloud to the edge.
  • Windows Device Health Attestation [Preview] service uses hardware features and cloud services to provide tamper proofing and remote attestation of device health based on hardware-level metrics and attested data.
  • Azure IoT Edge on Windows IoT [Preview] allows IoT solutions to orchestrate intelligence between the cloud and edge devices to ensure applications and services can act on IoT data wherever it makes the most sense.
  • Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service [Preview] enables Windows 10 IoT devices to be created with a common image during manufacturing and configured to connect automatically at first boot to Azure IoT Hub to retrieve device-specific provisioning information.
  • Azure IoT Device Management [Preview] enables IoT operators to manage device configuration such as installed applications, Windows updates, certificates, and network settings remotely from the cloud.
  • Windows 10 IoT Core Reference Images:
  • Minnowboard Max
  • Processor: Intel Atom E3825
  • Architecture: x86
  • BSP Version: 10.0.4.0
  • Raspberry Pi 3;
  • Processor: Broadcom BCM2837
  • Architecture: ARM
  • BSP Version: 10.0.16248.1001
  • DragonBoard 410c:
  • Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 410
  • Architecture: ARM
  • BSP Version: 2112.0.0.0
  • Additional Information:
  • Based on the recent Intel announcement to stop producing the Intel Joule platform, FFUs for Intel Joule are discontinued in this release. Customers evaluating Intel Joule should identify an alternative platform using one of the other supported SoCs - see Suggested Boards and SoCs for a list.
  • The IOT_WEBB_EXTN feature has been refactored to remove the onboarding feature which is now available as IOT_ONBOARDING_APP. With this update, the onboarding feature will be removed and devices using this feature should be reflashed to get this feature again.

New in Windows 10 IoT Core Dashboard 1.0.1708.31003 (Sep 7, 2017)

  • General bug fixes:
  • Due to the Intel EOL (end-of-life) of Joule, FFUs for Joule will be discontinued soon. No Joule FFU will be released for RS3 RTM. Customers should identify an alternative platform using one of the other support SoCs - more info
  • IOT_WEBB_EXTN feature has been refactored to remove the on boarding feature and the on boarding feature is now available as IOT_ONBOARDING_APP. With this update, the on boarding feature will be removed and users using the on boarding feature should re-flash their device to get this feature again.
  • Multi-Lang packages are now available. You can create FFUs supporting multiple languages, see MultiLangSample and SingleLangSample for more information
  • You can change the system language using IoTSettings.exe. More information is available here in the Language Configuration section.

New in Windows 10 IoT Core Dashboard 1.0.1704.5001 (Apr 6, 2017)

  • Windows 10 IoT Core Public Release.
  • Cortana on Windows IoT Core - Cortana is now available on Windows 10 IoT Core. Ask Cortana a question.
  • Additional Silicon Support
  • Verified support for Windows 10 IoT Core on Intel Joule, Intel Pentium N4200, Intel Celeron N3350, upcoming Atom x5-E39xx processors (formerly Apollo Lake) and Raspberry Pi 3 SOMs.
  • Toradex has enabled support for their Colibri T30 SOM using the NVIDIA Tegra 3.
  • Allwinner has enabled support for their Pine 64 and Banana Pi devices using the Allwinner A64 SoC.
  • Discovering your Remote Devices - No special software is needed to discover your devices that are signed in with your Microsoft Account.
  • New UWP APIs And controls for vibration, brightness, modern connected standby, power management, battery charge and NFC (w/o HCE).
  • New busses and capabilities for ARM PCIe, USB function mode, Wi-Fi Direct and GPIO interrupt counting API.
  • New Embedded features on Reset/Recovery, On-SOC PWM and Automatic USB provisioning
  • Improved Tools - VS Code, improved Node.js and Python support, New Windows Device Portal and IoT Dashboard features, VS 2017 support.
  • IoT Dashboard Improvements - New features and stability bug fixes
  • Windows Insider Preview builds for Raspberry Pi and Minnowboard
  • Connecting device using Windows IoT Remote Client
  • Ipv6 addresses in discovering devices
  • Uploading device logs while submitting feedback
  • New high precision GPIO APIs - New APIs (Windows.Devices.Gpio.GpioInterruptBuffer) for precise and efficient measurement of pulse widths using GPIO interrupts. GPIO providers include new Interrupt Buffer interface to allow for high precision interrupt timing for applications like rotary encoders and distance measuring devices
  • Azure Device Management Support - OEMs can use the Windows IoT Azure DM client library to add device management capabilities to their Azure IoT hub connected devices.
  • Device Guard for IoT - Device builders can now fully lock down IoT devices and get advanced malware protection against new and unknown malware variants. This can be done by specifying signing authorities for permissible applications and drivers that run on the device while disallowing execution of unknown or untrusted code. This means improved security against malware and zero day attacks.
  • Other updates include:
  • Improved Update Support
  • Azure Gateway SDK support
  • USB drive based auto-provisioning
  • Device Portal redesign
  • 64-bit images now supports up to 16,384 MB of memory
  • WinRT Vibration APIs
  • Improved language support
  • Miscellaneous:
  • A change has been made to the default BCD settings to prevent devices from attempting to boot to recovery mode when recovery mode does not exist.
  • IOT_POWER_SETTINGS feature now includes powercfg.exe. This is available for all architectures (ARM32, x86 and x64).
  • Changes were made to Applyupdate.exe to add the blockrebooton/blockrebootoff flags
  • The Class Extensions for Hardware Notification (hwnclx) and USB Function (usbfnclx) have been added to the default IoT Core images