What’s New - Open Edge Platform 2025.1#

Metro AI Suite#

The Metro AI Suite in version 1.2.0 introduces a comprehensive set of enhancements aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of intelligent edge AI solutions for urban environments, particularly in smart city, transportation, and public safety domains. This release focuses on improving modularity, scalability, and real-time analytics capabilities through updated sample applications, SDKs, and developer tools.

A new sample application is now available that functions as a next-generation Network Video Recorder (NVR)

Manufacturing AI Suite#

The Manufacturing AI Suite in version 1.2.0 delivers a robust set of tools and sample applications designed to streamline the development, deployment, and scaling of AI solutions in industrial environments. This release emphasizes configurability, real-time integration, and support for edge-native deployment scenarios, enabling developers and system integrators to build intelligent manufacturing applications with greater efficiency and precision.

Retail AI Suite#

The Retail AI Suite in version 1.2.0 introduces a set of targeted enhancements designed to support edge-native AI workloads in retail environments. This suite helps solution builders evaluate hardware configurations, optimize AI pipelines, and deploy intelligent retail applications that improve operational efficiency, customer experience, and loss prevention.

See release notes for all components

Edge AI Libraries#

Edge AI Libraries v1.2.0 includes libraries, microservices, and tools for edge application development, with sample applications across multiple industries.

Edge Microvisor Toolkit v3.1#

Improvements have been introduced to the ISO installer, hardware support, and integral components. All that on top of the changes from Azure Linux 3.0.20250423-3.0.

Edge Manageability Framework v3.1#

Edge Manageability Framework enables you to securely onboard and provision remote edge devices to a central management plane, orchestrate Kubernetes* clusters and applications across distributed edge, at scale. Edge Node software provides the profiles of infrastructure software configurations that get provisioned onto an onboarded node.

The EMF 3.1 release builds upon the first EMF 3.0 open source release adding key functionality. You can review the general functionality of the system in the 3.0 release notes.