AWS IoT Greengrass Version 1 entered the extended life phase on June 30, 2023. For more information, see the AWS IoT Greengrass V1 maintenance policy. After this date, AWS IoT Greengrass V1 won't release updates that provide features, enhancements, bug fixes, or security patches. Devices that run on AWS IoT Greengrass V1 won't be disrupted and will continue to operate and to connect to the cloud. We strongly recommend that you migrate to AWS IoT Greengrass Version 2, which adds significant new features and support for additional platforms.
Document history for AWS IoT Greengrass
The following table describes important changes to the AWS IoT Greengrass Developer Guide after June 2018. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
Change | Description | Date |
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Updated the end of support information for AWS IoT Greengrass core v 1.11.x Snap on snapcraft.io | September 22, 2023 | |
Added end of support information for AWS IoT Greengrass core v 1.11.x Snap on snapcraft.io | September 19, 2023 | |
The Docker images for AWS IoT Greengrass Core software v1.11.6 are available on Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and Docker Hub. We recommend that you always run the latest version. | April 12, 2022 | |
AWS IoT Device Tester (IDT) for AWS IoT Greengrass V1 deprecation | IDT for AWS IoT Greengrass V1 will no longer generate signed qualification reports. | April 4, 2022 |
Support update for AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass | IDT for AWS IoT Greengrass version 4.4.1 now supports using AWS IoT Greengrass core software version v1.11.6 for device qualification. | March 24, 2022 |
Version 1.11.6 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version contains performance improvements and bug fixes. We recommend that you always run the latest version. | March 24, 2022 | |
Version 12 of the IoT SiteWise connector is available. This release contains bug fixes. | December 23, 2021 | |
The Docker images for AWS IoT Greengrass Core software v1.11.5 and v1.10.5 are available on Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and Docker Hub. We recommend that you always run the latest version. | December 22, 2021 | |
The AWS IoT Greengrass V1 maintenance policy defines the different levels of maintenance and updates for the AWS IoT Greengrass V1 service and the AWS IoT Greengrass core software v1.x. | December 20, 2021 | |
IDT for AWS IoT Greengrass version 4.4.1 is now available. This release includes the AWS IoT Greengrass qualification suite (GGQ) v1.3.1, and supports using AWS IoT Greengrass core software versions v1.11.5 and v1.10.5 for device qualification. | December 20, 2021 | |
Versions 1.11.5 and 1.10.5 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software are available. These versions contain performance improvements and bug fixes. We recommend that you always run the latest version. | December 12, 2021 | |
Republished AWS IoT Greengrass v1.11.4 and v1.10.4 Docker images | Docker images for AWS IoT Greengrass Core software versions 1.11.4 and 1.10.4 have been
republished on Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and Docker Hub to address bug fixes with BusyBox. To
use the latest Docker images, use the | December 8, 2021 |
CloudWatch Metrics connector supports duplicate timestamps in input data | You can now send input data with duplicate timestamps to this connector. | November 19, 2021 |
AWS IoT Greengrass supports using the | November 1, 2021 | |
The Docker images for AWS IoT Greengrass Core software v1.11.4 are available on Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and Docker Hub. We recommend that you always run the latest version. | August 24, 2021 | |
Version 1.11.4 of the AWS IoT Greengrass snap is available. We recommend that you always run the latest version. | August 20, 2021 | |
Support update for AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass | IDT for AWS IoT Greengrass version 4.1.0 now supports using AWS IoT Greengrass core software version v1.11.4 for device qualification. | August 18, 2021 |
Version 1.11.4 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This release fixes an issue with stream manager that prevented upgrades to v1.11.3 from an earlier version of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software. We recommend that you always run the latest version. | August 17, 2021 | |
AWS IoT Greengrass now supports interface VPC endpoints (AWS PrivateLink) for the AWS IoT Greengrass control plane. You can establish a private connection between your VPC and the AWS IoT Greengrass control plane. | August 16, 2021 | |
Version 4.1.0 of AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass is available. This version supports using AWS IoT Greengrass core software versions 1.11.3 and 1.10.4 for device qualification. | June 23, 2021 | |
Version 1.11.3 of the AWS IoT Greengrass snap contains performance improvements and bug fixes. We recommend that as a best practice you always run the latest version. | June 15, 2021 | |
Docker images for AWS IoT Greengrass v1.11.3 and v1.10.4 released | The Docker images for AWS IoT Greengrass Core software v1.11.3 and v1.10.4 are available on Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and Docker Hub. These versions of AWS IoT Greengrass Core contain performance improvements and bug fixes. We recommend that you always run the latest version. | June 15, 2021 |
Version 1.11.3 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version contains performance improvements and bug fixes. We recommend that you always run the latest version. | June 14, 2021 | |
Version 1.10.4 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version contains performance improvements and bug fixes. We recommend that you always run the latest version. | June 14, 2021 | |
Version 2 of the Modbus-TCP Protocol Adapter connector is available. This release added support for ASCII, UTF8, and ISO8859 encoded source strings. | May 24, 2021 | |
Version 7 of the Greengrass Docker application deployment connector is available. | April 5, 2021 | |
Version 1.11.1 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version contains performance improvements and bug fixes. We recommend that you always run the latest version. | March 29, 2021 | |
Version 4.0.2 of AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass is available. This version replaces IDT v4.0.0 and adds support for version 1.11.1 of AWS IoT Greengrass Core software. This also fixes an issue that caused IDT to mask Hardware Security Integration (HSI) errors. | March 29, 2021 | |
Version 11 of the IoT SiteWise connector is available. This launches support for strings that contain hidden or unprintable characters. This release also includes general performance improvements and bug fixes. | March 24, 2021 | |
AWS IoT Greengrass snap version 1.11.0 has been republished on Snapcraft to address bug fixes and a possible application crash when using the Python interpreter. AWS IoT Greengrass doesn’t provide snaps for software versions 1.10 and 1.9. | March 19, 2021 | |
Support update for AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass | IDT for AWS IoT Greengrass version 4.0.0 now supports using AWS IoT Greengrass core software version v1.10.3 for device qualification. | March 18, 2021 |
AWS IoT Greengrass snap version 1.8.4 has been republished on Snapcraft to address bug fixes and a possible application crash when using the Python interpreter. | March 15, 2021 | |
Republished AWS IoT Greengrass v1.11.0 Docker image for Armv7l | The Docker image for AWS IoT Greengrass Core software version 1.11.0 for the Armv7l platform has been republished on Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and Docker Hub to address bug fixes and a possible application crash when using the Python interpreter. | March 8, 2021 |
Docker images for AWS IoT Greengrass Core software version 1.10.3 are now available on Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and Docker Hub. | March 8, 2021 | |
Republished AWS IoT Greengrass v1.11.0 and v1.9.4 Docker images | Docker images for AWS IoT Greengrass Core software versions 1.11.0 and 1.9.4 have been republished on Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and Docker Hub to address bug fixes and a possible application crash when using the Python interpreter. The Docker images for Armv7l have not been republished at this time. | February 26, 2021 |
Version 1.10.3 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version adds the
| February 24, 2021 | |
Version 10 of the IoT SiteWise connector is available. This release
resolves stability issues with the StreamManager client when connection is lost, and
improves OPC-UA value handling when a | January 22, 2021 | |
Version 9 of the IoT SiteWise connector is available. This launches
support for custom Greengrass | December 15, 2020 | |
Version 4.0.0 of AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass is available. This version enables you to use IDT to develop and run your custom test suites for device validation. This also includes code signed IDT applications for macOS and Windows. | December 15, 2020 | |
Version 1.11.0 of the AWS IoT Greengrass snap supports noncontainerized Lambda functions. We recommend that as a best practice you always run the latest version. | December 6, 2020 | |
Version 8 of the IoT SiteWise connector is available. This release improves stability when the connector experiences intermittent network connectivity. Use the IoT SiteWise connector to send local device and equipment data to asset properties in IoT SiteWise. | November 19, 2020 | |
You can use the | October 19, 2020 | |
Version 6 of the Greengrass Docker application deployment connector is available. | September 18, 2020 | |
Version 1.11.0 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version adds the system health telemetry feature and a local health check API. Stream manager can now export data to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and IoT SiteWise. This version also contains performance improvements and bug fixes. We recommend that you always run the latest version. | September 16, 2020 | |
Version 7 of the IoT SiteWise connector is available. This release fixes an issue with gateway metrics. Use the IoT SiteWise connector to send local device and equipment data to asset properties in IoT SiteWise. | August 14, 2020 | |
You can use the | July 30, 2020 | |
You can use the | July 6, 2020 | |
You can use the | June 17, 2020 | |
Version 1.10.2 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version adds the
| June 8, 2020 | |
AWS IoT Greengrass Tensorflow prepackaged machine learning installers have been deprecated. Machine learning samples have been upgraded to Python 3.7. | May 29, 2020 | |
Chainer framework support and Greengrass machine learning installers deprecated | AWS IoT Greengrass prepackaged machine learning installers and downloads for MXNet and DLR have been deprecated. Chainer framework support and associated downloads have been deprecated. | May 4, 2020 |
Version 6 of the IoT SiteWise connector is available. This release adds support for CloudWatch metrics and automatic discovery of new OPC-UA tags. This means you don't need to restart your gateway when tags change for your OPC-UA sources. This version of the connector requires stream manager and AWS IoT Greengrass Core software v1.10.0 or higher. Use the IoT SiteWise connector to send local device and equipment data to asset properties in IoT SiteWise. | April 29, 2020 | |
Connectors that support the Python runtime have been upgraded to Python 3.7. We recommend that you upgrade your connector versions from Python 2.7 to Python 3.7. | April 29, 2020 | |
You can run Greengrass device setup in silent mode so that the script doesn't prompt you for any values. | April 27, 2020 | |
You can download AWS IoT Greengrass Docker images that are built on Alpine Linux (x86_64, Armv7l, or AArch64) base images. | April 23, 2020 | |
Version 1.10.1 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version contains performance improvements and bug fixes. We recommend that you always run the latest version. | April 16, 2020 | |
AWS IoT Greengrass security content has been reorganized, with new information added. | March 30, 2020 | |
On supported Debian-based Linux distributions, you can use | February 26, 2020 | |
Version 5 of the IoT SiteWise connector is available. This release fixes a compatibility issue with AWS IoT Greengrass Core software v1.9.4. Use the IoT SiteWise connector to send local device and equipment data to asset properties in IoT SiteWise. | February 12, 2020 | |
You can use Greengrass device setup to configure your core device in minutes. Also, AWS IoT Greengrass now supports Node.js 12.x Lambda functions. | December 20, 2019 | |
Version 1.10.0 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. The new features in this version include Stream manager, container support with the Docker application deployment connector, non-containerized Lambda functions that can access machine learning resources, support for MQTT persistent sessions with AWS IoT, and support for local MQTT traffic over a specified port. | November 25, 2019 | |
Use the Amazon EventBridge console to create event rules that trigger when your Greengrass group deployments change state. | November 14, 2019 | |
Version 1.9.4 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version contains performance improvements and bug fixes. As a best practice, we recommend that you always run the latest version. | October 17, 2019 | |
Use new and improved features in the AWS IoT console to manage your Greengrass service role. | October 4, 2019 | |
You can create, view, and manage tags for your Greengrass groups in the AWS IoT console. | September 23, 2019 | |
Use the ML Feedback connector to publish model input and predictions and the ML Object Detection connector to run a local object detection inference service. | September 19, 2019 | |
Version 1.9.3 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version allows you to install the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software on Raspbian distributions on Armv6l architectures, supports OTA updates on port 443 with ALPN, and contains a bug fix for binary payloads sent from Python 2.7 Lambda functions to other Lambda functions. | September 12, 2019 | |
Version 1.8.4 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version contains performance improvements and bug fixes. If you're running v1.8.x, we recommend that you upgrade to v1.8.4 or v1.9.3. For earlier versions, we recommend that you upgrade to v1.9.3. | August 30, 2019 | |
AWS IoT Greengrass version 1.9.2 released with support for OpenWrt | Version 1.9.2 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version allows you to install the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software on OpenWrt distributions with Armv8 (AArch64) and Armv7l architectures. | June 20, 2019 |
Version 1.8.3 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version contains general performance improvements and bug fixes. If you're running v1.8.x, we recommend that you upgrade to v1.8.3 or v1.9.2. For earlier versions, we recommend that you upgrade to v1.9.2. | June 20, 2019 | |
Version 1.9.1 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version contains a bug fix for messages from AWS IoT that contain a wildcard character in the topic. | May 10, 2019 | |
Version 1.8.2 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version contains general performance improvements and bug fixes. If you're running v1.8.x, we recommend that you upgrade to v1.8.2 or v1.9.0. For earlier versions, we recommend that you upgrade to v1.9.0. | May 2, 2019 | |
New features: Support for Python 3.7 and Node.js 8.10 Lambda runtimes, optimized MQTT connections, and Elliptic Curve (EC) key support for the local MQTT server. | May 1, 2019 | |
Version 1.8.1 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software is available. This version contains general performance improvements and bug fixes. As a best practice, we recommend that you always run the latest version. | April 18, 2019 | |
Use the AWS IoT Greengrass Snap Store app to quickly design, test, and deploy software on Linux devices with AWS IoT Greengrass. | April 1, 2019 | |
You can use tags in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to control access to your AWS IoT Greengrass resources. | March 29, 2019 | |
Use the IoT Analytics connector to send local device data to AWS IoT Analytics channels. | March 15, 2019 | |
The Kinesis Firehose connector supports sending batched data records to Amazon Data Firehose at a specified interval. | March 15, 2019 | |
Use AWS CloudFormation templates to create and manage AWS IoT Greengrass resources. | March 15, 2019 | |
New features: Configurable default access identity for Lambda functions, support for HTTPS traffic over port 443, and predictably named client IDs for MQTT connections with AWS IoT. | March 7, 2019 | |
Versions 1.7.1 and 1.6.1 of the AWS IoT Greengrass Core software are available. These versions require Linux kernel version 3.17 or later. We recommend that customers running any version of the Greengrass core software upgrade to version 1.7.1 immediately. | February 11, 2019 | |
The SageMaker Neo deep learning runtime supports machine learning models that have been optimized by the SageMaker Neo deep learning compiler. | November 28, 2018 | |
You can run AWS IoT Greengrass in a Docker container by configuring your Greengrass group to run with no containerization. | November 26, 2018 | |
New features: Greengrass connectors, local secrets manager, isolation and permission settings for Lambda functions, hardware root of trust security, connection using ALPN or network proxy, and Raspbian Stretch support. | November 26, 2018 | |
The AWS IoT Greengrass Core software, AWS IoT Greengrass Core SDK, and AWS IoT Greengrass Machine Learning SDK packages are available for dowload through Amazon CloudFront. | November 26, 2018 | |
Use AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass to verify that your CPU architecture, kernel configuration, and drivers work with AWS IoT Greengrass. | November 26, 2018 | |
AWS IoT Greengrass is integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service in AWS IoT Greengrass. | October 29, 2018 | |
The TensorFlow precompiled library for NVIDIA Jetson TX2 that AWS IoT Greengrass provides now uses TensorFlow v1.10.1. This supports Jetpack 3.3 and CUDA Toolkit 9.0. | October 18, 2018 | |
AWS IoT Greengrass supports machine learning models that are trained using MXNet v1.2.1. | August 29, 2018 | |
New features: Lambda executables, configurable message queue, configurable reconnect retry interval, volume resources under /proc, and configurable write directory. | July 26, 2018 |
Earlier updates
The following table describes important changes to the AWS IoT Greengrass Developer Guide before July 2018.
Change | Description | Date |
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AWS IoT Greengrass Version 1.5.0 Released |
New features:
For more information, see AWS IoT Greengrass Core versions. |
March 29, 2018 |
AWS IoT Greengrass Version 1.3.0 Released |
New features:
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November 27, 2017 |
AWS IoT Greengrass Version 1.1.0 Released |
New features:
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September 20, 2017 |
AWS IoT Greengrass Version 1.0.0 Released | AWS IoT Greengrass is generally available. |
June 7, 2017 |