Version and release announcement

docs/release-announcement.md

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 ## Table Of Contents <!-- omit in toc -->
 
+- [Azure Industrial IoT OPC Publisher 2.9.0 Community Preview 3](#azure-industrial-iot-opc-publisher-290-community-preview-3)
+  - [Changes in 2.9.0 Preview 3](#changes-in-290-preview-3)
 - [Azure Industrial IoT OPC Publisher 2.9.0 Community Preview 2](#azure-industrial-iot-opc-publisher-290-community-preview-2)
   - [Changes in 2.9.0 Preview 2](#changes-in-290-preview-2)
 - [Azure Industrial IoT OPC Publisher 2.9.0 Community Preview 1](#azure-industrial-iot-opc-publisher-290-community-preview-1)
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 - [Azure Industrial IoT Platform Release 2.8.1](#azure-industrial-iot-platform-release-281)
 - [Azure Industrial IoT Platform Release 2.8](#azure-industrial-iot-platform-release-28)
 
+## Azure Industrial IoT OPC Publisher 2.9.0 Community Preview 3
+
+We are pleased to announce the third **preview** release of version 2.9.0 of OPC Publisher. This release adds several new features including support for cyclic reads.
+
+> IMPORTANT: Preview releases are only supported through GitHub issues. This particular release due to the number of changes included might have backward compatibility breaks that have not yet been documented. Please file issues and we will try to address them ahead of GA release.
+
+### Changes in 2.9.0 Preview 3
+
+- [OPC Publisher] Heartbeat behavior is not deterministic - implement heartbeat as value change watchdog. #1993
+- [OPC Publisher] When enabling client linger in preview2 a failing connection retries forever bugSomething isn't working #1985
+- [OPC Publisher] Alarm condition integration tests have been partially disabled and need to enable again #1989
+- [OPC Publisher] Need OPC Publisher to poll data from server periodically rather than subscribing. #1934
+- [OPC Publisher] Polling mechanism instead of PubSub in OPCPublisher feature request #605
+- [OPC Publisher] Configuration of the published nodes by browse path feature request #47
+- [OPC Publisher] deploy.ps1 fails upon deploying "platform" #1981
+  [OPC Publisher] Updated documentation and nuget dependencies
+
 ## Azure Industrial IoT OPC Publisher 2.9.0 Community Preview 2
 
 We are pleased to announce the second **preview** release of version 2.9.0 of OPC Publisher. This release marks a large change for the Industrial IoT components and features. We have combined all edge functionality into the OPC Publisher edge module which now boasts not just MQTT and IoT Hub direct method access, but a full HTTP REST endpoint that can be used to configure its functionality. The cloud components also have been combined into a single Web API, which we recommend to deploy into Azure App Service for reduced cost and simplified operations.

readme.md

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 | 2.5                                         | 2.5.5                      | 12/1/2021      | 2.8  (LTS) (>= 2.8.2) | [Migration Path](docs/opc-publisher/migrationpath.md) |
 | 2.7                                         | 2.7.206                    | 1/15/2022      | 2.8  (LTS) (>= 2.8.0) | N/A                                                       |
 | 2.8 (LTS)                                   | [2.8.6](https://github.com/Azure/Industrial-IoT/tree/release/2.8.6) | 7/15/2023      | 2.9                   | N/A                                                       |
-| [2.9](https://github.com/Azure/Industrial-IoT)| 2.9.0-preview2             | N/A            | 2.10 (LTS)            | [Migration Path](docs/opc-publisher/migrationpath.mdd) |
+| [2.9](https://github.com/Azure/Industrial-IoT)| 2.9.0-preview3             | N/A            | 2.10 (LTS)            | [Migration Path](docs/opc-publisher/migrationpath.mdd) |
 
 We only support the latest patch version of a release which per semantic versioning convention is identified by the 3rd part of the version string. Preview releases are only supported through GitHub issues. If you are using a container image with a major.minor version tag that is supported per above table, but a patch version lower than the latest patch version, you need to update your images to the latest version to ensure secure operation and take advantage of the latest fixes. If you unexpectedly encounter bugs and require help, please ensure you are running the latest patch release as we might already have addressed the issue you are seeing. If you are not, please update first and try to reproduce the issue on the latest patch version.
 

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