Azure Industrial IoT OPC Publisher Release 2.9.0 Preview 1

We are pleased to announce the first preview release of version 2.9.0 of OPC Publisher. This release contains several requested features and fixes issues discovered.

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Preview releases are only supported through GitHub issues. OPC Publisher is only supported in standalone mode (without micro services).

Changes in this release

• [OPC Publisher] Alarms and Events support to OPC Publisher. You can now subscribe to events in addition to value changes and in the familar ways using the published nodes json configuration and direct methods.
• [OPC Publisher] Full Deadband filtering. We introduced data change triggers in 2.8.4 and are now supporting the full data change filter configuration to configure percent and absolute deadband as defined in OPC UA.
• [OPC Publisher] Support setting discard new configuration on command line.
• [OPC Publisher] Full support for UADP network message encoding, as well as reversible Json profiles (JsonReversible)
• [OPC Publisher] Support for smaller network messages by removing network message and dataset message headers (adding new MessageType.RawDataset and MessageType.DataSetMessages).
• [OPC Publisher] Support for gzip encoded Json (MessageEncoding.JsonGzip and MessageEncoding.JsonReversibleGzip)
• [OPC Publihser] Strict mode to adhere to OPC UA Part 14 and Part 6, including message formats and data type serialization.
• [OPC Publisher] Adding back support for --sf and SkipFirst property to skip the first data change notification to be sent when subscription is created.
• [All IoT Edge modules] Configuration to optionally enable MQTT topic publishing and command control via an MQTT broker instead of IoT Edge EdgeHub.
• [All IoT Edge modules] Update OPC UA stack to latest .371 version.