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2026 34
- Official release: New component orchestration offers system-level software updates to multi-component products in Mender
- Clarifications regarding recent PHP vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619)
- Managing software updates for the complete software-defined product
- New in Mender: Significantly smaller delta updates, now for containers too
- Building AI for the physical world:
- Speed to the tactical edge starts with software
- New in Mender: Test devices allow faster iteration, exempt standard polling rate limits
- New in Mender: Zephyr 4.4 support and reliability improvements
- Simpler, more predictable device search in the Mender UI
- Software update challenges: Top scenarios to avoid (Part 1)
- Kubernetes shrank for edge devices. But fleet management didn't come with it
- From monolithic bundles to modular intelligence: How independent update domains accelerate innovation
- New Release – Hosted Mender 4.2.0: Stronger account security and a refreshed management experience
- New in Mender: Introducing support for Yocto 6.0 Wrynose LTS
- An expert Q&A session on the EU Cyber Resilience Act: Industry insights from STMicroelectronics and Northern.tech
- Containerized software updates: How machine-agnostic infrastructure unleashes smart products for all
- Ambition is outpacing preparedness: Immature infrastructure projected to fail within five years
- The EU CRA regulation: Three key considerations any international company needs to know
- CVE-2026-49009 & CVE-2026-33552 - Input sanitization and access control issues in Mender Server
- CVE-2025-67903 - Signature verification bypass in Mender Client
- Official release: Mender for Microcontrollers (MCUs), like Zephyr, and the Micro Device Tier
- Success with AI in MedTech depends on the software infrastructure beneath it
- Succeeding in the IoT product landscape: How OEMs align AI, software, and time-to-Market
- What’s new in Mender: New Update Modules for container updates
- Insights from Embedded World 2026: The looming EU CRA deadlines driving imminent change
- Beyond traditional connectivity: managing smart products and machines in air-gapped and offline environments
- Key considerations: How to build compliant software update practices for medical devices
- Mender Client 6.0 released
- Complying with the US FDA and EU MDR requires software updates
- IoT in 2026: Edge AI, growing complexity, and the demand for smarter updates
- New Mender experimental AI-enabled feature
- Mender in 2025: A year in review with compliance, security, and AI-driven growth
- What’s new in Mender: Enhanced delta updates and user experience
- Failed lifecycle management is unacceptable in FDA and MDR compliance
2025 35
- The struggle to reach global markets for medical device manufacturers: The importance of international compliance
- The differences between the US FDA’s device approval process and the EU’s medical device regulation (MDR): An essential dual-compliance framework for global manufacturers
- Why OTA updates are now mission critical for future-proofed device lifecycle management
- The critical role that security and safety requirements play in software-driven medical devices
- New Mender packaging and distribution channels
- Zephyr RTOS: Accelerating edge IoT products
- Engineering robust remote software delivery for embedded systems
- Cutting costs by 80%: Sustainable energy innovator leverages OTA updates
- Protecting patients in a connected healthcare world: Secure OTA updates for IoMT
- Over-the-air update strategies for Raspberry Pi-based embedded systems
- How OTA updates reduce automotive recalls: A cost-saving strategy for software-defined vehicles
- Mender Client 5.01 and 5.0.2 releases: Enhanced reliability and stability for production IoT deployments
- How ZF accelerated AV innovation and compliance with Mender
- Why cloud IoT solutions alone are not EU CRA compliant
- IoT Slam 2025: The impact of AI
- CVE-2025-49603 - Improper access control of device groups in Mender Server
- IoT growth is outpacing readiness – here’s what the data says
- Does EU CRA compliance require advanced OTA update capabilities?
- Sustainable devices, smart innovation: How OTA updates can contribute to cutting costs and carbon
- Service Provider tenant: SSO enhancements
- Be one of the first to try Mender on ESP32 with Zephyr
- Simplifying multi-tenant device management with the Service Provider tenant
- The role of open source software in embedded systems
- The reach of AI: Digital, edge, physical, and beyond
- Robust OTA updates with A/B Partitions for Linux devices
- The power of over-the-air (OTA) updates in patch management
- Helm chart architectural changes: What, why, and how it affects you
- What’s new in Mender: Introducing Service Provider tenant and new advanced features
- The European Union Cyber Resilience Act (CRA): Why remediation requires over-the-air (OTA) updates
- CVE-2024-55959 - Insecure permissions on private key file generated by the Mender Client
- Over-the-Air Updates on Raspberry Pi
- Challenges in complying with the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)
- An overview of EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) compliance
- The scope of EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) compliance
- Proactive strategies to overcome EU CRA compliance challenges
2024 18
- Mender versioning: New releases by component
- Driving secure innovation: ISO/SAE 21434 & UNECE compliance
- CVE-2024-46947 & CVE-2024-47190 - SSRF issues in Mender Enterprise Server
- CVE-2024-46948 - Missing filtering based on RBAC device groups
- Key takeaways from embedded world North America 2024
- Understanding the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA): Why it matters and how to comply
- How OTA updates enhance software-defined vehicles
- Enhancing maritime security and connectivity: The critical role of OTA updates in fleet management
- How to leverage over-the-air (OTA) updates for NVIDIA Jetson Platform Services
- Why is a robust over-the-air (OTA) update process critical in today’s digital age?
- Enhancing sustainability in oil & gas: Tackling methane emissions with cutting edge solutions
- CVE-2024-37019 - Account takeover using SAML
- The top challenge for autonomous vehicles: What does adding AI to cars mean for OEMs?
- What’s New in Mender 3.7: Introducing the C++ Client for portability
- How over-the-air (OTA) updates help emergency response teams
- What’s hot in the open source and embedded community?
- How to leverage over-the-air (OTA) updates with NVIDIA Microservices for Jetson
- Transforming business: It’s “All On” for the future of IoT
2023 25
- Full speed ahead: The software-defined vehicle of the future
- The Future of the Embedded Linux Ecosystem
- Software-defined vehicles: an ecosystem approach & OTA strategy
- CVE-2022-45929 & CVE-2022-41324 — Improper access control for low-privileged users
- Mender 3.6: Auto-generation of delta updates
- Enhancing mobility and safety for citizens: a smarter power wheelchair can increase the user's independence and real-world technology inclusion
- 4 challenges to ensure seamless OTA updates across smart vehicle fleets
- Driving Towards the Future: The Role of OTA Updates in Autonomous Vehicles
- Monitoring a Fleet of IoT Devices: Key Areas of Focus
- The Power of Embedded Open Source: EOSS 2023 Takeaways
- First alpha version of Mender C++ client released
- Mender OTA on the ESP32, Part 2
- Over-the-air (OTA) integration: Variscite VAR-SOM-MX8M-MINI and Yocto Kirkstone
- Over-the-air (OTA) integration: Renesas RZ/G2L and Yocto 3.1 Dunfell
- DigiCert Management Circle: Over-the-air (OTA) updates and digital trust
- How to comply with ISO/SAE 21434 & UNECE R155/R156 for robust automotive cybersecurity
- Embedded World 2023: OTA Updates Propelling Innovation Forward
- Mender OTA on the ESP32, Part 1
- Top Trend #5: Support, training & superior customer experience are essential elements in a best of breed OTA updates solution
- Top Trend #4: Ensuring security by design across device bootstrapping, encryption, and compliance
- Top Trend #3: Reduce operational costs and realize the business value of IoT with delta updates
- Data privacy: compliance should be built-in
- Using the Mender API: The Basics of the Management API
- In the World of Connected Devices: Top Five Trends in 2022
- Mender OTA integrated with Toradex Verdin iMX8M Plus SOM and Yocto
2022 37
- Mender 2022: a year in numbers
- Top Trend #2: Automation Enables Scale for Fleet Management
- Technology & Autonomous Driving: The Buy vs. Build Dilemma
- Top Trend #1: Opportunity Costs of Buying versus Building OTA Software Infrastructure
- Industry 4.0 and software updates at SPS 2022
- Heise DevSec: the importance of "security-by-design" for smart devices
- Mender announces new partnership with Unikie
- Mender 3.4 on-prem release: integrate Mender with AWS IoT Core and other backend services
- Secure boot support for Debian-derived distributions
- Mender 3.4 release: Provision devices to AWS IoT Core
- Meta-mender Kirkstone branch released
- SAML Federated Authentication is now available in Mender Enterprise
- Don’t be a sitting duck, plan now for Device Lifecycle Management
- Updates of the terms of service for Hosted Mender
- Remote OTA Updates for Wind River Linux
- Two Factor Authentication is now available in all the Hosted Mender plans
- Personal Access Tokens simplify the API-based integration with Hosted Mender
- Using QEMU virtualized environments to develop and deploy embedded software for x86 Linux
- CVE-2022-32290 - Mender Client listening on all the interfaces
- How To Deploy OTA Updates for IoT Devices
- How to enable remote software updates in segregated networks with bandwidth efficiency and centralized control
- Mender 3.3 release: Bringing full visibility and efficiency in segregated networks
- Migrate to Linux with Yocto and Flutter in Embedded Devices
- Kubernetes vs Docker with Mender on-premise
- Considerations for managing a Raspberry Pi-based device in production
- Managing multiple hardware versions of your device with Yocto and Mender
- Integrating Mender State Scripts in Yocto - A Step by Step Guide
- CVE-2022-29555 & CVE-2022-29556 - vulnerabilities in iot-manager and deviceconnect
- Revolutionizing agriculture with autonomous robots & OTA software updates
- Autonomous guided vehicles, embedded & OTA software updates
- Understand Azure IoT Hub Device Twins with Mender
- Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service - An Introduction
- Mender 2.6.4, 3.0.2 and 3.1.1 released
- Mender 3.2 release: Provision devices to Azure IoT Hub
- Over-the-air (OTA) software updates: Build vs. buy
- Mender OTA updates and an automated CI/CD pipeline at Gunnebo Safe Storage
- How To Create a Device in Azure IoT Hub
2021 71
- Edge Monitoring and IoT - What is the Difference?
- Azure IoT and Raspberry Pi - How to Get Started
- Automate Device Updates with Device Twins in Azure IOT Hub
- 2021 in review: Mender, OTA software updates and IoT device management
- Device Update for Azure IoT - How to Get Started
- Seeed integrates Mender with the reTerminal and the Dual Gigabit Ethernet Carrier Board for RPi CM4
- Mender enables Seeed with OTA software updating for the ODYSSEY -X86
- Security labelling on IoT devices by February 2022
- Best remote monitoring IoT solutions
- What is IoT Device Monitoring and what are the benefits?
- Mender 3.0.1 and 2.6.3 released
- Mender partner The Qt Company releases QT 6.2 LTS
- Quick fix for Let's Encrypt Root Certificate Expiry
- Mender 3.1 release: Monitor using edge processing
- Configuring QT Creator for Yocto with OTA Updates | Mender
- Debian and OTA software updates in an IoT project
- Cyberattacks continue to proliferate in connected devices
- CVE-2021-35342 - useradm incorrect access control vulnerability
- NXP i.MX Processors in IoT Platforms - An Overview | Mender
- New hosted Mender release: Device Tags and Device Name
- Editorial response to BBC Click article on IoT Device Security
- Mender Enables Full OTA Updates for the NVIDIA Jetson Edge AI Platform
- Comparing the Nvidia Jetson embedded boards
- Top 5 IoT development boards used in IoT projects in 2021
- Synchronized software updates in large scale IoT Projects
- How does a FOTA update work?
- Real time processing on the Beaglebone AI
- Setting up Beaglebone for an embedded Linux project
- Beaglebone and Raspberry Pi: a general comparison
- Beaglebone working with Linux operating systems Debian, Yocto and OTA updates
- Previewing the Beagle V
- What is port forwarding?
- Mender 3.0 release: Synchronized OTA Software Update
- What are the IoT security threats?
- What is the right strategy for IoT update management?
- What is OTA Update?
- Live webcast: Troubleshoot and configure your embedded devices remotely with Mender 2.7
- Yocto OTA updates - full root FS updates vs package vs container
- Selecting a Yocto board
- Yocto and OTA software updates in an IoT project
- Selecting an OTA updates provider for Yocto
- Efficient Yocto development and OTA updates
- Debugging the Yocto build
- Secure remote monitoring for Raspberry Pi
- Debian operating system and software platform for your Raspberry Pi
- Memory requirements for your Raspberry Pi with SD and eMMC
- Remote inspect your device without using traditional Raspberry Pi port forwarding
- Setting up a Raspberry Pi for an IoT project
- Remote Monitor Raspberry Pi
- Enabling fast and secure software updates for Enterprise IoT
- The role of OTA in smart home energy management with Vaillant
- OTA Update for Embedded Linux Systems
- Cyber EO makes timely delivery of cyber resilience a top priority
- Electric motorcycles with style and Yocto images to boot
- Beaglebone vs Raspberry Pi — Choosing the Right SBC
- Raspberry Pi 5 - What to Expect and When
- IoT Device Security: Why are Best-of-Breed OTA software update systems required?
- What is Reverse SSH Tunneling and how does it work?
- WebSockets for fun and profit: a communication channel for the IoT
- IoT device management: Why is it important in managing software updates?
- How revolutionary digital circuit breakers are supported by OTA updates
- Name change for Mender Starter: Now Basic
- Mender 2.7 release: Troubleshoot and Configure devices
- Yocto Raspberry Pi, OTA software updates & service station innovation
- Using LVM to reduce dual rootfs footprint
- Mender and Boundary Devices to enable more embedded devices capable of over-the-air (OTA) updates
- Deprecating Mender 1.7.0 and older on-premise
- How to increase security in enterprise IoT
- Mender 2.6 release: Secure remote access and customizability
- Ensuring safe drone flights with OTA software updates
- Smart Elevator needs secure OTA software updates
2020 52
- Edge devices and IoT device management in maritime
- Enabling innovation in smart factories with IoT device management
- A landmark day for device security - US Senate passes Cybersecurity Improvement Act on to the President for signature
- A new wave of strong security for end to end IoT gateways
- Building the Mender-Rust project with Yocto
- Mender brings secure and robust over-the-air software updates to TechNexion
- Good news - The U.S House Passes the IoT Cybersecurity bill
- Mender pays close attention to Quality Assurance
- New hosted Mender release: Audit logs
- Official Helm chart for Mender 2.5
- Mender 2.5 release: Expanding the security capabilities of Mender
- Mender documentation improvements
- Taking Deno & the Github CLI for a spin to migrate Dependabot
- New hosted Mender features release
- Quantifying the economic value of using Software-as-a-Service to update all device software over-the-air
- Yocto dunfell support released
- Requirements of a successful OTA update mechanism
- Mender 2.4 on-premise released: New automation features
- EU introduces a cyber security IoT standard to protect its citizens
- Quickly evaluate Mender with the new FREE 12-month signup trial
- Elevator-as-a-Service
- Yocto zeus support released
- Enabling OTA software updates in Variscite's family of i.MX 8M based SoM development platforms
- Mender enables iWave with over-the-air (OTA) software update solution
- Mender partners with Baylibre to deliver robust and secure software updates to IoT devices
- The Simplicity in Mender's Pricing Approach
- Releasing new automation features with hosted Mender and 2.4 beta
- Safety and security of the connected world
- A quick dive into k3s and the Mender Update Module for Kubernetes
- Over-the-air (OTA) software updates in embedded MCU based applications
- Collecting acceptance and integration test coverage with Golang
- Raspberry Pi support for robust system level updates
- Easily update all of your device software
- Hosted Mender gets new deployment automation feature
- Growing fresh veggies with Rpi and Mender
- Converting a live device to a robust dual rootfs device
- COVID-19 Update
- Mender 2.3 released: Easily update both system and applications
- United Kingdom to introduce Security Labelling on connected devices
- Building Mender-Rust in Yocto, and minimizing the size of a Rust binary
- Mender partners with Konsulko Group to deliver robust and secure software updates
- Mender 2.3 beta: Easily update system and applications
- State scripts: A powerful tool for customizing your OTA software updates
- Top 3 IoT security challenges
- The End of Easy Password guessing ….. this time in the UK
- Avoid product downtime and improve customer experience with Schedule Deployments
- Come see us at Embedded World, 25 - 27 February 2020 // Nuremberg, Germany
- The intersection of modern OTA updates and configuration management
- Choosing Yocto as your build system for your IoT project
- Managing fleets of connected devices with Phased Rollout
- The world's most secure and robust OTA solution
- The End of Easy Password guessing ….. in California
2019 56
- Webinar | Managing your Qt based embedded Linux device using Mender.io
- IoT Development: Going from prototyping to production with embedded Linux
- How to work with Python applications and modules in Yocto
- How to update a Docker container with Mender using Raspberry Pi
- Mender 2.2.1 released: Stability improvements
- Top three requirements for OTA software updates for IoT
- How to update a .deb package with Mender using Raspberry Pi
- From mgo to mongo-driver: Migration to the MongoDB supported driver for Go
- Managing large scale deployments with phased rollout and schedule deployments
- How to do delta (differential) updates with Mender
- Two Factor Authentication with Mender User Login
- Enabling faster downloads and lower bandwidth costs over cellular networks with Mender robust delta updates
- Building a Spotify bridge with Mender and the Raspberry Pi 4
- Introducing the tutorial category on Mender Hub
- Announcing Mender Enterprise: Enabling deployment of large scale updates with production grade security, uptime and customizability
- Mender 2.2 released: Safely deploy at scale
- Delta updates, phased rollouts, schedule deployments and more with new Mender editions
- A whirlwind tour of the Mender client architecture using Rust
- Mender 2.2 beta: Yocto warrior and Raspberry Pi 4
- 4 ways to minimize IoT cybersecurity risks
- Mender 2.1 released: Deploy your first application easily
- Getting started with Mender 2.1 beta on Windows
- Mender Enables Over-The-Air Software Updates in NXP's i.MX 8M Family of Application Processors
- Mender 2.1 beta: Deploy your first application easily
- Get started easily: New onboarding in Hosted Mender
- What Is a Mender Update Module, How It Works and Why Use It?
- U.S. government imposes stricter IoT security measures on D-Link
- Two Ways to Update Embedded Devices Over-The-Air
- Mender Hub User Profile Series – Pierre Jean Texier
- Mender Hub User Profile Series - Belisko Marek
- Mender Hub User Profile Series - Dan Walkes
- How are we migrating from GitHub to GitLab and keeping our loved Open Source workflow
- Webinar | Secure and Robust OTA Updates with UP Squared and Mender
- Mender 2.0.1 released: Stability improvements
- Coming soon webinar | Secure and Robust OTA Updates with AAEON/UP Squared and Mender.io
- Mender and Microsoft Azure IoT Facilitate Robust and Secure Device Software Management Update
- Article | Choosing the right model for maintaining and enhancing your IoT project
- Linux IoT development: adjusting from a binary OS to the Yocto Project workflow
- Webinar | Secure and Robust OTA Updates with AAEON UP UP Squared and Mender.io
- Four tools for building embedded Linux systems
- Webinar | How Blokable uses Mender for OTA updates for scalable housing creation
- Webinar this Wednesday, May 15th | How Blokable uses Mender for OTA updates for scalable housing creation
- Mender 2.0 released: Application updates
- Mender tools available in official Debian repositories
- Guest webinar | How Blokable uses Mender for OTA updates for scalable housing creation
- Meetup on April 17th in San Francisco: Comparing and Contrasting Embedded Linux Build Systems and Distributions
- Mender 2.0 beta: Application updates
- Raspbian update breaks devices
- Will the new EU standard protect consumers from IoT products?
- Announcing Mender Enterprise: customized for fine-grained updates for all your software and devices
- Embedded World 2019 and an exciting announcement!
- Announcing the migration of the mailing list to Mender Hub
- Update Modules are coming - test them today!
- Mender at FOSDEM
- What separates leaders from laggards in the Internet of Things
- Meetup on IoT Application Prototyping and Other Upcoming Events
2018 36
- Updating Raspbian remotely
- Mender 1.7 released: Raspbian and broader Linux support
- Linux IoT: From Prototype to Production
- Mender 1.7 beta: Broader Linux support
- Strategies for Deploying Embedded Applications
- Why the Yocto Project for IoT?
- Mender and Google Cloud IoT Core: Reference Integration
- Announcing Mender Hub!
- Why not homegrown over-the-air update capabilities?
- October Events
- Mender 1.6 released: Device integration automated
- Raspbian update demo with Hosted Mender
- Join us at Open Source Summit in Vancouver!
- Mender 1.6 beta: Easier device integration
- Hosted Mender and Toradex Easy Installer
- OSCON and upcoming events
- Northern.tech AS and our Mender.io product has been granted up to EUR 2 100 000 from the European Union/commission
- Mender 1.5 released: Intel x86 support
- New video introducing Mender and the challenge of remotely updating IoT devices
- The Need for a World Cybersecurity Organization
- Introducing Hosted Mender on Google Hangout on Air
- Meetup on IoT Development: from Prototype to Production
- Mender 1.5 beta: Intel x86 support
- Announcing the release of Hosted Mender
- Upcoming Events: Talk at Embedded Systems Conference Boston and more
- More Pi: Mender and Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, Zero, Compute Module
- Guest post | IOOOTA using Mender
- Mender 1.4.0 released - preauthorize devices!
- Embedded Linux Conference and OpenIoT Summit
- Tell us your story using Mender and get free Mender swag!
- UConnect, more botnets, and poor OTA updating practices
- Mender 1.4 beta: Preauthorize devices
- Our talk at FOSDEM on IoT Botnets, Linux devices, and the absence of basic security hardening
- Mender integration with the Toradex Colibri iMX7
- Porting the Mender client to Orange Pi | guest blog post
- The Hidden Costs of Homegrown Updaters and a Requirements Checklist for OTA
2017 23
- Mender 1.3.0 released - automated U-Boot patching!
- Introducing automatic U-Boot patching
- IoT and the lurking botnets
- Mender 1.3 beta: Raspberry Pi 3
- Embedded Linux Conference Prague
- Why We Support the Linux Foundation
- On-demand webinar with Toradex and Mender
- Key Considerations for Software Updates for embedded Linux and IoT
- Mender 1.2.1 and 1.1.3 released - security updates
- Notes from a user on Mender without Yocto
- Mender 1.2 released: scripting support!
- Mender 1.2 beta: scripting support!
- Why the Yocto Project for my connected devices?
- Community support for Raspberry Pi
- Mender 1.1 released: Signature management
- Live stream: Unikernels with OTA updates: IncludeOS and Mender for IoT on June 29th
- Mender 1.1.0 beta ready for testing!
- Quick Start Package for Mender OTA implementation
- Our guest blog post on Embedded Computing Design | Why we created Mender
- Mender 1.0.1 released
- Docker versioning and Mender 1.0.0
- Announcing our production-ready release: Mender 1.0!
- Join our BOF! | Embedded Linux Conference Portland + OpenIoT Summit (Feb 21st to 23rd)
2016 14
- New iteration of Mender available!
- Porting Mender to a non-Yocto build system
- Why did we choose Golang over C?
- Mender management server (test version) released!
- Mender server soon to be released as open source
- Unikernels + connected devices
- Yocto Project SDK Quickstart | San Francisco Bay Area Meetup in September
- Automotive Linux Summit presentation slides and where to focus your embedded project costs
- Mender to present at Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo | July 13th-14th
- Featured on Embedded.com: how to handle security threats for connected devices
- Our presentation on video: Cryptography Basics for Embedded Developers
- Embedded Linux Conference 2016
- Upcoming Mender events in April 2016: San Diego and Boston
- Partition layout design for embedded devices to enable image-based updates
2015 6
- Firmware over-the-air: package-based vs image-based updates
- Using build information from Yocto to deploy software updates (part 2)
- Using build information from Yocto to deploy software updates (part 1)
- The case for over-the-air software updates and patching the Internet of Things
- Security updates for the Internet of Things (part 2)
- Security updates for the Internet of Things (part 1)