Edge Microvisor Toolkit v3.1 Release Announcement

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Release Overview

Merge changes from Azure Linux 3.0.20250423-3.0.

Improvements to ISO installer

Refreshed for improved user experience, additional new installation variants with Docker (as below) and other fixes.

• Standard Kernel with Core Packages
• Real-Time (RT) Kernel with Core Packages
• Standard Kernel with Core Packages + Docker
• Real-Time (RT) Kernel with Core Packages + Docker

Validated Hardware Feature Support

The following hardware features have been validated in this release:

• Discrete GPU Support
  • Intel dGPU: B850
  • NVIDIA dGPU: P100, 3090
• Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) Standards
  Validation covers key synchronization and latency components:
  • IEEE 802.1AS-2011: Timing and Synchronization (PTP)
  • IEEE 802.1Qav: Credit-Based Shaper
  • IEEE 802.1Qbv: Scheduled Traffic
  • IEEE 802.1Qbu / 802.3br: Frame Preemption
  • Time-Based Scheduling / Packet Launch Time (TBS)
• Intel Resource Director Technology (RDT)
  • Cache Allocation Technology (CAT)

Added support for:

• Device Discovery Agent
• Reporting Agent

Updated versions of:

• AMT
• cjson
• cluster-agent
• hardware-discovery-agent
• helm
• kernel
• linux-firmware
• node-agent
• os-update (renamed from os-ab-update)
• platform-observability-agent
• platform-telemetry-agent
• platform-update-agent
• qemu

Added support for Edge Microvisor Bootkit.

Several documentation improvements including demo, descriptions, instructions, Architecture diagram, release policy and others.

Release Notes