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Changelog

This page collects recent changes to the nRF Cloud APIs, portal, and documentation. The changelog is published according to deployment date.

If a category is not included in the changelog for a given release, there are no changes within that category.

Archived changelogs by year

March 16, 2023

This section lists changes deployed on March 16, 2023.

New features

In the nRF Cloud portal:

  • Split charges for MCELL and Wi-Fi.
  • New form for submitting Enterprise plan upgrade inquiries from the portal.
  • New Invoices card on the Manage Plan page for Pro and Enterprise accounts.
  • Locations in Location Services responses through REST now also appear in the live Location map on the device's page.

In the nRF Cloud APIs:

  • Any deviceInfo, networkInfo, and serviceInfo data from MQTT DEVICE messages are now written to the device shadow.
  • New RecordGnssCoordinates endpoint to report the device's GNSS coordinates to nRF Cloud.

Enhancements

In the nRF Cloud portal:

  • Removed reminder that the service evaluation token has moved from the Team page.
  • Removed reminder that JITP generation has moved from the User Account page.
  • Re-enabled device search.
  • Removed tour.
  • New billing contact field in the plan upgrade form.

In the nRF Cloud APIs:

  • Expanded Location Services coverage.
  • Updated examples for Location Services endpoints.

Bug fixes

In the nRF Cloud portal:

  • Fixed GNSS speed units.
  • Fixed issue where device groups did not load.
  • Removed beacons from the Add Device menu on mobile.
  • Removed duplicate https in the company URL field of the Pro plan upgrade form.
  • Removed delete button for full modem updates.
  • Fixed white space issue when fetching IMEIs by reel code.

In the nRF Cloud APIs:

  • Shadow delta is properly returned in the response to a FetchDevice request.
  • Accurately set expiration date and time for service evaluation tokens.

Documentation

  • Updated links to the nRF Connect SDK documentation.
  • Added links to the IMEI API references.
  • Added Invoices to plan documentation.
  • Removed references to unsupported beacons.
  • Added note about browser compatibility to Getting started page .
  • Added D2C MQTT topics.

January 2023

This section lists changes deployed in January 2023.

New features

In the nRF Cloud portal:

  • Added interface for IMEI Reporting.
  • Added overages card to dashboard for relevant Enterprise plans.
  • Added current monthly charges and plan summary cards to the Plan Management page for Pro and Enterprise plans.

In the nRF Cloud APIs:

  • New IMEI Reporting APIs.
  • Fuzzy matching of device names is now supported with the deviceNameFuzzyquery parameter to the ListDevices REST API endpoint.
  • Team owners can retrieve all billing invoices using the ListInvoices REST API endpoint.

Enhancements

  • Completed FOTA jobs are no longer deleted from the history. Previously, they were deleted after 30 days.

In the nRF Cloud APIs:

  • Enabled filtering by deviceId when passing latest to the GetLocationHistory REST API endpoint.
  • Team owners and admins can filter devices by groups (tags) when calling the GetLocationHistory endpoint.

In the nRF Cloud portal:

  • Clarified language in service evaluation token card.

Bug fixes

In the nRF Cloud portal:

  • Fixed issue where dashboard metric tooltips displayed before the account loaded.
  • Fixed crash when editing a user profile for the first time.
  • Fixed issue that caused an error during new user creation.
  • Fixed issues with logging in to the nRF Cloud portal on mobile devices.
  • Fixed low-contrast button colors.
  • Fixed an error in fetching SIMs by ID.
  • Fixed issue with refreshing a device page that marked the device as invalid.
  • Device states now refresh when refreshing the firmware update page.
  • Sort by drop-down now displays properly for device groups.

In the nRF Cloud APIs:

  • Fixed bug with leap seconds in GPS time.
  • The proper meta field is included in response to calling the GetLocationHistory REST API endpoint, for GNSS location in PVT format.

Documentation

  • Added IMEI reporting documentation.
  • Added a Last updated footer.
  • Throughout the documentation, you can click to expand collapsible sections of text. This reduces the amount of scrolling you must do to find relevant information, and presents equivalent options for operations.
  • Archived the 2022 changelog.