Release Notes

Type	RELEASE
Date	2025-02-19
Summary	Version 2.5 of netFIELD OS updates the Linux kernel to 5.15 and introduces TPM- and certificate-based device onboarding, along with support for new edge gateway models "Unity" and "Unity Pro." Note: Version 2.5.0.1 of netFIELD OS is a hotfix of version 2.5.0.0. Please use this version of netFIELD OS 2.5 instead of version 2.5.0.0.

License

netFIELD OS is released under the HNSCL license.

netFIELD OS may include 3rd party software or software declared as Open Source.

The licensing information of all the included software components is included in textual form in netFIELD OS under the folder "/usr/share/common-licenses" and subfolders.

You can also find a full list of included software components and their licenses in the archive file of each device in the download section below.

Release Announcement

Document	Language	Link
Product Announcement No	EN	N/A
HowTo install the Software on the Gateway.	EN	Please refer to this FAQ entry

Documentation

All documentation for netFIELD OS can be found on this page, tailored to each edge gateway device model: Documentation Library — Industry 4.0 / IIoT.

For your convenience, you can follow the links below to the specific documentation page section that matches your edge gateway model:

Model Name	netFIELD Connect	netFIELD Compact	netFIELD OnPremise	sensorEDGE	sensorEDGE FIELD

Documentation Link	Documentation	Documentation	Documentation	Documentation	Documentation
Licenses Link	licenses.tar.bz2	N/A	licenses.tar.bz2	N/A	N/A

Downloads - netFIELD OS

Hardware Compatibility	Model Name	Update via device's Web UI	Recovery with factory reset via device's Web UI	Recovery/Upgrade with factory reset via USB memory stick
netFIELD Connect (Software Gen 2.x)	NIOT-E-TPI51-EN-RE/NFLD	netfield-image-niot-e-tpi51-en-re-2.5.0.1.release-20241218163220.update.swu	netfield-image-niot-e-tpi51-en-re-2.5.0.1.release-20241218163220.recovery.swu	netfield-image-niot-e-tpi51-en-re-2.5.0.1.release-20241218163220.recovery.zip
netIOT Connect (Software Gen 1.x)	NIOT-E-TPI51-EN-RE	N/A	N/A	netfield-image-niot-e-tpi51-en-re-2.5.0.1.release-20241218163220.recovery.zip

netFIELD OnPremise (Software Gen 2.x)	NIOT-E-TIJCX-GB-RE/NFLD	netfield-image-niot-e-tijcx-gb-2.5.0.1.release-20241218154134.update.swu	netfield-image-niot-e-tijcx-gb-2.5.0.1.release-20241218154134.recovery.swu	netfield-image-niot-e-tijcx-gb-2.5.0.1.release-20241218154134.recovery.zip
netIOT On-Premise (Software Gen 1.x)	NIOT-E-TIJCX-GB-RE	N/A	N/A	netfield-image-niot-e-tijcx-gb-2.5.0.1.release-20241218154134.recovery.zip

netFIELD Compact X8M	NFX8M-D2-N32-010	hilscher-netfield-image-oem-netfield-netfield-compact-x8m-rev1-2.5.0.1.release-20241218170303.update.swu	hilscher-netfield-image-oem-netfield-netfield-compact-x8m-rev1-2.5.0.1.release-20241218170303.recovery.swu	hilscher-netfield-image-oem-netfield-netfield-compact-x8m-rev1-2.5.0.1.release-20241218170303.recovery.zip

sensorEDGE FIELD	NFS-M8-QM-D2-N16/NFLD	hilscher-netfield-image-oem-netfield-netfield-iolink-edge-gw-rev2-2.5.0.1.release-20241218164453.update.swu	hilscher-netfield-image-oem-netfield-netfield-iolink-edge-gw-rev2-2.5.0.1.release-20241218164453.recovery.swu	N/A
sensorEDGE	NFS-M8-QM-D2-N16	N/A	N/A	N/A

Software	Link
Virtual Disk Image for VMware	Please contact your sales representative.
Virtual Disk Image for KVM	Please contact your sales representative.
Update via local Device Manager	Please contact your sales representative.

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