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FlowFuse 2.27 tightens the development loop for Remote instances and makes FlowFuse Expert more aware of what is actually running in your Node-RED environment. It also improves availability for High Availability hosted deployments.

With the holiday break sitting in the middle of this release cycle, it's a smaller release than usual this month. But that hasn't stopped us continuing to make the FlowFuse Expert even more useful.

This release comes with some big updates for the FlowFuse Expert.

This release unlocks several new abilities for our users, speeding your development time, easing management of Node-RED instances, providing a smoother path to adding large numbers of devices, and more. Let's dig in.

In this exciting release, we've shipped several features that accelerate development in Node-RED using AI, enable creation of AI agents using new Model Context Protocol nodes, provide application-level access controls for much more sophisticated user permissions management, and put an expert flow creator right on our homepage. It's a big one! Let's have a look.

FlowFuse 2.22 provides more powerful development by bringing the FlowFuse Assistant to more nodes, supports operational maturity with automatic FlowFuse Broker schema detection, and enhances the developer experience with an improved Snapshots interface, support for more powerful visualizations, a better Device Agent Installer experience, Dashboard updates, and more! Take a look:

It's been a very busy release and we have many great new features available on FlowFuse that will provide a better Node-RED development experience, makes it easier to develop and interface with your Unified Namespace, provide more insight into Remote Instance performance and new low-code tooling for building your own custom Node-RED nodes.

This release represents a major leap forward in FlowFuse's data management and AI capabilities, introducing our new FlowFuse Tables database feature, along with enhanced AI assistance features and a streamlined user interface. These improvements make FlowFuse a complete solution for building industrial applications, even while reducing development time.

This release focuses on speeding time to value with more powerful AI functionality within Node-RED, along with reducing friction for new users while enhancing the experience for existing users through improved Blueprint functionality, comprehensive performance monitoring, and a modernized interface that reflects FlowFuse's evolution.

This release is focused on improvements that help you manage and optimize the performance of your Node-RED instances and takes an important step in integrating AI with FlowFuse so that you can build applications even more quickly.

This release is focused on improvements that help you get up and running with FlowFuse much more quickly. Our vision is that you can get started with FlowFuse and have a successful application up and running, from scratch, in hours, not days, weeks or months. This release gets us closer to that vision by focusing on improvements to the installation process for the Device Agent, and two new Blueprints.

Our three focal points for the latest release of FlowFuse have been:

• Collaborative Development: Our new Custom Node Catalogues provides a place for you to centralise your own private nodes and Javascript libraries for Node-RED.
• Full Stack Applications: We've added our new "Smart Schema Suggestions" feature for automatically generating documentation for your MQTT Brokers.
• DevOps: We've improved Pipelines now to let you deploy to Device Groups in the middle of a Pipeline, this is just the first step in a wider set of improvements to come for DevOps Pipelines.

This release is full of highlights, which we’ll break down into two key areas - the FlowFuse MQTT Experience and Remote Instances - so you can better digest all of the great new functionality introduced in FlowFuse 2.14.

Happy New Year everyone! We're back with another release of FlowFuse, and whilst it's been a shorter sprint for us this time round, with most of the team out for a well-earned break over Christmas and New Year, that hasn't stopped us packing in lot of great new value into FlowFuse nonetheless.

The new Free plan on FlowFuse Cloud will allow you to manage two remote instances using FlowFuse Device Agent, completely free of charge, forever! The new plan also provides Device Auto Snapshots, so any changes to your Node-RED flows running on your devices are backed up automatically.

The focus of the FlowFuse 2.11 release has all been about providing clarity for our users and reducing friction in our user experience.

Navigation in FlowFuse has been streamlined with a new sidebar and team-wide search feature. We've provided an interactive visualization for your MQTT topic hierarchy, ensuring you have a clear view of your own MQTT/UNS architecture, and, we've re-architected the audit logging to ensure you have an easy-to-understand and searchable view of everything going on in your FlowFuse Team and it's respective Applications, Instances and Devices.

With FlowFuse 2.10 we've added some new major features, as well as improvements across the board for FlowFuse users.

Most notably, FlowFuse now offers it's own MQTT service, with the option to create MQTT client credentials for your teams, making it even easier and quicker to build your full-stack Node-RED applications.