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You will have seen the recent announcement about the IBM Internet of Things (IoT) Foundation service going live.

This will affect those of you that trialed the beta IoT Foundation Starter boilerplate and Node-RED flows in Bluemix as the move to production has – unfortunately – required us to remove all beta data. You will therefore need to signup to the new IoT Foundation once more, and re-register your devices and API Keys. Furthermore, there are changes to the format of the Bluemix VCAP_SERVICES and API Keys. For details of the changes, and how to migrate your applications to the production service, refer to the following blog post.

Secondly, there is an improved IoT Foundation Starter boilerplate and Node-RED IoT Application node. This provides “out-of-the-box” capability to interact with device commands, events and status messages, and extra context is added around device ids, device types, event types and formats to enable you to construct relevant flows much more quickly. For details on the improvements, refer to the following blog post.