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title: Microsoft Connected Cache Release Notes
description: Release Notes for Microsoft Connected Cache for Enterprise and Education.
ms.service: windows-client
ms.subservice: itpro-updates
ms.topic: conceptual
ms.author: lichris
author: chrisjlin
manager: naengler
appliesto: 
- ✅ <a href=https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/release-health/supported-versions-windows-client target=_blank>Windows 11</a>
- ✅ Supported Linux distributions
- ✅ <a href=https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/deployment/do/waas-microsoft-connected-cache target=_blank>Microsoft Connected Cache for Enterprise and Education</a>	
ms.date: 10/30/2024
---

# Release Notes for Microsoft Connected Cache for Enterprise and Education

This article contains details about the latest releases of Connected Cache. Since Connected Cache is a preview service, some releases may contain breaking changes.

## Release v1.2.1.2076_E (public preview launch)

The public preview released on **10/30/2024**

For customers that installed earlier versions of Connected Cache, this release contains breaking changes that affect both Linux and Windows host machines. Please see the [early preview documentation page](mcc-ent-early-preview.md) for more details.

### Feature updates

- **Metrics and charts in Azure portal**: You can now visualize *Outbound egress* and *Volume by Content type* charts for your cache node on Azure portal. You can also create custom monitoring charts for your cache nodes. This capability is under the **Metrics** tab on Azure portal.
- **Cache nodes for Windows or Linux host machines**: Cache nodes can now be created and deployed to Windows host machine or Linux host machines by simply choosing the OS when creating cache nodes.
- **Ubuntu 22.04 LTS**: Cache nodes can now be deployed on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
- **Azure CLI support**: Cache nodes can now be created and managed via Azure CLI.
- **Proxy**: We added support for unauthenticated proxy and cloud proxy integration.
- **Updates**: Your cache nodes are now updated automatically and we also added the capability to set each cache node's update ring to govern the cadence of Microsoft Connected Cache container updates.

### Fixes
- We fixed various bugs to achieve a smoother installation experience.

## Related content

- [Overview of Connected Cache](mcc-ent-edu-overview.md)