# 2024-02-25 - Release 1.5

## Highlights

* Designed new look'n'feel for the entire Management Portal of Tricloud Nexus
* Performance enhancements in Azure Data Explorer by introducing Partitioning in tables
* New materialized views created in database that pre-aggregates measurements and introduces  enhanced features such as Avg, Min, Max StdDev
* Minor fixes in Edge modules and Applications
* Major performance improvement in Nexus API after upgrade to .NET 8

## New Features

* The UI of Management Portal is completely redesigned to a more user friendly and modern design
* Whitelabelling of the Management Portal can be customized in Platform Settings
* Fonts used in platform UI now has smaller size
* DeviceRegistration now has gateway and parent device properties
* Partitioning, HotCache, and Materialized Views with enhanced features for measurements
* CLI can create pre-defined application templates

## Fixes

* Streaming measurements not working (updated DM schema)
* Bugs in application templates
* OPC-UA Client could not read config in certain circumstances
* Empty field in Create Hierarchy name generated an error message
* Direct deployments hangs, if a module has no Desired Twin and the Deployment is being done to an offline-device

## Breaking Changes

* No breaking changes in this release

## Security Updates

* Upgraded Nexus API to .NET 8
* Updated IoT Edge Runtime 1.4.3 LTS

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