{
 "caption": "Every Matter release from 1.0 to 1.6, with the device types each one added. Device type totals are counted from the alliance's published data model, so they differ slightly from marketing counts. Dates are public announcement dates; the specification documents carry slightly earlier board acceptance dates.",
 "version": "2026.09",
 "updated": "2026-09-07",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0, Smart Living Web",
 "columns": [
  {
   "key": "version",
   "label": "Version"
  },
  {
   "key": "date",
   "label": "Released"
  },
  {
   "key": "headline",
   "label": "What it changed"
  },
  {
   "key": "types",
   "label": "New device types"
  },
  {
   "key": "total",
   "label": "Total types"
  },
  {
   "key": "added",
   "label": "Added"
  }
 ],
 "rows": [
  {
   "version": "1.0",
   "date": "4 Oct 2022",
   "headline": "First release. IPv6 only, over Wi-Fi, Thread and Ethernet, with Bluetooth LE commissioning.",
   "types": "42 baseline types: lighting, switches, plugs, locks, thermostats, window coverings, sensors, fans, media players, bridges",
   "total": "42",
   "added": "0"
  },
  {
   "version": "1.1",
   "date": "18 May 2023",
   "headline": "Maintenance release. Improvements for intermittently connected (battery) devices and a commitment to two releases a year.",
   "types": "None",
   "total": "42",
   "added": "0"
  },
  {
   "version": "1.2",
   "date": "23 Oct 2023",
   "headline": "First appliance wave, plus air quality clusters covering particulates, carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, VOCs, carbon monoxide, ozone, radon and formaldehyde.",
   "types": "Refrigerator, temperature controlled cabinet, room air conditioner, laundry washer, robot vacuum, dishwasher, smoke and CO alarm, air purifier, air quality sensor",
   "total": "51",
   "added": "9"
  },
  {
   "version": "1.3",
   "date": "8 May 2024",
   "headline": "Energy and water management arrive: electrical power and energy measurement, scenes as a standard feature, command batching.",
   "types": "Cook surface, cooktop, microwave oven, extractor hood, oven, laundry dryer, EV charger, device energy management, electrical sensor, water valve, leak detector, freeze detector, rain sensor",
   "total": "63",
   "added": "13"
  },
  {
   "version": "1.4",
   "date": "7 Nov 2024",
   "headline": "Home energy, enhanced multi-admin, and a combined Wi-Fi access point plus Thread border router device type. Long idle time battery devices can sleep up to 18 hours.",
   "types": "Solar power, battery storage, heat pump, water heater, Thread border router, network infrastructure manager, secondary network interface, mounted on/off control, mounted dimmable load control, joint fabric administrator (provisional)",
   "total": "73",
   "added": "10"
  },
  {
   "version": "1.4.1",
   "date": "7 May 2025",
   "headline": "First minor release. In-app terms and consent capture, multi-device QR codes, and an NFC tag carrying the onboarding payload (Bluetooth still finishes the job).",
   "types": "None",
   "total": "73",
   "added": "0"
  },
  {
   "version": "1.4.2",
   "date": "11 Aug 2025",
   "headline": "Wi-Fi only commissioning without Bluetooth. Security work: vendor ID verification, access restriction lists, certificate revocation. Border routers must be Thread 1.4 certified and support at least 150 devices.",
   "types": "Thermostat controller",
   "total": "74",
   "added": "1"
  },
  {
   "version": "1.5",
   "date": "20 Nov 2025",
   "headline": "The largest release since 1.0. Cameras over WebRTC, a redesigned closures model, soil sensing, energy tariff and carbon intensity data, TCP transport for large payloads, bidirectional EV charging.",
   "types": "Camera, video doorbell, floodlight camera, snapshot camera, audio doorbell, doorbell, chime, intercom, camera controller, closure, closure panel, closure controller, soil sensor, irrigation system, electrical energy tariff, electrical meter, utility meter, meter reference point",
   "total": "92",
   "added": "18"
  },
  {
   "version": "1.5.1",
   "date": "31 Mar 2026",
   "headline": "Camera corrections: multi-stream video and audio in one session, HEIC snapshots, HLS and DASH upload, pan tilt zoom home position fixes, chime sound selection.",
   "types": "None",
   "total": "92",
   "added": "0"
  },
  {
   "version": "1.6",
   "date": "17 Jun 2026",
   "headline": "Joint Fabric promoted from provisional to certifiable, full NFC commissioning with no Bluetooth needed, thermostat suggestions, device capability reporting, security sensor event history.",
   "types": "None",
   "total": "92",
   "added": "0"
  }
 ]
}