Matter release history: every version from 1.0 to 1.6

The Connectivity Standards Alliance has published a new version of Matter roughly every six to twelve months since 2022. Each version adds device types or features, and each is announced on a date that is easy to mistake for the date a product arrives. This page lists the releases with the dates on the Alliance's announcements and a plain summary of what each one added. Our timeline page at /matter/timeline keeps the same list next to the product data.

Release by release

Matter 1.0, 4 October 2022. The launch announcement opened the certification programme and said the first release used Ethernet, Wi-Fi and Thread as its networks, with Bluetooth Low Energy for setup. It covered lights and plugs, heating and cooling controls, window coverings, door locks, safety and security sensors, bridges, controllers, and media devices such as televisions.

Matter 1.1, 18 May 2023. A release aimed at developers: clearer specification text, better test automation for makers preparing for certification, and improved support for battery-powered devices that sleep between messages, so they are less likely to show as offline.

Matter 1.2, 23 October 2023. Nine new device types: refrigerators, room air conditioners, dishwashers, laundry washers, robotic vacuums, smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, air quality sensors, air purifiers and fans. It also added a model for combined latch and bolt locks, aimed at European markets, and ways for a device to describe its appearance and for controllers to read the location and role of generic parts of a device.

Matter 1.3, 8 May 2024. Energy reporting that any device type can use, electric vehicle chargers, water management (leak detectors, freeze detectors, rain sensors and valves you can control), and more appliances: microwave ovens, ovens, cooktops, extractor hoods and laundry dryers. It also standardised scenes and let a controller batch several commands into one message.

Matter 1.4, 7 November 2024. Enhanced Multi-Admin, which lets a single user approval share devices with more than one platform, home routers and access points that can be certified and that include a Thread border router, and energy device types for solar power, batteries, water heaters and heat pumps. It added fixed in-wall switch and dimmer types and improvements for battery devices.

Matter 1.4.2, 11 August 2025. A security and scale release: setup over Wi-Fi without Bluetooth, verification that an admin on a device really belongs to the vendor it names, revocation lists for attestation certificates, and tougher requirements for certified routers. The Alliance describes the 1.4.1 and the 1.4.2 updates as quality-focused releases, and this page does not date 1.4.1 separately because we did not read its announcement.

Matter 1.5, 20 November 2025. Cameras with live streaming, a reworked and unified model for window shades, awnings, gates and garage doors, soil sensors, tariff and carbon-intensity information for energy management, and support for larger messages over TCP. See our piece on what 1.5 added.

Matter 1.6, 17 June 2026. A feature release with no new device types: setup over NFC, Joint Fabric for several controllers sharing one network, thermostat suggestions, and better ways for devices to report their capabilities and limits. See what 1.6 added.

What the dates do and do not mean

• They are announcement dates. The Alliance releases a specification to members and the public, and makers then build, certify and ship products. The Alliance says of 1.6 that how a specification becomes a product depends on the company and the product type, and says the same in effect of 1.5, whose specification and test tools it describes as available to members and ready for implementation and certification.
• Announced is not shipped. A device type in a release can take many months to reach a certified product, and longer to reach a platform's app. See which platforms handle which types in our comparison.
• A certificate's specification version is the one that counts. A product certified against 1.2 cannot use features from 1.4 unless its maker certifies it again. Our guide to reading a certificate shows where to find it.
• UK availability is separate. None of the announcements says anything about which products are on sale in the UK.

A note on counts

The announcements quote numbers of certifications and downloads from the time they were written. We do not repeat them, because they go stale quickly. For the current catalogue, see the product pages and the Matter reference pages.

This explainer is based on the Alliance's published announcements, read on 13 November 2026. We do not test devices.