Ignition Release Notes for Version 8.1.39 (2024)

Alarming

Fixed an issue where re-enabling alarms in specific alarm states weren't stored to the alarm journal.

Alarming

Add redundancy settings for Airlink SMS notification profiles

Alarming

Fixed an issue where all alarm events captured within an alarm consolidation delay period would only be sent to the roster assigned to the first alarm event. Now, all assigned rosters from alarm events gathered by consolidation will be sent a notification.

Alarming

Fixed an issue where acknowledging and shelving local alarms would be sent to remote tag providers and throw errors if service security disallows remote acknowledging and shelving.

Security

Audit log now shows appropriate actor and host when modules are installed, uninstalled and updated

Containers

Fixed an issue where the License Page link on Cloud Edition might not show the cloud-specific EULA on subsequent restarts.

Tag Historian

Upgraded the bundled PostgreSQL driver to 42.7.2

Swing

Added a header panel with a refresh button to the Tag Diagnostics section of the tag reference tracker

Swing

Fixed tooltip for Translation Manager's Folder search function in the translation export.

Comms

Fixed an issue where the license state update listener on the Mitusbishi Driver and Micro800 Driver was not getting removed on shutdown.

Comms

Fixed a bug that triggered trial timeout logic when a partial license trial expired.

Comms

Added a new driver for communication with Allen Bradley Micro800 series PLCs via Ethernet/IP.

Comms

Added a setting to disable automatic time synchronization.

Comms

Added settings that allow a configurable delay before issuing read-after-operate commands.

Gateway Network

Fixed an issue where using EAM Install Module task to upgrade a 3rd party module could cause the new module to be quarantined.

Gateway Network

Allows EAM Restore Backup task to choose backup file from Agent Archive.

Gateway Network

Added ability for EAM Send Tags Task to specify Tag Collision Policy.

Foundation

Installer creation of the install-info properties file now properly escapes invalid characters so they are read successfully on gateway startup.

Infrastructure

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version is now 17.0.10

Perspective

Added the tabIndex property to component meta props

Perspective

The Barcode Component will no longer generate "Canvas2D: Multiple readback operations using getImageData are faster with the willReadFrequently attribute set to true." warnings.

Perspective

Perspective's use of React Resize Detector library has been improved. Resizes are no longer throttled or debounced which improves perceived responsiveness. Additionally resize detector loops, where component 1 triggers a resize of component 2 and vice versa, are now detected and prevented from looping infinitely.

Perspective

Upgrade AmCharts library to latest version of 4 to resolve security vulnerability [CVE-2023-46233]

Perspective

Invalid pens will be rendered in the Power Chart footer

Perspective

Fixed a bug causing breakpoint containers to crash when toggling preview mode in the designer.

Perspective

Reordered array items within the JSON Editor or Property Editor do not result in duplicate index keys.

Perspective

Property configs, including bindings, remain assigned to moved or shifted array items within the Property Editor.

Perspective

Added new "coalesce" property for bidirectional bindings, to consolidate multiple changes into a single write back.

Perspective

Fixed a bug where live feed data would continue to load after the stream is closed.

Perspective

Fixed an issue in the DateTime Input/Picker component that caused the minute and second increment/decrement buttons to be incorrectly disabled.

Reporting

Fixed an issue where saving a multi-page report containing tables with headers to CSV format resulted in duplicate table headers being exported for each page

Reporting

Fixed NPE resulting from implementation for IGN-2784.

Reporting

Fixed: Filter Keys no longer worked for child tables of Table Groups.

Reporting

Upgrade Apache POI from 3.17 to 4.1.2

Security

Upgraded Apache Santuario (xmlsec) dependency from v2.3.3 to v2.3.4

Scripting

Fixed an issue where sometimes in code editors, typing a double quote would remove the next character after the entered double quote.

Scripting

Improved argument handling in some functions that accept keyword arguments to allow numeric values to be supplied where booleans are expected, allowing `1/0` to passed as `True` and `False`.

Security

Deprecated `SecurityUtils#getPrivateKeyParameter` for removal in 8.3

Security

Deprecated `SecurityUtils#getKeyParameter`, `SecurityUtils#asymmetricSign`, and `SecurityUtils#generateDESedKey` for removal in 8.3

Security

Bumped jose4j dependency from v0.9.3 to v0.9.5 to address a potential DoS vulnerability

Data & Logic

Fixed an issue where a Transaction Group could fail to stop properly resulting in being unable to start the same group.

Tag Historian

Fixed an issue with the tag history splitter that would prevent secondary data storage if the primary connection's memory buffer limit was met.

Tags

Fixed an issue where using system.tag.configure() to overwrite UDT alarm custom properties with a different datatype would throw a 'ClassCastException' resulting in UDT instance member tags from updating.

Tags

Add concurrency-related error handling to Tag Reference Tracker API

Tags

Added additional concurrency-related error handling

Alarming

Update dependency version of Twilio SDK to address outstanding CVE dependencies

Alarming

Update dependency version of Twilio SDK to address outstanding CVE dependencies

Swing

Fixed a longstanding issue where database pens that returned true booleans to the Easy Chart could not be rendered. They will now be displayed as 1/0 when directly graphed.