Ignition Updates & Release Notes

Alarm Notification

• Alarming Fixed Fixed an issue where a Twilio Voice Notification Profile page would not reflect the configured language or voice.
• Alarming Fixed Fixed an issue where default settings were invalid when creating new Alarm Notification Profiles.
• Alarming Fixed Remote Alarm Notification Profile now require Server Name and Target Profile on create/update.
• Alarming Fixed Fixed an issue where Pop3AckId was set to null in Alarm Notification Emails.
• Alarming Fixed Fixed an issue that was preventing system.roster.addUsers() from retaining user defined roster order.

Alarm Status

• Alarming Fixed Percent Deadband Mode for Tag Alarms will now use the correct properties for configuration.
• Alarming Fixed Fixed an issue where Alarm Metrics in nested folders would initialize to empty and never update.

Auditing

• Security Fixed Fixed an issue where navigating to the Audit Profile's View Log panel on the Gateway resulted in an OutOfMemoryException.

Backup & Restore

• Platform Core Fixed Managed Tag Providers are no longer disabled when restoring a Gateway backup with Restore Disabled checked.
• Platform Core Fixed Fixed an issue where backup and restore processes were not validating for only the .gwbk extension type.

Cloud Edition

• Containers Fixed Updated Cloud edition header

Config Persistence

• Platform Core Fixed Reduced unnecessary migration warnings during gateway upgrades.
• Platform Core Fixed Improved the performance and responsiveness of the gateway's configuration system by allowing operations on different resource types to proceed concurrently with minimal locking on changes. Per-resource-type metrics have also been added for better observability in the gateway's diagnostic tools under configuration.resources...*
• Platform Core Fixed Fixed issue where default configurations would be re-added when upgrading Ignition
• Platform Core Fixed Fixed NoSuchFileException ERROR logs when running Resource Config Sync via Scan Lock
• Platform Core Fixed Fixed an issue where concurrent file system scans could delete digest files still in use.

Core Historian

• Historian Fixed Fixed an issue with Core Historian queries that resulted in incorrect seed values.

Designer

• Swing Fixed Fixed a variety of issues when using image management on Windows.

Docker

• Containers Fixed Fixed an issue where a missing data/gateway.xml_clean file could cause a premature exit of the Docker entrypoint script.
• Containers Feature Added the jq utility to the Docker image for JSON parsing.

Drivers

• Comms Fixed Disabled BACnet LocalDevice instances now have a health check indicating they are disabled.
• Comms Fixed IEC 61850: allow specifying a hostname instead of IP address
• Comms Fixed The GLIBC requirement for x64 has been reduced from 2.34 to 2.29.
• Comms Fixed The IEC 61850 driver will now disconnect from IEDs during transitions to an inactive redundant node instead of just disabling reports.
• Comms Fixed Fixed an issue where item paths containing brackets or parentheses were not properly escaped during browse.
• Comms Fixed Fixed an issue with the Siemens Enhanced driver where the JVM could crash while reading nodes in the same array for the first time.

EAM & Redundancy

• Gateway Network Fixed Fixed an issue where changing a Gateway agent's target controller left it connected to the previous controller.
• Gateway Network Fixed Fixed an issue where Gateways on different platform editions could be set up as a redundant pair.
• Gateway Network Fixed Fixed an issue where the EAM Send Stats Interval property could be negative
• Gateway Network Fixed Fixed an issue where uninstalling or reinstalling an EAM controller could leave agents in a Disconnected state.
• Gateway Network Fixed Fixed an issue where EAM remote upgrades could be attempted when the agent was not ready.
• Gateway Network Fixed Fixed an issue where changing project inheritance would break redundancy sync
• Gateway Network Fixed Fixed an issue where protected project resources were not syncing properly with redundancy.

Event Streams

• Cloud Connectors Feature Added tooltips for the EventStreams stage's data
• Cloud Connectors Fixed Fixed an issue where the event stream test mode reported incorrect statuses for stages that had not received the test event.
• Cloud Connectors Fixed Event Stream HTTP Handler will no longer log blank responses.
• Cloud Connectors Feature Event Stream Tag Source now includes the previous value in the event metadata.
• Cloud Connectors Feature Event Stream scripts will now correctly use the project scripting library.
• Cloud Connectors Fixed Added ability to select an HTTP version in the Event Stream HTTP Handler.

Gateway Network

• Gateway Network Fixed Fixed an issue with Protobuf where a dictionary with the "date" key was being deserialized incorrectly.
• Gateway Network Fixed Fixed an issue where Remote Historian with Storage allowed pointing at Edge Historian would incorrectly show a "Running" state.

Historian

• Historian Fixed Fixed an issue where remote sink status wasn't updating with changes to security zone policies
• Historian Fixed Added new functions to simplify creation of various point types for storage in historians. These functions include: system.historian.types.dataPoint()
• Historian Fixed Fixed an issue where Internal Historian (Legacy) containing illegal character
• Historian Fixed Fixed an issue where the system.historian.updateRegisteredNodePath() function required specifying all arguments despite having an optional argument.
• Historian Fixed Fixed an issue where the observation flag was not being set when storing data points with certain Sample Modes.
• Historian Fixed Fixed an issue displaying historical trends from the alarm status table

Internal Historian

• Historian Fixed Fixed an issue where processing Historian actors and data sync tasks continued executing on the inactive node in a redundant Gateway pair.

Java - Azul

• Infrastructure Changed Bump the bundled java version to 17.0.18. This version changed the default source of the timezone in Debian 12+ from /etc/timezone to /etc/localtime which may affect timezones on deployments on those systems if not properly configured prior to upgrade.

Kafka

• Cloud Connectors Feature Increased KafkaHandler record publishing throughput.

Launchers

• Foundation Fixed Fixed issue where customized Vision project desktop shortcut icons would not replace the default desktop shortcut icon
• Foundation Fixed Fixed an issue using Deep Links to launch designers and Vision Clients on Mac OS

Licensing

• Platform Core Fixed Fixed an issue preventing users from selecting offline unactivation if the Gateway has a valid internet connection.

OPC

• Comms Feature Added a GDS Push Enabled property for the OPC UA Server Settings page.
• Comms Fixed Improved MonitoredItem creation performance with increasing numbers of devices defined.
• Comms Fixed Fixed an error when regenerating OPC UA server cert with empty SAN fields.
• Comms Changed Updated Milo OPC UA SDK to version 1.1.1.
• Comms Fixed Fixed an issue where incorrect data arguments were resent after an OPC UA Client reconnected.
• Comms Fixed Provide a default value for "Timestamp Source" property on new OPC UA connections.
• Comms Fixed Fixed a bug encoding structures for write when using the Deprecated DataType Dictionary Support option on OPC UA connections.

Other

• Platform Core Fixed Fixed an issue where resource attributes were not preserved during serialization.

Perspective

• Perspective Feature Added an enabled property to the Perspective File Upload component to support a fully disabled state with separate enabled and disabled styling.
• Perspective Fixed Fixed an issue where the Maker Edition license acceptance modal would appear every session.
• Perspective Fixed Fixed an issue with the Alarm Status Journal where unacknowledged alarms were not prioritized when ordered by State.
• Perspective Fixed Added a missing description to the documentation tooltip for system.perspective.togglePopup's params parameter.
• Perspective Feature Added the ability to style and toggle the individual enabled property of radio buttons in the Radio Group component.
• Perspective Fixed Fixed an issue where Button components in Perspective were incorrectly styled when disabled.
• Perspective Fixed Replaced the XY Chart component series.line.appearance.bullets height and width properties with radius
• Perspective Feature Added an onElementClick event to Perspective Drawing component.
• Perspective Changed Added a check against unauthorized users for several Perspective routes.
• Perspective Fixed Fixed an issue where the system.perspective.download() function could fail on older versions of iOS if a MIME type was not provided.
• Perspective Fixed Fixed an issue with the Perspective Map component's onVectorClick event where no position data was available for clicked vectors with a latitude of 0.
• Perspective Fixed Fixed an issue where advanced stylesheet CSS may not display correctly in the Designer.
• Perspective Changed Fixed an issue where the Toggle widget in the Form component was not styled like other checkable widgets.
• Perspective Feature Added a Form component overlay on top of widgets with missing required IDs in Design mode.
• Perspective Fixed Fixed an issue where the Form component's widget.options menu was clipping when longer than the parent container.
• Perspective Fixed Fixed an issue with the Perspective Session lifecycle that caused repeated errors in the logs.
• Perspective Fixed Fixed an issue where an embedded Menu Tree component would not render in Firefox.

Projects

• Platform Core Fixed Improved the error messaging for projects that can't be opened due to naming conflicts with inherited resources.

Remote Tags

• Tags Fixed Fixed a serialization issue for gathering UDT information from a remote provider

Reporting

• Reporting Fixed Fixed a problem where dynamic data keys do not work for the Visible property of Simple Tables.
• Reporting Fixed Fixed an issue where Dynamic Data Keys did not work for the Simple Table Width property.
• Reporting Fixed Fixed a problem where dynamic data keys do not work for the Filter Key property of Simple Tables.

Scripting

• Scripting Fixed Fixed issue where email attachments generated by client scripting would have broken attachments
• Scripting Fixed Fixed issue where deprecated system.db.toDataSet() did not support current PyDataset types.
• Scripting Fixed Fixed an issue where the onSuccess/onError callbacks for the system.util.sendRequestAsync function would not execute and lead to stalled threads.

Secrets Management

• Security Feature Added SecretProvider implementation that allows reading of secrets from files on disk.

SFC

• Data & Logic Fixed Fixed an issue with the system.sfc.startChart() function where the projectName argument was required.
• Data & Logic Fixed Fixed an issue where an empty persisted SFC state file could cause the SFC module to fault during startup.
• Data & Logic Fixed Fixed a serialization error when syncing a SFC to redundant pair.

SQL Historian

• Historian Fixed Fixed an issue where historian tag interpolation modes (e.g. Discrete) were lost after redundancy failover, causing tags to be stored with an incorrect mode and triggering unnecessary tag entry churn in the database.
• Historian Fixed Fixed an issue where metadata was being passed to SQL Historians which is not supported by that historian type.

Store & Forward

• Historian Fixed Store and Forward cache directories are now automatically removed when associated resources are deleted
• Historian Fixed Fixed an issue where importing Store & Forward quarantined data created orphan pipelines with no registered sinks
• Historian Fixed Fixed an issue where database connection names containing illegal characters could prevent the Gateway from starting up.
• Historian Fixed Fixed an issue where metrics from old remote sinks were left in the metrics dashboard
• Historian Fixed Fixed an issue where a Store & Forward Engine rename caused Pending/Quarantine counts to appear as 0 on the Store and Forward page because inactive pipelines holding pre-rename data were filtered from the UI; all pipelines are now returned and inactive ones are visually distinguished.

Tags & UDTs

• Tags Fixed Importing UDT Instances will now apply it's overrides before publishing any values it inherited.
• Tags Fixed Removed Vision Client tag provider from Gateway Events tag selection tool
• Tags Fixed Fixed an issue applying engineering limits to array tags
• Tags Fixed Fixed an issue where Query tags were executing queries on backup Gateways.
• Tags Fixed Moving tag configurations between providers will no longer force the Rename collision policy.
• Tags Fixed Significantly increased Managed Tag Provider value change throughput.
• Tags Fixed Fixed an issue with non-ASCII Unicode characters resulting in invalid in Tag exports.
• Tags Feature Added an 'overridesOnly' parameter to system.tag.getConfiguration. If the tag is a member of a UDT then only the overridden properties will be returned
• Tags Fixed Fixed an issue where the Memory Tag value database indexes could become corrupted
• Tags Fixed Fixed issue in designer presenting a dataset editor when the array editor was needed
• Tags Fixed Prevent resource syncs with missing tag resources from deleting parent folder.

User Sources

• Security Fixed Fixed an issue with Active Directory
• Security Fixed Added badge search filter configuration field to the AD configuration Web UI panels.
• Security Fixed Fixed an issue where an entry referring to a missing role in the INTERNALAUTHROLE table would cause a Gateway startup failure.
• Security Fixed Fixed issue where newly created users in an AD/Internal hybrid user profile were not immediately available in the user source.

Voice Notification

• Alarming Fixed Fixed an issue with default German language values for SIP Notification scripts.

Web UI

• Web UI Fixed Fixed an issue where the History Datasource field could prevent create or update requests for Remote Tag Providers.
• Web UI Feature Fixes issue with pasting activation tokens with quote. Pasting activation with quotes is now accepted.
• Web UI Fixed Fixed an issue that prevented users from resizing a text area.
• Web UI Fixed Fixed an issue with Gateway Webpage panels where the HTML for attributes were not reflecting correct IDs.
• Web UI Changed Updated gateway to use newer favicons.
• Web UI Fixed Fixed an issue with Gateway Script error popups displaying overloaded message descriptions.
• Web UI Fixed Fixed an issue where the Projects page would not display an error toast when failing to import a project.
• Web UI Changed Added a new Remote Connections tab on the Gateway Connections page that provides details regarding Remote Gateways and Connections
• Web UI Fixed Fixed an issue where metric cards were rendering over the Gateway banner.
• Web UI Fixed Fixed an issue where the required fields within the Verify User Source modal were not marked as required.
• Web UI Fixed Security Settings page now displays all respective fields instead of hiding some based on the Designer Authentication Strategy value.
• Web UI Fixed Fixed an issue where Gateway form validation messages displayed internal field paths instead of readable field labels.
• Web UI Fixed Improved session management used by OPC Quick Client and Logging HTTP endpoints.
• Web UI Fixed Fixed an issue where Identity Provider menu items were not available when the Gateway was deployed in a non-core collection.
• Web UI Fixed The Manage JAR Files panel will now display the collection that the resource belongs to when there are multiple definitions and will no longer allow system level resource changes.
• Web UI Fixed Fixed an issue that prevented users from selecting offline activation while the Gateway had a valid connection.
• Web UI Fixed Fixed issue that would not allow editing agent tasks in collections other than core.
• Web UI Fixed Designers data grid polling now correctly pauses while a Designer details drawer is open
• Web UI Fixed Fixed an issue that caused a ResourceNotFoundException when using the browsers inspector.
• Web UI Changed Updated how the creation button is conditionally disabled based on different Gateway configurations.
• Web UI Fixed Fixed an issue where autocompleted fields were not validated properly and prevented the Save Changes button from being accessed.
• Web UI Changed Fixed issue where the Gateway would display incorrect favicons for Maker edition and while on the authentication page.
• Web UI Fixed Fixed an issue where the System User Source field on the Security General Settings page was missing a warning message for invalid values.

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