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Ignition Release Notes

Fixes, changes and features In Ignition

Version 8.1.42

Released June 18, 2024
Area
Change Type
Description

Alarm Status

Alarming
Fixed an issue causing remote tag providers to render in lower-case in alarm status tables and queries

Auditing

Security
Fixed auditing records that used a scope of none when the scope is known so that audit records would now contain the scope.

Build

Infrastructure
Fixed an issue where the Micro800 module would be uninstalled on upgrade when using the executable installer.

Drivers

Comms
Added validation to the Modbus driver configuration UI in the gateway that prevents users from creating address mappings that include more than 65,535 registers, or registers with addresses larger than 65,535.

EAM & Redundancy

Gateway Network
Fixed issue where EAM agent wouldn't show as connected until first stats are sent to controller.
Gateway Network
Fixed an issue where sending a project through EAM would trigger multiple update notifications on open Vision Clients.
Gateway Network
Restarting gateways with redundancy configured is no longer necessary when roles are changed. The gateway's ability to make configuration modifications will be updated when role is changed.

Gateway Network

Gateway Network
Fixed issue where duplicate message ID could be sent causing blip in Gateway Network connectivity.
Gateway Network
Fixed issue where sequence of renames of a gateway could break Gateway Network connections in one direction.

Java - Azul

Infrastructure
Upgraded the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version to 17.0.11.

Launchers

Foundation
the launcher EXEs now have the correct file version which matches the product version for that release.

OPC

Comms
Updated Milo dependency to version 0.6.13.

Perspective

Perspective
Fixed an issue where the Perspective XY Chart could not utilize the translation manager or correctly format numerical values according to the session's locale property.
Perspective
Fixed an issue in the Dropdown component that prevented the selection style from applying to options with a value of 0 or null.
Perspective
Fixed an issue that allowed a Table component's non-functional column filter conditions to appear in the Designer.
Perspective
Added the className string property to the styleOptions object property of the Map component's geoJson feature layers.

SAML Integration

Security
Perspective session prop `session.props.auth.idpAttributes` now contains a property named `authnResponse` with a string value of the SAML Response XML when the project IdP is a SAML IdP

Tag Historian

Tag Historian
Fixed an issue where the Internal Historian could use other aggregation modes besides LastValue when querying tag history for String values.

Tags & UDTs

Tags
Fixed an issue where devices' system tag configurations were removed on gateway restart

User Sources

Security
Fixed an issue where database user sources with autogenerated tables were failing with "ORA-00942: table or view does not exist" when using Oracle DB.
Security
Fixed an issue where unsupported calls to system.user methods were not handling exceptions consistently.

Vision

Swing
Reverted a change made to Vision components that was causing an erroneous "date format access on asynchronous thread" error to pop up.
Swing
Fixed an issue where the Power Table's Column Chooser Menu was not scrollable and could go off screen.