Ignition Release Notes
Fixes, changes and features In Ignition
Version 8.1.43
Released August 20, 2024Area
Change Type
Description
Alarm Notification
Alarming
Fixed a regression which prevented alarm notification consolidation from working properly.
Auditing
Security
Fixed an issue where scripted tag writes / modifications were being audited within gateway event scripts.
Cloud Edition
Containers
Updated Ignition Cloud Edition bundled Cirrus Link MQTT modules to version 4.0.22.
Designer
Swing
Added a persistent indicator in the Designer's status bar that the associated Gateway is in trial mode (or that the trial has expired).
Swing
Fixed an issue in the Project Properties Panel where roles were being retrieved for unselected User Sources, causing an error popup when the panel was opened if the user source was disabled.
Drivers
Comms
The gateway Modbus address mapping page now allows a single tag to be mapped.
Comms
The Mitsubishi driver now has configuration options for the MELSEC access route settings.
EAM & Redundancy
Gateway Network
Fixed error thrown when editing certain Remote Agent Upgrade EAM tasks.
Gateway Network
Added java additional parameter to control TTL of restore files created by backup/restore operations (including redundancy) on disk.
Gateway Network
Fixed bug preventing EAM Controller on 8.1.39+ from sending tags to EAM Agent on 8.0.x
Installers
Foundation
the broken launch-homepage batch file is removed from windows installs
Foundation
The Windows run-upgrader.bat file and gwcmd.bat file have been fixed with improved handling for prompting authorization via UAC when run by a non-privileged user if the installation requires elevated privileges.
Launchers
Foundation
Resolved an issue where some Windows systems silently fail to launch the Launchers
Foundation
Vision Client Launcher now assumes the same protocol for backup gateways as the protocol used when connecting to the master, preventing potential insecure connection downgrades when launching against a redundant pairs when the backup is active and the master is down.
Licensing
Platform Core
A banner will now be displayed on the gateway web interface pages when a _development_ license for Ignition is active.
OPC
Comms
Refactored `system.opcua.callMethod` argument reading logic to work around implementation bugs in FreeOpcUa-based servers that prevented methods from being called.
Other
Platform Core
Additional logger added to Gateway.PerformanceMonitor
Perspective
Perspective
Fixed an issue in the Alarm Status Table that caused an alarm's displayed event time to be incorrectly timezone adjusted.
Perspective
Fixed an issue where the Table's selectedRow would not update if the selectedRow and data properties were changed at the same time.
Perspective
Fixed an issue where the Dropdown's search results clear if the component's scrollbar is clicked.
Perspective
Fixed an issue where the Perspective Pie Chart could not utilize the translation manager for text and correctly format numerical values according to the session's locale property.
Perspective
Fixed an issue in the Alarm Status Table that caused an alarm's displayed event time to ignore the configured dateFormat property.
Perspective
Fixed an issue where the Perspective Gauge could not format numerical values according to the session's locale property.
Perspective
Fixed an issue that caused incorrect navigation when using parameterized Page URLs.
SAML Integration
Security
Fixed an issue where a IdP's SAML metadata could not be imported from an XML file.
Security
Security
Added support for accepting a response_mode of form_post from an OAuth2 identity provider.
SFC
Data & Logic
Fixed a regression which caused an exception to be thrown when attempting to call `system.sfc.getVariables()` on a child SFC instance.
SQL Bridge
Data & Logic
Fixed some issues with transaction group's editing UI.
Store & Forward
Tag Historian
Fixed a bug where, in certain cases, storing tag history data containing identical timestamps at the same time would prevent other values within the same batch from being stored.
Tag Historian
Tag Historian
Fixed an issue where store and forward data was being dropped when the database user didn't have privileges to create tables or insert data. Now, this data is stored into quarantine.
User Sources
Security
Added support for accepting a response_mode of form_post from an OIDC identity provider.
Vision
Swing
Fixed an issue with the “No Border” configuration not persisting on some Vision components.
Swing
Fixes an issue where users could have rearranged columns with a disabled Roster, User, Schedule Management, Table, Power Table, Alarm Status Table, and Alarm Journal Table Components which caused the AccessDeniedOverlay to not properly cover all of its data.
Voice Notification
Alarming
Fixed a NPE that would occur if the call receiver hung up before the voice notification finished the script