Ignition Release Notes for Version 8.3.2

Auditing

Security

Disabled common resource menu actions that are not applicable to the Edge audit log. The only available menu item for Audit Profiles when deployed as Edge should now be "View Log."

Backup & Restore

Platform Core

Fixes issue where metro keystore password was incorrect during gateway restore

Platform Core

Stopped automatically adjusting gateway memory on restore on 32 bit systems.

Platform Core

wrapper.java.additional values in ignition.conf are no longer out of order after gateway restore

Config Persistence

Platform Core

Added a `getStartupState` to the `ConfigurationManager` which can be used to retrieve different Gateway startup states.

Platform Core

Fixed an issue where some API routes would allow projects to be created with 'overlapping' names that differed only by name. This is not allowed to account for case-insensitive filesystems.

Platform Core

Improved validation of the gateway/system name across the platform. Where possible, invalid gateway names (those containing a | character) will be rejected outright, or if necessary escaped to an underscore. Other characters including non-ASCII Unicode and emoji are supported but may cause minor rendering issues in other areas.

Databases

Platform Core

JDBC Drivers now prevent classname collisions when creating new JDBC Drivers to prevent load failures in the underlying subsystem.

Designer

Swing

Fixed a problem where when "Set XML From Clipboard" is used on Templates, it renders the Template unable to be opened.

Drivers

Comms

Changed default max gap size to -1.

Comms

Fixed a bug that caused timestamps received from OPC UA servers with a value of `1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z` to be treated as if they were valid instead of null.

Comms

Fixed a ByteBuf reference counting leak in TCP/UDP drivers.

Comms

Fixed an issue where a gateway crash could occur when reading or writing to a PLC tag with arbitrary quotes in the item path after browsing an array on the PLC that contained the same tag.

EAM & Redundancy

Gateway Network

EAM remote upgrade task alternate URL function now uses gateway's installed certificates to download from SSL URLs

Gateway Network

Fixed an issue where redundant network connections would result in the Diagnostics page reporting the wrong number of Remote Gateways.

Gateway Network

Fixed intermittent "localServerAddress is null" errors on redundant master after nodes connect for the first time.

Gateway Network

Fixed issue where controller gateway would not receive an "Upgrade Complete" message if the controller was part of a redundant pair.

Gateway Network

Prevent NPE during the migration of failed EAM tasks

Event Streams

Cloud Connectors

Added a Tag Browser button to the Tag Path expression field in Tag Handlers

Cloud Connectors

Event Stream Tag Handler qualityCode expression field will now correctly handle Integer codes.

Cloud Connectors

When creating event streams using either the popup dialog or the Welcome page for event streams, names will now be validated.

Expressions

Scripting

Fix issue where BCP-47 locale tags were no longer supported by Perspective `translate()` expressions

Gateway Network

Fixed issue where Python dictionaries and lists could not be sent from a Designer or Vision client to a remote gateway via the gateway network.

Gateway Network

Updated EAM Send Stats default interval to 45 seconds

Gateway Network

The gateway network now uses its own thread pool to process incoming messages. This will eliminate the issue of the gateway UI becoming unresponsive when handling a large volume of gateway network requests. Note: any users that use a large hub-and-spoke gateway network system may need to tweak the new Data Channel Thread Pool Max Size on the hub gateway's General Gateway Network Settings page, especially if they have increased the "gateway.maxThreads" setting in gateway.xml in the past.

Historian

Fixed an issue in the Core Historian where gaps could appear in Easy Chart trending when caching is enabled.

Historian

Fixed an issue where Edge Remote History Sync was not syncing metadata to remote history providers.

Historian

Fixed an issue where in certain cases the Core Historian and Internal Historian would not use the configured Deadband Style when querying.

Historian

Fixed an issue where string data types would not display correctly or at all when querying via the Core Historian with certain aggregation modes.

Installers

Foundation

Ignition Gateway launchd services on Mac OS now actually wait for the process to exit instead of forcibly terminating the process. This resolves potential issues with gateway uninstalls and upgrades from the binary installer or shell scripting which caused the gateway to not properly respect its shutdown hooks.

Foundation

Ignition installs which use the unattended flag with the value of "none" now properly include the install.log file in the install directory.

Foundation

Removed Vision Client Launcher executables from Cloud Edition as the Vision Module is not included there.

Internal Historian

Historian

Fixed an issue in the Internal Historian where gaps could appear in Easy Chart trending when caching is enabled.

Internal IdP

Security

Fixed an issue where Internal and OIDC IdP Logout can Result in Internal Server Error if User Assigned Too Many Roles

Launchers

Foundation

All Launchers do a better job guarding against errors when attempting to bind and unbind to receive broadcasts.

Foundation

Importing a launcher or Workstation configuration now overwrites all settings and applications for that launcher.

Modules

Platform Core

Fixed a problem where when upgrading modules, if the filename differs from the currently installed module, that file was ignored.

OPC

Comms

Added missing View Details link to Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU-over-TCP, and Omron NJ drivers.

Comms

Fixed `system.opc.browse()` treating brackets and other special characters in OPC item paths as regex patterns instead of literals.

Comms

Fixed a race condition that could block OPC UA connection shutdown indefinitely.

Comms

Fixed an issue reading values from servers with incomplete datatype information in the address space, e.g. Red Lion servers.

Comms

Fixed OPC browse getElementType() returning null in Designer and Vision Client.

Comms

Fixed OPC UA discovery endpoint URL parameter validation.

Comms

Removed link to non-existent device details page for Siemens Enhanced driver.

Comms

Updated Eclipse Milo to version 1.0.8

Other

Platform Core

Upgraded xmlgraphics-commons from 2.7 to 2.11. Upgraded batik from 1.17 to 1.19.

Perspective

Drawing Editor - Elements Panel fixes that allow for multiple elements to be moved at once (previous 1 element at a time). If multiple elements are being moved, the drag ghost displays the number of elements being moved instead of the name of the element. Also improves the Duplicate Element functionality to be more reliable and to place the duplicated elements into the correct positions.

Perspective

Drawing Editor: Fill & Strokes' Color Picker Input's direct input element should now properly create an undo/redo point onBlur

Perspective

Fixed an issue where form component sliders drag interface was losing position context.

Perspective

Fixed an issue where the form component's dropdown widget does not display all options when wrapMultiSelectValues is set to true.

Perspective

Fixed browser console warnings regarding icons.

Perspective

Fixed missing leaflet map default marker icon.

Perspective

Shared Perspective Symbol renderer code has been refactored to improve maintainability and solve recent regressions relating to missing layers, missing animations, and incorrect transformations (such as the Vessel symbol's liquid level)

Perspective

Use the contents of a theme's root entry file if no theme directory entry file exists during migration.

Perspective

Added palette images for form component variants.

Perspective

Updated `AuthChallengeCompleteEventImpl` instance posts to the the perspective session EventManager to utilize the 2-arg post method to specify the interface `AuthChallengeCompleteEvent` as the posting class.

Reporting

Fixed a problem where position of lines were not correctly translated.

Reporting

Fixed a problem where strokes applied to lines were not correct for vectors.

Reporting

Fixed problem for vector rendering where strokes and shapes were drawn outside of clip areas.

Reporting

Added ability for Vector components to print vector graphics to printer.

Reporting

Bar Charts updated to include options for Vector output.

Reporting

Timeseries Charts updated to include options for Vector output.

Scripting

Fix issue where specifying the `getKey = True` option when updating a database via `system.db.execUpdate(...)` would throw an error.

Security

Changed the warning message when modifying HTTPS cipher suite settings to more be more descriptive.

Security

Fixed an issue where the platform encryption keys from a GWBK were not set up early enough during a restore

Security

Fixed an issue where users would be unable to log into the web UI after deleting the web server TLS certificate.

Security

Fixed duplicate modal action for Immutable resources to correctly allow for duplicating into mutable resource definitions

Security

The listUsersFromAD setting on AD/DB Hybrid User Sources is now migrated properly during upgrades from 8.1

Security

Adds new URL component (`UrlTextInput` )

SFC

Data & Logic

Fixed an issue where an enclosed chart may get stuck in the Canceling state when using an Enclosing Step with the Cancel Execution Mode.

Data & Logic

Fixed an issue where the chart may get stuck after meeting the cancel condition for a Parallel Element.

Store & Forward

Historian

Fixed issue that was preventing S&F engine from initializing correctly for remote providers after upgrade to 8.3

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