Ignition Release Notes
Fixes, changes and features In Ignition
Version 7.9.16
Released September 7, 2020Area
Change Type
Description
Alarm Notification
Pipelines
Fixed
Improved the routing algorithm used in alarm pipelines, to prevent slowdown in the UI when designing complicated pipelines.
Allen-Bradley Driver
Driver
Fixed
Prevents an error that occurs when Ignition attempts to write to a tag in an AB device after the data type in the device was changed from INT to DINt.
Logix v21 Driver
Fixed
Prevents a timeout that occurs when attempting to write to bits with the Logix driver.
Ignition Platform
Alarms
Fixed
Fixed an issue where alarm event information was lost if the event was cleared while the alarm configuration was disabled.
Gateway Web Pages
Fixed
Fixed a set of XSS vulnerabilities discovered in the Gateway Web Interface
Installers
Fixed
Fixed an issue where installs using the Linux Zip Installers would fail to start.
Launchers
Fixed
If the JRE fails to launch, there is now a warning stating that the it’s switching to a fallback JRE (if available)
Scripting
Fixed
Fixed an issue that resulted in entries added to Store and Forward by the system.db.runSFUpdateQuery function to never be deleted.
Store and Forward
Fixed
Fixed issue where store and forward system would quickly saturate all connections in the connection pool.
Tags
Fixed
Fixed an issue where UDT overrides defined in tag imports were not imported as expected.
OPC-UA
Client
Fixed
Refactored OPC UA subscriptions to be more performant when a single subscription contains many tags (e.g., 200,000).
SECS/GEM
SECS/GEM
Fixed
The SECS-1 (serial) protocol can now use custom message response handlers.
Siemens
Driver
Fixed
Fixed issue when multiple writes to same address were causing blocks to get overwritten.
SQLBridge
Transaction Groups
Fixed
Prevented an exception that could occur when items contained alarms that referenced associated data.
Vision
Client
Fixed
Prevents a silent error when launching a Vision Client with a menu bar containing no items, while the menu bar is set to be hidden.
Client
Fixed
Fixed an issue where vision clients were unable to login to gateways behind AWS load balancers
Components
Fixed
Fixed an issue where additional quotation marks were being added to template parameter values entered into the Template Canvas Customizer’s user interface.