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Version 8.1.22

Released November 1, 2022
Area
Change Type
Description

Backup & Restore

Platform
Added warnings to the Diagnostics Logs when the deletion of old backups (as part of Scheduled Backups) is prevented by Os restrictions.

Designer Launcher

Infrastructure
Updated dock icon sizes for MacOS version 11+ (Big Sur or greater) to Apple's specifications.

EAM

Enterprise
Added an indication to show agent recovery is in progress when the Apply Files button is pressed during the agent post-setup phase.
Enterprise
Fixed an issue where EAM Agents could produce an invalid manifest during a remote backup task.

Installers

Infrastructure
Fixed an issue where the current Ignition service name (Windows) would not be preserved when restoring a GWBK from a system with a different service name.
Infrastructure
Added an "autoStart" property to the Ignition installer for Gateway startup upon completion.

Java - Azul

Infrastructure
Bumped the bundled JVM to 11.0.16.1

Perspective

Visualization - Web
Fixed issue with dropdown component in Perspective while using the Dark theme where the search text wasnt appropriately showing in its set default Dark theme color
Visualization - Web
Fixed an issue with the powerchart where when panning in realtime mode, the graph line did not paint correctly. Added auto generated tick marks based on chart values to the Power and Time series charts.
Visualization - Web
Added an advanced project scoped CSS stylesheet resource and resource editor, available from the right-click menu of the styles folder.
Visualization - Web
Perspective New View dialog now remembers last created container type in Designer session.
Visualization - Web
Adds onClick event to equipment schedule events.
Visualization - Web
Added individual filterable columns to the Table component.
Visualization - Web
Fixed issue where some icon component properties were not correctly showing the icon picker
Visualization - Web
Http bindings with expression-driven bodies now produce a bad-quality result if the body's expression produces a bad quality result.
Visualization - Web
Fixed major XYChart memory leaks.
Visualization - Web
Fixed issue with Tab text in Tab Containers where they were not correctly translating
Visualization - Web
Perspective SVG Importer has been greatly enhanced, adding support for the most common SVG elements. A new "convert to drawing" function has been added to the right click menu in the Designer for selected SVG based components including Cylindrical Tank, Icon, Linear Scale, Moving Analog Indicator, Sparkline, Thermometer, All Symbols, and Coordinate Container (containing pipes). In addition `ia_` is now a reserved prefix for style classes, and should not be used as they will not function as intended.
Visualization - Web
Fixed an issue with the XY Chart where the chart would not load when using a dynamic expression tag history bindings and switching views.
Visualization - Web
Fixed an error that would occur when clicking on a subview within a table cell in the Perspective table component.
Visualization - Web
XYChart legend reflects define position properties when set to absolute
Visualization - Web
Fixed an issue where underspecified scientific notation (e.g. 1E-7) would not be parsed correctly and incorrectly round to 0.
Visualization - Web
Fixed issue where duplicating or pasting components failed to start up their bindings.

Platform - Alarms

Data Model
Fixed an issue where local alarm events wouldn't display within the Perspective Alarm Status Table if the local gateway had a remote tag provider configured, but the remote gateway's service access for alarm statuses was denied.

Platform - Databases + S&F

Data Model
Fixed behavior where extremely large S&F HSQL databases would drastically slow Gateway startup speeds.

Platform - Designer

Visualization - Swing
Fixed bug that caused all toolbars to become visible when using the "View > Reset Panels" menu item, including toolbars not relevant to the currently selected workspace.
Visualization - Swing
Fixed an issue where when open Templates were clicked, they were not opened in the workspace. Use Alt Click if you need to click on a Template to drag it, in order to embed the Template in another Template.
Visualization - Swing
Fixed an issue with the Designer Launcher unable to launch when the project description includes newline followed by space(s).
Visualization - Swing
Fixed some issues with the rendering of thumbnails in image management. In addition, improved the rendering quality of scaled SVG images in Vision.
Visualization - Swing
Added the Configuration Explorer to Perspective, which allows easy interpretation of the structure of dynamic configuration inside a view.
Visualization - Swing
Added the Configuration Explorer to Perspective, which allows easy interpretation of the structure of dynamic configuration inside a view.
Visualization - Swing
Added a new Designer property for specifying the timezone within the designer. This takes precedence over Vision's Client Timezone setting If Vision is installed and applies only to the Designer.
Visualization - Swing
Fixed issue with the clipping region improperly set when the color viewed in Vision Property Editor or Property Inspector has an alpha less than 255. Restored the checker pattern that's used for the background when viewing non-opaque color in Vision Property Editor or Property Inspector.

Platform - Gateway Network

Enterprise
The GAN proxy queue timeout is now set to 60 minutes by default. The proxy queue timeout can be adjusted by setting the `metro.queues.proxyQueue.timeoutSecs` system property, and the long wait queue timeout can also be adjusted by setting the `metro.queues.longWaitQueue.timoutSecs` system property.
Enterprise
Gateway network status page service call results now display the actual remote method that was called, instead of a generic "Call Result:Services/Invocation" label.

Platform - Other

Platform
Upgrade embedded SQLite and its JDBC driver to 3.39.2.0.

Platform - Redundancy

Enterprise
The gateway network sync timeout is now adjustable for redundant nodes. Previously, the timeout was hard-coded at 60 seconds.

Platform - Scripting

Platform
Added a multitude of mime type mappings to support various attachment file formats when sending emails. Additional/override values can be specified as mime-mappings in the web.xml file.
Platform
Added an overload to system.util.setLocale, so that it can accept any valid Java Locale object directly.

Platform - Tags

Data Model
Binding to UDT Instances or .jsonValues property will now correctly lease member tags.
Data Model
Fixed RejectionExecutionException when shutting down gateway after renaming Datasource.
Data Model
Fixed the Tag Editor's Remove All Overrides button for UDT instances not saving properly.
Data Model
Overriding an alarm through import or scripting will correctly use the alarms parent configuration if the tag is inherited. This matches the behavior of designer when overriding alarms.
Data Model
Fixed memory leak caused by remote tag subscriptions.

Platform - Web Interface

Visualization - Web
JQuery updated to 3.6.0

Reporting

Visualization - Swing
Fixed an issue with Tall return mode for tag history queries in reporting.

SFC

Data Model
Double clicking SFC Enclosing Step will now correctly open charts when relative paths are used.

Vision

Visualization - Swing
Fixed the issue of when the background color of one of the following: Root Container, Group, Template) has an alpha \< 255, and is then saved. When the project is opened again, if the background is set to an alpha of 255, instead of being opaque the background is transparent. Removed the opacity property from Root Container, Group, and Template.