Ignition Release Notes for Version 8.1.23

Deployment

Infrastructure

Docker image now supports a `DISABLE_QUICKSTART` environment variable that will bypass the QuickStart functionality on first launch when set to `true`.

Perspective

Visualization - Web

About panel session props now update independently without needing the page to be refreshed.

Visualization - Web

Fixed regression preventing more than one XYChart series from being assigned to a single axis.

Visualization - Web

Added the ability to terminate perspective sessions from the perspective session status page.

Visualization - Web

Added a new "relative weight" property to the plots config that allows a user to set the amount of relative space each plot can take in a Time Series chart.

Visualization - Web

Reduced the specificity of the CSS rule for applying color to the display value of Progress Bars, so that Perspective Named Styles could be used to determine the color value.

Visualization - Web

Fixes the unreadable modal issue that occurs when a Maker project is opened and the theme is set to dark. Modal is now readable.

Visualization - Web

Fixes issue where initial click was not captured on a one shot button created in a column view.

Visualization - Web

Fixed issue with query bindings using sample size limiting during runtime sessions.

Visualization - Web

Adds default values to text and value property when creating additional states for the multi-state button.

Visualization - Web

Ensured sessions clear stale sync requests upon reconnect. Prevented Gateway scoped action events from accumulating when there is no connection to Gateway.

Visualization - Web

Fill and Stroke style props will once again be honored for Perspective Symbols

Visualization - Web

Fixed issue that could cause default in/out param values to write back to enclosing embedded view props on initial load.

Visualization - Web

Fixed translation issue regarding the Power Chart components pen data columns

Visualization - Web

Fixed an issue where Text Field component in Perspective did not reflect Cursor Style changes.

Platform - Alarms

Data Model

Fixed a deadlock that could potentially occur during alarm evaluation while at the same time the alarm is being registered.

Data Model

Improved logging around POP3 sessions within email notification profiles.

Data Model

Notes can now be obtained using the getNotes() method on alarm event objects returned when using system.alarm.queryJournal().

Data Model

Alarm journal events received from a remote gateway will now be properly stored to the remote journal according to its data filters.

Platform - Auditing

Security

Writing to OPC tags using system.tag.writeAsync() in Perspective now creates an audit event.

Platform - Databases + S&F

Data Model

Added store and forward functionality for remote alarm journals and audit profiles.

Data Model

Named queries containing double dash comments now execute successfully when trying against SQL Server.

Platform - Designer

Visualization - Swing

Avoiding a collapse of the entire Designer project browser when using a filter while navigating or dragging Perspective Flex Containers.

Visualization - Swing

Fixed an issue where the project template combobox was not correctly using tooltips.

Visualization - Swing

Fixed an issue where client or gateway message handler scripts could get 'stuck' in a non-editable state.

Platform - Gateway Network

Enterprise

Fixed an issue where NPE was thrown when deleting a GAN remote certificate from the master gateway.

Platform - IdP + User Sources

Security

Added password reset support to the Internal IdP when user's password has expired.

Security

Added "Copy to Clipboard" button next to Redirect URI / ACS URI in IdP settings pages.

Platform - Other

Platform

Upgraded Apache commons-text library to version 1.10.0.

Platform

Now showing an error when importing Exchange resources as project files in the Designer and Gateway.

Platform

A `VACUUM` operation is now performed against the internal DB on gateway startup to reclaim unused disk space. A new system property `ignition.skipConfigDbVacuum` can be set to `true` if this behavior is not desired.

Platform - Projects

Platform

Fixed an issue where projects were not included in gateway backups when an alternate projects directory is specified.

Platform

One-time cleanup of old 7.x project tables in the internal DB is now conducted on GW startup. A new system property `ignition.projects.skipProjectRecordTableCleanup` can be set to `true` to omit this cleanup operation.

Platform - Scripting

Platform

Fixed a memory leak related to project script restarts after edit+save.

Platform - Tags

Data Model

Fixed an issue where expanding tags in the Tag Browser would send extra tag change events to subscriptions.

Data Model

One-time cleanup of old 7.x SQLTAG tables in the internal database can now be conducted on gateway startup. A new system property `ignition.tags.cleanupLegacyTagTables=true` can be set to enable this cleanup operation.

Data Model

Added a tool that will list UDTs that are inheriting a particular UDT, as well as what types the UDT is inheriting from.

Data Model

The Designer tag group editor now displays descriptions for properties.

Data Model

Preventing writes to tag properties if the write value is not compatible with the property datatype.

Data Model

Fixed an issue where the "Write value back to OPC item" setting does not get converted to a legacy value changed script on upgrade or tag import to Ignition 8 if enabled as an override on a UDT instance.

Data Model

Parent pipelines are no longer visible from alarm pipeline dropdowns when editing tags in child project.

Data Model

Fixed an issue where values in document tags could erroneously displayed truncated to an integer representation after import.

Platform - Web Interface

Visualization - Web

Edge licensing copy updated to reflect that Edge now allows all normal Edge features when in the two hour Trial mode.

Reporting

Visualization - Swing

Fixed an issue where Perspective's Report Viewer component could inadvertently generate "ghost" reports that would appear to be executing forever.

Tag Historian

Data Model

Optimized tag history data sync such that data will not be queried locally nor attempted to be forwarded remotely if the remote gateway is unavailable.

Data Model

Fixed a potential bug where a database connection being reestablished would cause the historian sink to initialize every 60 seconds despite the connection being valid.

Data Model

Fixed an issue where querying boolean values from OPC HDA would throw an error.

Vision

Visualization - Swing

Reverted a change made to the dropdown component's key selection behavior to return the functionality from 8.1.15 and prior.

Visualization - Swing

fixed a memory leak in the Vision Text Field when on a busy Window or Template with bindings which are evaluated on close

Visualization - Swing

Fixed an issue where the Tree View component's default selected background color would not be used.

Visualization - Swing

Fixed an issue where Vision extension functions could get 'stuck' in a non-editable state.

Visualization - Swing

Fixed issue where Easy Chart pens for Sum and Difference showed incorrect values due to mismatched timestamps on driving pens.

Visualization - Swing

Fixed the problem in Vision for Windows and Templates, where binding values changed through Find/Replace in closed Windows and Templates were not updated when the Windows and Templates are opened.

Visualization - Swing

The Vision Alarm Status Table's flashing rows now continue to flash when swapping windows.

Visualization - Swing

The Vision Web Browser component now attempts a restart when the Chromium process has crashed.

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