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Version 8.1.33

Released October 19, 2023
Area
Change Type
Description

Alarm Journal

Alarming
Fixed an issue with database alarm journal configuration not accepting schema designation to be prepended to table names.

Alarm Status

Alarming
Fixed an issue where disabling and enabling an alarm would not generate a proper alarm event until the alarm goes into an active state.
Alarming
Fixed an issue where isAlarmActive() expression would return Bad_NotFound qualities if an alarm was not active and gets re-enabled.

Build

Infrastructure
Updated OCI container image base from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Designer

Swing
Updated batik library dependency from 1.16 to 1.17 due to CVEs.
Swing
Modified the Designer script console banner to display information useful to the user.

Drivers

Comms
Fixed a polling bug that caused `Bad_NoCommunication` quality to remain after a device went offline until it was forced to reconnect by e.g. edit/saving the device configuration.
Comms
Fixed an issue causing failed writes to OPC devices to return "Good" statuses instead of "Bad" statuses.
Comms
Fixed an issue in the DNP3 driver which prevented frozen counter and frozen analog input values from updating when unsolicited messages is enabled.
Comms
Added a periodic background task to the BACnet driver which attempts recreating COV subscriptions that previously failed to be created or renewed. The rate at which this task runs can be adjusted via the newly added COV Subscription Retry Interval setting.
Comms
Updated Netty dependency to 4.1.54.Final to 4.1.97.Final.

EAM & Redundancy

Gateway Network
The EAM Remote Upgrade prep task can now be configured with a URL that points to an Ignition upgrade zip file. The zip file can be downloaded directly by agents instead of passing through the gateway network.
Gateway Network
One-shot EAM tasks can now be retried after task failure. The task is only retried for agents that failed.

Gateway Network

Gateway Network
The EAM Remote Upgrade task can now resume an interrupted upgrade zip file transfer, if the agent gateway also supports file resume.

Java - Azul

Infrastructure
The bundled version of Java has been upgraded to Java 17.0.8.

Launchers

Foundation
The Designer Launcher and Vision Client Launcher now perform stricter sanitization of launch command arguments. (Fixes ZDI-CAN-22028 and ZDI-CAN-22029)
Foundation
Ignition's bundled Java runtime is updated to 17.0.8

OPC

Comms
Fixed an issue causing writes to OPC tags through exposed tag providers to freeze and fail after a timeout.
Comms
Fixed ZDI-CAN-20499 (CVE-2023-39477), a possible resource exhaustion vulnerability.
Comms
Updated Milo OPC UA SDK to version 0.6.11.

Perspective

Perspective
Failover redirect to backup Gateway no longer fails when stopping master, if connected from same host.
Perspective
Added Gateway runtime parameters perspective.client.websocketChannel.maxIdleTimeMs and perspective.client.websocketChannel.idleCheckIntervalMs for advanced tuning of Perspective session failover redirect timing.
Perspective
Added new Google Map feature to Perspective that allows scriptable interactions and creating layers of Markers, OverlayViews, Ground Overlays, KML, Traffic, Transit, Bicycle, and Polygons (Circles, Rectangles, Polylines, and Polygons).
Perspective
Fixed issue where map geolocation was preventing following links to other views.
Perspective
Fixed gauge needle position when initial value is 0.
Perspective
Added loading screen message for new client creation and fixed loading screen layout on landscape oriented smaller displays.
Perspective
Fixed issue where filtered table columns were not displayed in the correct active state.
Perspective
Table view cells receive the correct `value` view parameter from encoded custom row objects.

Scripting

Scripting
Fixed an issue where the parsed return type description was not actually rendered in the script description popup.

Tag Historian

Tag Historian
Fixed an issue where Tag History storage wouldn't be accepted to targeted DataSink if matching Tag History provider didn't exist.

Tags & UDTs

Tags
Fixed an issue causing writes to Dataset tags through `system.tag.configure` with the "merge" collision policy to corrupt Dataset data.
Tags
Parent Data Types no longer flagged as a configuration error if their name matches UDT Instance.
Tags
Fixed an issue causing `system.tag.exists` to return true for empty strings.
Tags
OPC tags will now be in the correct state when a gateway from redundant pair assumes control.
Tags
Updated Tag Report Tool results to only display valid member results
Tags
Fixed derived tag references breaking when moving to a folder
Tags
Added JSON array coercion for array types. Users can now use methods such as `jsonGet` in array-typed derived tags to fetch nested elements of JSON documents in dependent tags.
Tags
Expression Tags calling runNamedQuery will now be evaluated on gateway start/restart

Vision

Swing
Fixed an issue where the Date Range Component wouldn't update the displayed selected range when changing from a smaller range selection to the maximum selection
Swing
Fixed an issue where the Vision Calendar Popup was not displaying correctly in multi-monitor setups
Swing
Fixed various issues related to improper 'case-folding' in certain locales (e.g. Turkish) causing dataset lookup by column name to fail.
Swing
Vision Tag Browse Tree now correctly populates the selectedPaths for DB Historian tags
Swing
Fixed unwanted autocomplete behavior in the dropdown component when it's in editable mode
Swing
Fixed an issue that caused an out-of-bounds error when viewing a components extension function script.