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Ignition Release Notes

Fixes, changes and features In Ignition

Version 8.1.36

Released January 2, 2024
Area
Change Type
Description

Alarm Notification

Alarming
Fixed alarm email acknowledgments to no longer allow other users to acknowledge alarms after they have been acknowledged.
Alarming
Alarm email acknowledgments now display a failure message when acknowledging unregistered events.
Alarming
Fixed alarm email acknowledgments to no longer include acknowledgment links after an alarm has been acknowledged.

Alarm Status

Alarming
Fixed an issue where alarm events weren't being stored to alarm journals after a gateway startup despite the alarm setting "Continuous Event Detection Window" being greater than 0.
Alarming
Fixed an issue where active alarms' "enabled" alarm property would instantiate with a "null" value when bound to a tag.
Alarming
Fixed an issue preventing Datasource Alarm Journal Profiles from updating properly when their selected Datasource's name changes

Bootstrap

Foundation
Changed a client launch 'warning' level logged message about JMPS arguments to a more appropriate 'debug' level.

Deployment

Infrastructure
Example Quick Start Project has been updated.

Designer

Swing
Fixed an issue that prevented Vision's "Security Settings" dockable pane from being manually resized below its minimum height.

Drivers

Comms
Added a new module (DNP3 Driver v2), which adds additional functionality for interacting with DNP3 devices.
Comms
Fixed a bug preventing access to EM banks at `0x10` and beyond.

EAM & Redundancy

Gateway Network
Fixed an issue where the EAM License Unactivation Task would throw an error even on success.

Gateway Network

Gateway Network
Added the server name to "Unhandled Intent Failure" log messages that allows for quicker troubleshooting.

Perspective

Perspective
Fixed book keeping mistake related to the File Upload component and small file uploads.
Perspective
Fixed issue where icons found in views used for custom map controls weren't able to access the icons cache, resulting in no icon being shown.
Perspective
Fixed a bug that was causing the input field with the spinner disabled not to be editable when clicked on after entering a value.
Perspective
Fixed a bug that was causing Perspective components to move diagonally when the parent container has a border width applied.

Reporting

Reporting
Fixes problem where dynamic keys are only applied to the first pagination of the Table component.

Scripting

Scripting
Fixed an issue with code registration in Jython which prevented calls to encode() in scripting
Scripting
Fixed an issue where edits to client/gateway/session message handlers and key event scripts would be quietly discarded after renaming the handler itself.
Scripting
Fixed an issue where PyDatasets could not be passed directly into system.tag.write* functions without being 'unpacked' as a list of values.

Security

Security
Updated Logback library to 1.2.12

SFC

Data & Logic
Prevent cancellation of running SFC Chart when switching to backup gateway.

Tags & UDTs

Tags
Fixed the sorting used in the Tag Creator dialog to put numbers in their proper order (1 < 2 < 10) rather than lexicographic order (1 < 10 < 2).
Tags
Fixed an issue where array type tags could be inadvertently overwritten via the tag browser if a virtual node was selected for editing. Also improved presentation of Document type tags in the tag browser.
Tags
Fixed an issue causing slow performance when doing bulk writes to OPC tags.

Twilio

Alarming
Upgraded a transitive dependency with an outstanding CVE