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Fixes, changes and features In Ignition

Version 8.1.45

Released January 7, 2025
Area
Change Type
Description

Alarm Notification

Alarming
Fixed an issue where alarms were getting stuck in alarm pipelines despite meeting dropout conditions.

Alarm Status

Alarming
Fixed issue where querying alarm status with a wildcard provider value in the source filter was not returning remote alarm events

Cloud Edition

Containers
Updated Ignition Cloud Edition bundled Cirrus Link MQTT modules to version 4.0.25.

Designer

Swing
Added a new Designer system property `ignition.perspective.designerSaveTimeout`, default of 60 (seconds) that controls how long the Designer will wait for the embedded browser frame to return results. Improved async handling and error messaging if issues are encountered while waiting for browser resources during a save operation.

Drivers

Comms
Upgraded BACnet4J library to version 6.0.1.

Java - Azul

Infrastructure
Upgraded the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version to 17.0.13.

OPC

Comms
Update Milo to version 0.6.15.

Perspective

Perspective
Fixed an issue with the Perspective Table where certain text properties (filter's placeholder text, text by the # of results when using the filter, headers/footers, no data/filter results text) were not translated with terms from the Translation Manager.
Perspective
Fixed an issue in the XY Chart where value axes fail to render if a series was previously deleted or cleared.
Perspective
Geolocation functionality in Perspective now works with the most recent version of multiple browsers on desktop, including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox. In particular, on Firefox version 130 and Chromium versions 126 and above.
Perspective
Icons which contain spaces will now render properly using the Icon Component. This affected third party icon libraries.
Perspective
Fixed an issue where nested 'example' properties in a component's JSON schema were ignored.
Perspective
Fixed an issue that caused Radio Buttons to shift up a View when clicked within a Flex Repeater.
Perspective
Fixed an issue that caused the Gateway to stop sending keepalive messages to a Perspective Session if a keepalive is sent before a page is connected.
Perspective
Fixed an issue that caused the Power Chart's Tag Browser to display an incorrect start path when the tagBrowserStartPath property is bound.
Perspective
Introduced new activeOption pager property to the Table that allows for changing the number of rows displayed at runtime.

Scripting

Scripting
Fixed an issue with system.util.jsonEncode that prevented encoding arrays and tuples when an indentFactor was specified.

Security

Security
Fixed issue where system.db.runNamedQuery failed to execute from certain gateway scopes when Security is used.

Tag Historian

Tag Historian
Fixed an issue when changing the Gateway System Name that could result in duplicate entries in the sqlth_drv table.

Tags & UDTs

Tags
Fixed an issue where bindings on alarm properties were replaced with a blank value when modifying multiple tags with the same alarm name in the tag editor
Tags
If an error occurs with a tags Value Change script it only logged once unless a specific logger was in debug mode, it will now be noted in the logs once per minute