Ignition Release Notes for Version 8.1.5

Deployment

Infrastructure

Fixed an issue where Quick Start would not correctly populate the sample database with content.

Designer Launcher

Infrastructure

The Designer Launcher, Vision Client Launcher, and Perspective Workstation perform better input validation for global and application configuration values and provide visual feedback when they are invalid. If there are invalid fields the configuration changes cannot be saved until they have been corrected.

Installers

Infrastructure

Ignition Installer now supports installing as a user whose username has non-standard but valid characters in the name

Java - Azul

Infrastructure

Updated bundled version of Java to 11.0.10

Omron

Connectivity

Fixed issue where the Omron NJ driver wasn't not calculating the CIP size properly

OPC-Classic

Connectivity

Fixed an issue where signed 1 byte integer datatypes returned by an OPC DA server were incorrectly read as an unsigned value in Ignition.

OPC-UA

Connectivity

Fixed a bug that caused tags to get stuck with Bad_NotConnected or Uncertain_InitialValue quality on startup or reconnect.

Connectivity

Support writes to custom structures that contain built-in structures as members.

Perspective

Visualization - Web

Button Component will now honor I18n and textStyle Style prop when using props.image.source .

Visualization - Web

Added loading.order property on Embedded View and Flex Repeater components to control loading optimization

Visualization - Web

Navigate scripting function with newTab param set to true properly handles page values of format "/page" and "page"

Visualization - Web

Added new setting in Perspective session props to enable/disable pull to refresh when viewing Perspective projects in native applications. The setting is located at Session Props -> device -> settings -> pullToRefresh and is enabled by default.

Visualization - Web

XYChart Date Axis baseInterval property now correctly displays different configured granularity of data passed to it

Visualization - Web

When updating an array property from a script, now only the index modified is written to, not the entire array.

Visualization - Web

The dock overlay now consistently displays when a modal dock is open regardless of whether it was opened by a DockAction or not.

Visualization - Web

Tab Container - updated tabs prop with a new boolean "runWhileHidden" property. When true the contents of this tab will load once their tab is first activated, and will persist in the background when the currentTabIndex changes. This property works with both text and view tabs. To use this with a text tab, add an object to the tabs array with a property named "text"- the text to display in the tab, and property "runWhileHidden"- a boolean to control whether the contents of that tab run while the tab is inactive.

Visualization - Web

Styles now appropriately get applied to NEF components

Visualization - Web

runScript expressions executed as part of a component or view now have access to self, page, and session.

Visualization - Web

Prevented potential deadlock in Perspective designer sessions triggered by script library updates that could cause perspective-worker thread-pool to grow indefinitely.

Visualization - Web

New Navigation Browser Action added for go forward, and go back, as well as corresponding scripting functions system.perspective.goForward, system.perspective.goBack. These actions/functions are analogous to the browser's back and forward buttons. Known issue: when using older versions of Perspective Workstation launcher, go back may result in a blank page. The solution is to reinstall Perspective Workstation launcher, the new version prevents going back to the blank page.

Visualization - Web

Navigation scripting functions now have ability to open target in new tab through the newTab parameter

Visualization - Web

Modified the component style to keep the growing/shrinking behavior from happening.

Visualization - Web

Made search filter clear & focus on component palette being shown from auto-hide state

Visualization - Web

Improved View loading performance with new look-ahead optimization to load statically embedded views ahead of time.

Visualization - Web

Improved default size of color picker popup

Visualization - Web

Gauge Component - Setting prop.animate to true will no longer result in the incorrect value being displayed on load.

Visualization - Web

Fixed issue updating reports that are currently being displayed in Perspective sessions.

Visualization - Web

Fixed DateTime Input not applying minDate, maxDate month restrictions correctly in dropdown.

Visualization - Web

Exposed property to allow for custom tooltip formatting of the pie chart.

Visualization - Web

Defaulted Tab Container component to only have 1 tab when created compared to 2. Defaulting to 2 initial tabs was causing a bug where the component was not be able to only have 1 tab if wanted.

Visualization - Web

auto generated Popup ids no longer generates invalid URL characters due to interactions with the FileUpload and SignaturePad components making POST requests with the id as part of the URL params

Platform - Alarms

Data Model

Added a 'Query Only' setting to alarm journals, to allow journals to opt out of being used for storage. When set to true, all alarm events will be discarded by the given journal.

Data Model

New ability to see and write directly to alarm setpoint properties on tags, as well as the alarm's 'enabled' property.

Platform - Databases + S&F

Platform

Fixed an issue where the database connection retry thread would be shut down and not restarted if changes were made to a database connection.

Platform

Fixed an issue where shelved alarm events would improperly store to the alarm journal regardless of configuration.

Platform - Designer

Visualization - Swing

Creating a new project from within the Designer will no longer show the prior Designer session as still open in the Concurrent Users popup

Visualization - Swing

Fixed a minor issue where the project browser would fail to display newly created resources on import until the project was saved.

Visualization - Swing

Fixed wrong selection color in Designer's query browser result table

Platform - IdP + User Sources

Security

Added `{security-level-name}` bound expression path to security level rule expressions which resolves to the current security level's name (for example: if the security level is at `Authenticated/Foo/Bar` in the tree, the returned name would be `Bar`). Added `{security-level-path}` bound expression path to security level rule expressions which resolves to the current security level's StringPath, such as `Authenticated/Foo/Bar`

Security

Added `{multi-attribute-source:X:Y}` expression path to attribute mapper and security level rule expressions to allow for fetching multi-valued string collections (such as roles) from an attribute source

Security

Added `{user:attributeName}` bound expression path to security level rule expressions which resolves to the current user's mapped attribute for attribute named `attributeName`. `attributeName` can take on one of: `id`, `userName`, `firstName`, `lastName`, `email`, `roles`. This new bound expression path only works for security level rules which fall under the Authenticated security level.

Security

Attribute sub source name of `authnResponse` must now be used when referencing the SAML Authn Response attribute source using the `{attribute-source:X:Y}` bound expression path. Important note before upgrading: if any other sub source name was used before upgrade, such references will no longer work. Older-style `{idp-attributes:X}` bound expression path will remain unaffected.

Platform - Licensing

Security

Cirrus Link ABB Totalflow Module now supported for Edge IIoT Licenses

Platform - Scripting

Platform

Parsing XML in Vision client scripts via xml.etree.ElementTree no longer throws a ClassNotFound exception.

Platform

Fixed an issue that made system.db.beginNamedQueryTransation() throw an error when it used the project's default database in a script in Perspective.

Platform - Security Model

Security

Added support for handling HTTP-based challenges from CAs by exposing a `/.well-known/pki-validation/*` route. The `/.well-known/pki-validation/*` route serves static files in the `$IGNITION/.well-known/pki-validation/*` directory of the Gateway filesystem. Users may drop the CA's static challenge file in the aforementioned directory on the Gateway filesystem to start serving it at the aforementioned HTTP route. Gateway restart is not required for the route to start serving files recently placed in the aforementioned directory on the filesystem.

Platform - Tags

Data Model

Fixed an issue where Vision client tags with array datatypes would show their inner items as the wrong data type (String) in the tag tree.

Data Model

Expression tags with alarms will now correctly startup on Gateway restart.

Data Model

Resolved an issue where tag subscriptions in Perspective may not be successful because the subscription was case sensitive to the tag path.

Data Model

Added ability to escape curly braces in OPC item paths

Data Model

Bindings to jsonValues will now work as expected when a binding's path casing doesn't match the actually casing of the path (the casing you would see from Tag Browser). jsonValues will also update correctly to match casing changes to tag names.

Data Model

Tag Browser "Create Data Type from Selected" functionality from 7.9 has been added to 8.1 versions of Ignition

Data Model

Fixed a bug which caused nested UDT members with "True" value overrides on boolean tags to incorrectly have a "False" value after upgrading to Ignition 8.

Platform - Web Interface

Visualization - Web

`ignition.https.sts.preload` system property may now be set to `true` or `false` in `ignition.conf` in order to enable or disable the `preload` directive of the `Strict-Transport-Security` header (defaults to `false` if omitted)

Reporting

Visualization - Swing

Optional boolean parameter added to system.report.getReportNamesAsDataset(). Defaults to True, which is the 8.1.x behavior (end of Path includes report name). Setting to False gives 7.9.x behavior (end of Path does not include report name)

Tag Historian

Data Model

When the tag history cache is enabled, query start/end dates are aligned to an existing subcache for performance which may not contain the most recent values. This can lead to a scenario where the last datapoint returned isn't reflective of realtime values if the tag history binding date range includes the current time. To prevent this, a "Bypass Tag History Cache" checkbox has been added on Vision tag history bindings which allows the option for the tag history cache to be ignored on a per-binding basis.

Data Model

system.tag.storeTagHistory is now available on Edge.

UDP + TCP

Connectivity

To prevent saturation of the shared execution engine thread pool, the TCP Driver now uses the opc-ua-executor thread pool to connect.

Vision

Visualization - Swing

Bidirectional bindings on copied UDT custom properties no longer reference the original custom property.

Visualization - Swing

Fix issue causing project upgrades to appear to lose component translations.

Visualization - Swing

The Vision Client Launcher no longer truncates project descriptions that contain special characters such as &, <, and >.

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