The Ignition 8.3 Beta is Here!
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Download it Today.
The Future Is Here
Ignition 8.3 isn't just a step forward — it's the new starting point. The age of rigid, siloed industrial software is over. 8.3 redefines what OT software can be. It's the world's most advanced industrial platform — powerful, scalable, and open by design, built to unify your operations and move at the speed of modern enterprises. The future is here, and it's running in real time.
“Ignition has disrupted the industry and defined a new paradigm in industrial enterprise integration. With Version 8.3, we have completed our long-standing vision to create the world’s most powerful, most open, and most flexible application development platform.”
CEO of Inductive Automation and Co-Creator of Ignition
Unlock Your Data's Full Potential
Easily store more data, connect to more devices, and integrate with more systems to take your data to the next level!
Historian Module Suite
The Universal Historian Solution
8.3 introduces a major upgrade with the new Historian Module Suite, which includes two powerful modules: the Historian Core Module and the SQL Historian Module. More than just an industrial historian, this module suite provides a versatile and universal historian solution for almost any application.
Choose Your Own Historian
Combine Ignition with external SQL databases to create a high-performant historian or utilize the suite’s new and powerful built-in historian.
A Library of Tools
This suite offers multiple tools for rich data modeling, metadata storage, and leveraging data sources — like CSV files and database tables — as read-only historians.
Define Your Own Types
8.3 introduces a new public API that enables module developers to implement their own historians, making Ignition a platform for building historians.
Historian Core Module
Store & Retrieve Local Data Faster
Leverage the new Internal Historian - QuestDB to store, analyze, and manage time-series data. This no-maintenance historian, included in the Historian Core Module, offers native data aggregation and efficiency-boosting performance for local data storage, processing, and retrieval.
Use It Right Out Of The Box
Get a powerful historian solution that requires zero configuration — no external database required!!
Open, Cross-Platform Tech
Gain flexibility with open, platform-independent tech that doesn’t lock you into proprietary restrictions.
Find Data Fast
Enjoy richer data modeling with storage and queries up to 10 times faster than Ignition's previous internal tag history provider!
Event Streams Module
Streamline Your DataOps
Ignition has always been the foremost solution for managing data operations, and our new Event Streams Module makes it even easier. This powerful module for mapping and directing event-driven data, creates a communication pipeline between various sources (such as tag changes or Kafka topics) and handlers (like scripts or database tables). Effortlessly connect disparate industrial and enterprise subsystems for data sharing, filtering, and transformation, all natively within Ignition.
Centralize Events Management
Handle and manage tag changes, database events, alarms, and more from a central location.
Subscribe to Even More Data
Use message queues, brokers, and buses to subscribe to data and trigger automatic updates.
Gain Flexibility for Your Data
Process data with Apache Kafka for use directly in Ignition, or pass it on to external sources.
Simplify Your Project Workflow
Streamline processes and add more customization to your projects with new tools for drawing graphics, building forms, and submitting data.
Perspective Module
Build & Edit Custom Graphics In Perspective
Add more customization to your dashboards with Ignition Perspective’s all-new Drawing Editor. This first-class vector illustration interface enables you to create custom graphics for your dashboards and HMIs without ever leaving the Ignition Designer.
Design
Create new vector graphics from scratch with a library of controls spanning SVG's rich capability range.
Edit
Add or remove elements, alter colors, and modify stroke weights to your current library of SVGs directly in the Designer.
Bind to Tags
Bind graphical elements to dynamic sources like tags or connect them to systems directly from the drawing editor.
Perspective Module
Generate Flexible Forms In A Flash
Quickly create flexible and customizable forms with Perspective’s new time-saving form generator. Simply configure your sections, fields, conditional logic, and validation rules just once, and this form component will automatically build a form’s responsive layout, internal data logic, and client-side validation.
Perspective Module
Use Offline Mode To Enter Data From Anywhere
Connectivity is no longer a requirement — use the new offline form in the Perspective mobile app to enter and submit project data from remote sites anywhere and any time. The data will be stored for upload and syncing with your systems when connectivity is restored.
“Whether you’re a total Ignition newbie or have many years of experience, Ignition 8.3 brings a whole new level of power to your systems.”
Chief Technology Evangelist, Inductive Automation
Manage & Configure Systems With Ease
Reach new levels with the world’s most scalable platform. Efficiently navigate and manage large systems, share resources, and access your projects and connections quicker than ever.
Ignition Platform
The Ignition Gateway Puts More At Your Fingertips
Manage systems easier than ever with Ignition’s redesigned gateway web interface and intuitive navigation. The new gateway UI scales with you and puts more at your fingertips, including global search capabilities and with instant integration and customization of connectors. It’s a gateway — your way.
Ignition Platform
Configure & Diagnose Faster Than Ever
With configuration and diagnostic data now combined, you can see what's going on with your system faster, and easier than ever before.
Ignition Platform
Unlock Unprecedented Extensibility with the Built-In REST API
The first of its kind in industrial SCADA systems, Ignition's new built-in REST API makes it the most open, modern, and programmatically configurable platform on the market. Easily connect or manage enterprise configurations via the web UI or an external agent, unlocking new possibilities like leveraging AI with your industrial data.
Ignition Platform
Connect to More PLCs
The platform now offers a Siemens S7+ driver, enabling seamless connectivity to all your Siemens PLCs. This new driver supports browsing capabilities, symbolic access, and direct I/O channel access, without the need for manual reconfiguration.
Deploy & Secure Large Systems
Boost system management for your enterprise with powerful new integrations and features. Streamline build-test-deploy processes with deployment modes, elevate project collaboration and version control with Git, and provide more protection for your data using advanced security features.
Ignition Platform
Simplify Build-Test-Deploy Processes
Create and manage configurations for multiple environments within a single server with 8.3’s new Gateway deployment mode. Utilize different environments for development, staging, production, and more, making it simpler and safer to test, update, or modify your Ignition server.
Ignition Platform
Gain Better Version Control & Collaboration With Git
Use Git — a free and open-source distributed version control system that tracks changes to projects during software development — with Ignition 8.3 to gain complete version control and a better way to collaborate on big projects.
Ignition Platform
Use Containers For IT-Managed Deployment Orchestration
8.3 simplifies using containers to put Ignition into one lightweight executable resource for IT management. It’s OpenAPI-compliant, and works with tech like Kubernetes, Helm charts, and orchestration systems as a one-click deployment without software installation for on-premise or cloud service operations.
Ignition Platform
Protect Your Data With Secrets Management
Secrets Management removes passwords, certificates, and encryption keys from gateway configuration. This private data is safely stored and protected from unauthorized parties accessing application infrastructure in shared configuration. On top of that, 8.3 adds extensibility for integration with third-party secrets management platforms such as HashiCorp Vault.
Support For The Long Haul
Build your system on a stable foundation for the future with this long-term support (LTS) release, receiving regular updates and enhancements through the next five years.
Regularly Updated & Enhanced
Ignition 8.3 will receive regular updates and improvements over the next five years, so you can rest assured your software is efficient and stable for the long haul.
Get Upgrade Protection With a Support Plan
All support plans grant unlimited upgrades to Ignition 8.3 software and modules, so you can always stay up-to-date and on the cutting edge of automation.
Supported By Ignition Experts
In addition to upgrades, a support plan gives you round-the-clock access to an in-house (never outsourced!) team of support experts to help you with any technical needs.
More Features
Do Even More
Leverage The Potential of AI
The future is built on open, interoperable data and systems, and Ignition 8.3 continues to lead the way. With powerful APIs, open configuration, and a dedication to accessible data, Ignition is ready to help you leverage the power of AI, now and into the future.
Launch Applications Right From The Gateway
Launch Perspective Workstation, Vision clients, and designers right from the gateway's homepage with a single click without the need to open a specific launcher.
Real-Time Data Processing With Kafka
The new Kafka Cloud Connector Module enables connections to Kafka systems directly from the Gateway and integrates with the Event Streams Module as both a source and handler for sending and receiving messages.
WhatsApp, Twilio Voice, and New Alarm Stats
Gain ISA 18.2-compliant alarm metrics and send VoIP or text-to-speech notifications with WhatsApp and Twilio Voice integrations.
Move More Data With Enhanced Store & Forward
Experience faster, more accurate data transfer with improved cache storage, parallel forwarding, and intelligent table locking.
Streamline Development With File-Based Storage
Ignition 8.3 moves all configurations, tags, and most resources into text-based files, boosting visibility and source control compatibility.
Enjoy Secure Communication With Updated Gateway Tech
New RPC technology using Google Protobuf ensures faster, more secure communication between gateways and clients.
Gain More Support, Control For OPC UA Products & Data
Ignition 8.3 supports the latest OPC products and data structures with OPC UA 1.05, and introduces OPC UA Roles for improved control of tag access and permissions for devices, folders, and providers.
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