Ignition 8.x Compatible Release Notes

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Cirrus Link Modules for Ignition v4.0.8 - July 15, 2021

• MQTT Distributor
  
  • Added support for Python script based configuration changes
• MQTT Engine
  • Improved processing speed of custom namespace JSON payloads
  • Fixed issue that could result in Engine not sending commands when required including Rebirth requests
    
  • Added protection for null payload timestamps
  • Improved handling of setting Edge Nodes and Devices offline
    
  • Added support for Python script based configuration changes
    
  • Improved general performance
  • Fixed issue that could result in deleted info tags associated with server settings
    
  • Internal tag cache fixes and improvements
  • Changed configureTag logic to only configure UDT instances when it is new
  • Added TLS ALPN support
  • Improved logic around subscriptions that may fail due to ACL or permission issues
    • NOTE: This fix can result in MQTT Engine no longer being able to connect to the MQTT Server when attempting to subscribe on a topic without the permissions to do so. This is a configuration issue that needs to be fixed by either:
      • (1) Updating the MQTT Server ACL/permissions so Engine can subscribe on the required topics OR
      • (2) Disable MQTT Engine Namespaces and/or PrimaryHostId so that Engine is no longer required to subscribe on topics without the permission to do so.
• MQTT Transmission
  • Fixed 'Refresh Required' tag handling to show the proper state of the tag
    
  • Added support for Python script based configuration changes
  • Added support for better QualityCode comparisons to support changes in Ignition 8.1.7
  • Internal cache fixes and improvements
  • Added TLS ALPN support
  • Improved logic around subscriptions that may fail due to ACL or permission issues
    • NOTE: This fix can result in MQTT Transmission no longer being able to connect to the MQTT Server when attempting to subscribe on a topic without the permissions to do so. This is a configuration issue that needs to be fixed by either:
      • (1) Updating the MQTT Server ACL/permissions so Transmission can subscribe on the required topics OR
      • (2) Clear the MQTT Transmission PrimaryHostId so that Transmission is no longer required to subscribe on the STATE topic without the permission to do so.
  • Improved history store startup logic to better handle mis-configurations
  • Fixed potential thread-leak
  • Fixes and improvements to bound properties in UDTs
  • Fixes to history store and forward when UDTs are being used
• MQTT Recorder
  • None
• AWS Injector
  • Added support for Python script based configuration changes
  • Fixed potential thread-leak
• Azure Injector
  • Added support for Python script based configuration changes
  • Added support for Azure IoT Edge Hubs
  • Fixed potential thread-leak
  • Added support for IoT Hub 'Application Properties' via Injector configuration
• Google Cloud Injector
  • Fixed potential thread-leak
• IBM Cloud Injector
  • Fixed potential thread-leak
• EFM ABB Totalflow Module
  • Fixed naming collision for 'periodic mappings' between ROC and ABB mappings
  • Improvements to connection and re-connection logic
  • Fixed bug regarding event polling in an edge case
• EFM Emerson ROC Module
  • Fixed naming collision for 'periodic mappings' between ROC and ABB mappings
  • Improvements to connection and re-connection logic
  • Added 'polling state' to the ROC devices
• EFM Export
  • None
• Opto22 groov EPIC and SNAPPAC Driver

  • None

Cirrus Link Modules for Ignition v4.0.7 - April 12, 2021

• MQTT Distributor
  
  • None
• MQTT Engine
  • Improved processing speed of custom namespace JSON payloads
  • Fixed datatype handling for sampleMode and historyTimeDeadbandUnits properties
  • Added support for MQTT Client IDs longer than 23 characters in length is user specified
  • Improved error handling for unsupported characters in custom namespace tag creation
  • Removed BB Wzzard namespace as the provided namespace as it can now be supported via a JSON custom namespace
  • Fixed subscriptions to prevent potential duplicate messages based on MQTT server implementations
  • Fixed logic to only unsubscribe from STATE topics when appropriate
  • Added code to send a rebirth request in the case DDATA messages arrive before DBIRTH
  • Improved error handling in the case of missing bdSeq numbers
  • Fixed topic token filtering bug betwen Sparkplug A and Sparkplug B namespaces
  • Fixed issue where UDT definition member tag history configuration is overwritten when in a folder
  • Added support to handle new 'Optimized UDT' DATA messages
  • Upgraded underlying MQTT library
  • Added support for 'Document' tag datatype
  • Added support for PermissionsConfig, TagEventScripts and ParameterValues
  • Modified subscriptions on STATE messages to be on STATE/phid rather than STATE/#
  • Fixed issue that could result in Engine not correcting stale 'STATE' messages when redundancy is used
  • Fixed issue that could show RBE enabled tags stale when they were not actually stale
  • Fixed bug that didn't show online/offiine node info dataset tags properly
  • Fixed handling reporting of primary host state informational tags
  • Fixed issue that prevented rebirth requests from being sent out when 'sequence reordering' is enabled
• MQTT Transmission
  • Fixed issue with potential failed file transfers when primary host is being used
  • Added support for MQTT Client IDs longer than 23 characters in length is user specified
  • Fixed issue where tags were not reported as stale when using 'Convert UDTs' and they were deleted
  • Fixed Transmission to only publish RECORDs if the associated Sparkplug Device exists
  • Added 'event tracing code' to track execution time for tag change events that occur
  • Improved processing time on tag change events when events occur on UDT members
  • Fixed birth caching when aliasing is enabled
  • Added 'Optimize UDT' option to Transmission to reduce payload sizes in DATA messages
  • Upgraded underlying MQTT library
  • Added support for 'Document' tag datatype
  • Added support for PermissionsConfig, TagEventScripts and ParameterValues
  • Logging improvements around UDT handling
  • Added bound value support for UDTs to evaluate bindings before publishing data
  • Added a configurable reconnect delay to slow reconnect attempts on low bandwidth networks
  • Fixed UDT definition handling to support definitions with the same name under different folder paths
  • Added support for UDT parameter to UDT parameter bindings
• MQTT Recorder
  • None
• AWS Injector
  • Cleaned up AWS credential text in the configuration Web UI
  • Fixed implementation to publish NDEATH message when Injector is disabled
    
  • Added 'event tracing code' to track execution time for tag change events that occur
  • Improved processing time on tag change events when events occur on UDT members
  • Logging improvements around UDT handling
  • Added support for 'periodic publishing' as an alternative to event/tag change driven publishing
  • Added 'Optimize UDT' option to Transmission to reduce payload sizes in DATA messages
  • Added support for 'Push to Any' option to 'Sets' as is supported for other Injector modules
  • Added bound value support for UDTs to evaluate bindings before publishing data
  • Increased the Kinesis default partition key count size as recommended by AWS
  • Fixed UDT definition handling to support definitions with the same name under different folder paths
  • Added support for UDT parameter to UDT parameter bindings
  • Added more randomness to partition keys per AWS recommendations to Kinesis partition keys
• Azure Injector
  • Fixed issue where disabled configurations of IoT Hub would still send BIRTH messages
  • Added support for MQTT Client IDs longer than 23 characters in length is user specified
  • Fixed implementation to publish NDEATH message when Injector is disabled
  • Added 'event tracing code' to track execution time for tag change events that occur
  • Improved processing time on tag change events when events occur on UDT members
  • Upgraded underlying MQTT library
  • Added content type and content encoding options to Azure Injector IoT Hubs to support message based routing
  • Logging improvements around UDT handling
  • Added a configuration option to support Azure Time Series Insights data/time format
  • Added support for 'periodic publishing' as an alternative to event/tag change driven publishing
  • Added 'Optimize UDT' option to Transmission to reduce payload sizes in DATA messages
  • Added bound value support for UDTs to evaluate bindings before publishing data
  • Fixed UDT definition handling to support definitions with the same name under different folder paths
  • Added support for UDT parameter to UDT parameter bindings
• Google Cloud Injector
  • Added support for MQTT Client IDs longer than 23 characters in length is user specified
  • Fixed implementation to publish NDEATH message when Injector is disabled
  • Added 'event tracing code' to track execution time for tag change events that occur
  • Improved processing time on tag change events when events occur on UDT members
  • Upgraded underlying MQTT library
  • Logging improvements around UDT handling
  • Added support for 'periodic publishing' as an alternative to event/tag change driven publishing
  • Added 'Optimize UDT' option to Transmission to reduce payload sizes in DATA messages
  • Added bound value support for UDTs to evaluate bindings before publishing data
  • Fixed UDT definition handling to support definitions with the same name under different folder paths
  • Added support for UDT parameter to UDT parameter bindings
• IBM Cloud Injector
  • Added support for MQTT Client IDs longer than 23 characters in length is user specified
  • Fixed implementation to publish NDEATH message when Injector is disabled
  • Added 'event tracing code' to track execution time for tag change events that occur
  • Improved processing time on tag change events when events occur on UDT members
  • Upgraded underlying MQTT library
  • Logging improvements around UDT handling
  • Added support for 'periodic publishing' as an alternative to event/tag change driven publishing
  • Added 'Optimize UDT' option to Transmission to reduce payload sizes in DATA messages
  • Added bound value support for UDTs to evaluate bindings before publishing data
  • Fixed UDT definition handling to support definitions with the same name under different folder paths
  • Added support for UDT parameter to UDT parameter bindings
• EFM ABB Totalflow Module
  • Initial GA release of the module for Ignition8
• EFM Emerson ROC Module
  • None
• EFM Export
  • None
• Opto22 groov EPIC and SNAPPAC Driver

  • None

Cirrus Link Modules for Ignition v4.0.6-beta1 - Dec 1, 2020 (SiteWise Engine only)

• SiteWise Engine
  
  • Initial beta1 release of the module for Ignition8
  • Created docs here: SiteWise Engine

Cirrus Link Modules for Ignition v4.0.6 - November 19, 2020

• MQTT Distributor
  
  • Modified info tags to properly re-init them if they have been deleted
    
  • Fixed handling of default configurations on initial module installation
  • Fix to ensure client count displays zero when MQTT Distributor is shutdown
  • Fixed to dynamic handling in configuration menus
• MQTT Engine
  • Fixed potential sequence reordering NPE
  • General logging cleanup
  • Fixed history property coersion by using proper datatypes

  • Fixed String vs Integer datatype handling for sampleMode and historyTimeDeadbandUnits

  • Fixed potential Exceptions during server connection establishment
  • Modified info tags to properly re-init them if they have been deleted
  • Fixed handling of default configurations on initial module installation
  • Removed support for consumption of alarm properties
  • Modified auto-RPC reconnect settings to denote whether or not to connect at all
  • Fixed Enable Latency Check Tag to only sub/unsub when state changes
    
  • Added java.sql.Timestamp support to Ignition DataSet
  • Fixed [MQTTEngine]_types_/_types_/... bug in UDT definition creation
    
  • Added support for filtering by both Sparkplug group and edge node IDs
  • Added support for most Ignition array datatypes in Ignition8
  • Added primary host enable/disable control tag as well as a tag to specify the primary host ID
  • Moved 'File handling control' of MQTT Engine to the Sparkplug B Namespace settings
  • Expanded file handling support
  • Fixed to dynamic handling in configuration menus
• MQTT Transmission
  • Added code to ensure Transmission connection verification accounts for random startup delay and debounce time
  • General logging cleanup
  • Fixed UDT quality handling issues
  • Fixed potential Exceptions during server connection establishment
  • Fixed in-order history flushing bug when many devices are are part of an Edge Node that prevented buffer from ever emptying
    
  • Modified info tags to properly re-init them if they have been deleted
  • Fixed configureTag call in Transmission Record creation to properly configure the 'Publish Tag'
    
  • Fixed handling of default configurations on initial module installation
  • Added primary host and BD sequence number validation on unexpected LWTs
    
  • Improved disk-backed store and forward Exception handling
  • Removed support for sending of alarm properties
  • Modified auto-RPC reconnect settings to denote whether or not to connect at all
  • Fixed missing UDT member tag changes when TagPath is empty
  • Added java.sql.Timestamp support to Ignition DataSet
  • Added null check for null DataSet values on metrics
  • Fixed UDT handling to extract the Tag provider name from when not found in the tag configuration to improve UDT handling
  • Added support for 'ParameterValue' objects introduced in Ignition 8.0.15
    
  • Fixed thread leak in record publishes
  • Cleaned up shutdown code to prevent RejectedExecutionExceptions
  • Added code to bind bound parameters of UDTs to tag properties if they are simple bindings
    
  • Fixed UDT member tag property to UDT parameter bindings for 'convert to normal tags' case
    
  • Added 'cached birth' option to Transmission to improve Rebirth request performance
    
  • Added partial support for overridden property values bound to UDT parameters
    
  • Added support for most Ignition array datatypes in Ignition8
  • Fixed null value datatype coercion to prevent NPEs and tag reading
  • Fixed disk-backed store and forwarding when aliasing is enabled
  • Added the ability to transmit binary files from MQTT Transmission
  • Made the Tag Pacing Period a mandatory field
  • Added enforcement to prevent 'aliasing' and publishing of UDTs to be enabled at the same time
  • Improved Exception handling during startup and iterating the tag tree
  • Fixed to dynamic handling in configuration menus
  • Added code to specify a default 'Set' when appropriate during configuration
  • Fixed handling of parameterized datatypes
  • Fix for ClassCastException on getting compression type
  • Added code to ignore UDT removal events when convertUdts is true
  • Added Exception handling around adding parameters to UDTs to prevent UDT parsing failures that prevent them from being published
    
• MQTT Recorder
  • Modified info tags to properly re-init them if they have been deleted
  • Fixed handling of default configurations on initial module installation
  • Fixed to dynamic handling in configuration menus
• AWS Injector
  • Fixed UDT quality handling issues
  • Modified info tags to properly re-init them if they have been deleted
  • Fixed handling of default configurations on initial module installation
  • Fixed missing UDT member tag changes when TagPath is empty
  • Added java.sql.Timestamp support to Ignition DataSet
  • Added null check for null DataSet values on metrics
  • Fixed UDT handling to extract the Tag provider name from when not found in the tag configuration to improve UDT handling
  • Added support for 'ParameterValue' objects introduced in Ignition 8.0.15
  • Cleaned up shutdown code to prevent RejectedExecutionExceptions
  • Added code to bind bound parameters of UDTs to tag properties if they are simple bindings
  • Fixed UDT member tag property to UDT parameter bindings for 'convert to normal tags' case
  • Added partial support for overridden property values bound to UDT parameters
  • Added support for most Ignition array datatypes in Ignition8
  • Made the Tag Pacing Period a mandatory field
  • Improved Exception handling during startup and iterating the tag tree
  • Fixed to dynamic handling in configuration menus
  • Added code to specify a default 'Set' when appropriate during configuration
  • Fixed handling of parameterized datatypes
  • Fixed potential ClassCastExceptions
  • Added Exception handling around adding parameters to UDTs to prevent UDT parsing failures that prevent them from being pushed
• Azure Injector
  • Fixed UDT quality handling issues
  • Fixed potential Exceptions during MQTT server connection establishment
  • Modified info tags to properly re-init them if they have been deleted
  • Fixed handling of default configurations on initial module installation
  • Added configurable MQTT keep-alive setting
  • Fixed missing UDT member tag changes when TagPath is empty
  • Added java.sql.Timestamp support to Ignition DataSet
  • Added null check for null DataSet values on metrics
  • Fixed UDT handling to extract the Tag provider name from when not found in the tag configuration to improve UDT handling
  • Added support for 'ParameterValue' objects introduced in Ignition 8.0.15
  • Cleaned up shutdown code to prevent RejectedExecutionExceptions
  • Added code to bind bound parameters of UDTs to tag properties if they are simple bindings
  • Fixed UDT member tag property to UDT parameter bindings for 'convert to normal tags' case
  • Added support for client based auth in Azure IoT Hubs
  • Added partial support for overridden property values bound to UDT parameters
  • Added support for most Ignition array datatypes in Ignition8
  • Made the Tag Pacing Period a mandatory field
  • Improved Exception handling during startup and iterating the tag tree
  • Fixed to dynamic handling in configuration menus
  • Added code to specify a default 'Set' when appropriate during configuration
  • Fixed handling of parameterized datatypes
  • Fixed potential ClassCastExceptions
  • Added Exception handling around adding parameters to UDTs to prevent UDT parsing failures that prevent them from being pushed
• Google Cloud Injector
  • Fixed UDT quality handling issues
  • Fixed potential Exceptions during MQTT server connection establishment
  • Modified info tags to properly re-init them if they have been deleted
  • Fixed handling of default configurations on initial module installation
  • Added configurable MQTT keep-alive setting
  • Fixed missing UDT member tag changes when TagPath is empty
  • Added java.sql.Timestamp support to Ignition DataSet
  • Added null check for null DataSet values on metrics
  • Fixed UDT handling to extract the Tag provider name from when not found in the tag configuration to improve UDT handling
  • Added support for 'ParameterValue' objects introduced in Ignition 8.0.15
  • Cleaned up shutdown code to prevent RejectedExecutionExceptions
  • Added code to bind bound parameters of UDTs to tag properties if they are simple bindings
  • Fixed UDT member tag property to UDT parameter bindings for 'convert to normal tags' case
  • Added partial support for overridden property values bound to UDT parameters
  • Added support for most Ignition array datatypes in Ignition8
  • Made the Tag Pacing Period a mandatory field
  • Improved Exception handling during startup and iterating the tag tree
  • Fixed to dynamic handling in configuration menus
  • Added code to specify a default 'Set' when appropriate during configuration
  • Fixed handling of parameterized datatypes
  • Fixed potential ClassCastExceptions
  • Added Exception handling around adding parameters to UDTs to prevent UDT parsing failures that prevent them from being pushed
• IBM Cloud Injector
  • Fixed UDT quality handling issues
  • Fixed potential Exceptions during MQTT server connection establishment
  • Modified info tags to properly re-init them if they have been deleted
  • Fixed handling of default configurations on initial module installation
  • Added configurable MQTT keep-alive setting
  • Fixed missing UDT member tag changes when TagPath is empty
  • Added java.sql.Timestamp support to Ignition DataSet
  • Added null check for null DataSet values on metrics
  • Fixed UDT handling to extract the Tag provider name from when not found in the tag configuration to improve UDT handling
  • Added support for 'ParameterValue' objects introduced in Ignition 8.0.15
  • Cleaned up shutdown code to prevent RejectedExecutionExceptions
  • Added code to bind bound parameters of UDTs to tag properties if they are simple bindings
  • Fixed UDT member tag property to UDT parameter bindings for 'convert to normal tags' case
  • Added partial support for overridden property values bound to UDT parameters
  • Added support for most Ignition array datatypes in Ignition8
  • Made the Tag Pacing Period a mandatory field
  • Improved Exception handling during startup and iterating the tag tree
  • Fixed to dynamic handling in configuration menus
  • Added code to specify a default 'Set' when appropriate during configuration
  • Fixed handling of parameterized datatypes
  • Fixed potential ClassCastExceptions
  • Added Exception handling around adding parameters to UDTs to prevent UDT parsing failures that prevent them from being pushed
• EFM ABB Totalflow Module
  • None - v4.0.5-beta1 is still the current release.
• EFM Emerson ROC Module
  • Initial GA release
• EFM Export
  • Initial GA release
• Opto22 groov EPIC and SNAPPAC Driver

  • Tags are refreshed on each occurrence the scanner connects to the controller

  • If a controller tag is scanned as invalid, all of it’s expanded (un-optimized) root tags will be marked as stale. For example, if a table is invalid, all of it’s table elements will stale or an integer scanned becomes invalid, all of its boolean, bit-picked, and integer values will stale.

  • Reconnect algorithm has been streamlined to minimize lag

Cirrus Link Modules for Ignition v4.0.5-beta1 - Sept 1, 2020 (EFM ABB Totalflow only)

• EFM ABB Totalflow
  
  • Initial release of the module for Ignition8

Cirrus Link Modules for Ignition v4.0.5-beta1 - Aug 5, 2020 (EFM Emerson ROC and EFM Export only)

• EFM Emerson ROC
  • Initial release of the module for Ignition8
• EFM Export
  • Initial release of the module for Ignition8

Cirrus Link Modules for Ignition v4.0.5 - June 29, 2020

• MQTT Distributor
  • Added support for Ignition Maker Edition
  • Fixed enum usage to prevent class loading exceptions when browsing/modifying gateway web UI configuration
  • Added support for breaking 'SecurityContext' API change in Ignition 8.0.13
  • Added backward compatibility support so v4.0.5 will run on Ignition v8.0.12 and before
• MQTT Engine
  • Added support for Ignition Maker Edition
  • Added support for custom namespace charset selection for binary encoding support - set default to UTF-8
  • Fixed enum usage to prevent class loading exceptions when browsing/modifying gateway web UI configuration
  • Added support for breaking 'SecurityContext' API change in Ignition 8.0.13
  • Added backward compatibility support so v4.0.5 will run on Ignition v8.0.12 and before
  • Modified certificate display in Server configuration to not show any certs since we can't show all of them
  • Improved handling for missing bdSeq numbers in faulty Sparkplug edge client's LWTs
  • Fixed access to property matching for proper property filtering
  • Added alarmEvalEnabled to default property filter list
  • Added support for modified 'configureTag' behavior in Ignition 8.0.14
• MQTT Transmission
  • Added support for Ignition Maker Edition
  • Fixed enum usage to prevent class loading exceptions when browsing/modifying gateway web UI configuration
  • Fixed Transmission version reporting in the Transmission Info tag
  • Fixed NPE when getting the module version
  • Added support for breaking 'SecurityContext' API change in Ignition 8.0.13
  • Added code to ignore _invalid_ tag paths when traversing the tag tree
  • Fixed 'reset metrics' info tag to always be writable
  • Logging improvements
  • Added backward compatibility support so v4.0.5 will run on Ignition v8.0.12 and before
  • Added alarmEvalEnabled to default property filter list
  • Added support for modified 'configureTag' behavior in Ignition 8.0.14
• MQTT Recorder
  • Fixed enum usage to prevent class loading exceptions when browsing/modifying gateway web UI configuration
• AWS Injector
  • Fixed enum usage to prevent class loading exceptions when browsing/modifying gateway web UI configuration
  • Added support for breaking 'SecurityContext' API change in Ignition 8.0.13
  • Added code to ignore _invalid_ tag paths when traversing the tag tree
  • Added backward compatibility support so v4.0.5 will run on Ignition v8.0.12 and before
  • Fixed issue with null-check on S&F type
  • Fixed 'Edge Nodes' folder creation to occur the the correct tag provider
• Azure Injector
  • Fixed enum usage to prevent class loading exceptions when browsing/modifying gateway web UI configuration
  • Added support for breaking 'SecurityContext' API change in Ignition 8.0.13
  • Added code to ignore _invalid_ tag paths when traversing the tag tree
  • Added backward compatibility support so v4.0.5 will run on Ignition v8.0.12 and before
  • Fixed issue with null-check on S&F type
  • Fixed issue with 'Push Policy' not being persisted properly
  • Fixed 'Edge Nodes' folder creation to occur the the correct tag provider
• Google Cloud Injector
  • Fixed enum usage to prevent class loading exceptions when browsing/modifying gateway web UI configuration
  • Added support for breaking 'SecurityContext' API change in Ignition 8.0.13
  • Added code to ignore _invalid_ tag paths when traversing the tag tree
  • Added backward compatibility support so v4.0.5 will run on Ignition v8.0.12 and before
  • Fixed issue with null-check on S&F type
  • Fixed issue with 'Push Policy' not being persisted properly
  • Fixed 'Edge Nodes' folder creation to occur the the correct tag provider
• IBM Cloud Injector
  • Fixed enum usage to prevent class loading exceptions when browsing/modifying gateway web UI configuration
  • Added support for breaking 'SecurityContext' API change in Ignition 8.0.13
  • Added code to ignore _invalid_ tag paths when traversing the tag tree
  • Added backward compatibility support so v4.0.5 will run on Ignition v8.0.12 and before
  • Fixed issue with null-check on S&F type
  • Fixed issue with 'Push Policy' not being persisted properly
  • Fixed 'Edge Nodes' folder creation to occur the the correct tag provider
• Opto22 groov EPIC and SNAPPAC Driver
  • None

Cirrus Link Modules for Ignition v4.0.4 - May 20, 2020

IMPORTANT NOTE: These are not compatible Ignition 8.0.13 or later. If using 8.0.13 or 8.0.14 use v4.0.5 Cirrus Link modules

• General (All Modules)
  • Fixed documentation links in tooltips of the module config pages
  • Updated code signing cerificate
• MQTT Distributor
  • Modified TLS setup to piggyback off of native Ignition SSL mechanism
• MQTT Engine
  • Fixed retention of UDT properties across module restarts
    
  • Add custom property for 'sequence number reordering'
  • Added a cache layer for improved custom namespace performance
  • Modified to create default reasonable history config on all dynamic MQTT Engine tags
  • Added a validator to primary host ID creation to prevent runtime errors
  • Added support for non-clean session and QoS1 support in custom namespaces
  • Added additional tooltip info for Custom Namespace writable tags
  • Fixed client reinitialization after custom namespace changes
  • Improved certificate file management in the config web configuration UI
  • Fixed 'Critical App State' info tag to prevent erroneous data
  • Fixed Edge Node Tag staling from NDATA message
  • Added staling of custom namespace tags on namespace deletion
  • Fixed 'empty' property filter setting to allow all
• MQTT Transmission
  • Fixed dynamic update of client ID under MQTT Transmission Info tags
  • Added support to allow RPC clients to not automatically reconnect
  • Improved DB reconnect logic for the Disk-backed store and forward mechanism
  • Fixed Timer thread leak on pending publish creation
  • Fixed to caching of Transmission Info metrics to prevent erroneous data
  • Added a validator to primary host ID creation to prevent runtime errors
  • Fixed handling of non-memory tags (i.e. derived, OPC, etc) in Sparkplug Record publishes
  • Added parameter based UDT DataType handling when convertUDTs=true
  • Fixed potential ClassCastException around BoundPropertySet Objects
  • Added tag pacing period validator to ensure it is greater than zero
    
  • Improved certificate file management in the config web configuration UI
  • Fixed Transmission TLS connect on startup
  • Added Transmission Info Tags for tracking messsages and bytes
    
  • Fixed NPE from caching BIRTHs when TransmissionClient is shutdown
  • Removed properties and parameters from being improperly published in DATA messages
    
  • Fixed missing Sparkplug IDs on Transmitters page
  • Added code to ignore _types_ folder when creating Edge Nodes
  • Fixed handling of EdgeNode tag removal events
  • Added new custom property 'ConfiguredTagPath' to tag properties
  • Fixed RPC clients to update on server setting change
  • Fixed 'empty' property filter setting to allow all
  • Fixed fetching of the tag provider name by ignoring case
  • Fixed device detection when auto-discovery is enabled
  • Fixed NPE on aliased metrics in NCMD messages
    
  • Fix for Tag add/remove root path comparisons
  • Fixed folder detection on tag structure change events
  • Fixed check history stores to update Transmitters on configuration changes
    
• MQTT Recorder
  • None
• AWS Injector 
  • Fixed Timer thread leak on pending publish creation
  • Fixed potential ClassCastException around BoundPropertySet Objects
  • Added null checks to Injector start/stop to prevent NPEs
  • Added tag pacing period validator to ensure it is greater than zero
  • Removed properties and parameters from being improperly published in DATA messages
  • Added code to ignore _types_ folder when creating Edge Nodes 
  • Fixed handling of EdgeNode tag removal events
  • Fixed device detection when auto-discovery is enabled
  • Fix for Tag add/remove root path comparisons
  • Fixed folder detection on tag structure change events
  • General performance enhancements
  • Disconnect logic cleanup
• Azure Injector
  • Tooltip/help improvements
  • Fixed Timer thread leak on pending publish creation
  • Fixed potential ClassCastException around BoundPropertySet Objects
  • Added null checks to Injector start/stop to prevent NPEs
  • Added tag pacing period validator to ensure it is greater than zero
  • Removed unused certificate file upload field
  • Added support for a connection pooling to allow for increased throughput
  • Removed properties and parameters from being improperly published in DATA messages
  • Added code to ignore _types_ folder when creating Edge Nodes 
    
  • Fixed handling of EdgeNode tag removal events
  • Fixed device detection when auto-discovery is enabled
  • Fix for Tag add/remove root path comparisons
  • Fixed folder detection on tag structure change events
  • General performance enhancements
  • Disconnect logic cleanup
  • Added reconnect logic to MQTT Injectors when message pushes fail
• Google Cloud Injector
  • Fixed Timer thread leak on pending publish creation
  • Fixed potential ClassCastException around BoundPropertySet Objects
  • Added null checks to Injector start/stop to prevent NPEs
  • Added tag pacing period validator to ensure it is greater than zero
  • Added support for a connection pooling to allow for increased throughput
  • Removed properties and parameters from being improperly published in DATA messages
  • Added code to ignore _types_ folder when creating Edge Nodes 
  • Fixed handling of EdgeNode tag removal events
  • Fixed device detection when auto-discovery is enabled
  • Fix for Tag add/remove root path comparisons
  • Fixed folder detection on tag structure change events
  • General performance enhancements
  • Disconnect logic cleanup
  • Added reconnect logic to MQTT Injectors when message pushes fail
    
• IBM Cloud Injector
  • Fixed Timer thread leak on pending publish creation
  • Fixed potential ClassCastException around BoundPropertySet Objects
  • Added null checks to Injector start/stop to prevent NPEs
  • Added tag pacing period validator to ensure it is greater than zero
  • Added support for a connection pooling to allow for increased throughput
  • Removed properties and parameters from being improperly published in DATA messages
  • Added code to ignore _types_ folder when creating Edge Nodes 
  • Fixed handling of EdgeNode tag removal events
  • Fixed device detection when auto-discovery is enabled
  • Fix for Tag add/remove root path comparisons
  • Fixed folder detection on tag structure change events
  • General performance enhancements
  • Disconnect logic cleanup
  • Added reconnect logic to MQTT Injectors when message pushes fail
• Opto22 groov EPIC and SNAPPAC Driver
  • None

Cirrus Link Modules for Ignition v4.0.3 - January 28, 2020

• General (All Modules)
  • Various fixes in UDT definition and instance handling
  • Fixed potential deadlock in CirrusClient disconnect
  • Improved logging
  • Improved BD sequence number handling
  • Improved event handling
  • Improved CirrusClient disconnection and LWT handling
  • Updated auto-client ids to be 23 characters or less (required by some MQTT server implementations)
• MQTT Distributor
  • Fixed potential deadlock on shutdown
  • Added Distributor Info tags showing number of connected clients
• MQTT Engine
  
  • Added staling of MQTT Engine Tags on startup
  • Fixed various staling issues affecting MQTT Engine Tags
  • Fixed issues with MQTT Engine restarts and deleted tags reappearing
  • Fixed MQTT Engine client subscription handling to only subscribe to topics STATE/# and SM/<client_id>/# when necessary
  • Fixed potential concurrency issues in MQTT Engine on reconnect
  • Fixed the enabling/disabling of Namespaces on a configuration update
  • Added support to records to pull data from ManagedTagProviders
  • Improvements in Edge/Device cache
  • Added support for 'writable tags' in Custom Namespaces
  • Improvements in Metric caching
• MQTT Transmission
  • Various fixes in disk-backed history store and forward
  • Fixed potential thread leaks
  • Fixed issue with BIRTH incorrectly containing cached/old Tag values
  • Performance improvements in disk-backed history store and forward
  • Added optional 'random' delay setting to Transmitter configuration
• MQTT Recorder
  • Initial release
• AWS Injector 
  • Added settings validators to ensure correct Injector configuration
• Azure Injector
  • Fixed shutdown issue to prevent duplicate MQTT client connections
  • Added settings validators to ensure correct Injector configuration
• Google Cloud Injector
  • Added settings validators to ensure correct Injector configuration
• IBM Cloud Injector
  • Added settings validators to ensure correct Injector configuration
• Opto22 groov EPIC and SNAPPAC Driver
  • None

Cirrus Link Modules for Ignition v4.0.2 - October 11, 2019

• General (All Modules)
  • Security improvements
  • Added validation to ensure passwords can not be null, empty, or only whitespace
  • Added ability to delete certificates from configurations
  • Updated all existing password/secret configuration fields to use the "enter twice" validation
  • Various minor bug fixes
• MQTT Distributor
  • Add support for spaces in ACL topics
• MQTT Engine
  • Added support for updating/changing incoming tag datatypes
  • Added 'Hostname Verification' setting to optionally enable TLS hostname verification
  • Added support for configuring which Tag properties get filtered/ignored on incoming publishes
  • Improved tracking of BIRTH/DEATH counts
  • Fixed Custom Namespace support for periods (".") in MQTT topics, now interpreted as folder separator in the resulting tag path
  • Fixed "Online Nodes" dataset initialization error
  • Fixes for handling legacy quality types
• MQTT Transmission
  • Replaced "Default Transmitter" with new "Example Transmitter" and associated example Tags.
  • Made the publishing of UDT definitions in BIRTH messages configurable
  • Added 'Last Refresh' Tag to denote time of last Refresh button click
  • Added 'Refresh Required' Tag to denote if an MQTT Transmission refresh is required/needed
  • Added protection against configuring the same History Store setting on multiple Transmitters
  • Added 'Hostname Verification' setting to optionally enable TLS hostname verification
  • Added support for configuring which Tag properties get published
  • Fixed publishing of derived tags, OPC tags, and other indirect types
• AWS Injector
  • Added support for configuring which Tag properties get published
• Azure Injector
  • Added support for configuring which Tag properties get published
• Google Cloud Injector
  • Added support for configuring which Tag properties get published
• IBM Cloud Injector
  • Added support for configuring which Tag properties get published
• Opto22 groov EPIC and SNAPPAC Driver
  • Added scanner refresh control Tag

Cirrus Link Modules for Ignition v4.0.1 - June 19, 2019

• AWS Injector

  • Fixed support for auto-detected Edge Nodes in tag trees
    

  • Various tag path handling fixes
    

  • Various UDT fixes
    

  • Improvements to handling of null values
    

  • Added Agent record validation in Web UI configuration
    

• Azure Injector

  • Fixed support for auto-detected Edge Nodes in tag trees
    

  • Various tag path handling fixes
    

  • Various UDT fixes
    

  • Improvements to handling of null values
    

  • Added Agent record validation in Web UI configuration
    

  • Fixed publishing of NBIRTH messages for Event Hubs
    

• Google Cloud Injector

  • Fixed support for auto-detected Edge Nodes in tag trees
    

  • Various tag path handling fixes
    

  • Various UDT fixes
    

  • Improvements to handling of null values
    

  • Added Agent record validation in Web UI configuration
    

• IBM Cloud Injector

  • Fixed support for auto-detected Edge Nodes in tag trees
    

  • Various tag path handling fixes
    

  • Various UDT fixes
    

  • Improvements to handling of null values
    

  • Added Agent record validation in Web UI configuration
    

• MQTT Distributor
  • None
• MQTT Engine
  • Fixed online status info tags to denote the proper values
    
  • Added support for Ignition7/Transmission to publish to Ignition8/Engine with quality code translations
    
  • Fixed multiple tag write issues
    
  • Various tag path handling fixes
    
  • Fixed issues with property merging in MQTT Engine
    
  • Various UDT fixes
    
  • Fixed typing of JSON tags in custom namespaces
    
• MQTT Transmission
  • Improved Transmitter field validation in the Web UI configuration
    
  • Added support for multiple tag paths in a single Transmitter configuration
    
  • Added support for additional topic tokens to be published via special char sequence in a Sparkplug Device folder
    
  • Fixed multiple tag write issues
    
  • Fixed support for auto-detected Edge Nodes in tag trees
    
  • Fixed issue that could result in Transmitter Threads running after Transmission shutdown
  • Various tag path handling fixes
    
  • Various UDT fixes
    
  • Improvements to handling of null values
    
  • Fixed connected Server URL info tag handling
    
  • Added sorting of UDT definitions to ensure proper order for creation of UDTs
    
  • Added batching and caching components to improve performance
    
  • Fixed alias support
    
  • Improvements to Disk-backed history stores
    
• Opto22 groov EPIC and SNAPPAC Driver
  • None
    
    

Cirrus Link Modules for Ignition v4.0.0 - May 13, 2019

• AWS Injector
  • Initial port to Ignition8
    
• Azure Injector
  • Initial port to Ignition8
    
• Google Cloud Injector
  • Initial port to Ignition8
• IBM Cloud Injector
  • Initial port to Ignition8
• MQTT Distributor
  • Initial port to Ignition8
• MQTT Engine
  • Initial port to Ignition8
  • Known issues
    • Throughput is not as good as it was in Ignition 7 compatible modules
• MQTT Transmission
  • Initial port to Ignition8
  • Removed default transmitter and now seed a default transmitter with the same functionality as the old default transmitter
  • Added support for multiple tag paths to a single transmitter
  • Added custom property to 'exclude tags' from payloads
  • Added custom property to specify which tags changes events will be stored in store and forward cache
  • Known issues
    • Throughput is not as good as it was in Ignition 7 compatible modules
• Opto22 groov EPIC and SNAPPAC Driver
  • Initial port to Ignition8

  • Improved tag writing throughput working with massive tag lists and during episodes of congested writes

  • An initially scanned floating point value of Not-A-Number (NaN) is better handled

  • Scanner waits for acceptance of tags before publishing data

  • Duplicate tag definitions are prevented

  • In extreme cases, 32- and 64-bit integer values may have erratically updated