# 8.1 script reloading issue

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-1-script-reloading-issue/110990>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [September 25, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-1-script-reloading-issue/110990 "2025-09-25T20:11:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-1-script-reloading-issue/110990/2 "2025-09-25T20:14:04Z")

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Almost certainly this:

> [@\[IGN-6503\]Project Library Script Initialization Races](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-6503-project-library-script-initialization-races/98636):
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> Are you annoyed by pseudo-random breakage in Ignition project library scripting? Odd top-level constants being garbled, or operations in the top level that have side effects running twice? Or more? Not happening much, but always around project edits, and sometimes even on gateway restart? Yeah, me too. frowning_face Poking around under the hood back in the spring, for a module development task, I ran across some problematic IA bytecode and pinged some people. But it went nowhere, as I co…

Fixed in v8.3. Deemed too risky a fix for v8.1 (first attempt was an ugly disaster).

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