# 8.3 Early Access Changelogs **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition 8.3 Early Access\ **Created:** [July 22, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566 "2024-07-22T21:09:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/21 "2024-12-02T18:00:26Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20241202 ## Infrastructure ### Java - Azul **IGN-11160: Filter additional classes.jsa files from JRE** additional classes.jsa files are now filtered. ## Security ### Security **IGN-9933: RFC-68 Adoption: Identity Providers** Migrated Identity Providers to the new filesystem-based configuration system ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Ray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Brian\_Ray](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Brian_Ray)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/22 "2024-12-09T19:21:50Z")
[This week's build will be a little late.](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-deployables/93762/3) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/23 "2024-12-12T01:39:47Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20241211 ## Scripting ### Scripting **IGN-1346: Client and gateway event scripts should be broken up into individual resources (and converted to extension functions)** - Update event scripts to be stored as resources on disk, replacing older editors with resource-based editors for improved usability. - Added find/replace functionality for Perspective Session Events ## Alarming ### Alarm Journal **IGN-11393: Alarm Journal Errors occuring on Gateway Startup** Fixed an issue where Database Alarm Journals weren't utilizing `useStoreAndForward` setting to enable the use of Store & Forward. ## Security ### Security **IGN-10855: RFC-68 Adoption: Add REST API for UserSource CRUD ops** Added a System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) REST API to manage users and groups/roles. ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Ray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Brian\_Ray](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Brian_Ray)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/24 "2024-12-12T16:20:15Z")
EA builds are fixed; the previous changelog is _bona fide_. ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Ray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Brian\_Ray](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Brian_Ray)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/25 "2024-12-14T15:21:49Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20241214 **Oops, this week's build has new content but we're missing some details.** # ISSUES MISSING RELEASE NOTES ## Tags ### Tags & UDTs **IGN-11200: Dataset Tag: Value Change script fires on quality change** **IGN-11502: Tag Config: Importing Tags can cause Gateway Tag Providers to become unresponsive** **IGN-11501: Tag Config: When importing using system.tag.importTags, the folder is included with items to import** ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 10:17am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/26 "2024-12-21T10:17:00Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20241221 ## Platform Core ### Config Persistence **IGN-11503: List Device Resources returns 500 Server Error if a device configuration is invalid** Fixed an issue where the List Device Resources REST API could return a 500 Server Error if a device configuration is invalid ## Tag Historian ### Tag Historian **IGN-11353: SF Engine "does not accept data" warning when initializing pipeline** Fixed a race condition where data would attempted to be stored before the data sink was fully registered with the Store and Forward engine. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/27 "2024-12-28T09:00:06Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20241227 ## Platform Core ### Config Persistence **IGN-10810: Unable to start new 8.3 Gateway if /usr/local/bin/ignition/data/config/external exists** Docker image now has an empty `external` resource collection present by default. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/28 "2025-01-04T09:01:27Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20250103 ## Security ### User Sources **IGN-11142: User Sources is being disabled as part of Gateway Restore being disabled** User Sources and IdPs are no longer disabled when restoring a GWBK with restore disabled flag set to true to align with 8.1 behavior. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/29 "2025-01-08T09:01:12Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20250107 ## Comms ### Drivers **IGN-8811: S7 Driver: Absolute Addressing Feature Set** The new Siemens S7 Symbolic Driver supports the same addressing syntax as the legacy Siemens driver, while introducing symbolic access for S7-1200 and S7-1500 PLCs. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/30 "2025-01-09T09:02:06Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20250108 ## Scripting ### Scripting **IGN-2589: Create new system.db method(s) to run named queries, deprecate existing runNamedQuery method** Refactored system.db.runNamedQuery for consistency across client, gateway, and perspective scopes. Introduced new methods: `system.db.execQuery(path, parameters, [project])` for select queries, `system.db.execUpdate(path, parameters, [project])` for update queries, and `system.db.execUpdateAsync(path, parameters, [project])` for async updates. These changes clarify return values, resolve compatibility issues, and enforce strict parameter validation, ensuring errors for mismatched or missing parameters ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/31 "2025-01-10T09:02:14Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20250109 ## Web UI ### Web UI **IGN-11437: 8.3 Gateway Component: Section Overview Cards** Adds an Overview Card component and associated Storybook documentation ## Foundation ### Launchers **IGN-11114: Launcher shortcuts for project/designer names containing international characters are unnecessarily renamed** Launcher Shortcuts now support non-ascii characters where supported by the OS. Windows requires opting into UTF-8 Support in the System Locale settings. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/32 "2025-01-11T09:02:14Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20250110 ## Security ### User Sources **IGN-11207: Objectify Role in UserSource APIs** Modified UserSourceProfile methods to treat a role as a container so that it can contain properties that describe the role. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/33 "2025-01-14T09:02:50Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20250113 ## Scripting ### Scripting **IGN-6503: In Scripting, Jython loads Separate Instances of Inherited classes with different Class IDs.** Fixed an issue with script initialization potentially overlapping, causing inconsistent object IDs and other ill effects. ## Cloud Connectors ### Event Streams **IGN-11551: MouseEvents on FlowCells are not detected if tooltips are set** Fixed problem where mouse movements and clicks are not detected in the region under the icon where the text is displayed. ## Tags ### Tags & UDTs **IGN-11486: [System]Gateway/Alarming Tags are missing in 8.3** Fixed an issue where System Alarm Tags were not initialized if no alarm tags are configured. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/34 "2025-01-15T09:02:00Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20250114 ## Platform Core ### Backup & Restore **IGN-11383: Restoring an 8.3 Windows backup to a 8.3 Docker container Faults on initial startup** Fixed a RuntimeException thrown during first Gateway startup on non-Windows hosts after restoring a GWBK generated in previous 8.3 builds by a Gateway on a Windows host. ## Containers ### Docker **IGN-9742: Bump Ignition Docker Image Ubuntu Base to 24.04 LTS** Docker image is now based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/35 "2025-01-17T09:01:57Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20250116 ## Platform Core ### Modules **IGN-11378: Mongo module is installing by default in 8.3** Removed MongoDB from the standard Ignition installation. ## Perspective ### Perspective **IGN-10008: RFC-68 Adoption: Perspective Fonts & Themes** Perspective Fonts, Themes, and Icons now use the config APIs and existing ones are migrated from `data/modules/com.inductiveautomation.perspective` to a system level config. If any have been modified, they will be migrated to a core level config. Creation of new fonts, themes, and icon resources now is done through the new config API under the resource type names of `config-perspective-(fonts|icons|themes)` ## Comms ### Drivers **IGN-11559: Forward port: Upgrade BACnet4J library to v6.0.1** Upgraded BACnet4J library to version 6.0.1. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/36 "2025-01-18T09:01:21Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20250117 ## Alarming ### Alarm Journal **IGN-11725: AlarmJournalRoutes.getJournalForm() can pass a null value to a method that requires nonnull** Add a `defaultIfUndefined: boolean` query parameter to GET /data/config/journal/edge/edit endpoint ---
**Author:** ![Wyatt\_Dias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Wyatt\_Dias](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Wyatt_Dias)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/38 "2025-01-21T21:11:13Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20250117 ## Cloud Connectors ### Event Streams **IGN-10499: Tag Source (back end effort)** Added Tag Event Source to Event Streams. Users can specify a list of tags for which a payload is published when there are changes for these tags. ---
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EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20250121 ## Tags ### Tags & UDTs **IGN-11727: Security levels negatively impact system.tag.query performance when authenticated.** Improved performance of system.tag.query when a user has many security levels configured. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566/40 "2025-01-23T09:02:08Z")
EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20250122 ## Tags ### Tags & UDTs **IGN-10635: Ignition tag definitions can be lost if the resource isn't fully written on Gateway crash** Resource files are now written atomically to ensure no resource system data is lost in the case of a forceful shutdown (power failure, etc.) ---
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EA-Weekly Changelog: 8.3.0\*-b20250123 ## Security ### Security **IGN-11283: Secrets Management: Redundancy support for Internal Secret Values** Internal Secret Providers now store secrets on the provider's configuration settings which means internal secrets are now redundancy role-aware and config mode-aware. ## Infrastructure ### Build **IGN-11753: Build timestamps/versions use ISO-week-year (YYYY) instead of year (yyyy)** Under certain circumstances buld timestamps inside an installer's embedded `common.properties` file or a module archive's embedded `module.xml` file would contain the year after the actual year in which the artifact was built. The year portion of those timestamps are now accurate. Module build years should accordingly appear correctly within Gateway as well. [Previous page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-early-access-changelogs/93566.md?page=3)