# \[BUG\] Saving changes to script libraries doesn't push updates to Perspective sessions

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-saving-changes-to-script-libraries-doesnt-push-updates-to-perspective-sessions/76293>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [July 13, 2023, 5:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-saving-changes-to-script-libraries-doesnt-push-updates-to-perspective-sessions/76293 "2023-07-13T05:02:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-saving-changes-to-script-libraries-doesnt-push-updates-to-perspective-sessions/76293/9 "2025-09-30T18:58:02Z")

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The original bug Nick reported is fixed and I haven't heard any (other) reports of a regression besides you and Jacob. Contacting support is my recommendation because I'm just a developer who spends (too much) time on the forums - I'm not at all getting a representative sample, and maybe in support they're dealing with this every week. I doubt it, and I'd assume that if they are experiencing a lot of issues with this they'd have raised another internal bug ticket, but 🤷  
The point is data collection in the centralized location that deals with customer reported issues.

You can't really debug an issue with the gateway's internal state from the designer, because they're entirely separate processes.

The _most likely_ explanation, to my mind, is a different bug, distinct from what Nick originally reported, that you and Jacob have managed to get into.  
Do you happen to be using `import` statements in your Python code to bring in project library code? That's fundamentally flawed in 8.1 and all prior versions (fixed in 8.3, though still not recommended):

> [@\[IGN-6503\]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…

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