# Nightly 8.0 Changelogs - 2020

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [January 8, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153 "2020-01-08T16:49:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/81 "2020-05-18T17:06:17Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.14-b20200518

## Ignition Platform

**16335: Windows scaling causes designer login screen to render incorrectly**  
Fixed so Designer login is scaling correctly.  
**14156: Restoring From Backup Does Not Lay Down Extra Theme Files**  
Restoring from a backup now correctly lays down third-party Perspective themes.

## Perspective

**16039: iOS Ignores dateFormat Property For All Tables**  
Date format displays as configured on table and chart components on iOS.  
**16380: File Upload Issue: Prevents other components from being placed in Flex container**  
Fixed the ability to drag and drop components into the flex container even if it’s within the bounds of file upload.  
**15533: Add some mechanism for storing custom assets (themes/icons/fonts) to .gwbk**  
Perspective fonts, icons, and themes are now restored from backups.

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**Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/82 "2020-05-19T16:23:50Z")

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## Ignition Platform

**16395: Add Capability to Ask IdP to Always Re-Authenticate Users**  
Added a new setting that allows Ignition to ask an Identity Provider to re-authenticate users.

## OPC-UA

**14572: Add certificate management to OPC-UA connection wizard**  
Added a Trust Certificate step to the OPC UA discovery wizard.

## Perspective

**15255: Fix ability to copy table selection**  
Fixed an issue where the perspective table component’s right-click “copy” option wouldn’t work.

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**Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/83 "2020-05-21T14:57:05Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.14-b20200521

## Perspective

**16349: Signature Pad: onSignatureSubmitted should get the incoming signature as a byte array, not a data URL of a base64 encoded PNG**  
SignaturePad Component onSignatureSubmitted component event has a new event argument: signatureFile.  
signatureFile has properties for name, size, as well as functions for copyTo(filePath) and getBytes(). These new properties, and functions work exactly like the File Upload Component’s onFileReceived component event’s event.file.

**16115: Alarm Status Table Pagination Controls are based on Active Tab even when switched to Shelved Tab**  
Now the pagination controls update based on the selected tab, and as data is added or removed from those tables, so that the user can page through all of it as needed.

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**Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/84 "2020-05-26T19:08:59Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.14-b20200526

## OPC-UA

**16410: OPC Client Connections Fault On Restart When Discovery and Endpoint Addresses Match**

## Perspective

**16303: Alarm Status Table: displayPath filter not working during session**  
Perspective alarm table display path conditional filter should fallback to source path.

## Reporting

**16277: Crosstab component doesn’t render nested data key when inside a table**  
Fixed an issue where the crosstab component would not properly render when nested inside a table.

## Vision

**14445: Vision alarm status table Duration Format tooltip text typo**  
Fixed typo in Duration Format tooltip for Alarm Status Table.

**9831: Left align named query conversion dialog**  
Fixed alignment for named query conversion dialog.

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**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/85 "2020-05-27T15:54:52Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.14-b20200527

## Enterprise Administration

**12608: Forward port of 8817 to allow a license to be assigned to a trial-expired agent**  
An expired Agent can now be licensed via EAM “Activate License” task or Managed License Keys “Assign”. This only requires that the Agent be on the latest version of Ignition that contains this fix.

## Ignition Platform

**15886: Implement 7.9 gateway-scoped tag reads against an 8.0 gateway**  
Tag reads now work from both contexts.

## Vision

**16483: Tag Binding: ClassCastException from tag binding on fill paint property in Vision**  
Now when binding a tag to the “Fill Paint” property of a “Shape”, it will no longer throw a “ClassCastException” error.  
Additionally, when a window is opened with the same shape and bound color, it will not throw the error either.

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**Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/86 "2020-05-28T15:18:59Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.14-b20200528

## Alarm Notification

**16264: Calculated rosters use the wrong ScriptManager**  
Fixed to use the correct Script Manager.

## Ignition Platform

**15512: Notification profile not using SMTP profile fails to send emails via SSL**  
Emails will now send if using SSL within the email notification profile.

**13540: User project script not qualified in script manager’s local namespace**  
There is now validation that prevents the usage of system names during the creation or renaming of a script or package. And if there was a clash of a script or package name with a system name, the gateway would start/restart and throw an error in the log.

## Vision

**14983: Query binding with absolute polling rate of 0 should not poll**  
Query binding with an absolute polling rate of 0 will execute a single time instead of as quickly as possible.

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**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/87 "2020-05-29T14:57:15Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.14-b20200529

## Perspective

**15873: Table: Subview disappears when row style object is added**  
Perspective Table: custom row configurations should only override root subview when explicitly false.

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**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/88 "2020-06-02T16:23:20Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.14-b20200602

## Ignition Platform

**16494:Max Time Between Records doesn’t carry over with upgrade from 7 to 8**  
HistoryMaxAge is now properly set upon legacy tag conversion.

**16541: Tag Security - Incorrect overlay causes stale value to continue to be visible when user has no read access to tag**  
Correct overlay now appears when there is no read access to tag.

## Vision

**16243: Difference calculated pens are generating NPE and are also displaying incorrect calculations**  
Easy chart sum/diff functions can now handle pen datasets with different datapoint counts.

**13773: Power table boolean column does not respect the configure cell extension function**  
Fixed an issue where boolean columns in the Power Table’s dataset would ignore the configureCell extension function.

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**Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/89 "2020-06-03T15:38:14Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.14-b20200603

## Ignition Platform

**16530: OEM Locked project conversion is broken**  
Fixed decrypting OEM locked resources during project conversion.

## Vision

**16556: Forwardport 12543: NPE thrown when having menu with no items when menu bar is hidden**  
Forwardport 12543 - RuntimeMenu NPE. No NPE when no menu items are displayed and the menu is hidden in the client.

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**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/90 "2020-06-04T14:37:41Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.14-b20200604

## Ignition Platform

**13945: Editor for OPC Server property on OPC tags is somewhat cryptic**  
Updated OPC Server property to dropdown of OPC connection names.

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**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/91 "2020-06-05T17:02:14Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.14-b20200605

## Ignition Platform

**16373: Wildcard subscriptions don’t work with remote providers, MQTT transmission won’t work**  
Fixed issue with wildcard subscription.

**16467: Auto-Generation of Relative Paths in UDT Definitions is broken**  
Fixed issue with UDT paths.

**16279: Mulit-Instance Wizard uses incorrect UDT parameters for non default providers**  
When creating UDT instances with the Multi-Instance wizard the params are now sourced from the correct provider.

**16518: Specify undefined behavior in Dataset interface**  
Codify undefined behavior in Dataset interface & clean ups.

**16485: Export to Project - Selection Bug**  
Minor followup polish on send-resources addition to export window  
Fixed up the checkbox deselection --\> send action enabled and added a blank state for when there are no projects to send to.

## Perspective

**16604: Dropdown: values should not get background when multiselect is disabled**  
Dropdown Component - the value displayed in a Dropdown Component with multiselect equals false no longer has a different background color than the rest of the component. This was a regression in 8.0.13.

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**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/92 "2020-06-08T15:23:57Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.14-b20200608

## Ignition Platform

**16286: Any change to legacy simulator programs breaks nodeIds for existing tags**  
Fixed an issue where making a change to a default legacy simulator programs would result in bad quality on existing subscriptions.

**10419: system.opc.getServers() now returns consistent results across scopes**  
An includeDisabled boolean can now be set when calling the function. It will default to False if not set, which will prevent errors in existing scripts. Designer/client scripts will no longer return disabled servers unless the includeDisabled boolean is explicitly set to True.

## Perspective

**14603: Failure to Correctly Import SVGs in Perspective**  
Added a message on the embed screen warning users if any unsupported SVG elements are detected and suggest that they may want to use the upload and link option instead. Also confirmed the few symbol factory SVG’s that were problematic before are displaying properly now in Perspective.

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**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/93 "2020-06-09T14:56:39Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.14-b20200609

## Ignition Platform

**16499: The “Update Mode” heading under Project Properties \> Vision \> General is missing**  
Added the “Update Mode” heading back.

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**Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/94 "2020-06-10T17:16:42Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200610

## Vision

**16573: Equipment Schedule ArrayOutOfBoundsException when Items dataset is missing Label column, can’t open window in Designer**  
The Equipment Schedule component no longer throws an exception when the Items dataset is missing the Label column.

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**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/95 "2020-06-11T15:58:52Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200611

## Ignition Platform

**15364: Saving named query changes can cause existing query bindings to no longer update in a session**  
Fixed an issue where saving named query changes could cause existing query bindings to no longer update in a Perspective session.

## Perspective

**16346: Add option to “Prevent Default” and “Prevent Propagation” on actions**  
This allows users to prevent the default action of events defined by the user agent and stop propagation prevents event propagation of the event during the capturing and bubbling phase.  
This is useful if you want to prevent nested components (i.e. embedded views) that have multiple handlers from firing during the event/capturing phase.

## Vision

**13754: Text field backgrounds render incorrectly with higher transparency**  
Updated so you will no longer see artifacts in the background when there is high transparency.

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**Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/96 "2020-06-15T17:33:20Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200615

## Ignition Platform

**12356:Arm AARCH64 Jre in the Gateway**  
Introduces 64-bit installation ZIPs for ARM devices.

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**Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/97 "2020-06-16T16:00:34Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200616

## Ignition Platform

**16592: SQLite translator coerces values into lower precision types**  
Fixed some issues with data types when querying values using the SQLite database driver type.

**16241: Throw unsupported operation exceptions instead of NPEs in client tag functions**  
Added an error message when attempting to import client tags via scripting instead of throwing a NullPointerException.

## Perspective

**16559: Numeric Entry Field: displays old values after being cleared**  
Fixed an issue where Numeric Entry Fields would display old values after being cleared.

**16558: Numeric Entry Field displays NaN if manually cleared**  
Fixed an issue where Numeric Entry Fields would display old values after being cleared.

**16498: Linear Scale: Component display doesn’t update immediately when it’s resized in a flex container.**  
The Linear Scale component will correctly resize its contents when its dimensions are changed via Flex Container.

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**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/98 "2020-06-17T14:45:47Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200617

## Ignition Platform

**16644: Script console doesn’t load new script modules upon opening different project**  
Cleanup during project load now includes closing of opened frames so that the current script playground is disposed, and then upon first open of the script console, a new script playground is initialized.

**16625: Alarm events aren’t stored prior to alarm journal initializing**  
Alarm events go through store and forward now even if the alarm journal isn’t initialized.

**16364: Saving UDT Parameters Can Change DataType Resulting In Unexpected Behavior**  
It now brings back explicit data types to parameters. It only allows the data types allowed previously in 7.

**16526: Trial timeout on FINS driver doesn’t work**  
Tags go bad on Omron FINS devices when trial expires.  
Tags resume properly when trial is cleared.

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**Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/99 "2020-06-19T15:15:55Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200619

## Perspective

**12035: system.perspective Popup Function IntelliHint Arguments Should Have Optional Declaration**  
Added ‘Optional’ to sessionId and pageId autocomplete descriptions.  
Also removed an unnecessary ‘’ tag from a description.

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**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/100 "2020-06-23T15:51:11Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200623

## Allen-Bradley Drivers

**16520: scheduleProcessorStatusRequest Thread Blocked**  
Prevents a livelock that can occur in the ControlLogix driver.

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