# Nightly 8.0 Changelogs - 2020 **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![sreis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sreis/32/14631_2.png) [@sreis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sreis)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/101 "2020-06-24T17:40:39Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200624 ## Ignition Platform **16576: IllegalStateException when 64000 Date limit is exceeded using system.dataset.exportExcel()** Datasets with more than 64000 rows and contain a date field will now correctly export without error. **16674: 8.0.13 UDT Def Export causing collision errors on clean Gateway** Prevented a potential collision error on UDT definition import. ## Perspective **16679: Barcode not updating on value change** Updated barcode to rerender whenever the value changes. **16673: Slider: rail color is being set to the track color** Added railColor property to Perspective slider. **16522: Schema: style property resize option ‘alwbothays’ should be 'both’** Resize style prop displays the ‘both’ option correctly now. ---
**Author:** ![sreis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sreis/32/14631_2.png) [@sreis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sreis)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/102 "2020-06-25T15:24:46Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200625 ## Allen-Bradley Drivers **11649: Can’t write to Strings larger than CIP connection size** Updated ability to write strings larger than CIP connection size. ## Ignition Platform **16401: MQTT tag configuration lost when upgrading to Ignition 8** MQTT tag configurations now persist when upgrading to Ignition 8. ---
**Author:** ![sreis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sreis/32/14631_2.png) [@sreis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sreis)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/103 "2020-06-26T16:31:10Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200626 ## Ignition Platform **16653: Adjustments in the upgrader to prevent duplicate entries** Removed some duplicate wrapper parameters that were being added to the gateway configuration file on upgrade. **16590: Importing UDT Def throwing dependency errors on import** Prevents a dependency error that occurred during import when importing UDT definitions. ## Perspective **16649: Fonts: browser unsupported page needs to use new noto-sans font and accommodate theming changes** Unsupported page displays as expected now. **16641: Websocket: NaN in payload cannot be handled by JSON.parse** NaN and Infinity encode as null to ensure JSON parses correctly. ---
**Author:** ![sreis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sreis/32/14631_2.png) [@sreis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sreis)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/104 "2020-06-29T16:49:39Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200629 ## Build/Installation **16706: Mac ignition service is orphaned on initial start, fine on subsequent** Now the start command, when run during a service install on Mac, runs through the executeStartMac() method to ensure the gateway process doesn’t get orphaned. ## Ignition Platform **16688: Upgrading via 8.0.14+ installer on Mac errors out** On MacOS, there are no longer upgrade issues with the presence of the Ignition symlink. We are no longer installing the ignition symlink on new installs and it will be uninstalled if Ignition is uninstalled. If already present, it is left in place. **16696: Quick Client Screen Is Missing Read and Write Options** Fixed read/write/subscribe links on OPC QuickClient config page. ## Vision **16682: Popup - bidirectional UDT - can write nulls/wrong values to instance** Fixed issue with bidirectional UDT nulls/wrong values. ---
**Author:** ![sreis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sreis/32/14631_2.png) [@sreis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sreis)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/105 "2020-06-30T15:16:11Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200630 ## Enterprise Administration **16678: Sending Resources to Edge Global project via EAM no longer works** Fixed an issue where the EAM Send Resource task targeting an Edge legacy “global” project would fail. ## Ignition Platform **16503: ShadowPopup on Catalina prompt for screen recording** Removed the shadowing effect around pop ups in the Designer. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200701 ## Build/Installation **16711: Installer doesn’t remove and install new service on upgrade** The installer doesn’t remove and install a new windows service for the gateway when the user is performing an upgrade, unless they are opting to change the service name. They are also presented with a warning (non-blocking) in the GUI and Text interface telling them that the existing service will be removed and a new one installed with the new name. ## Ignition Platform **15580: tag() function in Alarms doesn’t evaluate on gateway startup** Fixed issue with tag function in Alarms. ## Tag Historian **16680: Browsing against tag history provider won’t return results for newly created realtime provider** Now when adding, editing or removing a tag provider, the cache is being cleared/updated. ---
**Author:** ![sreis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sreis/32/14631_2.png) [@sreis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sreis)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/107 "2020-07-02T17:45:44Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200702 ## Ignition Platform **16471: JsonUtilities json2Java always converts numbers to double** Fixed issue of converting numbers to double. **16447: system.net.httpClient ignores Content-Type header on request** Fixed an issue where a Content-Type header was not being respected by system.net.httpClient() functions in certain edge cases. **16623: Copy/Paste of UDT Instances within a UDT Def can modify expected Parameters** Copy/Paste of UDT instances is now behaving correctly. ## Perspective **11431: Binding preview needs more aggressive debounce and option to pause** Added pause preview option to the perspective component binding preview UI. ---
**Author:** ![sreis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sreis/32/14631_2.png) [@sreis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sreis)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/108 "2020-07-06T19:00:29Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200706 ## Ignition Platform **16257: Update Gateway Network diagnostics** Improved Gateway Network diagnostics. **16087: Allow launchers to use a specific JSON configuration on the command line** Updated to allow launchers to use specific JSON config on the command line. **16562: Add context manager delegate object to system.serial namespace to encourage idiomatic Python use of resources** Added system.serial.port function, which returns a Python context manager, allowing serial port operations to take place inside a Python ‘with’ statement, for automatic resource management. Also added optional ‘encoding’ parameter to system.serial.readBytesAsString and system.serial.write. **16684: Remove ‘The selected backup is from a different Ignition platform edition and cannot be restored in this gateway’ warning** Gateway backups from any edition may now be restored to any edition gateway. ## Omron Driver(s) **16721: Update Omron NJ Import Screen To Support New Date Time Options** Added support for NJ date/time DataTypes in TSV import. ## Perspective **16034: Icons: Material icons sprite sheet is missing icons** Added some missing material icons. **16495: Invoking login action in mobile apps when already logged in fails and prevents subsequent actions until refresh** Fixed an issue where calling the Login Action on the mobile app while already logged in would cause other actions to fail. **16686: DateTime: Input and Picker no longer trigger onActionPerformed event in 8.0.13.** Fixed an issue where the DateTime Input and Picker components would not trigger their onActionPerformed events. ## Vision **16599:Tag Binding on Color Property shows Uncertain\_InitialValue and incorrect color** Fixed an issue where the tag bindings on color properties would show incorrect colors and “uncertain” overlays. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200707 ## Ignition Platform **16547: Add argument to system.util.invokeAsync in all scopes to set task description** Added a ‘description’ argument to system.util.invokeAsynchronous, which allows you to set the description of the asynchronous thread, to view on the script diagnostics pages for your current scope. ## Vision **16729: Equipment Schedule: Unhelpful error if `pctDone` or `leadTime` columns in scheduled events dataset contains null values** Prevented a null pointer exception on the Equipment Schedule component if the pctDone or leadTime columns contained null values. **16700: InvocationTargetException in designer when collapsing Appearance section in Vision prop editor if animation is set up** An NPE is no longer thrown when a Style Customizer is set on a component property and that property is collapsed in the Designer’s Vision Property Editor. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.15-b20200708 ## Ignition Platform **16702: 3rd party modules installed on master are quarantined on backup, can’t be accepted** Now allowing modules to be installed on redundant backup. **10037: Add an “Execute” Keyboard Shortcut to the Script Console** Added a “Ctrl/CMD + Enter” keyboard shortcut to the execute button in the Script Console. **16668: Remove irrelevant modules when Edge is selected during commissioning** Commissioning edge removes incompatible modules. **11897: intellihint info missing for system.group functions** Fixed an issue where the system.group functions were not appearing in the autocomplete scripting hints. ## Vision **9348: Add a ‘Remove Binding’ item to right-click menu on properties** Added a “Remove Binding” context menu option to the property table in Vision. **16270: 2-State Toggle Button BeanInfo uses invalid component name** Fixed an issue where the 2-State Toggle Button would be created with an invalid component name. **14842: Vision checkbox mouseover text cannot be removed once added** Fixed an issue where the checkbox component’s tooltip text could not be cleared via the property editor. **8152: Update title on component palettes** Updated the menu item labels for the different Vision palettes to reduce confusion. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200709 ## Ignition Platform **15765: Description on the project edit page invites user to rename the project, but they can’t** Removed the “Choose a name…” setting description when editing a project on the gateway. ## OPC-UA **13887: OPCUA Server Diagnostics Status Page** Added a new OPC UA Server Diagnostics Status page to the gateway. ## Perspective **16042: Pie Chart: showValueAsPercent missing tooltip** Tooltip is now showing correctly. **16735: App bar displays Edge icon even though gateway is Ignition** Correct icon now displays. **16611: Perspective Report Viewer is not usable after restarting the Reporting module** Fixed an issue with the Perspective Report Viewer component where restarting the reporting module would not reinitialize the component. ## Vision **9015: Component bindings panel should start a bit larger** Gave the property binding dialog a little more height. **14284: Alarm journal priority filter dropdown text is not visible on hover because color matches background** Fixed an issue where the selected priority filter on Vision’s Alarm Journal dropdown was difficult to see. **14117: Allow font sizes up to 1000 in font editor** Fixed an issue where font sizes in Vision couldn’t exceed 100. ---
**Author:** ![sreis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sreis/32/14631_2.png) [@sreis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sreis)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/112 "2020-07-10T17:22:14Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200710 ## Ignition Platform **16765: Update Gateway Network config page descriptions** Updated GAN settings record description. ## Perspective **15665: Creating an Embedded View via drag-drop should name the component after the view** Updated to name the component after the view. **16042: Pie Chart: showValueAsPercent missing tooltip** Fixed pie chart “showValueAsPercent” tooltip. ## Reporting **10247: Report Toolbar Missing Tooltip For Some Options** Add missing reporting toolbar tooltips. ## Vision **8644: Have Comments Panel new note field get focus automatically** New note field now automatically gets focus. **15899: Binding Vision Barcode To Dataset Throws Null Pointer Exception** Fixed an issue where a null pointer exception would be thrown if the barcode component’s code property was set to a null value. ---
**Author:** ![sreis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sreis/32/14631_2.png) [@sreis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sreis)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/113 "2020-07-13T18:06:11Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200713 ## DNP3 **8465: DNP3 Aliased Points Config Page Buttons** Fixed buttons on DNP3 Aliased Points Config Page. ## Ignition Platform **16622: Default launch mode isn’t being stored within vision-client-launcher.json (window.mode)** Launcher window mode and icon UI now update from gateway proj props. **16753: Show enabled state on alarm journal page** Added a column showing the enabled state to the alarm journal page. **14372:Only last NameFilter within browseHistoricalTags is being applied** Updated to pass all name filters into the history provider query at once. **16343: Show button on Threads status page has hover styling even when not hovered** Thread Status page updated to be more consistent with the Log Status page. **16383: Changing an alarm property causes existing events to disappear from Alarm Status, triggers new event** Editing the properties of an alarm no longer triggers a new event. Existing events are preserved. **16609: Tag browser trait icon to indicate tag permissions exist is missing for UDT members** Fixed to provide an indicator when tag security permissions have been defined on UDT members. **14103: Tag editor role missing on the Edit Real time Tag provider page in 8.0** Added support for tag editor security level permissions. ## OPC-UA **15900: Update Programmable Simulator Configuration Page To Show 25 rows** Updated Programmable Simulator Configuration Page To Show 25 rows. ## Reporting **10540: NPE on pasting in reporting if the editable page is not 'active’** Fixed an issue where pasting a component after clicking outside of the page in the Report Designer would cause an error. ## Vision **15739:Hex field is cut off when using gradient within paint property panel** Increase default size of PaintPropertyEditor. **9669: Add Vision component type tooltip in project browser** Added tooltips to indicate component type in the project browser inside the Vision workspace. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200714 ## Perspective **13751: Implement a user based Inactivity Timeout** New user based inactivity timeout is provided. ## Vision **8108: Horizontal Alignment Cell Attribute dataset of Power Table is not sanitized** Fixed an issue where invalid values for horizontal or vertical alignment in the power table’s cell attributes dataset would throw uncaught errors. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200715 ## Ignition Platform **16783: Image management thumbnail text not antialiased** Text on items in Image Management now make use of anti-aliasing. ## Perspective **16650: Add “Direct Select” feature to automatically deep select click-target’s parent** Added direct select feature to allow drilling and backing out to the direct selection. **15936: Remove Duplicate option for Root nodes when View node is selected** Removed Duplicate option. ## Vision **14256:Table component sort icon is a weird green and red color in 8.0** Fixed classic table sort icon. **15720: Cannot Modify Template Master if it’s shared and you’ve upgraded from 7.9 to 8** Fixed an issue where template instances upgraded from 7.9 “Shared” global path couldn’t be quickly modified via double or right click in the designer. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200716 ## Ignition Platform **16113: Edge Compute: Update “Visualization Name” prop naming and description text** Updated name and description of Visualization Module setting for Edge. ## SECS/GEM **16796: Custom response handlers not executing for SECS-1/serial** The SECS-1 (serial) protocol can now use custom message response handlers. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200717 ## Allen-Bradley Drivers **16141:Implement Write Priority in Logix Drivers** Prioritize Logix write requests. ## Perspective **15587: Make the hover color on the Horizontal Menu component configurable/overridable** Horizontal Menu - Styles with the element state Hover will now correctly apply to menu items. ## Reporting **16153: Exporting reports to Excel gets exponentially slower with more rows** Increase speed when exporting large reports to Excel. ## Vision **9083: Tab strip mouse events give coordinates per tab instead of the overall component** Mouse events on the Vision Tab Strip component now report cursor coordinate based on the tab where the event triggered from. ---
**Author:** ![sreis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sreis/32/14631_2.png) [@sreis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sreis)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153/118 "2020-07-20T20:49:07Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200720 ## Perspective **16381: Illegal object of type map merge** Fixed issue that could cause “Illegal object of type map/merge” error messages. **14963: Perspective context menus should match in the Project Browser and View** Updated so the context menu matches Project Browser and View. **16652: Numeric Entry Field: supplying invalid characters results in loss of value** Numeric Entry Field - Supplying an invalid character to the Numeric Entry Field no longer results with the original value being cleared when the Focus is lost. **15587: Make the hover color on the Horizontal Menu component configurable/overridable** Horizontal Menu - Styles with the element state Hover will now correctly apply to menu items. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200721 ## Ignition Platform **16524: Upgrade the bundled JRE to 11.0.7** Updated embedded JRE to 11.0.7. **15184: Tag editor prompt when changes are made** Now prompts the user to save tag changes when switching to a new tag to edit. **16681: Buttons on idp config page aren’t properly aligned on Chrome** Buttons in the Gateway have been restyled to have a more consistent size and position, particularly action buttons on tabular pages such as Config -\> Identity Providers. **16628: Overridden DateTimes within UDT instances are reset on gateway restart** The overridden value is now not changed on Gateway restart. ## Reporting **15603: SimpleTable will throw NoSuchMethodException when Style set to List 1 or 2** Fixed so that the error is no longer thrown. ---
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### 7/23/2020 Nightly Changelog: 8.0.16-b20200723 ## Ignition Platform **16659: system.net.httpClient should catch Throwable when invoking callbacks** Added fallback logging to Promise chains returned from system.net.httpClient() asynchronous functions. **16745: Unchecked recursion causes deeply nested tags to load slowly** Fixed a bug that caused gateways with deeply nested tag structures to start slowly. **16763: XML control characters in tag event script aren’t escaped on export** Fixed escape scripts for XML exports. ## Perspective **16229: Unable to remove Identity Provider from project** Allow removal of IDP in project settings. **16743: Phone with large fonts cannot get past maker edition speedbump** The Maker Edition disclaimer that displays on Perspective Pages more gracefully handles small screen sizes, and or large font sizes. ## Vision **10513: Weekview inconsistent event display for overlapping events** Individual events on the same day are not overlapping each other and correctly displaying beside each event. **10427: KeyTyped extension function on a dropdown component** Fixed an issue where the keyTyped extension function on Vision dropdown components wouldn’t trigger. **16710: Power Table in Vision renders Cell Spans incorrectly** Fixed issue that caused Power Table cell spanning feature to render incorrectly **10067: Power Table’s Background Color property only works when rows are present** Background of the Power Table is now the same color as the rows. [Previous page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153.md?page=5) [Next page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-0-changelogs-2020/31153.md?page=7)