# Nightly 8.1 Changelogs - 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition Early Access\ **Created:** [September 2, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2020/38316 "2020-09-02T17:06:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 4
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20201221 ## Visualization **135: Project Dialog UI refactor** Improved the user interface in the create project dialog in the designer to better support project inheritance. **993: One-Shot Button: State changes on exiting Preview mode** The Perspective One-Shot Button no longer goes into writing state, or an inconsistent state, when exiting preview mode in the Designer. **574: Alarm Status Table: mobile devices, event details button is getting stuck on initial row selection, touching other rows does not update its position** For the Perspective AlarmStatusTable and AlarmJournalTable components, the alarm details action button, which becomes visible on mouse hover or touch on mobile if enabled, will no longer get “stuck” on the “first” row of said alarm table. **847: Perspective Popups not resizable on touch panel devices** Fixed issue where the popup component could not be resized on touch devices. ## Data Model **91: Improve tag backfill data support, allow most recent value first delivery** Improves the handling of out-of-order data in tags. When outside data, such as OPC or tag references, arrives with timestamps that are out of sequence, the data will be processed by the history system, instead of being ignored. ## Connectivity **1303: Logix driver fails to write to unsigned datatypes** Fixed to support writes to USINT, UINT, UDINT, and ULINT tags in L8x controllers. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20201222 ## Visualization **1077: Power Chart: Add option to change the time format when exporting to a CSV** Adjusted the format of the time column data when exporting the chart data to a CSV file. Rather than the millisecond timestamp value used in the raw chart data, the time formatting supplied by the newly added config.export.dateFormat and config.export.timeFormat component properties are now used to build the values for the time column data in the exported file. This also takes the session’s timeZone property into account when creating the value. This also provides a place in component properties to add additional export config in the future (file format, etc…). ## Connectivity **1174: No longer receiving unsolicited messages after DNP3 device is power cycled** Continue receiving unsolicited messages after the DNP3 device is power cycled. ## Data Model **1173: Deadlock during alarm evaluation** Replaced the synchronizedMap with a ConcurrentHashMap, which doesn’t have the same locking requirements for iteration. This removes the need for the locking on profiles while calling profile.receiveAlert(). ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20201224 ## Data Model **811: Bulk alarm acknowledgement against remote providers is slow** Improved performance of bulk tag acknowledgments to remote tag providers. ## Connectivity **835: Trailing Space in Modbus TCP Device Causes DriverType Registration to Fail** Any leading/trailing spaces in device names will be stripped out when using system.device.addDevice() scripting function. **1256: Trailing Space in Logix 21+ Device will cause issues with Device and Drivers** Any leading/trailing spaces in device names will be stripped out when using system.device.addDevice() scripting function. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20201228 ## Visualization **611: Dropdown: use of scroll bar to scroll options closes option list in Designer and Popup Views** Fixed bug that was closing the dropdown component upon clicking the scrollbar of the dropdown if it was nested inside a Popup component OR when trying to use the scrollbar in the Designer preview mode. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20201229 ## Enterprise **667: Gateway Network denied connection temporarily spams log on gateway startup** Fixed so that the logs are no longer being flooded. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20201231 ## Visualization **331: Map: Inline styles are not applied to marker icons although Style Classes are** Fixed the issue that was not correctly applying inline styles to markers on the Map component. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20210104 ## Data Model **1383: UDT: Writing to array member tags of UDT instances can write back to UDT definition** Stop applying UDT Instance array member tag writes to the array member tag of UDT Definition. **1180: system.tag.deleteTags() and system.tag.configure() result in duplicate tags after a Gateway restart** Fix batching of tag configuration edit/deletes to ensure deletes are processed in correct order. ## Platform **1314: OPC Browser no longer reflects servers belonging to gateway of remote tag providers** Selecting a tag provider will now update the OPC browser panel with the servers corresponding to the selected provider’s gateway. **1441: Tag browser import error doesn’t display stacktrace on read failure** Now displaying exception details in the error console when importing tags in the Designer Tag Browser. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20210105 ## Visualization **1417: Global variables set from a retarget function call are not being saved** Now setting globals \_RETARGET\_FROM\_PROJECT and \_RETARGET\_FROM\_GATEWAY params on Vision client retarget. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20210106 ## Data Model **100: system.tag.browse with recursive filter returns incorrect tag paths** Return correct tag paths when using system.tag.browse() with recursive filter enabled. **1471: Successful writes to memory tag array types are not immediately reflected in subscriptions** Changes to arrays will correctly reflect in subscriptions. **1462: expression tags on edge will return “platform edition does not support database access” message if edge gateway upgraded from 7.9** Expressions within tag provider now execute properly if the system is an edge gateway upgraded from 7.9. ## Visualization **1183: Time Series Chart: date/time supports english locale format only** This update allows the Time Series Chart, the Chart Range Selector, and the Power Chart to display locale-aware date values. The following is a list of local codes that will modify the display of a date value (if a code is used that is not part of this list, it will fall back to en-US as the default locale): - Afrikaans --\> af, af-za - Arabic --\> ar - Arabic Algeria --\> ar-dz - Arabic Kuwait --\> ar-kw - Arabic Lybia --\> ar-ly - Arabic Morocco --\> ar-ma - Arabic Saudi Arabia --\> ar-sa - Arabic Tunisia --\> ar-tn - Azerbaijani --\> az - Belarusian–\> be, be-by - Bulgarian–\> bg, bg-bg - Bamara–\> bm - Bengali–\> bn, bn-bd - Tibetan–\> bo, bo-bt - Breton–\> br, br-fr - Bosnian–\> bs - Catalan–\> ca, ca-es - Czech–\> cs, cs-cz - Chuvash–\> cv - Welsh–\> cy, cy-gb - Danish–\> da, da-dk - German–\> de, de-de - German Austria–\> de-at - German Switzerland–\> de-ch - Maldivian–\> dv, dv-mv - Greek–\> el, el-gr - English–\> en, en-us - English Australian–\> en-au - English Canadian–\> en-ca - English United Kingdom–\> en-gb - English Ireland–\> en-ie - English New Zealand–\> en-nz - Esperanto–\> eo - Spanish–\> es, es-es - Spanish Dominican Republic–\> es-do - Spanish United States–\> es-us - Estonian–\> et, et-et, et-ee - Basque–\> eu, eu-es - Persian–\> fa, fa-ir - Finnish–\> fi, fi-fi - Faroese–\> fo, fo-fo - French–\> fr, fr-fr - French Canadian–\> fr-ca - French Switzerland–\> fr-ch - Frisian–\> fy, fy-nl - Scottish Gaelic–\> gd, gd-gb - Galician–\> gl, gl-es - Konkani–\> kok, kok-in, gom-latn (Exception to the BCP-47 format) - Gujarati–\> gu, gu-in - Hebrew–\> he, he-il - Hindi–\> hi, hi-in - Croatian–\> hr, hr-hr - Hungarian–\> hu, hu-hu - Armenian–\> hy, hy-am - Indonesian–\> id, id-id - Icelandic–\> is, is-is - Italian–\> it, it-it - Japanese–\> ja, ja-jp - Javanese–\> ja - Georgian–\> ka, ka-ge - Kazakh–\> kk, kk-kz - Cambodian–\> km, km-kh - Kannada–\> kn, kn-in - Korean–\> ko, ko-kr - Kyrgyz–\> ky, ky-kg - Luxembourgish–\> lb, lb-lu - Lao–\> lo, lo-la - Lithuanian–\> lt, lt-lt - Latvian–\> lv, lv-lv - Montenegrin–\> me - Maori–\> mi, mi-nz - Macedonian–\> mk, mk-mk - Malayalam–\> ml, ml-in - Marathi–\> mr, mr-in - Malay–\> ms, ms-my - Maltese–\> mt, mt-mt - Burmese–\> my, my-mm - Norwegian Bokmal–\> nb, nb-no - Nepalese–\> ne, ne-np - Dutch–\> nl, nl-nl - Dutch Belgium–\> nl-be - Nynorsk–\> nn, nn-no - Punjabi–\> pa, pa-in - Polish–\> pl, pl-pl - Portuguese–\> pt, pt-pt - Portuguese Brazil–\> pt-br - Romanian–\> ro, ro-ro - Russian–\> ru, ru-ru - Sindhi–\> sd, sd-pk - Northern Sami–\> se, se-se - Sinhalese–\> si, si-lk - Slovak–\> sk, sk-sk - Slovenian–\> sl, sl-sl - Albanian–\> sq, sq-al - Serbian–\> sr, sr-rs - Serbian Cyrillic–\> sr-cyrl - Si Swati–\> ss - Swedish–\> sv, sv-se - Swahili–\> sw, sw-ke - Tamil–\> ta, ta-in - Tetun Dili–\> tet - Thai–\> th, th-th - Tagalog–\> tl, tl-ph - Klingon–\> tlh (…because I had the rules) - Turkish–\> tr, tr-tr - Talossan–\> tzl - Central Atlas Tamazight–\> tzm - Central Atlas Tamazight Latin–\> tmz-latn (Exception to the BCP-47 format) - Ukrainian–\> uk, uk-ua - Urdu–\> ur, ur-pk - Uzbek–\> uz, uz-uz - Uzbek Latin–\> uz-latn (Exception to the BCP-47 format) - Vietnamese–\> vi, vi-vn - Yoruba Nigeria–\> yo, yo-ng - Chinese–\> zh, zh-cn - Chinese Hong Kong–\> zh-hk - Chinese Taiwan–\> zh-tw NOTE: The application of date locales utilize an internal class accessed by most components that display date values. If those other components are on screen with the Time Series Chart, Power Chart, or Chart Range Selector, they will be able to take advantage of the locale date formatting that the TS and CRS components have initiated. This does not mean that all components that display date data are locale-aware; that must be handled in a separate effort. …but we are a step closer to that end. ### Time Series The places where date values will be modified based on locale are: - Time Axis ticks - Date ranger display at the bottom of the chart - X trace time value ### Chart Range Selector The places where date values will be modified based on locale are: - Time Axis ticks - Date ranger display at the bottom of the chart ### Power Chart The places where date values will be modified based on locale are: - Annotation time values (when adding an annotation as well as the date on the persistent annotation display) - Time Axis ticks - Historical mode date display - Brush range date display - X trace time value ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20210107 ## Data Model **1457: Tag provider does not return accurate state while loading** Tag providers now provide more accurate status to other systems during startup. **1201: system.tag.browseHistoricalTags() path param doesn’t work with gateway name in driver on internal historical provider** Browsing using system.tag.browseHistoricalTags() will now return results if the gateway name isn’t included within the historical path parameter. If not included, the current gateway name will be used instead. **1388: Tag Editor no longer shows invalid tag config underlines in Type Structure list** Corrected Tag Editor warning indications on invalid UDT parent data type configurations. ## Platform **1438: Exception while switching projects in Designer** Switching projects in the designer no longer throws tag subscription exceptions for the Tag Browser. **1374: Store and Forward cache can become extremely inefficient due to hash code clash (8.1)** Inefficiency in forwarding tag group/scan class evaluation records (which happen when tag history uses “Tag Group” evaluation) can cause backups in data in the datacache. This is a regression introduced in 8.0.7. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20210108 ## Data Model **1285: Tag provider does not return accurate state while loading** Tag providers now provide more accurate status to other systems during startup. **1449: Datatype of array tag in UDT not getting set properly** Pasting one array tag value into another array tag value will no longer convert the pasted value to a Dataset. ## Connectivity **132: Autocomplete on system.serial.port is missing descriptions** Fixed script autocomplete hints/descriptions across various editor contexts. **1243: Upgrading to 8.1.0 Failover is enabled for OPC UA connection** Keep the previous Failover Enabled setting for OPC UA Connection when upgrading from 7.9.x. ## Visualization **1259: Perspective Symbol animations take more CPU on workstation than in browser** Perspective Workstation now relies on Hardware Rendering which improves rendering performance. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20210111 ## Infrastructure **1277: Launcher’s Fallback application no longer works** Vision Client Launcher’s Launch Fallback application now works when one has been set and the target gateway (or any backups) cannot be reached when a retry count of 1 or greater is set. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20210112 ## Data Model **1272: DatasourceQueryExecution::runSpecialValueQuery throws IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract** Fixed a rare issue where a tag history query for seed values could throw an exception from its comparison method. **1200: Transaction Group DB Writes don’t occur on execution after restart until a watched value changes** Transaction group executions will correct resume on Job disable/enable, gateway restarts, and SQLBridge module restarts. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20210113 ## Data Model **159: Txn group scheduled to run at 23:59 executes two extra times on day of DST changeover** ’ Prevent Transaction Groups from running at unexpected times on the day of a daylight saving time change. **1362: Writing a mutated qualified value to a tag will change the tag value but not trigger valueChanged script on the target tag** Writing QualifiedValues to tag will now correctly trigger valueChanged script. ## Security **1513: Vision / Designer configured for https silently reverts to http** Fix an issue where vision clients and designers would establish insecure http connections despite launching with secure https URLs when the target gateway has force secure redirect and auto detect public address both set to disabled. Vision clients and Designer should no longer ever downgrade to insecure http connections once an https connection is established. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20210114 ## Visualization **713: Table: ability to configure table body’s empty message** The empty message of the Perspective Table component is now configurable. **1435: Dashboard: users may no longer confirm or cancel widget selection** The add widget modal of the Perspective Dashboard component will no longer overflow outside of the viewport in scenarios where the viewport dimensions are constrained. ## Infrastructure **1064: System Name system tag doesn’t update when gateway name is populated via `init.properties` file** System Name tag now reflects initial value set within init.properties file on first gateway launch. ## Data Model **1404: SFC’s Cannot Reference Project Scripts like Gateway Events Can (8.0)** SFC Python scripts and expressions can now reference Project Scripts. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.2-b20210115 ## Platform **1165: Update MariaDB JDBC driver to work with MySQL 8.0** Updated MariaDB JDBC Driver for fresh installations to version 2.7.1. ## Data Model **1540: Client tags don’t coerce dataset into array type like normal tags** Added additional check to return the first column if data type is array instead of scalar value. **1493: Deleted alarms appearing in the Alarm Status Table** Deleting alarms will correctly remove alarms from Alarm Status Table. **333: Duration On Aggregation Mode returns incorrect number momentarily** Stop “Duration On” aggregation mode for tag history bindings from going into the future (to the end of the time window) by stopping at the current time when the value is still “ON”. **1389: Add support for relative chart references in Enclosing Steps** Enclosing Steps can now use relative paths to reference other charts. A dot (.) will translate to the current directory, while a double-dot (…) will translate to up a directory. ---
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