# Nightly 8.1 Changelogs - 2021

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.5-b20210331

## Connectivity

**1850: Omron NJ driver CIP optimizations**  
Fixed issue where the Omron NJ driver wasn’t not calculating the CIP size properly

## Infrastructure

**1596: Iterate bundled java to 11.0.10**  
Updated bundled version of Java to 11.0.10

## Perspective

**2101: Provide access to self, session, page, and view in Perspective runScript expressions**  
runScript expressions executed as part of a component or view now have access to self, page, and session.

**1526:Add Perspective action for browser back / forward**  
New Navigation Browser Action added for go forward, and go back, as well as corresponding scripting functions system.perspective.goForward, system.perspective.goBack. These actions/functions are analogous to the browser’s back and forward buttons. Known issue: when using older versions of Perspective Workstation launcher, go back may result in a blank page. The solution is to reinstall Perspective Workstation launcher, the new version prevents going back to the blank page.

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