# Nightly 8.1 Changelogs - 2021

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.7-b20210603

## Visualization

**2553: Scripting can execute reports in disabled projects**  
Attempting to run a report in a disabled project will now throw an error.

**2545: Perspective Project Update Route Handler Times Out Too Aggressively**  
Prevented HTTP 503 error updating Perspective projects.

**2709: iOS - Unable to launch Perspective sessions successfully on iOS 12 and 11**  
Fixed major regression introduced in 8.1.16 that was preventing launched Perspective sessions from loading when using older versions of Safari browser (11 and 12).

**2683: OPC UA Server Diagnostics table is not displayed after enabling diagnostics**  
Fixed issue of OPC UA connection diagnostics panel not showing up.

**2695: Perspective expressions and transforms fail to catch RuntimeExceptions thrown by various expressions**  
Fixed issue that could cause an expression binding to fail to provide a value under certain error conditions.

## Security

**2307: Label mismatch with Intermediate CA Certificate in SSL cert chain setup**  
Fixed header for root certificates in web server certificate wizard, updated descriptions to be more accurate and consistent.

## Platform

**1740: Add char() and ordinal() expression functions**  
Added char() and ordinal() expression functions.

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