# Nightly 8.1 Changelogs - 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition Early Access\ **Created:** [January 12, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524 "2023-01-12T00:21:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [February 21, 2023, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/21 "2023-02-21T14:37:04Z")
Weekly Changelog: 8.1.26-b20230217 ## Perspective **7021: Perspective popups set to modal should not allow interaction with background views** Fixed issue of modals allowing for interaction with background views. Weekly Changelog: 8.1.26-b20230220 ## Swing **2510: ConcurrentModificationException encountered in the designer when mass deleting or mass importing languages/translations** Fixed a ConcurrentModificationException being displayed when modifying Designer translations. ## Perspective **7021: Perspective popups set to modal should not allow interaction with background views** Fixed issue of modals allowing for interaction with background views. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/22 "2023-02-22T22:41:34Z")
Weekly Changelog: 8.1.26-b20230221 ## Gateway Network **6996: Improve gateway network message trace logging** The metro.CentralManager.MessageRouting logger will now log the data contained in each gateway network message when the logger is set to TRACE. ## Perspective **3536: Designer: Inline editing of text components on deep selection** Added designer inline text editing for the label component, and toggle switch, checkbox, button, and radio group component labels (when deep selected). **6975: Direct deep select a component** Alt + Shift + Click on a component in the designer will now directly deep select that component or container (containers are also components). ---
**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:** [February 23, 2023, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/23 "2023-02-23T22:47:49Z")
Weekly Changelog: 8.1.26-b20230222 ## Gateway Network **6591: Changing the gateway system name to Include brackets prevents a successful redundant connection** Fixed the Gateway system name containing brackets from causing a redundant connection to fault. ## Swing **6486: Vision Client set to Read-only mode should allow writing to a Vision Client tag from a script like in 7.9** Fixed an issue that prevented scripts from writing to vision client tags when the client was in read-only mode. ## Scripting **4899: Script Console fails to load properly when Project Library scripts import site-packages libraries** The Script Console no longer fails to load when Project Library scripts import site-packages libraries. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/24 "2023-02-24T21:26:17Z")
Weekly Changelog: 8.1.26-b20230223 ## Gateway Network **6717: Docker Image: EAM\_CONTROLLER\_DATASOURCE env variable is not applied** Fixed an issue where some EAM properties might not get applied as expected when using environment variable configuration. ## Security **1391: Changes to secondary user sources in a failover chain do not take immediate effect** Fixed an issue where updating configuration for a user source would not apply to instances of that user source which are in position 2 or greater in a failover chain. ## Web UI **3276: Remove 'n/a' from 'Detected NICs' status field** NICs without IPV4 formatted addresses will no longer be displayed in the Environment section of the Status page. ## Tags **6556: NPE can occur on several selectors in tag editor when editing multiple tags** Fixed an issue where selector icons for "OPC Item Path" and "Source Tag Path" in the tag editor wouldn't work when multiple tags were being edited at the same time. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/25 "2023-02-27T21:18:53Z")
Weekly Changelog: 8.1.26-b20230224 ## Perspective **6871: Map: Dropdown does not expand on focus or click when used inside of custom controls** Leaflet map component click zoom and drag pan interactions are disabled while interacting with custom control views in order to prevent unintentional map interactions and interfering with control interactions. ## Swing **7029: Template doesn’t open from Double-Clicking Find/Replace Results** Fixed issue where opening template script from Find/Replace results failed if no Vision resources were open. Double-clicking on results caused NPE error and prevented opening of template and editor ## Data & Logic **3551: Canceling Modifications To a Transaction Group OPC Tag Still Commits Changes** Fixed the Transaction Group editor committing edited fields when the editor is canceled. ## Platform Core **5382: Remote Pipelines are not working when Edge is in trial mode** Remote pipelines now remain active when the Gateway is in trial mode while using Edge Sync. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/26 "2023-02-28T22:42:27Z")
Weekly Changelog: 8.1.26-b20230227 ## Gateway Network **6919: Add description to gateway network outgoing connections** Outgoing gateway network connections now have a description field that can be populated by the user. ## Perspective **6984: Perspective: Style Class not Properly Applied to Power Chart Title** Fixed the issue of style classes not being correctly applied to PowerChart's title in Perspective. ## Platform Core **4753: Remove long, long, long deprecated 'Logfile Cleanup' thread** Removes long deprecated log file cleanup thread. This does not impact current logging functionality. ## Security **4640: Password Complexity Requirements Should Be Declared In Gateway** Add password criteria list to user edit form and password reset page. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/27 "2023-03-01T17:33:57Z")
Weekly Changelog: 8.1.26-b20230228 ## Perspective **1245: Add Shift + Click 'walk-through-components-at-mouse-position' selection behavior to Perspective** Added Designer walkthrough selection functionality via shift + click. ## Platform Core **7188: Null exception thrown on 8.1.25 gateway shutdown** Fixed an exception being thrown on Gateway shutdown when trying to access the License manager. ## Swing **6911: IP Camera Viewer is unable to locate certificate when using SSL** Now the IP Camera Viewer component uses the SSL context backed by trust store used by the vision client. **6760: Named Query "Cache Query Results" option has an empty tooltip** Fixed the tooltip for the Cache Query Result checkbox for Named Query. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/28 "2023-03-03T00:39:29Z")
Weekly Changelog: 8.1.26-b20230301 ## Swing **6724: Add initialize() extension function to 8.x+ Web Browser Component** Added the initialize() extension function to Web Browser Component ## Alarming **3997: Add Delete to Pipeline Block context menu** Added a "Delete" option on the alarm pipeline block context menu. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/29 "2023-03-06T21:40:06Z")
Weekly Changelog: 8.1.26-b20230303 ## Security **7255: XPath expressions which select all nodes of an element by name fail after upgrade to 8.1.25** Fixed a SAML XPath regression which could cause a NPE for expression attribute mappers and security level rules. ## Tags **7047: UDT Parameters do not handle Locales properly** UDT Parameters will correctly handle different Gateway locales ## Swing **7279: Named Query "Cache Query Results" checkbox is enabled for Update Query type in Designer** Fixed a problem introduced with IGN-183 for NamedQuery readonly mode. Controls that provided input (textfield, eg) were not correctly enabled/disabled in non-readonly mode. ## Infrastructure **7109: Upgrade bundled JRE to 11.0.18** Upgraded bundled JRE to 11.0.18 ---
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Weekly Changelog: 8.1.27-b20230309 ## Swing **6991: Make plain-text XML format for serialized Vision Windows and Templates deterministic in order to have consistently diff-able files** Made Vision's serialization of bindings and other elements consistent and deterministic, to improve VCS compatibility when the XML serialization format is specified. ---
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Weekly Changelog: 8.1.27-b20230317 ## Perspective **7064: Perspective: Alarm Status Table’s filterAlarm function can lead to memory issues** Prevented threads from stacking up in alarm status and journal table queries when doing blocking work inside filter alarm extension function ---
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Weekly Changelog: 8.1.27-b20230320-8.1.27-b20230323 ## Swing **5661: Named query workspace table browser reloads tables (on the EDT) every time the authoring tab is activated** Moved table and column metadata fetching in the Named Query workspace off the event dispatch thread to improve performance. **6142: Find / replace tool incorrectly changes script builder properties if multiple components have identical configurations** Fixed an issue where the find/replace tool would incorrectly overwrite multiple identical scripts on different Vision components. **6779: Designer "Select same type in Window" icon needs to be updated** Updated Vision "Edit-\>Select Same Type In Window" icon in Designer. **4572: Inconsistent Date formatting based on selection in tag display** Fixed inconsistent date format display when editing a date tag value in the tag browser ## Perspective **6980:Power Chart: Unable to set the color of the vertical bar of the axis** Fixed PowerChart's Y-Axis (vertical axis) color not changing. **7348: Perspective LED Displays show the number ‘0’ when value is blank** Fixed Perspective's LED Displays converting empty values to numeric 0. LED Displays can now also display spaces, leading and trailing spaces for numeric values. **5564: Perspective Map - Clicking the built-in recenter button triggers onMapClick component events** Perspective Map Component - Clicking the recenter button will no longer trigger any onMapClick events. **7248: Perspective Piping - Resizing a Percent Coordinate Container with invalid aspectRatio results in child components resizing differently than pipes** Perspective Piping has been updated such that its resizing behavior matches that of child components within a Percent Mode Coordinate Container with invalid Aspect Ratio. **6710: Add spellcheck boolean attribute to text areas, text fields, markdown component** Added a new spellcheck property for Perspective's Text Area and Text Field components. **7348: Perspective LED Displays show the number ‘0’ when value is blank** Fixed Perspective's LED Displays converting empty values to numeric 0. LED Displays can now also display spaces, leading and trailing spaces for numeric values. ## Gateway Network **7276: Remote alarms lost when using two or more remote tag providers (that use subscribed alarm mode) that point to the same gateway** A gateway that had multiple remote tag providers pointing to the same remote gateway was not syncing some alarm events between the gateways. ## Tags **5825: Alarm enabled property does not update immediately when bound to a UDT parameter** Fixed alarm properties to update their values when bound to UDT parameters. ## Platform Core **6749: Allow specifying the timeout thresholds in GatewayInterface via System Properties** Allowing specifying gateway timeout thresholds via System Properties: ignition.gateway.connectTimeout, ignition.gateway.readTimeout, and ignition.gateway.opcBrowseTimeout. ## Comms **7164: OPC subscriptions are not deleted after all OPC tags are removed from Tag Group** Ensure OPC subscriptions are deleted after all corresponding OPC tags are removed from the Tag Group. **7165: Cannot write to OPC document tag containing an array of structures** Support for writing struct array values represented as a Document tag. **7290: Support QualifiedValue in `system.opc.writeValue`[s] for OPC UA connections** Supplying a QualifiedValue to system.opc.writeValue now results in the corresponding severity StatusCode being included in the DataValue sent to the server. ---
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Weekly Changelog: 8.1.27-b20230324 ## Alarming **7060: Alarm Notification: Blank Remote Alarm Notification Profile causes NPE in Tag Editor** Fixed the tag editor from rendering incorrectly when a remote alarm notification profile with a blank "remote gateway" name was configured on the gateway. ---
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Weekly Changelog: 8.1.27-b20230325 ## Comms **7409: Use StatusCodes received in writes to ExposedTagsNamespace** Allow OPC UA clients to attempt writes to exposed tags that include a StatusCode. The StatusCode is converted to an equivalent QualityCode and the write value is passed to the tag system as a QualifiedValue instead of a raw value. ---
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Weekly Changelog: 8.1.27-b20230327 ## Security **7075: Add new setting to control UserInfo HTTP Request Method** Added a new setting to control which HTTP Request Method is used for UserInfo API calls (GET or POST). ## Perspective **4145: Perspective Trial Expired Launch Gateway button should go to /web/config** Fixed Perspective Trial Expired Launch Gateway button not redirecting to Gateway's Homepage (/web/home). ---
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Weekly Changelog: 8.1.27-b20230328 ## Comms **7022:OPC Tags will not have History logged for Bad Quality due to Duplicate Timestamps** Don't use duplicate timestamps when OPC quality changes. ## Swing **2525: Find/Replace not searching extension functions** Added component extension functions to find & replace in Vision. **5311: Allow specifying a direct user-data-dir value to chromium through JXBrowser for the Web Browser Component** Added two new system properties: ignition.jxBrowser.userDataDir.browser and ignition.jxBrowser.userDataDir.perspective. These replace the deprecated ignition.jxBrowser.userDataDir property and offer improved control and separation of user data directories. ## Security **5644: Warn user when insecure IdP URL settings are configured** URL based text fields in IDP configuration forms on the gateway will now have a warning validation if the url does not contain 'https://' to indicate that we suggest that it is used for security reasons. ## Tags **7311:Sorting columns in the Tag Report Tool and double clicking tag brings up the wrong tag** Fixed an issue with the tag report tool where double-clicking a tag brings up the wrong tag if columns were sorted. ## Perspective **7237: New component custom methods may not be used by the component context menu** Component context menus are able to successfully find new custom component methods in client browser and design sessions. ## Platform Core **7027: Auto-Backups: 2 minute default timer** Increased the default Gateway auto-backup time from 2 minutes to 60 minutes. **6519:Diagnostics Bundle: Jetty Server Dump** Added a Jetty server dump to the Gateway diagnostics bundle ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.27-SNAPSHOT-b20230329 ## Foundation ### Installers **IGN-7239: Splash Banner prevents remote installs on windows machines** When installs on windows specify to use text mode or unattended installs with no GUI the splash panel is now hidden to better support installs where GUI is not supported. ## Tag Historian ### Store & Forward **IGN-4294: Add button to insert 'this' variable into Named Query binding parameters** Added a button labeled "This" for convenient insertion of the {this} variable into named query binding parameters ## Reporting ### Reporting **IGN-7262: Scheduled report audit records have an 'unknown' Originating Context, instead of Gateway** Fixed an issue where a scheduled report action was not paired with a gateway-scoped originating context in the audit events table. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.27-SNAPSHOT-b20230330 ## Comms ### OPC **IGN-6605: 'Enabled' device system tag does not reflect actual enabled/disabled status** Fixed a bug where the [System]Gateway/Devices/{DEVICE\_NAME}/Enabled tag does not reflect the actual enabled/disabled status after editing and saving the device connection. ## Security ### User Sources **IGN-4641 Enable/Disable User sources** Adds the ability to disable a User source profile through a checkbox in the User source profile config. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.27-SNAPSHOT-b20230331 ## Swing ### Vision **IGN-2969 PDF Images Display Poorly in Reporting's Vision Client PDF Viewer component** Improved quality of images displayed in the Vision PDF Viewer component **IGN-2822 Printing easy chart will render x-trace/mark at incorrect coordinates** Fixed an issue where the Chart and Easy Chart components would have the wrong data point selected when printed. ---
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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.27-SNAPSHOT-b20230404 ## Data & Logic ### SQL Bridge **IGN-6737: Transaction Group trigger is not subscribed to when OPC data mode is set to Read.** Fixed Transaction Groups not subscribing to an OPC item trigger when the data mode is set to Read. **IGN-7133: Transaction Groups: OPC Items are Read outside of Trigger condition** Fixed Transaction Groups reading OPC items outside of a trigger condition when an OPC item trigger exists and the data mode is set to Read. ## Alarming ### Alarm Notification **IGN-6065: Alarms from MQTT Transmitter-provided tags are not syncing properly** Alarm events from MQTT Transmitter-provided tags were not being synchronized to a third gateway via gateway network after gateway startup. ## Comms ### OPC **IGN-7444: Milo 0.6.9** Upgraded OPC UA SDK to version 0.6.9. [Previous page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524.md?page=3)