# Nightly 8.1 Changelogs - 2023

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524>\
**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:** 5

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/90 "2023-07-04T17:40:26Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.30-SNAPSHOT-b20230703

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-7840: In a Perspective coordinate container nested in a breakpoint container, pipe anchors constantly remain visible on all components**  
Pipe anchors should disappear when no longer in piping mode.  
**IGN-2549: Coordinate Container: Right click to paste a component in percent mode results in incorrect width and height**  
Coordinate container in percent mode, paste at position adds component with correct width and height.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/91 "2023-07-05T07:19:37Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.30-SNAPSHOT-b20230703

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-7840: In a Perspective coordinate container nested in a breakpoint container, pipe anchors constantly remain visible on all components**  
Pipe anchors should disappear when no longer in piping mode.  
**IGN-2549: Coordinate Container: Right click to paste a component in percent mode results in incorrect width and height**  
Coordinate container in percent mode, paste at position adds component with correct width and height.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/92 "2023-07-06T07:21:49Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.30-SNAPSHOT-b20230705

## Swing

### Designer

**IGN-5970: Upgrade xmlgraphics-commons lib from 2.3 to 2.7 due to CVE**  
Updated Apache XML Graphics Commons dependency from 2.3 to 2.7

## Platform Core

### Other

**IGN-7819: Update sqlite-jdbc to version 3.41.2.2 due to critical level CVE**  
Updated SQLlite to version 3.41.2.2

## Scripting

### Scripting

**IGN-6663: Incomplete system.util.logger: missing fatalf() function, all others implemented**  
Usage of `fatalf` logger scripting method no longer produces an error.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Wyatt\_Dias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Wyatt\_Dias](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Wyatt_Dias)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/93 "2023-07-06T15:51:12Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.30-SNAPSHOT-b20230705

## Alarming

### Alarm Status

**IGN-5632: Alarm Journal: The label disappears for alarms acknowledged by the Live Event Limit**

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/94 "2023-07-07T07:24:22Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.30-SNAPSHOT-b20230706

## Alarming

### Twilio

**IGN-7155: Twilio module: Select which NIC SMS notifications are sent to**  
Added a "local address" field within Twilio account settings so that a different network interface can be used besides the default.

## Foundation

### Installers

**IGN-2259: Support App Notarization for the mac os Ignition installers**  
The Mac OS Ignition Installer is now properly notarized to pass GateKeeper checks.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 7:25am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/95 "2023-07-08T07:25:22Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.30-SNAPSHOT-b20230707

## Tag Historian

### Store & Forward

**IGN-6285: Improve the Efficiency of the alarm journal's pruning**  
Improved Alarm Journal Pruning efficiency for newly created Alarm Journals.

## Tags

### Tags & UDTs

**IGN-7923: Unexpected UDT instance Configuration Updates with system.tag.configure() and MergeOverwrite 'm' Collision Policy**  
Overriding a UDT Instance member with a bound value will now correctly reflect the change.

## Platform Core

### Other

**IGN-5323: Occasionally, gateway UI becomes unusable and "Cannot access destroyed record" errors appear for the SystemPropertiesRecord**  
Fixed issue where gateway occasionally threw out "Cannot access destroyed record" errors for the SystemPropertiesRecord, which required a gateway restart to resolve.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/96 "2023-07-11T15:10:14Z")

</div>

_Includes some changes added by hand to account for some weekend process hiccups.--@Brian_Ray_

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.30-SNAPSHOT-b20230710

## Gateway Network

### EAM & Redundancy

**IGN-7507: Redundancy: Master will overwrite tags on backup if change are made to tags before redundancy is reestablished during master startup**  
The redundant system can now use the backup's data to resolve conflicts between nodes if it has been active longer than the master. Prior to this, the master's data would always be used when a conflict was detected.

## Platform Core

### Other

**IGN-5323: Occasionally, gateway UI becomes unusable and "Cannot access destroyed record" errors appear for the SystemPropertiesRecord**  
Fixed issue where gateway occasionally threw out "Cannot access destroyed record" errors for the SystemPropertiesRecord, which required a gateway restart to resolve.

## Tag Historian

### Store & Forward

**IGN-6285: Improve the Efficiency of the alarm journal's pruning**  
Improved Alarm Journal Pruning efficiency for newly created Alarm Journals.

## Tags

### Tags & UDTs

**IGN-7923: Unexpected UDT instance Configuration Updates with system.tag.configure() and MergeOverwrite 'm' Collision Policy**  
Overriding a UDT Instance member with a bound value will now correctly reflect the change.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2023, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/97 "2023-07-12T07:24:01Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.30-SNAPSHOT-b20230711

## Comms

### Drivers

**IGN-7900: Siemens: Using the new Date\_and\_Time addressing on a S7-1200 causes blocking**  
Fixed an issue in the S7 driver where reading a Date\_and\_Time data type on an unsupported device could cause other valid read items in the same request to be set to bad quality.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/98 "2023-07-13T07:26:08Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.30-SNAPSHOT-b20230712

## Tag Historian

### Tag Historian

**IGN-4767: More helpful error message for tag history when datasource is disabled**  
A more descriptive message is now logged when storing tag history data against a disabled history provider.

## Gateway Network

### EAM & Redundancy

**IGN-7597: EAM Send Tag Task fails if Tag Editing Permissions are set on Agent’s tag provider**  
EAM Send Tags task now checks the service security tag editing permissions instead of local tag provider permissions.  
**IGN-3019: Agent Nodes Available As Controller Options In EAM**  
EAM agent settings now validates that a controller selection is actually an EAM controller before allowing the agent settings to be saved.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 7:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/99 "2023-07-14T07:27:57Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.30-SNAPSHOT-b20230713

## Alarming

### Alarm Notification

**IGN-6796: Voice alarm memory leak, CereRenderer$CereCallback**  
Fixed a potential memory leak that could occur when using alarm voice notifications.

## Tags

### Tags & UDTs

**IGN-7245: Tag Report tool Value Property Search is not returning String comparison results**  
Tag Report Tool property comparison will now correctly compare Strings when using Value property.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Brian\_Ray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Brian\_Ray](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Brian_Ray)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/100 "2023-07-14T17:30:21Z")

</div>

Note that in light of [8.1.29 LTS Pulled, 8.1.30 Emergency Release](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-1-29-lts-pulled-8-1-30-emergency-release/76360), all 8.1.30-SNAPSHOT changes above will be officially released in 8.1.31.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/101 "2023-07-15T07:22:24Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.31-SNAPSHOT-b20230714

## Security

### Security

**IGN-7612: Google Guava update fixes "low/Med" CVEs reported by multiple customers/tools**  
Update Google Guava dependency from 26.0 to 32.0.1.

## Web UI

### Web UI

**IGN-4154: Project name input on import page is missing validation message for duplicate naming**  
Importing a project on the project page now shows the proper error message when the project name already exists.

## Swing

### Designer

**IGN-7652: Resource conflict not detected for folder capitalization differences during import**  
Fixed an issue where importing resources in the designer with case-insensitive matching folder paths would lead to duplicated folders and problems loading the project.

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-7808: Time Series Chart’s series name resets with default value when it has a binding**  
Fixed a bug caused by logic that automatically generates series names. This logic now can be toggled on or off using the "autoGenerateSeriesNames" checkbox.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Wyatt\_Dias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Wyatt\_Dias](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Wyatt_Dias)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/102 "2023-07-17T17:47:02Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.31-SNAPSHOT-b20230714

## Comms

### Drivers

**IGN-5495: In the GW BACNET "local device" driver configuration, a default value for "bind address" will allow users to be more successful by default**  
When creating a BACnet Local Device in the Gatway, the bind address is now initialized to '0.0.0.0'

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/103 "2023-07-18T15:23:24Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.31-SNAPSHOT-b20230717

## Comms

### Drivers

**IGN-7771: Mitsubishi Driver - Add support for MELSEC-F series**  
Added MELSEC-F series support for the Mitsubishi Driver.

## Swing

### Designer

**IGN-4628: Named Query bindings have previous parameter values populated**  
Fixed an issue with named query parameter value populated with value from another named query if parameter name match.

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-7085: Designer: property editor jumps every time a selected component is clicked**  
Reduced the number of Property Editor refreshes that occur with view editor interactions.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/104 "2023-07-19T07:21:48Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.31-SNAPSHOT-b20230718

## Tags

### Tags & UDTs

**IGN-7475: Relative tag paths break on query tags when moving or renaming the tag**  
Query Tags will now update the query correctly when relative tag path references change.

## Containers

### Cloud Edition - AWS

**IGN-7954: Bump the bundled version of Cirrus Link modules to 4.0.17**  
Updated Ignition Cloud Edition bundled Cirrus Link MQTT modules to version 4.0.17

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-7958: Quality Overlay: The Quality Overlay on a component disappears unexpectedly when toggle the preview mode or switching in between views.**  
Ensure applicable component quality overlays are displayed on first component render.

## Security

### Security

**IGN-739: Tag Groups doesn't follow tag provider's edit permissions**  
Fixed an issue where security levels weren't used for enforcing tag group modifications.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/105 "2023-07-20T07:21:29Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.31-SNAPSHOT-b20230719

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-7686: Modal Backdrop’s Z-Order is not decremented when other popups are closed**  
Fixed a bug where modal couldn't be closed due to the modal and backdrop having the same z-index value. In addition, now the child popups of a parent modal popup can no longer be pushed behind the parent.

## Swing

### Vision

**IGN-7887: Missing i18n key 'Navtree.Badge.Grouped'**  
Fixed the tooltip bundle key on grouped objects in Vision.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/106 "2023-07-21T07:22:06Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.31-SNAPSHOT-b20230720

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-7995: Horizontal Menu: displaying menu items as horizontally stacked and not vertically stacked**  
Fixed an issue in the horizontal menu where menu items weren't vertically stacked.

## Containers

### Cloud Edition - AWS

**IGN-7869: Cloud edition: EAM remote upgrades fail when encountering broken/dangling sym-links**  
Fixed an issue with symlink handling on EAM Remote Upgrade of Ignition Cloud Edition.

## Comms

### Drivers

**IGN-7979: Upgrade Mitsubishi driver's google guava version from 23.3 to 32.0.1 due to CVEs**  
Update Mitsubishi driver's Google Guava dependency from 23.3 to 32.0.1.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/107 "2023-07-22T07:26:53Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.31-SNAPSHOT-b20230721

## Comms

### Drivers

**IGN-7813: Mitsubishi Driver - Add "wstring" data type**  
Added the new "WString" data type which can be used for Unicode characters and also changed the encoding for the String data types to be fixed-width regardless of PLC series.  
**IGN-7812: Mitsubishi Driver - Automatically round string length to nearest even number**  
Fixed an issue where address String length was being inconsistently rounded to the nearest even number.  
**IGN-8049: Mitsubishi Driver - 0x5B end code in Frame 1E response causes subsequent requests to fail**  
Mitsubishi driver: fixed an issue where receiving a specific error response from a MELSEC-F series PLC could cause subsequent requests to fail.

## Tags

### Tags & UDTs

**IGN-7569: system.tag.browse returns invalid TagPaths for property nodes**  
system.tag.browse now returns valid TagPaths for property nodes

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Wyatt\_Dias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Wyatt\_Dias](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Wyatt_Dias)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/108 "2023-07-24T16:20:46Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.31-SNAPSHOT-b20230721

## Alarming

### Alarm Notification

**IGN-7810: Alarming: An Alarm From a Spoke Gateway will Persist in the Pipeline on a Hub Gateway when the Spoke is Restarted**  
Fixed an issue where a remote alarm event within a remote pipeline would become orphaned if the originating gateway restarted.  
**IGN-4472: Remote alarms in a pipeline do not drop out when disabled**  
Fixed an issue where finished alarm events weren’t being sent to remote alarm pipelines.  
**IGN-4471: Shelved dropout condition does not work for Remote Alarms**  
Fixed an issue where shelved alarm events weren’t being sent to remote alarm pipelines.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Brian\_Ray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Brian\_Ray](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Brian_Ray)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/109 "2023-07-25T15:03:54Z")

</div>

Nightly Changelog: 8.1.32-SNAPSHOT-b20230724

# Scripting

## Scripting

**IGN-5347 Environment variables with non-ASCII characters prevent Ignition Clients from launching**  
Gateways or Vision clients running on a Windows system with non-ASCII characters in a system environment variable name would fail to start due to Python exceptions being thrown.

[Previous page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524.md?page=4)

[Next page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524.md?page=6)
