# 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:** 7
**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:** [September 6, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/130 "2023-09-06T15:31:28Z")
Note: There's been a natural lull in changelogs recently. The explanation is [Nightly Changelogs Stopped? (Sept 2023)](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-changelogs-stopped-sept-2023/78817). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/131 "2023-09-08T07:23:15Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.33-SNAPSHOT-b20230907 ## Swing ### Vision **IGN-8170: Vision: Extension Functions throw error when viewed if imported from 7.9 with a completely empty script body.** Fixed an issue that caused an out-of-bounds error when viewing a components extension function script. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/132 "2023-09-09T07:37:56Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.33-SNAPSHOT-b20230908 ## Infrastructure ### Java - Azul **IGN-3171: Upgrade to Java 17** The bundled version of Java has been upgraded to Java 17.0.8. ## Foundation ### Launchers **IGN-259: Update/replace jnlp-opens/jnlp-exports.conf mechanism to work with client and designer launchers** Ignition's bundled Java runtime is updated to 17.0.8 ## Comms ### OPC **IGN-7285: Pwn2Own ZDI-CAN-20499: Unlimited ConditionRefresh Method Call Resource Exhaustion** Fixed ZDI-CAN-20499 (CVE-2023-39477), a possible resource exhaustion vulnerability. **IGN-8265: Milo 0.6.11** Updated Milo OPC UA SDK to version 0.6.11. ### Drivers **IGN-5975: Upgrade Netty dependency due to 4xCVEs with CVSS scores of 7.5** Updated Netty dependency to 4.1.54.Final to 4.1.97.Final. ## Swing ### Vision **IGN-7893: Dropdown Component auto-populates unexpected additional values when searching** Fixed unwanted autocomplete behavior in the dropdown component when it's in editable mode ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 7:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/133 "2023-09-12T07:27:16Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.33-SNAPSHOT-b20230911 ## Comms ### Drivers **IGN-8263: DNP3 frozen counters throw error when unsolicited messages is enabled** Fixed an issue in the DNP3 driver which prevented frozen counter and frozen analog input values from updating when unsolicited messages is enabled. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2023, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/134 "2023-09-13T07:35:31Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.33-SNAPSHOT-b20230912 ## Comms ### OPC **IGN-7970: Writing to an OPC tag pointing to another OPC tag in an exposed tag provider executes after hard coded timeout** Fixed an issue causing writes to OPC tags through exposed tag providers to freeze and fail after a timeout. ## Tags ### Tags & UDTs **IGN-7572: Backup gateway initializes 3rd party OPC tags with incorrect quality code on failover** OPC tags will now be in the correct state when a gateway from redundant pair assumes control. **IGN-7416: system.tag.exists() returns True when passed an empty string** Fixed an issue causing `system.tag.exists` to return true for empty strings. **IGN-4179: Add JSON array coercion to array tag types** Added JSON array coercion for array types. Users can now use methods such as `jsonGet` in array-typed derived tags to fetch nested elements of JSON documents in dependent tags. ## Perspective ### Perspective **IGN-8293: View fails to load when navigating away from a page with a map component using geolocation** Fixed issue where map geolocation was preventing following links to other views. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/135 "2023-09-14T07:26:47Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.33-SNAPSHOT-b20230913 ## Comms ### Drivers **IGN-8342: BACnet driver uncaught Exception Bad\_NoCommunication when device is offline** Fixed a polling bug that caused `Bad_NoCommunication` quality to remain after a device went offline until it was forced to reconnect by e.g. edit/saving the device configuration. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2023, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/136 "2023-09-15T07:29:07Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.33-SNAPSHOT-b20230914 ## Comms ### Drivers **IGN-7396: BACnet COV Resubscription** Added a periodic background task to the BACnet driver which attempts recreating COV subscriptions that previously failed to be created or renewed. The rate at which this task runs can be adjusted via the newly added COV Subscription Retry Interval setting. ## Tags ### Tags & UDTs **IGN-6803: Changing Parent Data Type for UDT Instance with a different amount of members results in a ghost tag in the Tag Report Tool** Updated Tag Report Tool results to only display valid member results ## Scripting ### Scripting **IGN-8390: Parsed return type descriptions are not actually visible to users** Fixed an issue where the parsed return type description was not actually rendered in the script description popup. ## Alarming ### Alarm Journal **IGN-7201: Alarm Journal Profiles do not allow schema designation to be prepended to table names.** Fixed an issue with database alarm journal configuration not accepting schema designation to be prepended to table names. ## Perspective ### Perspective **IGN-8057: Perspective Table: ‘value’ parameter within column subview causes scripts to break following refresh** Table view cells receive the correct `value` view parameter from encoded custom row objects. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 7:47am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/137 "2023-09-16T07:47:59Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.33-SNAPSHOT-b20230915 ## Alarming ### Alarm Status **IGN-6015: If a new alarm is disabled and enabled, it will not reappear in the status table until it goes active** Fixed an issue where disabling and enabling an alarm would not generate a proper alarm event until the alarm goes into an active state. **IGN-2978: isAlarmActive() returns Bad\_NotFound if alarm is not active and gets re-enabled** Fixed an issue where isAlarmActive() expression would return Bad\_NotFound qualities if an alarm was not active and gets re-enabled. ## Perspective ### Perspective **IGN-3513: Perspective Gauge's Needle starting position is out of range when Animation is set to True** Fixed gauge needle position when initial value is 0. **IGN-1844: Perspective: Google Map Component** Added new Google Map feature to Perspective that allows scriptable interactions and creating layers of Markers, OverlayViews, Ground Overlays, KML, Traffic, Transit, Bicycle, and Polygons (Circles, Rectangles, Polylines, and Polygons). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/138 "2023-09-19T07:26:32Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.33-SNAPSHOT-b20230918 ## Tags ### Tags & UDTs **IGN-6936: Tags: Moving a derived tag into a different folder will break any relative tag references** Fixed derived tag references breaking when moving to a folder ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/139 "2023-09-20T13:41:56Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.33-SNAPSHOT-b20230918 ## Tags ### Tags & UDTs **IGN-6936: Tags: Moving a derived tag into a different folder will break any relative tag references** Fixed derived tag references breaking when moving to a folder ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 7:30am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/140 "2023-09-21T07:30:53Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.33-SNAPSHOT-b20230920 ## Tags ### Tags & UDTs **IGN-7843: system.tag.configure with 'merge' policy on a dataset tag without an explicit dataType prop incorrectly sets value** Fixed an issue causing writes to Dataset tags through `system.tag.configure` with the "merge" collision policy to corrupt Dataset data. ## Swing ### Vision **IGN-7315: Multi-Monitor issues: Vision Calendar Popup displays outside the Vision client window** Fixed an issue where the Vision Calendar Popup was not displaying correctly in multi-monitor setups **IGN-7944: Easy Chart doesn’t display when Starting a Vision Client with the language set to Turkish** Fixed various issues related to improper 'case-folding' in certain locales (e.g. Turkish) causing dataset lookup by column name to fail. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 7:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/141 "2023-09-22T07:27:36Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.33-SNAPSHOT-b20230921 ## Infrastructure ### Build **IGN-8002: Docker Image: Move to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS** Updated OCI container image base from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ## Tag Historian ### Tag Historian **IGN-8408: Unable to send tag historical data to the Canary historian.** Fixed an issue where Tag History storage wouldn't be accepted to targeted DataSink if matching Tag History provider didn't exist. ## Tags ### Tags & UDTs **IGN-6771: Expression tag calling runNamedQuery fails on gateway restart** Expression Tags calling runNamedQuery will now be evaluated on gateway start/restart ## Perspective ### Perspective **IGN-8050: Perspective: Table Column Filters Display Incorrect Colors When Columns are Sorted** Fixed issue where filtered table columns were not displayed in the correct active state. ## Foundation ### Launchers **IGN-8336: Sanitize launch parameters provided by the gateway before launching designers and vision clients** The Designer Launcher and Vision Client Launcher now perform stricter sanitization of launch command arguments ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/142 "2023-09-23T07:31:31Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.33-SNAPSHOT-b20230922 ## Perspective ### Perspective **IGN-4716: Perspective loading screen text is cut-off when in landscape orientation on smaller mobile devices** Added loading screen message for new client creation and fixed loading screen layout on landscape oriented smaller displays. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/143 "2023-09-26T07:29:10Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.33-SNAPSHOT-b20230925 ## Swing ### Designer **IGN-3809: Improve the script console's default header to provide info to new users** Modified the Designer script console banner to display information useful to the user. **IGN-8363: Update Batik library from 1.16 to 1.17 to address CVSS v3.x High CVE** Updated batik library dependency from 1.16 to 1.17 due to CVEs. ### Vision **IGN-4417: Vision Date Range Component doesn't update displayed current range when going from small range to max range** Fixed an issue where the Date Range Component wouldn't update the displayed selected range when changing from a smaller range selection to the maximum selection ## Gateway Network ### Gateway Network **IGN-7722: Add file transfer resume functionality to the gateway network** The EAM Remote Upgrade task can now resume an interrupted upgrade zip file transfer, if the agent gateway also supports file resume. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 7:25am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/144 "2023-09-27T07:25:56Z")
_Duplicate caused by lull in new code._ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/145 "2023-09-28T07:23:09Z")
_Duplicate caused by lull in new code._ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/146 "2023-10-05T15:28:33Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231003 ## Infrastructure ### Build **IGN-6870: The Build System autogenerating a "software bill of materials" (SBOM) is required for government sales** a Software Bill of Materials in SPDX 2.2 (JSON) format is now included with Ignition ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/147 "2023-10-06T13:18:50Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231003 ## Infrastructure ### Build **IGN-6870: The Build System autogenerating a "software bill of materials" (SBOM) is required for government sales** a Software Bill of Materials in SPDX 2.2 (JSON) format is now included with Ignition ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/148 "2023-10-10T16:46:38Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231009 ## Swing ### Vision **IGN-7418: Organize drop target popup menu into folders by template path** The dropped template menu in Vision now automatically intelligently builds nested menus for all possible template options, making large projects with many templates easier to manage. ### Designer **IGN-8022: Renaming option not available for Vision folder immediately after creating folder within Vision workspace in designer** Fixed an issue where Vision window and template folders were sometimes not able to be renamed. **IGN-7965: Designer: New/overridden inherited project resources get discarded after selecting “Revert Changes” on a project resource.** Fixed the behavior of the 'Discard Changes' option on overridden resources to walk up parent folders and discard them as well if they held only the resource that is being discarded. ## Perspective ### Perspective **IGN-8378: Property Editor "view.path" prop with a value of null causes NPE** Fixed possible NPE with property editor "view.path" prop. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c985ea71ed53a8f212f3920ddf03fe05249170b8.png) [@system](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/149 "2023-10-12T07:34:46Z")
Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231011 ## Scripting ### Scripting **IGN-7814: Invalid scheduled script cron syntax prevents gateway from starting** Fixed an issue where invalid cron syntax in a scheduled script would prevent the gateway from starting up. [Previous page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524.md?page=6) [Next page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524.md?page=8)