# 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\
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**Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/150 "2023-10-14T07:32:55Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231013

## Alarming

### Twilio

**IGN-8262: jackson-databind update for 4xCVEs with CVSS scores of 7.5**  
Incremented version for jackson-databind package to address a security vulnerability found in the previous version

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**Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/151 "2023-10-17T07:31:00Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231016

## Scripting

### Scripting

**IGN-8128: urllib3 update for CVEs with CVSS scores of 9.8 and 7.5**  
Removed the Python wheel found in Ignition's pylib/ensurepip folder. As the Python library versions of urllib3 and requests used as dependencies are out of date, this version of pip should no longer be used.

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**Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/152 "2023-10-18T07:37:18Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231017

## Gateway Network

### EAM & Redundancy

**IGN-8051: Pausing remote upgrade task does not pause as expected.**  
Pause button on EAM tasks is only displayed if the task is scheduled to be executed in the future, as currently executing tasks cannot be paused.

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**Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/153 "2023-10-19T07:35:38Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231018

## Gateway Network

### Gateway Network

**IGN-8430: Large amount of faulted GAN connections lead to long delays in outgoing connections going through**  
The number of available gateway network ping threads can now be changed from the default value of 3 via a new '-Dignition.metro.pingexecutor.threads' system property. This can reduce connection reconnect time when some outgoing connections are faulted. A redundant gateway network connection now has a dedicated ping thread, potentially reducing failover time.

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-8440: Datetime input in popup adds large gap between input and calendar**  
Eliminated gap when datetime input component modal is rendered above, and parent is within popup.

## Cloud Connectors

### MongoDB

**IGN-8481: MongoDB Perspective binding executing query too often.**  
MongoDB Perspective Binding will only execute once the expression structure has fully evaluated.

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**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/154 "2023-10-20T07:28:19Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231019

## Tags

### Tags & UDTs

**IGN-5099: Deleting a tag provider does not remove associated TAGCONFIG records from the IDB**  
Added a gateway startup task to remove TAGCONFIG records pointing to no longer existent tag providers.

## Web UI

### Web UI

**IGN-1035: Upgrade lodash and lodash-es version due to CVE/Blackduck security advisory**  
Upgrade lodash and lodash-es version due to fix CVE issues

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**Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:30am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/155 "2023-10-21T07:30:58Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231020

## Data & Logic

### SQL Bridge

**IGN-5269: Transaction group using MySQL Data Source shows columns from all tables in the DB with the same table name**  
Fixed an issue causing selectors which reference columns on MySQL databases to show all columns for all tables of the same name, even if they're in separate databases

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**Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/156 "2023-10-24T07:32:40Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231023

## Cloud Connectors

### MongoDB

**IGN-8479: Add Array and Document codec to MongoDB**  
Added the ability to directly insert and updates of Arrays and Document datatypes into a MongoDB

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**Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/157 "2023-10-25T12:37:57Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231024

## Tags

### Tags & UDTs

**IGN-5226: "Check tag paths." in Gateway Event Tag Change scripts throws warning for wildcard**  
The Gateway Tag Chang Scripts diagnostic tool now shows more accurate, intuitive warning messages.

## Gateway Network

### EAM & Redundancy

**IGN-8247: Provide Useful Error Message When Trial Is Expired And Agent Task Is Attempted**  
Error message is provided in the case where an Agent Task is attempted on a gateway where the Trial License has expired

## Platform Core

### Other

**IGN-7821: Migrate Upgrade Assistant from Log4j to reload4j**  
Log4j has been replaced with Reload4j in the agent upgrader, and has been removed as a dependency.

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**Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/158 "2023-10-26T07:36:56Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231025

## Swing

### Designer

**IGN-7506: Drag and drop can unnecessarily rename resources**  
Fixed a resource drag-and-drop issue in the project navigation tree that led to unnecessary renaming due to overzealous conflict detection

### Vision

**IGN-8528: Change touchscreen keyboard font scaling attributes**  
Added project property, Touchscreen Keyboard Font Size, supporting local overrides through client-scoped system property `ignition.touchscreen.keyboardFontSize.` Also, added a similar property, `ignition.touchscreen.keyboardWidth`, for manual local overrides of the Touchscreen Keyboard width project property.

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**Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/159 "2023-10-27T07:31:35Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231025

## Swing

### Designer

**IGN-7506: Drag and drop can unnecessarily rename resources**  
Fixed a resource drag-and-drop issue in the project navigation tree that led to unnecessary renaming due to overzealous conflict detection

### Vision

**IGN-8528: Change touchscreen keyboard font scaling attributes**  
Added project property, Touchscreen Keyboard Font Size, supporting local overrides through client-scoped system property `ignition.touchscreen.keyboardFontSize.` Also, added a similar property, `ignition.touchscreen.keyboardWidth`, for manual local overrides of the Touchscreen Keyboard width project property.

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**Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/160 "2023-10-28T07:36:13Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231027

## Swing

### Designer

**IGN-8601: View Tag Diagnostics context option isn't disabled when a tag is not selected**  
Changed the 'View Diagnostics' button in the tag editor to open the new standalone diagnostics panel, and fixed an issue when opening the new diagnostics panel with no valid tag selected.

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**Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/161 "2023-10-31T07:44:40Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231030

## Security

### Security

**IGN-7618: Axios update for CVE with CVSS 7.5 score**  
Fixed Axios CVE with CVSS 7.5 score

## Comms

### Drivers

**IGN-8572: Bit tags don't go bad quality when request fails**  
Fixed a bug that prevented bit tags derived from integer types from getting bad quality set when the device connection is lost.

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**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/162 "2023-11-01T07:37:36Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231031

## Data & Logic

### SFC

**IGN-8448: The built-in variables chart.running and chart.state for SFC’s no longer exist**  
Fix SFCs to return correct values for built-in variables "chart.running" and "chart.state"

## Alarming

### Alarm Status

**IGN-5587: system.alarm.queryJournal does not return Cleared or Acknowledged alarms events that occurred while the alarm was shelved**  
Added parameter "includeShelved" to system.alarm.queryJournal() to return alarm events that occurred during the time an alarm was shelved.

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**Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/163 "2023-11-02T14:29:52Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231101

## Tags

### Tags & UDTs

**IGN-8500: Add Customer Facing Alert to Tag Reference Tracker Reference Log if Reference Storage is not Enabled**  
Added a 'terminal state' to the Reference Log tab of the new tag diagnostics indicating that the Tag Reference Store is not enabled for the selected provider.

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**Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/164 "2023-11-03T07:36:53Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231102

## Tags

### Tags & UDTs

**IGN-7038: UDT: Hyphen in parameter name causes value to be passed as null**  
A warning message is now shown when special characters are used in UDT parameter names.

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-8456: Upgrade JxBrowser for Perspective and Web modules for CVE-2023-4863 and CVE-2023-5129**  
Perspective Designer and Web Browser module JxBrowser upgraded to more recent version (Chromium 117.0.5938.62) to include fixes for high scoring vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-4863 and CVE-2023-5129). Ends support for Windows 7 & 8 (Chromium 110.0.5481.77).

## Tag Historian

### Tag Historian

**IGN-8573: Ignition Edge - change the duration of the history buffer to 35 days from 7 days**  
Updated the Edge Historian's Storage Time Limit from 7 days to 35 days.

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**Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/165 "2023-11-04T07:40:59Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.34-SNAPSHOT-b20231103

## Swing

### Designer

**IGN-8328: Right click deleting a Vision component in the Project Browser can delete a previously selected tag in the tag browser**  
Fixed an issue where deleting a Vision component in the Project Browser with the right click context menu could incorrectly delete a previously selected tag.

## Gateway Network

### Gateway Network

**IGN-7565: Add option to disable enumerate services calls to other gateways seen through a proxy**  
A gateway acting as a proxy gateway in a gateway network can now be configured with rules that determine which gateways can communicate with each other through the proxy. The rules can drastically cut down on unneeded gateway network traffic in a scenario where some gateways don't need to communicate with other gateways at all.

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**Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/166 "2023-11-15T15:34:01Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.35-SNAPSHOT-b20231114

## Alarming

### Twilio

**IGN-8637: Apache Guava upgrade in Twilio module due to High CVE**  
Upgraded a transitive dependency with an outstanding CVE

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**Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/167 "2023-11-17T08:34:16Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.35-SNAPSHOT-b20231116

## Reporting

### Reporting

**IGN-8190: Report Table Only Respects Dynamic Property on the First Instance**  
Fixes problem where dynamic keys are only applied to the first pagination of the Table component.

## Alarming

### Alarm Notification

**IGN-7646: Alarming: Acknowledging an Alarm Via Email for an Unregistered Event Should Display a Failure Message**  
Alarm email acknowledgments now display a failure message when acknowledging unregistered events.  
**IGN-5465: Other users should not be able to acknowledge an alarm after it has already been acknowledged in an email notification**  
Fixed alarm email acknowledgments to no longer allow other users to acknowledge alarms after they have been acknowledged.  
**IGN-4313: Acknowledgement link should not be included in email notification for acknowledged events**  
Fixed alarm email acknowledgments to no longer include acknowledgment links after an alarm has been acknowledged.

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**Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/168 "2023-11-18T08:34:29Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.35-SNAPSHOT-b20231117

## Scripting

### Scripting

**IGN-8495: Scripting: PyDatasets are being detected as lists of lists instead of a dataset when passed into the scalar overload of system.tag.writeBlocking and system.tag.writeAsync**  
Fixed an issue where PyDatasets could not be passed directly into system.tag.write\* functions without being 'unpacked' as a list of values.

## Gateway Network

### Gateway Network

**IGN-7901: In GAN, add more Server or additional identifiers to "Unhandled Intent Failure" logs**  
Added the server name to "Unhandled Intent Failure" log messages that allows for quicker troubleshooting.

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**Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-1-changelogs-2023/68524/169 "2023-11-21T08:39:45Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.35-SNAPSHOT-b20231117

## Scripting

### Scripting

**IGN-8495: Scripting: PyDatasets are being detected as lists of lists instead of a dataset when passed into the scalar overload of system.tag.writeBlocking and system.tag.writeAsync**  
Fixed an issue where PyDatasets could not be passed directly into system.tag.write\* functions without being 'unpacked' as a list of values.

## Gateway Network

### Gateway Network

**IGN-7901: In GAN, add more Server or additional identifiers to "Unhandled Intent Failure" logs**  
Added the server name to "Unhandled Intent Failure" log messages that allows for quicker troubleshooting.

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