# Nightly 8.3 Changelogs - 2026 and beyond

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [December 29, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010 "2025-12-29T15:49:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 6:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/21 "2026-02-03T06:58:18Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260202

## Scripting

### Scripting

**IGN-15067: Widen types accepted by (legacy) system.db.toDataSet function**  
Fixed issue where deprecated `system.db.toDataSet()` did not support current `PyDataset` types.

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-406: File Upload: Provide props.enabled**  
Added a disabled state to the Perspective File Upload component and updated the style and fileUploadIcon.color properties to accept separate enabled and disabled configurations.

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**Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 6:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/22 "2026-02-05T06:58:39Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260204

## Web UI

### Web UI

\*\*IGN-15403: 8.3 Gateway: Offline license activation \*\*  
Fixes issue that was preventing users from selecting offline activation when they had a valid connection.  
**IGN-8549: Sanitize activation token on the Gateway Web Page**  
Fixes issue with pasting activation tokens with quote. Pasting activation with quotes is now accepted.

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**Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/23 "2026-02-06T06:49:55Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260205

## Cloud Connectors

### Event Streams

**IGN-13373: Event Streams - Tests - Tests will report GOOD even if the event stream never got to that section**  
Event Stream test mode will now identify stages that haven't received the test event.

## Foundation

### Launchers

**IGN-14604: [Mac] Custom Vision project launcher icon does not replace default launcher icon on desktop**  
Fixed issue where customized Vision project desktop shortcut icons would not replace the default desktop shortcut icon

## Web UI

### Web UI

**IGN-14453: Error warning text using full variable name in web ui**  
Error messages on the Gateway should now have a user friendly field label instead of referencing the field path

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**Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 6:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/24 "2026-02-07T06:58:14Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260206

## Data & Logic

### SFC

**IGN-15189: Empty .proto file in SFC can create class cast exception during module startup**  
Fixed a problem with empty persisted SFC chart files causing the SFC module to fault.

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**Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 6:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/25 "2026-02-11T06:58:14Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260210

## Web UI

### Web UI

**IGN-15318: 8.3: Identity Providers Page - Missing menu items**  
Fixes issue with Identity provider menu items not being available when the gateway is deployed in a collection other than core.

## Comms

### Drivers

**IGN-15309: Disconnect IEC 61850 client on redundancy failover**  
IEC 61850: redundant nodes now disconnect from IEDs on transition from active to inactive, instead of just disabling reports.

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**Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 6:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/26 "2026-02-12T06:57:38Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260211

## Comms

### OPC

**IGN-15391: Update Milo to version 1.1.1**  
Updated Milo OPC UA SDK to version 1.1.1.  
**IGN-15358: MonitoredItem creation is slow and gets slower as device count increases**  
Improved MonitoredItem creation performance with increasing numbers of devices defined.

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-2758: Alarm tables: make event state sort order the same as Vision**  
Fixed an issue with the Alarm Status Journal where unacknowledged alarms were not prioritized when ordering by State.

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**Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 7:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/27 "2026-02-19T07:00:44Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260218

## Historian

### SQL Historian

**IGN-15170: SQL Historian warning about metadata not supported even when metadata not enabled**  
Fixed an issue where internal bookkeeping metadata was attempted to be written to the historian even when the historian did not support metadata.

### Historian

**IGN-15004: Historian Module Should Export DataPointFactory Under system.historian Namespace**  
Added `new `functions to simplify creation of various point types for storage in historians. These functions include:

- `system.historian.types.dataPoint()`
- `system.historian.types.annotationPoint()`
- `system.historian.types.metadataPoint()`

## Web UI

### Web UI

**IGN-15125: Empty responses when multiple webui-sid cookie attributes are present for monitoring sessions and for quick client subscription requests**  
Improvement to session management used by OPC Quick Client and Logging HTTP endpoints.

## Tags

### Tags & UDTs

**IGN-15380: Tag exports with special characters show up as invalid characters in the .json**  
Fixed an issue with special characters (non-ASCII Unicode characters) not exporting correctly in Tag exports.

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**Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 11:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/28 "2026-02-19T23:58:06Z")

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Release Changelog: 8.3.4\*-b20260219

## Gateway Network

### Gateway Network

**IGN-15416: GAN connections frequently disconnect related to 12.0.27 Jetty upgrade**  
Fixed an issue where gateway network connections were frequently disconnecting for no reason

## Comms

### Drivers

**IGN-15374: Enhanced Siemens Driver doesn't Properly Reflect Disconnect**  
Fixed an issue where the driver would continue to update tags with `Good` quality when it was actually disconnected.

## Web UI

### Web UI

**IGN-12815: SECS/GEM Simulators: Event Runs / Create Echo Response**  
Adds SDL file edits via file uploads. Also adds in the ability to create and edit event runs and events on simulators.

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**Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 6:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/29 "2026-02-20T06:58:35Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260219

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-3584: Perspective dock functions missing description for params in tooltip**  
Added a missing description to the documentation tooltip for `system.perspective.togglePopup`'s `params` parameter.

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**Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 6:52am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/30 "2026-02-24T06:52:57Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260223

## Alarming

### Alarm Notification

**IGN-15252: system.roster.addUsers does not retain user order in Ignition 8.3.x**  
Fixed an issue that was preventing `system.roster.addUsers()` from retaining user defined roster order.

## Comms

### OPC

**IGN-13138: BacNet Local Device has empty health check payload when disabled**  
Disabled BACnet LocalDevice instances now have a health check indicating they are disabled.

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**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/31 "2026-02-25T07:01:50Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260224

## Historian

### Historian

**IGN-15142: Internal Historian (Legacy) cannot start if name has a |**  
Fixed an issue where Internal Historian (Legacy) containing illegal character

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-14199: Form Component: Ability to Enter Widget ID Immediately or Use a Predefined Value**  
Added a new Form Component overlay on top of widgets with missing required ids in design mode.

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**Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 7:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/32 "2026-02-26T07:00:09Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260225

## Web UI

### Web UI

**IGN-15434: 8.3 Gateway Web UI: Remove Hardcoded CORE collection from EAM Agent Tasks page**  
Fixed issue that would not allow editing agent tasks in collections other than core.

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**Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 7:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/33 "2026-02-27T07:00:27Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260226

## Platform Core

### Config Persistence

**IGN-14717: Resource System Performance -Tag imports are significantly slower in 8.3 than 8.1 to persist to disk**  
Improved the performance and responsiveness of the gateway's configuration system by allowing operations on different resource types to proceed concurrently with minimal locking on changes. Per-resource-type metrics have also been added for better observability in the gateway's diagnostic tools under configuration.resources...\*

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-7046: Drawing Component: Add an "onElementClicked" component event**  
Added an `onElementClick` event to Perspective Drawing component.

## Gateway Network

### EAM & Redundancy

**IGN-14946: Trying to run remote upgrade before zip transfer has confusing error msg**  
Fixed an issue where EAM remote upgrades could be attempted when the agent was not in an upgrade-ready state.

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**Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 6:59am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/34 "2026-02-28T06:59:39Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260227

## Gateway Network

### EAM & Redundancy

**IGN-13960: When uninstalling and reinstalling an EAM controller connected agents can get caught in a disconnected state.**  
Fixed an issue where uninstalling/reinstalling an EAM controller could result in agents stuck in a disconnected state.

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**Post date:** [March 3, 2026, 6:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/35 "2026-03-03T06:51:27Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260302

## Historian

### Core Historian

**IGN-15489: Historian Returning Erroneous Extra Data Points**  
Fixed the following core historian issues pertaining to seed values:

- seed values were being erroneously included in results of raw value queries, i.e. `system.historian.queryRawPoints()`
- a timestamp conversion was being erroneously applied to seed values which could cause queried results to have "duplicate" timestamps

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**Post date:** [March 4, 2026, 7:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/36 "2026-03-04T07:00:46Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260303

## Historian

### Historian

**IGN-15143: Historian scripting function updateRegisteredNodePath requires optional argument**  
Fixed an issue where the `system.historian.updateRegisteredNodePath()` function required specifying all arguments despite having an optional argument.

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-15388: "Unable to send updates to client" repeated in logs**  
Fixed a Perspective Session lifecycle issue that caused repeated errors to flood the logs.  
**IGN-8185: Perspective Map: onVectorClick event object has empty ‘position’ array if latitude of circle vector is 0**  
Fixed an issue with the Perspective Map component's `onVectorClick` event where no position data was available for clicked vectors with a latitude of 0.

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**Post date:** [March 4, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/37 "2026-03-04T17:38:52Z")

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Release Changelog: 8.3.4\*-b20260303

## Gateway Network

### Gateway Network

**IGN-15416: GAN connections frequently disconnect related to 12.0.27 Jetty upgrade**  
Fixed an issue where gateway network connections were frequently disconnecting for no reason

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**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 7:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/38 "2026-03-05T07:00:58Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260304

## Gateway Network

### EAM & Redundancy

**IGN-12787: EAM Module Faults When Send Stats Interval \< 0**  
Fixed an issue where EAM send stats interval could be negative which would cause the module to fault.  
**IGN-12740: 8.3 Redundancy: Misconfiguration Allowing for Edge-to-Standard Gateway Relationships**  
Fixed an issue where gateways on different platform editions could be setup as a redundant pair.

## Web UI

### Web UI

**IGN-15387: Improve immutable resource toast for JDBC drivers**  
Fixed issue that allowed a user to attempt saving new jars for immutable resources. Buttons are now disabled.

The manage JAR files drawer will now display the collection of the resource when a resource has multiple definitions.

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-2477: Maker Edition "Personal Use Only" agreement is showing up on every launch**  
Fixed an issue where the Maker edition license acceptance modal would appear every session.  
**IGN-7717: Downloading certain file types on iOS requires setting MIME type**  
Fixed an issue where `system.perspective.download` could fail on older versions of iOS if a MIME type was not provided.

## Comms

### OPC

**IGN-15490: ResendData operation failure Bad\_TooManyArguments**  
Fixed incorrect arguments to ResendData method after OPC UA client reconnect.

## Containers

### Docker

**IGN-13413: Missing `data/gateway.xml_clean` fails during entrypoint**  
Fixed an issue where a missing `data/gateway.xml_clean` file could cause a premature exit of the Docker entrypoint script.

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**Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 6:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/39 "2026-03-06T06:58:59Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260305

## Security

### Secrets Management

**IGN-14619: RFC-64: File-based SecretProvider for Secrets Management**  
Added SecretProvider implementation that allows reading of secrets from files on disk.

## Cloud Connectors

### Event Streams

**IGN-14636: Add previousValue data to Event Stream Tag Change data**  
Event Stream Tag Source now includes the previous value in the event metadata.

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-4425: Add ability to enable/disable and style individual radio group items**  
Added the ability to style and enable/disable individual radio buttons in the Perspective Radio Group component.  
**IGN-4667: Button: Theming is slightly incorrect when buttons are disabled**  
Fixed an issue where Perspective's Primary and Secondary buttons were incorrectly styled.  
**IGN-7434: Review and Protect Perspective Routes which should require Authorization**  
Added check against unauthorized users for several Perspective routes which will now return a 403 status code in this scenario.

## Web UI

### Web UI

**IGN-10269: 8.3 Form Control TextArea needs minimum dimensions**  
Fixed an issue that prevented users from resizing a text area.

## Alarming

### Alarm Status

**IGN-15336: Alarm metrics in nested folders sometimes incorrectly reflect active alarms**  
Fixed an issue where Alarm Metrics in nested folders would initialize to empty and never update.

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**Post date:** [March 7, 2026, 7:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/nightly-8-3-changelogs-2026-and-beyond/113010/40 "2026-03-07T07:00:38Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 8.3.5\*-b20260306

## Tags

### Tags & UDTs

**IGN-15470: Add 'local' parameter to system.tag.getConfiguration**  
Added an 'overridesOnly' parameter to system.tag.getConfiguration. If the tag is a member of a UDT then only the overridden properties will be returned, otherwise the parameter will have no effect.  
**IGN-14783: Forward Port: Query Tags execute SELECT and UPDATE queries on the backup gateway when Primary is active.**  
Fixed an issue that had Query Tags executing SQL queries on backup gateways in redundant pairs.

## Historian

### Store & Forward

**IGN-13546: S&F Engines for Splitter Historians are not automatically removed**  
Store-and-forward cache directories are now automatically cleaned up when their associated resources (historians, alarm journals, audit profiles, equipment connections) are deleted, preventing orphaned directories from accumulating on disk.

## Alarming

### Alarm Notification

**IGN-14392: Twilio voice notification profile webpage does not reflect currently selected language or voice**  
Fixed an issue where Twilio voice notification profile webpage was not reflecting the configured language or voice.

## Perspective

### Perspective

**IGN-9147: stylesheet CSS renders differently between Designer and browser page**  
Fixed an issue where advanced stylesheet CSS may not display correctly in the Designer.

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