Hi all, one of my customers asked me to upgrade its 8.1.9/10 Ignition installations to the latest 8.1.x (8.1.53 as of writing). I’m worried about next topics: that customer has 2 plants, each with its own Ignition (1st is 8.1.9, 2nd is 8.1.10). The two Ignitions are connected in a Gateway Networ…

I don't think you'll have any issues, but to be safe, scan through the release notes for all the versions between the older versions and now to see what's been changed. If you were upgrading to 8.3.x you'd have to do more, but I believe the upgrade should be fairly painless.

I recently upgraded a redundant 8.1.24 gateway to 8.1.52 running Vision for the main plant SCADA with a few prespective pages mainly for engineering. It was also part of a gateway network with other gateway using it as a remote tag provider for reporting purposes. The upgrade ran smoothly with no is…

If you have any vision clients running on a Raspberry Pi, you may need to look at this (from painful experience): [image] Linux java 17 opens and exports Ignition Inside the legacyClient.sh script there is probably a line like this: JAVA_ARGS="" try changing …

Its pretty painless. I did it recently for a few customers and the only thing I had to do was to install the new Vision client on all the computers beforehand.

[image] pgmo: Problem nr 1: I cannot upgrade both installations at the same time - may be there will be 1 or 2 weeks delay between the two. Will the Gateway Network still work correctly in the meanwhile? I mean in the time when plant 1 is already upgraded to 8.1.53 and plant 2 is still 8.1.10? …

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JordanCClark April 7, 2026, 4:01pm 4

If you have any vision clients running on a Raspberry Pi, you may need to look at this (from painful experience):