# Weekly 7.9 Changelogs - 2021

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [January 28, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709 "2021-01-28T17:15:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/1 "2021-01-28T17:15:53Z")

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This post contains changelog entries for weekly 7.9 builds available in 2021.

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/2 "2021-01-28T17:16:01Z")

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Closed on January 28, 2021, 5:16pm UTC



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**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/3 "2021-01-28T17:18:11Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 7.9.18 -b20210126

## Connectivity

**1410: Backport IGN-1303 to 7.9: Support writes to USINT, UINT, UDINT, and ULINT tags in L8x controllers** Support writes to USINT, UINT, UDINT, and ULINT tags in L8x controllers.

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/4 "2021-01-28T17:20:39Z")

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**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/5 "2021-02-23T14:42:57Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 7.9.18-b20210223

## Data Model

**1636: Backport FB-15581 to 7.9: Latched Value on Transaction Group Causes Unintended OPC writes**  
The “Set NULL DB values to default” option on block groups will now apply to rows that are undefined based on the Where condition, so that default values will be written in a DB -\> OPC scenario.

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**Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/6 "2021-03-09T15:48:10Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 7.9.18-b20210308

## Connectivity

**1598: 7.9: Writing invalid values to Unsigned datatype tags via OPC results in meaningless error messages**  
A more descriptive error message is now thrown when attempting to write invalid values to unsigned datatype OPC tags.

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**Author:** ![sreis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sreis/32/14631_2.png) [@sreis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sreis)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/7 "2021-03-23T14:55:24Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 7.9.18-b20210323

## Connectivity

**2064: Regression prevents OPC UA subscription values from changing from a non-null to null value**  
Fix regression that prevented subscription values changing from a non-null value to a null value.

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**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/8 "2021-04-06T23:25:06Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 7.9.18-b20210406

## Enterprise

**1851: EAM Send Tags task combines tags in different folders into the root folder**  
Fixed an issue where tag export / import and EAM Send Tags Task would copy tags into the root folder instead of retaining their original folder structure.

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**Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/9 "2021-04-13T15:12:08Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 7.9.18-b20210413

## Enterprise

**970: Send Project Resource Task from 7.9.x Controller to 8.0.x+ Agent throws NPE**  
Fixed an issue that would allow for sending projects / project resources from a 7.9 Controller to an 8.x Agent.

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**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/10 "2021-04-20T17:37:28Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 7.9.18-b20210420

**2094: Period in gateway name causes errors on tag browse tree in Historical mode**  
Tag Browse Tree will now work correctly when periods are used in the Source and System component of Tag Path.

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**Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/11 "2021-04-27T16:05:37Z")

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**Post date:** [May 4, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/12 "2021-05-04T20:20:27Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 7.9.18-b20210504

## Visualization

**2204 (Backport to 7.9) Component translations missing after upgrading**  
Fix issue causing project upgrades to appear to lose component translations.

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**Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/13 "2021-05-25T16:04:59Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 7.9.18-b20210525

## Visualization

**1337: Backport of IGN-597: Vision User Management Component Shows user as available when set to be unavailable**  
Vision User Management component's Schedule Preview no longer shows the first day of the week as available if a modification exists which crosses into that week when available is set to false.

**2110: (Backport to 7.9) Translations break Axis names on Axes Dataset in Easy Chart**  
Now translating the Vision Easy Chart Axes property in chart configuration.

## Connectivity

**2243: Misleading column names for MonitoredItem stats**  
The table headers for monitored items details gateway page have been updated so that "Subscription Rate" and "Revised Rate" are now "Subscription Publishing Interval" and "Item Sampling Interval", respectively.

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**Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/14 "2021-06-02T11:30:45Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 7.9.18-b20210601

## Visualization

**2375: (7.9) Chromium issue in JxBrowser sometimes causes Web Browser to block indefinitely**  
Web Browser Module no longer crashes, blocks, or shows Profile errors in Vision Clients on retargets as well as the Designer when using File \> Open where each project has a web browser component.

## Data Model

**2005: 7.9.17: Cleared alarm is retriggered during failover to backup**  
Cleared alarms are no longer re-triggered during failover to backup.

## Platform

**2457: Upgrading from 7.9.3 to 7.9.17 caused HSQL deserialization errors for alarming.EventData class, preventing S&F disk cache from forwarding**  
Fixed an issue where alarm journal data serialized through store and forward within an early 7.9 version wouldn't forward properly upon upgrade.

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**Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/15 "2021-06-08T16:21:03Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 7.9.18-b20210608

## Visualization

**1354: (Backport to 7.9) Vision client launched from the designer (through the NCL) uses 256MB rather than project's heap size**  
When launching a client from within the designer, the project launch memory settings are used instead of defaulting to 256MB max.

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**Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/16 "2021-06-15T15:48:48Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 7.9.18-b20210615

## Data Model

**2783: Backport IGN-1898 to 7.9: Internal Alarm Journal truncates all events during a gateway restart**  
Fixed an issue that would cause the Internal Alarm Journal to truncate all logged data upon gateway restart.

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**Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/17 "2021-08-03T15:41:47Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 7.9.19-b20210803

## Data Model

**3766: SFCs with persist states don't resume upon startup if using redundancy [7.9]**  
Fixed an issue where any running SFCs with persist states enabled wouldn't persist between gateway restarts if the gateway was configured for redundancy.

**3767: Backport to 7.9: IGN-3185 - SFCs with parallel blocks are not seen by backup gw and do not fail over**  
Fixed an issue where SFCs with persist states or redundancy sync enabled wouldn't resume properly if last running within a transition element inside a parallel block.

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/18 "2021-08-24T17:09:21Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 7.9.19-b20210824

## Data Model

**3290: Tags stored in a Remote History Provider can have the wrong scid assigned to them (7.9)**  
Tag history stored through remote history provider will now show up correctly in historical browse trees.

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**Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/19 "2021-09-07T15:34:52Z")

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**Nightly Changelog: 7.9.19-b20210907**

## Data Model

**3924: Deleting a disabled, renamed tag provider shuts down other enabled provider**  
Fixed an issue which caused the wrong tag provider to possibly be shutdown when a recently renamed and disabled tag provider is deleted.

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**Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/weekly-7-9-changelogs-2021/42709/20 "2021-10-19T18:47:45Z")

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Nightly Changelog: 7.9.19-b20211019

## Data Model

**4200: 7.9 Vision Component Binding from a 8.1 Remote Tag Provider returns -1**  
Vision Component Bindings to 8.1 Remote Tags will provide correct values now.

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