Release V24.1

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Built on Windows Server 2019 Standard

MSBuild v17.0

MSI: Wix v1.14.2
Released on: 10/21/2024
 

If .NET Framework 4.7.1 or greater is not present on the system, it must be installed prior to installation.

SHA384 : C491B9D604292E75082B6234F05ED60C84FA3D87F56F91227A8112092246087C5C10163D9BE39751141155FE5367641F
SHA256 : CD29D91EC047F3EED6B83DF3ED796C9549EE208C5CBD85D82B627223EDEDD0EB
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SHA1 : D511B59E9B0A08A8184AE3F8EB4AB6BA30B10DBD
 

Features

Administrator

• Better formatting for large numbers

• Historian: Add Snapshot utility to gather diagnostic information about hdb files and the computer system

• Views: Add additional metrics to Home tile

• Axiom: Audit screen supports paging of messages

• Calculations: Improve Asset picker operation with a large number of Assets

• Logger: Removed Logger status information from Logger tile

• Message Log: Add Logging Support for Defined Categories to the Verbosity levels

• MQTT Collector: Add DataSet Prefix validation

• OPC Collector: Add DataSet Prefix validation

• OPC Collector: Path Based Session allows a group name that is just whitespace

• SQL Collector: Add DataSet Prefix validation

Axiom

• Add Summation Footer to Grid control for to sum columns from current page

• Add concept of AssetTrend to TrendGraph control for enhanced Asset functionality

• Add State drawing method to TrendGraph control

• Add Interpolated aggregate to TrendGraph control

• Add ColumnAlignment property to Grid control to set alignment of column headers/footers

• Improve file/folder copy/paste behavior

• Update menu icons

• Update locale library

• Update Relative time Tutorials for the Start functions

• Add additional trace logging for troubleshooting purposes

Excel Add-in

• Added authentication option to use an API token rather than user sign-in through Identity

• Changed Canary functions so they no longer automatically re-calculate whenever any formula in the spreadsheet calculates

Collectors

• CSV: Add ability to import multiple files per import directory

• CSV: Add ability to interpret Unix time values

• Store and Forward: Add diagnostic logging for Web API calls

• Store and Forward: Add ability to pause specific Sessions

• Store and Forward: Filter out duplicate timestamps during timestamp normalization

Historian

• Validate hdb file when manually moved from one Historian to another

• Always use IPC endpoint to License service when it is local

• Calculations: Add ability to calculate the sum of values from a specific point in time using the DurationSinceDateTime function with the Sum function
  Sum('[localhost.DataSet.Tag]', DurationSinceDateTime('2024-10-1'))

• Calculations: Improve efficiency with Store and Forward service startup logic

• Views: Add auto rebuild to Linked Tags based on schedule

• Views: Add path, deep and search parameters to getTagProperties method in web API

• Views: Add path, deep and search parameters to getLiveDataToken method in web API

• ODBC: Always use IPC endpoint to License service when it is local

Identity

• Ability to specify the API Token Id when creating a new API Token

• When Enhanced Audit Logging is turned on, log message when the Identity Security Key is changed

Installer

• Skip dmp files when zipping up old configuration data in migration process

• Give the canary service account read/execute permission on the "Program Files\Canary" directory

• Include the SQLite database for the CygNet collector

• Prevent installation older unsupported versions of Windows (1803 and newer)

Bug Fixes

Administrator

• Administrator service logs NullReferenceException when Historian is not running

• Identity: Mistyping something in the TagSecurity "Add Permission" dialog crashes the administrator client

• Identity: Scrolling doesn't work correctly in "Edit Application" dialog

• Calculations: Calculations outputting more than 999 tags shows as 0 on the Calculation status screen

• Calculations: Calculation status screen always displays zero for "Events In Progress"

• Calculations: Function "PreviousValue" does not match the function name when selecting specific trigger tags

• Views: Edit Virtual View screen only displays 1,000 "Child Assets" when the number is greater than 1,000

• OPC Collector: Change the DataSet field from a combobox to a textbox because existing DataSets can no longer be obtained

• OPC Collector: Make user apply changes for all OPC settings changes

• MQTT Collector: Delete tags does not work correctly when a single tag is selected

• Diagnostic Health System: StoreAndForward.TotalBufferedDataCount tag does not always log the correct values

• Canary generated self-signed certificate does not give Administrators permission to private key

Axiom

• Fix background of screen navigation icons when in edit mode

• Linear Gauge's color fails to change when comparison is set to =

• Log EAL message when a Session is terminated through the Administrator

• URL parameters for “Mode” is case sensitive and should not be

• URL parameters timestart/timeend do not work when preference is time zone other than computer time zone

• Access denied error when changing Basepath

• Setting Basepath to UNC path causes Access Denied error to SQLite database

• Application/Control tutorials not showing/selecting properties

• Cannot Copy/Cut/Paste/Add folder to or from the ReadOnly folder

• Chart URL parameter TimeEnd/TimeStart are being parsed as UTC time instead of local

• CORS/iFrame won't load in Ignition

• Version 23 apps fail to load Valuebox limits

• DataTable columns swap on updates when tags have similar names

• DataTable does not display all columns when aggregates are set

• DataTable copy to clipboard does not work

• Empty error box is displayed when a folder containing a chart/application is deleted

• EventTable not showing Properties

• Export doesn't work for calculations that use NODATA

• Cannot exit full screen mode

• Line control arrow heads not displaying

• No Enhanced Audit Log message is logged when saving/deleting application/charts

• Statistics sometimes stay in calculating state

• Tag browse displays duplicate tags when there are a large number of tags

• Central Mexico time zone is improperly observing DST because of outdated time zone database

• TrendGraph drag scales enters link mode when drag completes

• TrendGraph missing a vertical grid on first render

• User is not prompted to save changes for app when they attempt to navigate away or log out

• Views resources are not released when browser tab is closed

• When many 25+ trends are on chart and legend is set to key, the legend does not display correctly

Excel Add-in

• Set Endpoint menu shows an "http" option but that option is no longer available

• Uninstall not removing registry entries for Excel Add-In

Collectors

• MQTT: Creates two SaF sessions when you enable a connection group

• OPC UA: Tags in a top level node are not returned when browsing

• SQL: If password contains a ; the login/test fails

• Store and Forward: Purging sessions is slow when the input state is "Closed"

• Store and Forward: Log Enhanced Audit Log message if a session is purged

• Store and Forward: Purging a session that has no buffered data does not work

Historian

• Buffer overflow crash from formatting very large Message log messages

• Data can be overwritten if the newest hdb file is manually moved offline and then logging starts

• Prevent taking a file offline if it is actively being logged to

• Calculations: Does not support an apostrophe in the Calculation name

• Calculations: Aggregate with a start time moving into the past may calculate incorrectly

• Calculations: Bitwise operators not working for numbers larger than 65,535

• Calculations: PreviousValue starts returning the current value in live mode if the input tag is time extended

• Calculations: Having a Views Remote Historian that does not exist/not connected causes the service to fail to start

• Publisher: Live Data Check Interval is not honored

• Views: browseTags web API with deep parameter can sometimes not return all tags if user has limited permissions

• Views: browseTags web API call fails if only passing search and deep

• Views: getEvents web API json elements use the wrong casing

• Views: getTagContext web API oldestTimestamp and latestTimestamp use the wrong casing

• Views: getTagData web API, if last tag in tag list is invalid and an aggregate is passed, continuation is always null

• Views: getLiveDataToken web API does not return errors when requesting for tags that do not exist

• Views: getTagData2 web API timezone not being applied

• Views: Can periodically get locked up when many Historian reader handles are active

• Views: Can rebuild a DataSet thousands of times per day

• Views: Enhanced Audit Log messages say Canary Administrator instead of Views

• Views: Web API doesn't return an appropriate response when the User Token's JWT cannot be refreshed

• Views: Web API request for duplicate tags returns error

• ODBC: Service crashes when an invalid aggregate is passed in the where clause

Identity

• Retrieve group names for Kerberos groups

• Authentication failure for user whose "pre-Windows 2000" logon name is not the same as their modern OS logon name

• Nested Windows groups are not discovered at user sign in

Installer

• Do not allow people to upgrade from a previous version that was not at least version 23.2.1

• Service Data Path is not editable on a new install

• Large number of warnings are added to the Windows Event Viewer when installing software

• Migration: Axiom base path is not migrated