Release V21.2.0

Built on WindowsServer 2019 Standard

MSBuild v16.0

MSI: Wix v1.14.2

Released on: 05/13/2021

Features

Administrator

• Improved handling of duplicate certificate errors when loading needed certificate added to several services
• Calculations: Load tags from the local Historian as localhost.dataset.tag to make it easier to export/import

Axiom

• Two new Axiom controls, Data Entry for writing data values to a tag and the BarChart control for quickly creating aggregated data bar charts

   

• Now return a generic error to user and write a detailed error to Message log on an Axiom exception for improved security
• Better feedback when aggregates are not properly configured on tag by showing an error
• Added a rotation property to Label control
• Created a drag box to select any control that touches the box within the initial parent
• Added InactiveTimeout info to url parameters in tutorial
• Improved reporting error logging messages

Calculation Server

• Prevented time extensions from being enabled on output tags with timestamp adjustments
• Improved efficiency when starting/stopping a large number of calculations

Collectors

• Sender/Receiver: Add ability to store manual data entries including user metadata
• MQTT Collector: Add option to obsolete discovered tags not in a subsequent birth message
• MQTT Collector: Add support for a client certificate
• CygNet Collector: Add auto increment DataSet creation option for larger tag count systems
• CygNet Collector: Improve efficiency when recovering from a Resync task failure

Excel Add-in

• Add "Calculate Sheet" button to Canary toolbar to cause Canary formulas to re-run

Historian

• Now supports file recovery of HDB2 files that have an annotation past the end of the data
• Added offline file count tag to Diagnostic Health System tags

Installer

• Added client install MSI files (x86 and x64) to support installing the Excel Add-in and ODBC client standalone
• Made the CanarySetup MSI callable with command-line arguments to support auto-deployment tools

ODBC Connector

• Added TagProperties, Views, AssetTypes, AssetInstances, and AssetTags tables

Views

• Trimmed the API log database so it does not grow too large
• Added support for long-lived API access tokens to alleviate username/password usage

Bug Fixes

Administrator

• Calculations: Status page was not sorting tag columns numerically
• Calculations: Roll-up function was not showing correct evaluation in UI
• MQTT Collector: Deleting last connection group crashed the admin if more than three groups were deleted

Axiom

• Text property of TextBox was not updating on screen when changed in the designer
• TextBox would overflow its predefined width
• Non-admin users were not able to perform Save As if the application/chart resides in the ReadOnly folder
• Timestamps were an hour off in the Santiago time zone
• Calculated trends could have caused issues with the value, delta, and zoom cursors

Calculation Server

• Too many threads were being created when too many calculations were backfilling simultaneously
• Too many threads were being created when too many calculations transitioned from backfill to live mode simultaneously

Historian

• Issues with storing manually entered data resolved
• Under rare conditions the previous value was time extended instead of the current value
• When inserting data into a tag that had not changed for months may have caused file corruption

Installer

• ODBC client was missing NetworkMessages.xml

Views

• Occasionally would throw KeyNotFound exception calling GetTagProperties