2024-07-01 - Release 1.6

Highlights

• Enhanced Hierarchy Management: View and manage hierarchy details, including datastore updates for all measurements in a hierarchy

• MQTT Connector with Transformation: Introduced a new MQTT connector with real-time payload transformation using JSONata

• Pre-Configured Module Store: Includes third-party container images like InfluxDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Grafana, and NodeRED

• Improved Monitoring and Device Management: Enhanced metrics for OS, disks, memory, and CPU, along with better device management tools

• Simplified Device Provisioning: UI-guided installation for Edge Devices and added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

New Features

• Hierarchy Root Node now shows Hierarchy Details and lets you change Datastore for all measurements collected for the hierarchy

• Enhanced Support for ISA-95 tag naming convention in platform

• Asset Hierarchy Nodes can now be ordered using drag'n'drop

• New MQTT Connector now available

• Added ability to transformation MQTT Payloads from MQTT Connector on the fly using an Editor for MQTT Read Tags based on JSONata (a lightweight query and transformation language for JSON data)

• Improved performance of backend resources

• Added UI to manage Device Ingestion Endpoints in platform settings

• Added UI to manage Device Management Endpoints in platform settings

• Added UI to manage Device Provisioning Endpoint in platform settings

• Tricloud Nexus now comes with 3rd party container images pre-configured as Modules in Module Store: InfluxDb, Redis Cache, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Mosquitto MQTT Broker, Grafana and NodeRED.

• Device Provisioning Scripts are publicly available for download by any platform instance

• Added UI-guided installation of new Edge Devices

• Added Provisioning support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

• Added Mount Module that enables configuration to be managed for other 3rd party Modules

• UI enhancements for Time Series Explorer including better filtering of Tags

• Module Store now lets you edit module settings for each Module Version

• Added Validation step in Device Configuration that prevents accidently deploying an Asset Hierarchy that is not validated

• Added functionality to Export and Import Asset Hierarchies of a specific version

• Improved Monitoring and Device Configuration by adding better metrics and information about OS, Disks, Memory and CPU

• Added ability to remove a Device from the Management Portal

• And many more...

Fixes

• Fixed that Module logs with special characters could cause a 500 internal server error

• Fixed that you were unable to delete device management endpoint with a device that had no deployments

• Fixed Device Connection State which was not always up to date

• Fixed minor issues that would prevent editing asset hierarchies

• And many more...

Breaking Changes

• Removed IoT Edge provisioning support for RHEL 7 and Debian 10 (Support deprecated by Microsoft)

Security Updates

• Upgraded Management Portal to .NET 8

• Updated IoT Edge Runtime 1.5.4 LTS

• Upgraded Telerik UI for Blazor to version 6.0.0

• Update Blazor ApplicationInsights to V3