HighByte Intelligence Hub Version 1.4.1

New Features: 
  • Updated CSV File connector ​(inbound only) to support: 
    • ​Processing files in a directory and any sub-directories 
    • User-specified delimiter (defaults to comma separated) 
  • Added support for caching input values for a user-specified lifetime interval. 
  • Added support for referencing instance attributes in a modeled instance’s expression. 
  • Added support for referencing two-dimensional arrays of primitive values within an expression.
  • Updated MQTT connector to support user specified location to place the instance name in output values. 
  • Updated SQL connector to support: 
    • Queries can reference one or more input values from any connection 
    • Ability to persist an index value to be used in successive queries 
    • Writing to a non-default schema for tables and stored procedures 
    • Reading timestamp columns to be used as an index 
Fixes: 
  • Fixed issue with a flow no longer executing if it contains at least one source input that has dependency inputs that cannot be read.
  • Fixed Store and Forward resource leak. 
  • Fixed issue with detecting recursive models.
  • Fixed CSV connector resource leak related to processed files.
  • Fixed CSV connector issue where failing to read data from a file and did not move it to the error directory. 
  • Fixed OPC UA connector issue where the server’s session timeout was not properly observed. 
  • Fixed OPC UA connector issue with making concurrent Sign and Encrypt connections to the same server. 
  • Fixed OPC UA connector issue where it was possible to issue a read / write request with no items. 
  • Fixed REST connector issue where the flatten model setting was not observed when using a customized output template. 
  • Fixed Sparkplug connector issue in regard to how DateTime values were published. 
  • Fixed SQL connector issue where logging a NULL value to a float/real type failed. ​​ 
  • Fixed issue with flows not observing the trigger interval when its expression results in a bad quality value.​

HighByte Intelligence Hub Version 1.4

New Features:
  • Added support for CSV File connector ​(inbound only). 
  • Added support for one- and two-dimensional array data values of primitive or modeled data.
  • Added support for multiple inputs, instances and/or outputs for a single flow.
  • Added support for adding, removing and listing certificates / keys (via managecerts command file).
  • Updated flow trigger expressions to support deadband calculations.
  • Updated JavaScript engine (Graal) for compatibility with Java 15.
  • Updated Azure Event Hubs connector to support user configurable timeout settings.
  • Updated MQTT connector to support:
    • Error messages to include more detailed information
    • Reads (inbound subscriptions)
    • Reading of array values
    • User specified QoS indicator per output
    • User specified certificates
    • Wildcard (#) character for an output's topic
  • Updated MQTT connector and runtime to allow for the use of user specified certificates.
  • Updated MQTT Sparkplug connector to support:
    • Arrays
    • Publishing bad quality metrics when input data is not available
    • Wildcard (#) character for both device ID and metrics for inputs and outputs
  • Updated OPC UA connector to support:​
    • Sign and encrypt (Basic256Sha256)
    • Username / Password (Basic256)
    • Writing of modeled data. The OPC UA server must support an address space hierarchy that matches the model definition.
  • Updated REST connector to support:
    • Formatting published values via templates
    • Reading of array values
  • Updated SQL connector to support:
    • Automatic creation of tables 
    • Generic JDBC with user deployed drivers
    • Multi-row reads
    • Stored procedures for outputs
    • Writing _name and _timestamp metadata
    • Writing complex data as a JSON blob
  • Generalized read / write error messages across all connectors.
Fixes:
  • Fixed MQTT connector Greengrass self-signed certificate validation issue. 
  • Fixed OPC UA anonymous policy ID interoperability issue with servers that do not use the “anonymous” string identifier. ​​
  • Fixed issue with not automatically starting a flow upon fixing any configuration errors. ​
  • Fixed issue with not automatically propagating model changes to enabled flows. 
  • Fixed time drift issue around the execution of flows. This was more apparent on a system with high resource utilization. 
  • ​Fixed issue where a UI driven read that fails did not generate appropriate log messages to troubleshoot the issue.
  • Fixed issue with referencing complex data value element names containing space characters in an expression.
  • Fixed OPC UA connector interoperability issues: (a) specifying the correct close secure channel message indicator in a packet, (b) support for message chunking, (c) fixed message buffer size negotiation conflicts, (d) support for expanded node IDs in a browse request, (e) proper inclusion of a KeyUsages field in self signed application instance certificates.
  • Fixed issue with incorrectly flagging a modeled instance's expression invalid before attempting to pull in the correct real time data to satisfy the expression.
  • Fixed Azure IoT SiteWise connector to ignore null/empty attributes in modeled values.
  • Fixed MQTT connector to return the appropriate result code on connection failures.

User Interface Only Updates:
  • Allowed viewing the schema of an input in the reference browser.
  • Allowed on-demand reads of any input.
  • Moved the default location of frontend configuration.json file to /config/settings.json.
  • Added warning for users if there is a version mismatch at login page.
  • Changed retrieval of the settings.json file to explicitly use no cache.
  • Fixed issue in which changing the Group As field for a model or instance may not correctly update.
  • Redesigned working with flow sources and Targets.
  • Redesigned reference browser to be context sensitive and support multiple object types.

HighByte Intelligence Hub Version 1.3

New Features: 
  • Added AWS IoT SiteWise (outbound) connector.
  • Added Azure Event Hubs (outbound) connector.
  • Added ​Azure IoT Hub (outbound) connector.
  • Added HTTP ​REST Client (inbound / outbound) connector.
  • Added PostgreSQL (inbound / outbound) connector.
    • Includes the ability to execute a query for validation and a preview of what will be available as input data
    • ​Includes an Object Explorer for validating connectivity settings and discovering tables and views available for queries
  • ​Added MySQL (inbound / outbound) connector.
  • ​Added Microsoft SQL Server (inbound / outbound) connector.
  • Added support for user configurable application data directory.
  • Added OPC UA support for Opaque Node IDs (required to connect to some OPC UA servers).
  • Added support for store and forward.
  • Added model attribute support for type Any.
  • Added new reference browser to make finding and selecting inputs much easier.
  • Added usage support for inputs, outputs and instances to make it easier to track how configuration elements are referenced.
  • Added support for reordering model attributes.
Fixes:
  • Enhanced Sparkplug connector. Updates include:
    • Support for reading multiple metrics on a single input
    • Support for command requests to / from other nodes to rebirth
    • Support for device birth messages
    • ​Support for templates (inbound)
  • Improved front-end load / update form performance.
  • Improved front-end user feedback / error messaging.
  • ​Fixed issue where a model's attribute type and required settings were not respected.
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HighByte Intelligence Hub Version 1.2

New Features:
  • Added support for OpenJDK.
  • Added support for Sparkplug. Supports reading simple metrics and writing simple or modeled values to a metric(s). Ensures EoN is birthed before attached devices. When appropriate, automatically block metrics in a single publish.
  • Added new connection setting for controlling if modeled values should be flattened before written to an output.
  • Added support for grouping models and instances.
  • Added HTTPS support for REST-based configuration services.
  • Added OnlyChangesCompressed publish mode support for flows. In this mode, only changed attributes of a modeled value are published.
  • Added support for Azure connector (runtime only).​
Fixes:  
  • Fixed OPC UA browse failure for server results that exceeded 16KB of data.
  • Fixed failure to load resource strings on systems with a non-English default locale.
  • Fixed resource leak that could occur when reconnecting to an OPC UA server.
  • Fixed OPC UA endpoint validation issue when using an IP address versus a hostname.
  • Fixed issue where model names could conflict with built-in types (e.g., Boolean, Int32, Real64, String).
  • Updated the format of a modeled instance's value to allow multiple values to be published to the same MQTT topic (rather than require a separate MQTT output for each value).
  • Updated event log dates to use a 2-digit numeric for month (instead of its 3-alpha character equivalent) for consistency across systems independent of locale.
  • Updated REST API to return an appropriate error response string when the deletion of a connection, input, output, model, instance, or flow fails.
  • Updated product information to include version / build information for both configuration and runtime components.
  • Enhanced configuration support for cloning nested models.
  • Enhanced configuration search filtering to include additional fields and inputs and outputs.
  • Enhanced OPC UA browse viewer to support adding an entire branch for import.
  • Enhanced configuration error messaging.  ​

HighByte Intelligence Hub Version 1.1

New Features:
  • Improved user interface / experience configuring the Intelligence Hub:
    • Shallow cloning of connections, models,  instances and flows
    • List pagination for large datasets (a connection's input and output lists
    • ​Search filtering
  • Flows now support 4 triggers: Always (1.0.0 behavior), OnChange, OnTrue and WhileTrue.
  • Flows now support 2 publish modes: All (1.0.0 behavior) and OnlyChanges.
  • Added description field for connections, models, instances and flows.
  • Added support for nested models / instances.
  • Added OPC UA support for data values of type DateTime. An appropriate error message is now logged when encountering an OPC UA data value type that is not currently supported.
Fixes:  
  • Improved user interface error handling / messaging in the event a connection to the runtime service fails.
  • Fixed task scheduling performance issues related to reading inputs, constructing a model, running expressions and publishing the results as compared to the configured interval.
  • Fixed issue where a modeled instance's published value did not maintain the attribute order set by the user (attributes were incorrectly sorted alphabetically).
  • Fixed OPC UA connection validation issue when an endpoint uri contained uppercase characters in its hostname.
  • Fixed user interface performance / scalability issues around large datasets (OPC UA browse results and a connection's input and output lists).
  • Updated Paho Client MQTT library to 1.2.4. This update resolved an issue related to re-establishing a connection with a broker when one or more persistence (QoS) files were left over from a previous run.