Release Notes from 3.5.0 to 3.5.0-beta.2

MangoBot

core - Version 3.5.0

Adding data point tags to email template model
Adding email template help for email event handlers
Adding Apache commons-text 1.4 as dependency
Removing Apache commons-lang dependency in favor of commons-lang3
Adding ability to format values as hex using AnalogRenderer See renderer help.
Adding tags into RealTimeDataPointValue for use in high performance realtime data cache (REST controller access via /realtime endpoint)
Creating DAO for user defined filestores, access methods to file store definitions in DAO
Fixing data point delete confirmation in all data points table
Improve performance and memory footprint of User Event Cache which is used to speed up recent alarm access
Fix for class cast error due to annotated point value classes in cache
Change JavaScript wrappers to supply null if there is no value, instead of default values false, 0, “” and null on times is no value, like p.past(MINUTE).firstTime could now be null where previously 1
Give “add data source” and “add publisher” buttons a tabindex, click it on enter or spacebar when selected
Fix for ValueChangeCounter discrete statistic to not assume a value at exactly the period start as a change within the period
Fix for Mango JavaScript statistics to handle edge case where a value existing at the from time may have been missed
Use XIDs in publisher REST endpoints for points lists
Upgrade to Swagger 2 for REST api documentation, view page at /swaggerui.html
Fix additional context and unchange point value for inactive scripts on set point handlers
Add byXid method to DataPointQuery and DataSourceQuery in script environments
Making Log4J configuration fully asynchronous to improve performance
Adding system setting for HTTP session timeout, default 48 Hours
Adding module definition to let modules add ‘utilities’ to the Mango Javascript context
Remove static ‘instance’ member of Dao classes replace with lazy loading getInstance() class so Mango Javascript calls don’t change
Check before NPE in CSV message converters
Enable JSON import during script validation if set via JsonEmport.setImportDuringValidation(true); in the script
Adding RQL keywords csvContainsAll, csvContainsAny, permissionsContainsAll, permissionsContainsAny to query a permissions member, only available in v2 endpoints
Control if the point value cache is considered in JavaScript statistics functions, default to not using the cache
Fix print( contextPoint ) in script environments to print getStats as function name instead of stats
Allow using LOG statements in Event Handler script evaluation
Log Switch User events when a user switches to another and back
Adding initial support for Passay (www.passay.org) password validation to the backend for full release during the 3.5.x stream
Adding ability to set password expiration period, default is to be disabled
Implement setPointValue in HistoricalDataPoint, save value unconditionally
Bugfix for repeatedly saving the Point Hierarchy creating many data point listeners
Shorten description for Data Point event notify work items to reduce memory footprint in large systems.
Improve performance/stability when multi-casting User notifications of alarms
Add ability to change password after it expires if password is known
Upgrade Spring and Jetty dependencies for compatibility with java 9/10
Fix DWR Warning LOG messages about enum’s not having a Javascript property
Do not allow spaces in permissions
Adding ability for publishers to publish a data point’s runtime attributes.

advancedComponents - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

advancedScheduler - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Prevent concurrency bug for terminating a schedule exact at a transition time may not actually terminate the schedule

asciiFile - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

BACnet - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Adding max master, max info frames and usage timeout settings to MS/TP Configuration to control master polling sequence
Adding support for 3rd party realtime mstp linux kernel module
Expanding published data type options on BACnet publisher for multistate usability and control if published points are settable
Fixed race condition where COV points may have delayed a poll period before sending their COV subscriptions

brewersdashboard - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

cloudConnect - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

controlcore - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

dashboardDesigner - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

dataFile - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Improve poll class documentation
Change 40 character XID restriction to 100 character
Validate mapped point exists
Export data type as string rather than ID
Improve point locator help
Export mapped point as XID rather than ID

dataImport - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

dataPointDetailsView - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

deviceConfig - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

dnp3 - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

egauge - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

envcands - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

excelReports - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Change resulting report filename scheme from runtime_templateName to reportName_runtime
Substring error message to first 512 characters for database column width
Bugfix for new UI to resolve error message about help translation being from dashboard designer
Modify statistics to use bookend query to handle edge case where there is a value exactly at report from time.
Add XLSM file extension into template selector in new UI
Validate template when POST’ed to /run endpoint with a time series to be applied
Bugfix in TimeSeriesModel translation

galil - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

graphicalViews - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Bugfix for int conversion failure messages on browsers that allow component positions in sub-pixel precision

Haystack - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

http - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

internal - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Changes to handle Monitor points with null values as this can now happen in Mango 3.5 to indicate a monitor has no information and is not actually 0
Escaping HTML in monitor IDs

jmxds - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

jsonFileImport - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

log4jDS - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Fix to allow > 1 data source with the same name to run at the same time
IMPORTANT, the log message pattern now matches exactly what you see in the Logging Console UI of Mango so if you use pattern matching you will need to review your pattern
Improved regex test utility to show last real log message to test against
Add throttling ‘Message repeat interval’ setting to prevent handling identical messages occurring quickly together

log4JReset - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

loggingConsole - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

maintenanceEvents - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Allowing multiple data points to link to an event
Allowing multiple data sources to link to an event
Adding timeout for Manual type events
Adding toggle permission to allow toggling the event if not admin
Adding REST endpoints and websockets to manage events
Adding monitor point to track count of created Maintenance event configurations
Adding custom query for events endpoint to return Maintenance events based on RQL query of Maintenance Event configurations
Adding maintenanceEventsUtility to javascript context to allow manipulation of Maintenance Events
Adding custom query for events endpoint to return events based on linked data point or data source xids

mangoApi - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Adding ExportCode and ExportCodes models for use in REST api to provide code/id/i18n key and translated description
Adding PATCH framework to simplify partial update logic for V2 models, used in new PATCH endpoints
Expose tags in realtime endpoint results
Adding lastName to user model
Fix bug where PUT endpoints were returning the old XID in the location header if the xid was changed (v2/data-points, v2/publishers, v1/data-sources)
Allowing null values to be returned in ValueMonitor model
Added endpoints for user filestore CRUD
Fix for class cast error due to annotated point value classes in cache
Adding v2 point value statistics endpoint at /v2/point-values/statistics/{xids}
Use XIDs in publisher points lists
Add admin only endpoints in v2 demo rest controller to generate exceptions for testing
Restrict json-data POST endpoint to only let users with the global Create JSON Data permission to create new entries
Bugfix for /v2/script endpoints to properly return script log/print output
Fix bug so GET /v1/translations does not fail and returns all translations
Add validation to require a data type when posting values to /v2/point-values endpoint
Fixing bug where Importing invalid system settings wouldn’t return the propert validation failed message
Add /v2/point-values/{xid}/attributes PUT endpoint to modify runtime attributes of a data point

mangoESConfiguration - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

MangoIOTools - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

mangoNoSqlDatabase - Version 3.5.0

Fix for class cast error due to annotated point value classes in cache
Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Put fast / slow reload link buttons on new system settings page
Improved cancel action responsiveness in merge / migrate / mergrate
Improved status request rate in merge / migrate / mergrate / restore
Moved corruption scan reports to rolling files, settings in ma.home/classes/log4j2.xml
Moved reversible conversion reports to rolling files, settings in ma.home/classes/log4j2.xml
Upgrade IasTsdb library for improved handling of failed data insertion attempts, data is retained and retried.

mangoUI - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

mbus - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

measurlogicDTSCell - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

meta - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Remove ma.log spam from disabled or missing points at error level with stack trace, now log message at debug level without stack trace
Script log rollover at 1MB keep maximum of 5 old files
Fix set() function in history generations to save all data passed to set()

modbus - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Fix ‘encoding’ in API for serial data source to use RTU / ASCII instead of the translation key in getting the DS JSON

mqttClientDataSource - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

onewire - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

opcda - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

openv4j - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

pachube - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

pakbus - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

persistent - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Fix publisher points table message column to displayed sync’ed from time, even on disabled publishers
Fix data point’s data type id on edit page to enable manually creating points
Flag all points as unreliable if there are no connections to the data source, reliable if a connection exists
Making Persistent Data Source points ‘settable’ so the value set is sent to the publishing side and not saved on the data source side
Optionally allow publishing reliability attribute of points

pid - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

pointLinks - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Script log rollover at 1MB keep maximum of 5 old files

pop3 - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

reports - Version 3.5.0

Fix for class cast error due to annotated point value classes in cache
Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

scheduledEvents - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

scripting - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Script log rollover at 1MB keep maximum of 5 old files
Allow scripting data sources not to have cron patterns, and be driven by events only

serial - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

snmp - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Change integer type back to signed integers, gauge 32 should be used for unsigned integers

sqlConsole - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

sqlds - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

ssh - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Data type validation on points, check commands are nonempty if settable or queryable
Change export to use data type name instead of id number, import support legacy
Improve point JSON export to exclude unused fields

sstGlobalScripts - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

sstGraphics - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

sstTheme - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

TCPIP - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x
Improved exception handling for parse exceptions
Tune down logging exceptions for things beyond the data source’s control (i.e. connection refused) to debug level
Add point locator validation

templateConfig - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

twilio - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

virtualDS - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

vmstat - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

watchlists - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x

zwave - Version 3.5.0

Upgraded to work with core version 3.5.x