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Mango Automation 2.6 released
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Greetings Mango Users,
Mango Automation version 2.6.0 has been released. This is a major release with a lot of important changes and improvements. This release includes significant changes to user permission system and includes a powerful new Excel Reporting Module, read below for more details and the full list.
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Mango Admin and User Improvements
- New Internal Metric page displays detailed information on internal operation and memory usage.
- New Start-up extensions can be used to set memory settings for different sized systems.
- Added ability to set thread pools on system setting page. Important for very large installations.
- Added system settings to customs login page and other custom page locations.
- Upgraded user permissions to support user groups.
- New permission setting allows bulk permission setting of data points.
- Added permission options to control access to modules and features.
- Added template system for data point settings such as logging and text rendering options. When templates are updated changes are pushed to all points using the template.
- Added ability to export and import data points in csv format.
- The value of the data point is now included into the email fired from an event detector.
- Added ability to create Virtual comm ports on the system setting page.
- Added option to include system performance information and process thread list in a Event Handler email. Useful to collect diagnostics information in the event of a server performance issue.
- New code editor with syntax highlighting for meta data points and scripting data sources.
- New event detector for detecting smoothness. Useful for detecting a bad sensor or increased "noise" in a signal.
- Multiple important security vulnerabilities resolve.
New Developer Features
- Added ability to override web.xml via placing a modified file at overrides/web/web.xml
- Added ability to enhance the base web.xml by placing override-web.xml into overrides/web/override-web.xml
- Added new Module Element Definitions for Templates, Rest Models and Rest JSON deserialization so new Modules can leverage these features
- Added ability for Data Source modules to allow exporting of their data points as CSV and JSON
- Added new states for Modules to use: Install and Upgrade
- Improved Scripting functionality by streamlining old system and adding new Utilities for Data Point and Data Source management
- Integration of RQL parsing via AST
- Various security enhancements
- Upgrade AmCharts to 3.17.2
- Improved reliability of scripts to stop and start Mango
- Upgraded startup/shutdown/restart scripts to log to logs/ma-script.log
- Many changes and improvements to the RESTful API and JavaScript API
- Upgraded example and documentation on using the JavaScript API
Enterprise NoSQL Database Improvements
- Added Incremental Backup options and restore tool
- various bugs fixed
- Greatly improved corruption scan speed and added multi threading options
- Greatly improved backup and purge speeds
- Upgrade library to capture bugfix for backdate posting and performance improvements to backdate posting.
- Adding System settings for adjusting corruption scan threads.
BACnet Data Source and Publisher
- Upgraded to work with core version 2.6.0
- Adding Mango API model support
- Adding SerialUID's to the point locators, on module start existing UIDs are replaced with -1.
- Changed COV subscription IDs to use the data point ID instead of incrementing counter.
- Upgraded BACnet4J to 3.1.2
- Fix for BACnet error "Cannot send a request in the socket listener thread."
Persistent TCP Data Source and Publisher
- Added sync range count request timeout setting for publisher
- Added logic to publisher to allow reconnecting syncs even if the connection is terminated
- Added a column for the date/time that all data points are synced to on the edit page
- Improved sync from time tracking accuracy within the sync handler
- Added Device Name column to points list
- Bugfix to ensure that the new sync from time gets set and the publisher does not have to be re-started.
- Bugfix where not every point was getting the sync from time set on the page.
- Added ability to set the sync from time on the edit page.
- Added socket timeout setting
- Added test connection period setting
- Added sync response timeout setting
Modbus Data Source and Publisher
- Added ability to use multiple types of modbus registers such as 2 byte Int or 4 byte float.
- Fixed bug on Data Source page where adding a point via the tool would not work.
- Adding additional publisher options for publishing Numeric points as Integers and 4 byte floats.
- Upgrading Modbus4j to 3.0.0 to be able to adjust message timing, and reduce dependencies
- Adding settings to override the Modbus4j default message timing settings
Custom Dashboards
- Added Javascript API version 2.0
- Added documentation for API
- New examples for API version 2.0
- Upgraded to work with core version 2.6.x
- Modified RealTimeModel to use 'timestamp' instead of 'time' for its timestamp
- Bugfixes
- Add RealtimeDataProvider and PointEventManager
- CAUTION: Removed persist path to allow full upgrade of module's web folder. Ensure any custom work is moved to the overrides folder in the core.
- To add new files to this module place them in the core/overrides/web/modules/dashboards/web/ folder with an identical structure
- Added ability to override files using the mango-javascript URL mapping prefix
New Modules:
Excel Reports
- This is a powerful reporting module that allows you to use a Excel document as a template for reports. Mango will automatically insert data into the document and optionally email it to you on a schedule. Learn more.Learn more
Measurlogic DTS Cell Data Source
- Data Source to receive energy data sent from a Measurlogic cellular energy meter.
eGauge Data Source
- Data Source Module to poll data from eGauge energy meter including history sync.
Data Point Detail View
- New HTML5 page for viewing data point details. Includes amChart with roll up and interval options for chart.
