Ignition Release Notes
Fixes, changes and features In Ignition
Version 8.3.6
Released April 27, 2026Area
Change Type
Description
Alarm Notification
Alarming
Fixed
Fixed an issue where a Twilio Voice Notification Profile page would not reflect the configured language or voice.
Alarming
Fixed
Fixed an issue where default settings were invalid when creating new Alarm Notification Profiles.
Alarming
Fixed
Remote Alarm Notification Profile now require Server Name and Target Profile on create/update.
Alarming
Fixed
Fixed an issue where Pop3AckId was set to null in Alarm Notification Emails.
Alarming
Fixed
Fixed an issue that was preventing `system.roster.addUsers()` from retaining user defined roster order.
Alarm Status
Alarming
Fixed
Percent Deadband Mode for Tag Alarms will now use the correct properties for configuration.
Alarming
Fixed
Fixed an issue where Alarm Metrics in nested folders would initialize to empty and never update.
Auditing
Security
Fixed
Fixed an issue where navigating to the Audit Profile's View Log panel on the Gateway resulted in an OutOfMemoryException.
Backup & Restore
Platform Core
Fixed
Managed Tag Providers are no longer disabled when restoring a Gateway backup with Restore Disabled checked.
Platform Core
Fixed
Fixed an issue where backup and restore processes were not validating for only the .gwbk extension type.
Cloud Edition
Containers
Fixed
Updated Cloud edition header
Config Persistence
Platform Core
Fixed
Reduced unnecessary migration warnings during gateway upgrades.
Platform Core
Fixed
Improved the performance and responsiveness of the gateway's configuration system by allowing operations on different resource types to proceed concurrently with minimal locking on changes. Per-resource-type metrics have also been added for better observability in the gateway's diagnostic tools under configuration.resources.<module>.<type>.*
Platform Core
Fixed
Fixed issue where default configurations would be re-added when upgrading Ignition
Platform Core
Fixed
Fixed `NoSuchFileException` ERROR logs when running Resource Config Sync via Scan Lock
Platform Core
Fixed
Fixed an issue where concurrent file system scans could delete digest files still in use.
Core Historian
Historian
Fixed
Fixed an issue with Core Historian queries that resulted in incorrect seed values.
Designer
Swing
Fixed
Fixed a variety of issues when using image management on Windows.
Docker
Containers
Fixed
Fixed an issue where a missing `data/gateway.xml_clean` file could cause a premature exit of the Docker entrypoint script.
Containers
Feature
Added the jq utility to the Docker image for JSON parsing.
Drivers
Comms
Fixed
Disabled BACnet LocalDevice instances now have a health check indicating they are disabled.
Comms
Fixed
IEC 61850: allow specifying a hostname instead of IP address
Comms
Fixed
The GLIBC requirement for x64 has been reduced from 2.34 to 2.29.
Comms
Fixed
The IEC 61850 driver will now disconnect from IEDs during transitions to an inactive redundant node instead of just disabling reports.
Comms
Fixed
Fixed an issue where item paths containing brackets or parentheses were not properly escaped during browse.
Comms
Fixed
Fixed an issue with the Siemens Enhanced driver where the JVM could crash while reading nodes in the same array for the first time.
EAM & Redundancy
Gateway Network
Fixed
Fixed an issue where changing a Gateway agent's target controller left it connected to the previous controller.
Gateway Network
Fixed
Fixed an issue where Gateways on different platform editions could be set up as a redundant pair.
Gateway Network
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the EAM Send Stats Interval property could be negative
Gateway Network
Fixed
Fixed an issue where uninstalling or reinstalling an EAM controller could leave agents in a Disconnected state.
Gateway Network
Fixed
Fixed an issue where EAM remote upgrades could be attempted when the agent was not ready.
Gateway Network
Fixed
Fixed an issue where changing project inheritance would break redundancy sync
Gateway Network
Fixed
Fixed an issue where protected project resources were not syncing properly with redundancy.
Event Streams
Cloud Connectors
Feature
Added tooltips for the EventStreams stage's data
Cloud Connectors
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the event stream test mode reported incorrect statuses for stages that had not received the test event.
Cloud Connectors
Fixed
Event Stream HTTP Handler will no longer log blank responses.
Cloud Connectors
Feature
Event Stream Tag Source now includes the previous value in the event metadata.
Cloud Connectors
Feature
Event Stream scripts will now correctly use the project scripting library.
Cloud Connectors
Fixed
Added ability to select an HTTP version in the Event Stream HTTP Handler.
Gateway Network
Gateway Network
Fixed
Fixed an issue with Protobuf where a dictionary with the "date" key was being deserialized incorrectly.
Gateway Network
Fixed
Fixed an issue where Remote Historian with Storage allowed pointing at Edge Historian would incorrectly show a "Running" state.
Historian
Historian
Fixed
Fixed an issue where remote sink status wasn't updating with changes to security zone policies
Historian
Fixed
Added `new `functions to simplify creation of various point types for storage in historians. These functions include: `system.historian.types.dataPoint()`
Historian
Fixed
Fixed an issue where Internal Historian (Legacy) containing illegal character
Historian
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the `system.historian.updateRegisteredNodePath()` function required specifying all arguments despite having an optional argument.
Historian
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the observation flag was not being set when storing data points with certain Sample Modes.
Historian
Fixed
Fixed an issue displaying historical trends from the alarm status table
Internal Historian
Historian
Fixed
Fixed an issue where processing Historian actors and data sync tasks continued executing on the inactive node in a redundant Gateway pair.
Java - Azul
Infrastructure
Changed
Bump the bundled java version to 17.0.18. This version changed the default source of the timezone in Debian 12+ from `/etc/timezone` to `/etc/localtime` which may affect timezones on deployments on those systems if not properly configured prior to upgrade.
Kafka
Cloud Connectors
Feature
Increased KafkaHandler record publishing throughput.
Launchers
Foundation
Fixed
Fixed issue where customized Vision project desktop shortcut icons would not replace the default desktop shortcut icon
Foundation
Fixed
Fixed an issue using Deep Links to launch designers and Vision Clients on Mac OS
Licensing
Platform Core
Fixed
Fixed an issue preventing users from selecting offline unactivation if the Gateway has a valid internet connection.
OPC
Comms
Feature
Added a GDS Push Enabled property for the OPC UA Server Settings page.
Comms
Fixed
Improved MonitoredItem creation performance with increasing numbers of devices defined.
Comms
Fixed
Fixed an error when regenerating OPC UA server cert with empty SAN fields.
Comms
Changed
Updated Milo OPC UA SDK to version 1.1.1.
Comms
Fixed
Fixed an issue where incorrect data arguments were resent after an OPC UA Client reconnected.
Comms
Fixed
Provide a default value for "Timestamp Source" property on new OPC UA connections.
Comms
Fixed
Fixed a bug encoding structures for write when using the Deprecated DataType Dictionary Support option on OPC UA connections.
Other
Platform Core
Fixed
Fixed an issue where resource attributes were not preserved during serialization.
Perspective
Perspective
Feature
Added an enabled property to the Perspective File Upload component to support a fully disabled state with separate enabled and disabled styling.
Perspective
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the Maker Edition license acceptance modal would appear every session.
Perspective
Fixed
Fixed an issue with the Alarm Status Journal where unacknowledged alarms were not prioritized when ordered by State.
Perspective
Fixed
Added a missing description to the documentation tooltip for `system.perspective.togglePopup`'s `params` parameter.
Perspective
Feature
Added the ability to style and toggle the individual enabled property of radio buttons in the Radio Group component.
Perspective
Fixed
Fixed an issue where Button components in Perspective were incorrectly styled when disabled.
Perspective
Fixed
Replaced the XY Chart component series.line.appearance.bullets height and width properties with radius
Perspective
Feature
Added an `onElementClick` event to Perspective Drawing component.
Perspective
Changed
Added a check against unauthorized users for several Perspective routes.
Perspective
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the system.perspective.download() function could fail on older versions of iOS if a MIME type was not provided.
Perspective
Fixed
Fixed an issue with the Perspective Map component's `onVectorClick` event where no position data was available for clicked vectors with a latitude of 0.
Perspective
Fixed
Fixed an issue where advanced stylesheet CSS may not display correctly in the Designer.
Perspective
Changed
Fixed an issue where the Toggle widget in the Form component was not styled like other checkable widgets.
Perspective
Feature
Added a Form component overlay on top of widgets with missing required IDs in Design mode.
Perspective
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the Form component's widget.options menu was clipping when longer than the parent container.
Perspective
Fixed
Fixed an issue with the Perspective Session lifecycle that caused repeated errors in the logs.
Perspective
Fixed
Fixed an issue where an embedded Menu Tree component would not render in Firefox.
Projects
Platform Core
Fixed
Improved the error messaging for projects that can't be opened due to naming conflicts with inherited resources.
Reporting
Reporting
Fixed
Fixed a problem where dynamic data keys do not work for the Visible property of Simple Tables.
Reporting
Fixed
Fixed an issue where Dynamic Data Keys did not work for the Simple Table Width property.
Reporting
Fixed
Fixed a problem where dynamic data keys do not work for the Filter Key property of Simple Tables.
Scripting
Scripting
Fixed
Fixed issue where email attachments generated by client scripting would have broken attachments
Scripting
Fixed
Fixed issue where deprecated `system.db.toDataSet()` did not support current `PyDataset` types.
Scripting
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the `onSuccess`/`onError` callbacks for the system.util.sendRequestAsync function would not execute and lead to stalled threads.
Secrets Management
Security
Feature
Added SecretProvider implementation that allows reading of secrets from files on disk.
SFC
Data & Logic
Fixed
Fixed an issue with the system.sfc.startChart() function where the projectName argument was required.
Data & Logic
Fixed
Fixed an issue where an empty persisted SFC state file could cause the SFC module to fault during startup.
Data & Logic
Fixed
Fixed a serialization error when syncing a SFC to redundant pair.
SQL Historian
Historian
Fixed
Fixed an issue where historian tag interpolation modes (e.g. Discrete) were lost after redundancy failover, causing tags to be stored with an incorrect mode and triggering unnecessary tag entry churn in the database.
Historian
Fixed
Fixed an issue where metadata was being passed to SQL Historians which is not supported by that historian type.
Store & Forward
Historian
Fixed
Store and Forward cache directories are now automatically removed when associated resources are deleted
Historian
Fixed
Fixed an issue where importing Store & Forward quarantined data created orphan pipelines with no registered sinks
Historian
Fixed
Fixed an issue where database connection names containing illegal characters could prevent the Gateway from starting up.
Historian
Fixed
Fixed an issue where metrics from old remote sinks were left in the metrics dashboard
Historian
Fixed
Fixed an issue where a Store & Forward Engine rename caused Pending/Quarantine counts to appear as 0 on the Store and Forward page because inactive pipelines holding pre-rename data were filtered from the UI; all pipelines are now returned and inactive ones are visually distinguished.
User Sources
Security
Fixed
Fixed an issue with Active Directory
Security
Fixed
Added badge search filter configuration field to the AD configuration Web UI panels.
Security
Fixed
Fixed an issue where an entry referring to a missing role in the INTERNALAUTHROLE table would cause a Gateway startup failure.
Security
Fixed
Fixed issue where newly created users in an AD/Internal hybrid user profile were not immediately available in the user source.
Voice Notification
Alarming
Fixed
Fixed an issue with default German language values for SIP Notification scripts.
Web UI
Web UI
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the History Datasource field could prevent create or update requests for Remote Tag Providers.
Web UI
Feature
Fixes issue with pasting activation tokens with quote. Pasting activation with quotes is now accepted.
Web UI
Fixed
Fixed an issue that prevented users from resizing a text area.
Web UI
Fixed
Fixed an issue with Gateway Webpage panels where the HTML for attributes were not reflecting correct IDs.
Web UI
Changed
Updated gateway to use newer favicons.
Web UI
Fixed
Fixed an issue with Gateway Script error popups displaying overloaded message descriptions.
Web UI
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the Projects page would not display an error toast when failing to import a project.
Web UI
Changed
Added a new Remote Connections tab on the Gateway Connections page that provides details regarding Remote Gateways and Connections
Web UI
Fixed
Fixed an issue where metric cards were rendering over the Gateway banner.
Web UI
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the required fields within the Verify User Source modal were not marked as required.
Web UI
Fixed
Security Settings page now displays all respective fields instead of hiding some based on the Designer Authentication Strategy value.
Web UI
Fixed
Fixed an issue where Gateway form validation messages displayed internal field paths instead of readable field labels.
Web UI
Fixed
Improved session management used by OPC Quick Client and Logging HTTP endpoints.
Web UI
Fixed
Fixed an issue where Identity Provider menu items were not available when the Gateway was deployed in a non-core collection.
Web UI
Fixed
The Manage JAR Files panel will now display the collection that the resource belongs to when there are multiple definitions and will no longer allow system level resource changes.
Web UI
Fixed
Fixed an issue that prevented users from selecting offline activation while the Gateway had a valid connection.
Web UI
Fixed
Fixed issue that would not allow editing agent tasks in collections other than core.
Web UI
Fixed
Designers data grid polling now correctly pauses while a Designer details drawer is open
Web UI
Fixed
Fixed an issue that caused a `ResourceNotFoundException` when using the browsers inspector.
Web UI
Changed
Updated how the creation button is conditionally disabled based on different Gateway configurations.
Web UI
Fixed
Fixed an issue where autocompleted fields were not validated properly and prevented the Save Changes button from being accessed.
Web UI
Changed
Fixed issue where the Gateway would display incorrect favicons for Maker edition and while on the authentication page.
Web UI
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the System User Source field on the Security General Settings page was missing a warning message for invalid values.