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What is new in Industrial Edge 04/23?

The following features are inside Industrial Edge 04/23 and its components:

Component Features Bug fixes
Industrial Edge Hub (IEH) IE License Monitoring and Subscription Management for IE Marketplace organization
  • In IE Hub, IE Marketplace organizations, which means all the active purchases are from IE Marketplace, can see:
    • the quantity of purchased applications.
    • the allocation of licenses to IEMs & no of installations and remaining licenses in each IEM.
    • a warning when quotas are exceeded, and subscription which are about to expire.
    • action suggestions to overcome license warnings.
  • License monitoring enhanced by more visible warnings for about to expire subscriptions and for usage exceeded scenarios.
  • Exceeded warnings will be visible per IEM. If any of the IEM exceeded its usage right, the warnings will be visible.
    • There is no enforcement even the customer exceeds the usage.
      They can keep using the application and copy the version to the IEMs.
  • About to expire warnings will be visible per IEM. If any of the IEM allocated with a subscription which is about to expire, the warnings will be visible
    • As soon as a subscription expires, it will be automatically allocated from IEM.
IE License Monitoring for iMall organizations
  • iMall organizations which means all the active purchases are from iMall, can only see how many is used via sending IEM report from License Management menu on IEM. No license monitoring, No warnings for exceeded or about to expire cases. They have the responsibility to monitor their usage on their own.
  • IE License Monitoring for Hybrid organizations
    Hybrid organizations which means active purchases are from both from iMall and IE Marketplace, can see:
    • Only how many is used via sending IEM report from License Management menu on IEM for apps/products which are just purchased from only iMall or from both iMall and IE Marketplace.
    • For the apps/products which are just purchased from IE Marketplace
      • the quantity of purchased applications.
      • the allocation of licenses to IEMs & no of installations and remaining licenses in each IEM.
      • a warning when there are subscriptions which are about to expire.
    No warnings for usage exceeded cases. They have the responsibility to monitor their usage on their own.
    IEVD monitoring on IE Hub
    • Customers now can see how many IEVD is reported per IEM and can manage the subscriptions.
    • License monitoring for IEVD is applicable the same way with IE Applications depending on the organization type (iMall organization, IE Marketplace organization or Hybrid organization).
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    Industrial Edge State Service v3.2.0 for IEM (running on K8s Helm)
    • Extended App Volumes
      • The app volume type “internal” (docker volumes) is now included in the scope of Edge Device backups.
      • The content of the app volume target can be differentiated in between "basic" and "extended", whereas the latter one includes internal app volumes.
      • Available with Edge Devices based on IE Runtime v1.13.0-1.
    • Fixed a bug that caused the failure of the backup of applications that contain special characters in their application name.
    • Update of underlying components
    Industrial Edge State Service v2.5.13 for IEM (running as IEM OS on VM)​ -
    • Fixed a bug that caused the failure of the backup of applications that contain special characters in their application name.
    • Update of underlying components
    Industrial Edge Device Catalog v1.12.2
    • Delay option for multiple Firmware Update
      • Operator is able to give delay up to 60 min during updating firmware of several devices.
    • Release Notes of Firmware
      • Operator can view release note of firmware update from Admin Management IE Device Catalog UI.
    • Update of underlying components.
    Industrial Edge App Publisher CLI v1.10.3, UI v1.10.5 & IECTL v2.2.5 Industrial Edge Control (IECTL)​
    • You can now setup development environment on your local machine with the help of manifest feature of IECTL in two simple steps:
      1. Running a bash script for setting up the pre-requisites.
      2. Running the manifest file to setup the IEM and IED.
    • Now more than 16 GB images can be uploaded to Edge Management using the Publisher.
    Industrial Edge Device Kit v1.13 (IEDK)​
    • Enabled API forwarding w/o decoding of URI for Applications.
      • App developer able to configure the reverse proxy of his application so that APIs over the reverse proxy do not get decoded by the same.
    • Upgrade Runtime base image with Debian(11)​
      • Upgrade Runtime base image with Debian(11) Bullseye and manage all related Vulnerabilities.
    • Metric Agent service managed according to capability.
      • Metric agent service was not managed by the capabilities so handle it by the capabilities
    • Improved/Added public APIs and existing APIs.
      • Improved/Added public APIs and created V2 for - Login, Activate, Shutdown and existing APIs.
    • Update Go version to 1.20.1 for IE Device Kit Reference Services and 1.20.2 for IE Device Kit Runtime packages
    Industrial Edge Flow Creator Configurator v1.3.0
    • Industrial Edge Flow Creator Configurator allows mass deployment of configuration files such as flows and files to IE Flow Creator apps installed in multiple different IE Edge Devices. This app is installed in the Industrial Edge Management system and enables easy configuration of IE Flow Creator apps running on IE Edge Devices on the factory shop floor.
    • Communication is encrypted between IE Management and IE Devices. Web UI is accessible only via HTTPS along with user authentication. Configurations are deployed to IE Devices after verifying the user credentials
    • New feature and Improvements:
    • Mass configuration up to 5 devices is completely free of charge and for additional devices support, you can purchase the license from our IE Marketplace.
    • Improved usability by:
      • Improved usability by providing a copy icon to copy the predefined file path prefix to the clipboard.
      • Provided a copy button to replicate the device selections from flow transfer to file transfer and vice versa, thereby reducing the amount of manual duplicated effort by the user.
      • Provided a copy button to replicate the device selections from flow transfer to file transfer and vice versa, thereby reducing the amount of manual duplicated effort by the user.
    • IE Flow Creator Configurator is also supported with k8s centric IEM.
    • IE Flow Creator Configurator is also supported with k8s centric IEM.
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    Industrial Edge Cloud Connector v1.9.3
    • End User Document has been refined.
    • Fixed spike in CPU and crash of application, when cloud quota exceeds.
    Connector for Azure v1.1.3
    • Configurator UI/UX made simpler and easier to configure cloud client configurations.
    • End User Document has been refined.
    • Fixed spike in CPU and crash of application, when cloud quota exceeds.
    Edge OPC UA Server V2.0.1
    • User defined Node set configuration and mapping will be much easier and faster with the list of matching data types.
    • Data points of unsupported datatypes won't be allowed for selection and deployment to the server.
    • Higher security by addressing vulnerability issue.​
    • Minor Bug fixes in existing features.
    Databus V2.1.0
    • Databus Configurator allows user to enable historizing the payload data on topic level.
    • Databus will maintain the history of topics in its memory as circular buffer.
    • Higher security by addressing vulnerability issue.
    • Bug fix for removing the old feedback message for new configuration.
    DataXess V1.1.1 -
    • Improved security by addressing different vulnerability issues.
    External Databus (IE MQTT Connector) V2.0.1 -
    • Increased security by addressing the Vulnerability issues.
    Data Flow Monitoring v2.0.1
    • Detailed view of network statistics like transmitted and received data among application, containers and network interfaces like bridges, virtual and physical interfaces with a new network statistics button.
    • Improved UX of network view virtual and physical interfaces to display IPs and interface names coherently.
    MetricAgent V1.4.2
    • Metrics Agent provides new format using json for data report download.
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    Industrial Edge Identity & Access Management v1.1.2 for IEM (running on K8s Helm) -
    • Update of underlying components.
    Industrial Edge Provisioning CLI v1.0.6​ -
    • Update of underlying components.