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What is new in Industrial Edge 04/24?

Industrial Edge Management Virtual v2.1.0


IEMV as Ntp Client configuration
NTP Client configuration for IEM Virtual

NTP (Network Time Protocol) Client

  • IEM Virtual can be configured to synchronize its clock with up to two NTP servers, enhancing operational consistency with IEDs and the Industrial Edge Hub.​ ​

    • NTP (Network Time Protocol) Server

  • IEM Virtual can serve as an NTP Server for IEDs or other devices​​ ​

    • Provision within Static IP Networks

  • For networks lacking a DHCP server, IEM Virtual supports manual assignment of a static IP upon initial startup via the text console
    • === "Bug fixes"
    <ul>
      <li>Fixed a bug where the IEM Virtual recovery key is not copied on clicking the copy button.</li>
    </ul>
    Industrial Edge Hub v2.8.0


    Informative, warning and critical pop-ups on IEM
    Upgrade package and business model configuration for quota based business.


    Up until now App Providers could only sell installations, which did not give them the flexibility to scale their business.

    • App providers can now configure their business model and create upgrade packages depending on their business needs.
    • The current release includes configuration only, but these business models will be used for usage reporting and monitoring in upcoming releases.
    • Two menu name changes are done;
      • Application Management is now Product Management.
      • Application Selling is now Product Selling.

    A couple of domains have been introduced. These domains are needed to download applications from Industrial Edge Hub (IEH) to Industrial Edge Management (IEM) and upload new apps to Industrial Edge Hub.
    In order for your management to continue work properly please add the following domains to your Firewall whitelist.
    • products.eu1.edge.siemens.cloud
    • upload.products.eu1.edge.siemens.cloud

    Disclaimer: The business model is only a configuration for now. Quota monitoring will be handled in upcoming versions.

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    Industrial Edge Licensing Service v2.2.8


    Informative, warning and critical pop-ups on IEM


    Users will be warned on IEM via pop-ups if they haven’t sent the license report for a certain time.

    • User will see 3 types of pop-up to be informed if they haven’t sent the report for a given time period (at least 4 weeks).
    • These warnings will be visible in all the menus of IEM, they are not specific to License menu.
    • As soon as a license report is sent, these warnings will disappear and will not show up again until IEM doesn't go online for four weeks.

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    Industrial Edge Identity And Access Management 1.6.0

    Use Industrial Edge Management accounts in Industrial Edge Devices

  • Now also possible over remote access​

    • Security Updates of underlying components
    • "Access Denied" error during Identity Federation
    • Add missing translations for zh-CN

    Industrial Edge Provisioning CLI 1.0.20

    • Security Updates of underlying components

    Industrial Edge Device Kit 1.18.0

    Optional Resources​

  • App builders can configure resources as optional by adding the field optional in the resource definition part of docker-compose.yml ​
  • Even if requested optional resource is not available in device, app will be started as usual.​

    • Enhancement for Configuring Resource Manager

  • A new script to control the Resource Manager components. Device builders enable or disable the Resource Manager as a whole or individual resource classes even if it's installed. ​

    • Supporting Failsafe for vPLC ​

  • Industrial Edge Network plugin has been extended to support PTP devices, which is needed for failsafe features for the vPLC.
  • If the Network Interface Card of an isolated network has a PTP device, then the PTP device is also mounted to the requesting Docker container as a read-only device​

    • Improvements​

  • User specified resource plugins' configuration will be preserved after firmware update​
  • Device builder can update resource plugins' configuration with firmware update​

    • Introduction of memory limit check​ in IED UI

  • Added option to enable/disable Memory Limit Check in Settings > System > Application Settings​​
  • Possibility to disable the Memory Limit Check to install more applications on a device that would otherwise exceed the device's memory limit.​​

    • Memory management: Priorization of Edge processes

  • The Edge processes run with the highest priority on the device
  • The stability of the kernel processes is not affected by this change

    • Language setting on IED user profile​​

  • Added language setting on IED user profile, so that customer can configure their preference language on IED.​​
  • Support for configuration in English and Chinese.​

    • Device Onboarding Transparency​​

  • In previous device onboarding we could only get the failure message if there is something wrong, but don’t know exactly what happened, and how to fix the problem.​​​
  • In this release, the whole onboarding process is transparent, together with detailed what’s wrong and also give fix suggestions if an error happens. You can also download the whole onboarding log to debug offline.​​

    • Security Updates of underlying components​
      • Go lang version has been updated to 1.21.5 for IE Device Kit References services
      • Go lang version has been updated to 1.20.12 for Resource Management and plugins
    • Fixed a bug where IEDK Onboard services increases memory usage in case device is not onboarded
    • Fixed a bug where Vulnerable JavaScript dependency in IEDK v1.16.1-1
    • Fixed a bug where GetApplicationMetadata Is not returning correct metadata
    • Fixed a bug where Portal Service - discoveryDetailsV0 not shown in ownership API-Call
    • Fixed a bug where Application get's redirected with q parameter
    • Fixed a bug where ie-cpu-partition.service incompatible configuration with resource-manager controlling process
    • Fixed a bug where edge-iot-core: mac_address in apps docker compose is ignored
    • Fixed a bug where User unable to install app which requires L2 network from DNS based iem
    • Fixed a bug where IED UI system Job Status does not inform correctly
    • Fixed a bug where Complex error message when network for isolation is not available

    Industrial Edge Device Catalog 1.17.2

    • Underlying 3rd party components have been updated to fix security vulnerabilities​
    • Bug fixes of other underlying components

    Industrial Edge Device Type Generator 1.2.4

    • Security Updates of underlying components

    Industrial Edge Management App 1.17.10

    Application Installation Journey:

  • Users will have a more integrated device onboarding process that includes application installation and also update the configuration and get informed about the OPA messages.​

    • Improvements:

  • Portal UI support to manage 1000 IE devices.

    • Resolved security related issues.
    • The import of applications that were built using the latest Docker version works.
    • Application (Minio App) can be installed successfully on the edge device.
    • Correct status of IED is now shown after deletion.

    Industrial Edge State Service 2.8.0


    Detail Overview of a Backup
    Detail Overview of a Backup

    Display of backup content

  • The detail overview of a backup displays the creation time, the description, the included applications and their respective versions, if volumes are included, and the contained management app configurations​ ​

    • Fixed a bug that interrupted a backup including large applications
    • Fixed a bug that prevented to start the service in an OpenShift cluster
    • Security updates of underlying components

    Industrial Edge Publisher UI v1.15.8, CLI v1.15.8, IECTL v2.7.5 & IE Plugin v1.0.0

    Industrial Edge Plugin (Mendix 10)

  • IE Plugin is now available without feature flag and with support of the MTS version of Mendix Studio Pro.​

    • Detail Overview of a Backup
    Industrial Edge Control
  • Added few new commands under following groups:​
    • iectl iem app-project​
    • iectl iem catalog​
    • iectl iem device​
    • iectl device-logs​
    • iectl ied system​
    • iectl job​

    Detail Overview of a Backup
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    • IECTL is now working on Debian Bullseye
    • Fixed SSL issue while upload application to IEM

    Databus(arm64) v2.3.3

    New Release!!!

    • Databus works in similar manner on arm64 based IEDs as it works on X86 IEDs​​​.​
    • One Databus configurator for both x86 and arm64 Edge devices.​​​​
    • Databus Historize, DPS and Live view features are not supported on arm64 devices.​​​​

    Databus v2.3.3

    • Resolved Vulnerability issues.

    External Databus v2.0.3

    • Resolved Vulnerability issues.

    DataXess v1.4.3

    • Resolved Vulnerability issues.

    Edge OPC UA Server v2.1.4

    • Resolved Vulnerability issues.

    Cloud Connector v1.14.1, Cloud Connector Configurator v1.18.0

    • Cloud connector configurator can be imported and installed as an IEM app on IEM Pro using IEM API​.​
    • Cloud connector supports backup and restore via state service on IEM Pro.​​​​

    • Included bugs and security fixes.

    Connector for Azure v1.4.2​

    • Included bugs and security fixes.

    Flow Creator v1.17.1, Flow Creator(arm64) v1.2.1, Configurator v1.9.0​

    • Flow creator configurator can be imported and installed as an IEM app on IEM Pro using IEM API​.​

    • Included bugs and security fixes.