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Edge Xpert 2.0

Edge Xpert 2.0 is based on the open source EdgeX Foundry version 2.0 release, codenamed "Ireland".

EdgeX Ireland Features

  • Brand new “V2” APIs with all new REST endpoints using improved model objects (for request and responses) and improved API URIs
  • Internal message bus communication between Device Services and Application Services (Core Data can also subscribe to sensor readings or be removed if persistence is not necessary)
  • Improved security to include enabling the Consul API through the API Gateway
  • Simplified device profiles

See the EdgeX Ireland release page for more details.

Additional Edge Xpert Features and Enhancements

  • Brand new Edge Xpert Manager UI with many key advantages from previous versions. Features include a dashboard view, device onboarding menus for all support device services and capability to start, stop and restart application services from the UI
  • S7 Device Service performance enhancements including multi-block read and write capability

Release Changelog

2.0.6
Edge Xpert CLI

New Features

  • Added GPS Device Service device-gps
Edge Xpert Device Services
GPS Device Service

New Features

  • GPS Device Service added to Edge Xpert
S7 Device Service

New Features

  • Enabled data source timestamp feature
Edge Xpert Microservices

New Features

  • Added security settings for GPS Device Service
2.0.5
Edge Xpert Device Services
BACnet Device Service

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed duplicated data transformation and upgraded the XRT version
Modbus Device Service

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed duplicated data transformation and upgraded the XRT version
OPC-UA Device Service

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed duplicated data transformation and upgraded the XRT version
REST Device Service

Enhancements

  • Predefined device configuration updates
S7 Device Service

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed duplicated data transformation and upgraded the XRT version
2.0.4
Edge Xpert CLI

New Features

  • device-s7 entry added to docker-compose files
Edge Xpert Manager

New Features

  • Manufacturer and Model information now shown on Device Profile details panel

Enhancements

  • Added a Virtual protocol option when adding a device
  • All links on the menu are now accessible on any page
  • Improved field names during password change

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue where DateTimePicker showed the wrong value when editing an interval
  • Fixed a bug in creating subscriptions when qos was passed as string
  • Save button disabled on Upload Device Profile page when no profile added
Edge Xpert Device Services
BACnet Device Service

Enhancements

  • Updated underpinning service to improve service stability
Modbus Device Service

Enhancements

  • Updated underpinning service to improve service stability
OPC-UA Device Service

Enhancements

  • Updated underpinning service to improve service stability
S7 Device Service

New Features

  • Added to Edge Xpert v2
Virtual Device Service

Enhancements

  • Updated pre-defined device configuration to include Virtual Protocol
Edge Xpert Microservices

Enhancements

  • secretstore-setup and security-bootstrapper have been updated ton include device-s7
2.0.3
Edge Xpert Application Service

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed potential nil reference panic when store and forward mechanism is enabled with MQTT-related export functions
Edge Xpert CLI

Bug Fixes

  • Added new volumes for influxdb to prevent generating dangling volumes and allow reusing the volumes
Edge Xpert Device Services
OPC-UA Device Service

Enhancements

  • Added new volume on device-opc-ua for client secure connections
Edge Xpert Manager

Enhancements

  • Added validation on Name, Label, and Category fields. Only a-z, A-Z, -, _ and ~ characters are allowed
  • Adjusted the displayed value of get command with Binary data type to "[binary value]"
  • Updated visibility condition of Private Key Filename for OPC-UA. Private Key Filename field now visible when Security Policy is Basic256Rsa256

Bug Fixes

  • Adjust the error message from the Port attribute in BACnet-IP
  • Fixed the "Cannot update label widget" bug on CreateSubscription page
2.0.2
Edge Xpert Application Service

Enhancements

  • Updated Application Service sample configuration in configuration-insecure-shadow.toml. TransformToAWSDeviceShadow pipeline function name has been changed to ConvertToAWSDeviceShadow. This is due to pipeline function names that start with Transform will be treated in v2 as the Transform function due to the new feature Multiple Instance of Function
  • Added new parameter UseRawDataType for Batch Function to allow users to decide whether to use raw data type for batched data. If set to false, the data to be batched will be converted to a []byte. The default value is true

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the panic error when using golang gzip function for high frequency data
Edge Xpert CLI

New Features

  • Added port-mapping to core-command in docker-compose-security.yml

Enhancements

  • Improved pull command behaviour. Users are encouraged to run the edgexpert pull --all command to pull the valid and required images for their installed licenses. If necessary, third-party services (such as nodered) listed in the docker-compose.yml can be updated using edgexpert pull <SERVICE> instead

Bug Fixes

  • Updated restart policy for kong and proxy
Edge Xpert Manager

Enhancements

  • Improved ResourceName field in Auto Events of devices to allow users to find required resource names faster

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed "app-service already exists" error when trying to update ASC via UI
  • Added warning text to Control Device page when there are no available commands (or when is Hidden property is set to true)
  • Fixed the blank page bug on Control Device page when the Get Command has failed
  • Renamed compression to compress for the payload of creating/editing App Services
  • Fixed bug where checkboxes on the App Services creation page did not enable the save button
2.0.0
Edge Xpert Microservices

Enhancements

  • Renamed the security service Vault Worker to SecretStore Setup
Edge Xpert Device Services
Virtual Device Service

Enhancements

  • Upgraded to v2.0. From the user's perspective, the only thing to be aware of is the breaking changes in device profile

Migration changes

2.0 When upgrading from Edge Xpert v1.x to Edge Xpert v2.x, some migration changes may be required, depending on your use case. See the v2 Migration Guide for an high level overview.
Edge Xpert CLI

Edge Xpert Services

  • The Logging service has been deprecated in Edge Xpert v2
Edge Xpert Microservices
Core Data

Data Model

  • As of Edge Xpert 2.0, Core Data is completely optional. Device Services can send data via message bus directly to Application Service. If local persistence is not needed, then the service can be removed.
    If persistence is needed, sensor data can be sent via message bus to Core Data (the new default means to communicate with Core Data) or sent via REST to Core Data (the legacy way to send data to Core Data). See Core Data for more information.

    • Events and Readings

    • In Edge Xpert 2.0, Value Descriptors have been removed. The ResourceNAme in a reading provides an indication of the data read. The other properties that were in Value Descriptor (min, max, default value, unit of measure etc) can all be obtained from the Resource (in Core Metadata's resource properties associated to each Resource which are associated to a device profile) by ResourceName. ValueType property is also provided in the Reading so that the data type of the value is immediately available without having to do a lookup in Core Metadata.

    Config & Registry

    Configuration Properties

    • For Edge Xpert 2.0 the Logging and Startup sections have been removed. Startup has been replaced with the EDGEX_STARTUP_DURATION (default is 60s) and EDGEX_STARTUP_INTERVAL (default is 1 sec)environment variables.
    • Writeable:. For Edge Xpert 2.9 the Writable.InsecureSecrets configuration section is new.
    • Service: For Edge Xpert 2.0 Protocol and BootTimeout have been removed. CheckInterval and Timeout have been renamed to HealthCheckInterval and RequestTimeout respectively. MaxRequestSize was added for all services.
    • Clients.[service-key]: For Edge Xpert 2.0 the map keys have changed to be the service's service-key, i.e. Metadata changed to core-metadata.
    • SecretStore: For Edge Xpert 2.0 the Protocol default has changed to HTTP which no longer requires RootCaCertPath and ServerName to be set. Path has been reduce to the sub-path for the service since the based path is fixed. TokenFile default value has changed and requires the service-key be used in the path.