Edge Xpert 2.1

Enhancements

• ConvertIntToFloatReading function updated to support an expanded range of integer values
• Support for TLS-enabled connections added

Enhancements

• Improvements made to troubleshooting.sh
• TLS support added to mqtt-broker, InfluxDB, Node-Red, and Grafana services

Bug Fixes

• Windows installation error, "No such file or directory", has been fixed
• License check failure issue with device-bacnet-ip and device-bacnet-mstp resolved

New Features

• Added ability to download Device Profiles

Enhancements

• Minor improvements and optimizations

Enhancements

• SecretStore-Setup: support added for X509 certificate generation in mqtt-broker, core-data, app-service, and Go device services
• Security-Bootstrapper: Docker entrypoint scripts added for mqtt-broker, Node-Red, InfluxDB, and Grafana to support TLS settings

Enhancements

• Node-Red: Support for TLS-enabled connections added

Bug Fixes

• edgexpert logs command has been updated to include App Services

Enhancements

• Value range of BACnet protocol property, Device Instance, has been updated in the GUI to match service
• New OPC-UA protocol property, Connection Reading Post Delay, has been added

Bug Fixes

• Improved App Services restart policy to handle system reboots more efficiently
• REST APIs have been updated to return 416 Range Not Satisfiable status when an out-of-range offset is used

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in the pipeline function SendDirectMethodResponse, and corrected the error message to JSON format
• App Services SDK can now resolve XpertAddTagsFromDeviceResource accurately
• Fixed high memory usage issue

New Features

• New microservice, support-provision, added to the Edge Xpert CLI. This can provision other microservices in the product

Enhancements

• Default timeout extended to 300 seconds (previously 60 seconds); interval checks extended to 3 seconds (previously 1 second)
• Network Alias is now used instead of Hostname within the docker-compose.yml file, allowing backwards compatibility with older versions of Docker

Bug Fixes

• Removed unnecessary exposure of some service ports to increase security (mqtt-broker and all device services)
• Fixed an issue where edgexpert config did not check docker-compose-security.yml (Case: 00001387)

Enhancements

• Functionality added to allow Edge Xpert Manager to create App Services insecurely, without running SecretStore (Vault)
• Edge Xpert Manager now supports creating App Services with ExternalMQTT as the trigger for the functions pipeline

New Features

• Added the concept of device tagging so that data events can include more contextutal information when exported. There is a new "tags" field added to the device description along with support for exporting these in the App Services and Edge Xpert Manager

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where default-pipeline would repeatedly add functions
• Fixed an issue where CA Certificate was not properly seeded into SecretProvider when using HTTP Export

Enhancements

• Docker compose override mechanism has been implemented and docker-compose.yml files have been simplified
• Upgraded kuiper to version 1.4 and MQTT message bus is now used by default
• Upgraded Kong DB (Postgres) to version 13.6

Bug Fixes

• Updated sample configuration for http-get-mqtt-export. To avoid an unnecessary and misleading path, SecretPath is now set to an empty string
• Updated sample configuration for GoogleCloudIoT to remove irrelevant comments and cacert has been updated to googlerootcacert

New Features

• Postgres export destination support has been added to App Services

Enhancements

• Dashboard page performance has been improved and a new loading effect has been added
• Enabled device tagging. "Tags" field added to Devices page, "Add Event Tags from Device" attribute added to the App Services field

Bug Fixes

• "Host" OPC-UA protocol property has been renamed to "Address" to match the device service property

Enhancements

• Enabled device tagging by adding "tags" field to device descriptions

Bug Fixes

• proxy service is now aware of the existence of consul, this prevents a route initialization error

Enhancements

• JavascriptTransform reworked to support arm32/arm64/x86_64 on alpine base image

Bug Fixes

• Data in the end of PrintDataToLog function is now returned
• TokenURL can now optionally be exposed in the log for debug purposes

Enhancements

• Upgraded Vault from 1.8.7 to 1.8.8

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where edgexpert pull --all was missing some services which do not need licenses

New Features

• Log level in App Services can now be adjusted via dropdown box

Enhancements

• Styling has been optimized and improved, in particular for Firefox users
• Device Get Command response tables is now the first tab and now includes the resource name

Bug Fixes

• Fixed LOADING: Redis is loading the dataset in memory error during UI bootstrap
• Fixed issue where editing App Services without filters would cause a blank page on Edge Xpert Manager

Enhancements

• Removed obsolete code which conditionally selected app-service image when using JavascriptTransform function in an app-service.

New Features

• Added support for Postgres and TimescaleDB integration, with new proprietary built-in function "PostgresWrite"
• Support for more HTTP methods introduced at the Application Service level: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE
• New function, SetContextVariables, introduced to allow setting of context variables at the Application Service level

Enhancements

• Integrated the EdgeX Foundry Jakarta Release changes into the Edge Xpert Application Service
• OAuth 2.0 mechanism added into HTTP Export function at the Application Service level

Enhancements

• docs command deprecated as product documentation is now all available online
• Consul removed from default service list
• Added environment variable EDGEXPERT_PROJECT to override default docker-compose file. Useful for development or customers that require custom build

New Features

• Added the "EdgeX Message Bus SubscribeTopics" field in Edge Xpert Manager App Service page
• Added WebSocket as a new protocol in Device Service
• Created a default key and certificate in Edge Xpert Manager for TLS enablement

Enhancements

• Added support for multiple SetContextVariables, XpertHTTPExport, and JavascriptTransform functions for App Service
• Refined the error message that appears when services cannot be reached by Edge Xpert Manager

Enhancements

• Integrated the EdgeX Foundry Jakarta Release changes into Edge Xpert
• MQTT now used as the default EdgeX message bus
• Lower case conversion implemented before storing to database

Bug Fixes

• Enabled RedisDB TLS connection in security mode (Case: 00001282)

Edge Xpert Services

• The Provision, TimescaleDB services have been added in Edge Xpert 2.1