Edge Xpert 2.2

New Feature

• Service configuration files (configuration.toml) can now be downloaded by using the /config API (using the Content-Type=application/toml API header)

Enhancements

• ConvertDDATAToEvent pipeline function no longer requires parameters. Improved to accept any data from MQTT topics that conform to the Sparkplug DDATA specification: <namespace>/<group_id>/DDATA/<edge_node_id>/<device_id>

Enhancements

• Patch upgrade to third-party service (Redis 6.2.7-alpine3.16 is updated to 6.2.8-alpine3.17)

New Feature

• Added an option to download configuration files (configuration.toml) from the Service Control page. Currently, this feature does not support App Services

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused incorrect lines to be displayed in the Edge Xpert Manager Logs

New Feature

• Service configuration files (configuration.toml) can now be downloaded by using the /config API (using the Content-Type=application/toml API header)

Enhancements

• Added GZIP, ZLIB decompress functions and base64 encode and decode parameters

Enhancements

• Upgraded Grafana to the latest patch version 8.5.15

Enhancements

• Automatic refresh has been implemented for tables on Device, Device Profile, Device Service, and Provision Watcher pages

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the broken layout on the Commands page

Enhancements

• Default MaxResultCount configuration updated from 1024 to 25000. This allows for larger resource usage by default. Effects the following microservices: core-data, core-metadata, support-notifications, and support-scheduler

Bug Fixes

• Fixed incorrect use of CA certificate pool when setting up a TLS configuration for MQTT clients
• Fixed issue with increasing memory usage when publishing to AzureIoTHub
• Fixed bug to prevent possible data loss on PostgresWrite functions

Enhancements

• To help with ease-of-use, ports are now exposed by default when Edge Xpert is running in non-secure mode

Bug Fixes

• Fixed error in edgexpert restart relating to the Docker Compose version

Enhancements

• Use of special characters now allowed for device and device resource names in REST API paths and MQTT topics
• Improvements made to tables on the Create Subscription page
• Improvements made to the Logging page
• xpert-manager is now listed as a service in Service Control
• Original scientific notation values are displayed for Get commands and readings when float values are too small

New Feature

• A new supporting rules engine service is added. Implemented with Grule, this experimental service has been created to better support sensor fusion

Enhancements

• Use of special characters now allowed for device and device resource names in REST API paths and MQTT topics
• Provision watchers now accept empty profile names to support the automatic generation of device profiles
• Support for adding device and device resource tags to Sparkplug events

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with automatic deletion of old events. Default value for EventMaxLimit is extended from 1000 to 10000 (Case: 00001451)

New Feature

• New App Service function added, ConvertDDATAToEvent, which can convert incoming Sparkplug DDATA messages to EdgeX events

Enhancements

• Authentication support added for XpertHTTPExport pipeline function
• Settings have been updated to fully support MQTT TLS. MQTT option SkipCertVerify can now be set to false

New Features

• device-ethernet-ip added to Docker Compose files
• device-onvif-camera added to Docker Compose files
• device-usb-camera added to Docker Compose files

Enhancements

• Updated CLI to support both docker compose and docker-compose. This is due to docker-compose being deprecated in Docker's offical plugin

New Features

• Support added for locking and unlocking multiple devices at a time
• Support added for locking and unlocking multiple device services at a time
• Configuration support for EtherNet/IP devices added to Devices menu
• Configuration support for ONVIF Camera devices added to Devices menu
• Configuration support for USB Camera devices added to Devices menu
• Feature added to App Services to allow downloading of configuration files
• Services Control feature added, which allows for the starting, stopping, and restarting of microservices. This also allows the creation and control of provision watchers for auto-discovery
• Microservice logs are now available on the Log Viewer page. These can be copied or downloaded

Enhancements

• Password validation added to increase password strength
• Password fields updated to show asterisks

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Get command error in the Devices page
• Fixed error with editing Intervals and IntervalActions

Enhancements

• Added security settings for USB Camera Device Service
• System Management Agent API has been enhanced, now includes GetServiceLog and GetServiceList
• Settings have been updated to fully support MQTT TLS. MQTT option SkipCertVerify can now be set to false

Enhancements

• Add new configuration FieldKeyPattern to the InfluxDBSyncWrite function. This configuration specifies the pattern of field keys used to store reading values when writing to InfluxDB

Enhancements

• Upgraded Grafana, Vault, Redis, and MQTT-broker to the latest patched versions.

Enhancements

• uinteger option added to InfluxDB Value Type drop-down options in App Service page
• New fields added to App Service page: new field "Skip Verify" added to skip verifying the server's certificate chain and host name; new field "OAuth2 Token Cert" added for uploading the self-signed certificate of the OAuth2 token server
• Fields updated in Device pages for Websocket Device Service: "Self Signed" field is now replaced with "Skip Cert Verify"; "Cert" field is changed to "WSS Cert"; new field "Token Server Cert" is added
• Redesigned the Device Profile Detail panel layout

Enhancements

• Added support for writing unsigned integers in the InfluxDB App Service functions
• Deprecated support for writing data into InfluxDB 1.8.x. To use InfluxDBSynceWrite in the App Service, ensure that the target InfluxDB has version 2.x or above

Enhancements

• kong, kong_db and proxy-setup has been replaced with nginx and proxy-auth. These provide similar functionality but with reduced memory overhead

Bug Fixes

• Updated container_name of secretstore-setup to avoid potential errors when using CLI
• License handling for edgexpert-device-bacnet fixed. License now works correctly with both device-bacnet-ip and device-bacnet-mstp

New Features

• New rebranding feature allows theme colors and images to be adjusted for own branding usage
• Device discovery can now be triggered in Edge Xpert Manager with the "Device Discovery" button on the Device Service table

Enhancements

• Added a new attribute StoreEventTags to the App Service InfluxDB write function
• Added a new Labels column in the main Device table. This allows the ability to filter by Labels
• Added a new Labels column in the main Device Profile table. This allows the ability to filter by Labels
• Added View and Edit features to the Device Services Page, allowing users to edit the description, label, and transformScript of a device service. A detail pane to check the device service details has also been added
• Added an Alert View to the Notifications table
• Attributes and data types updated for Modbus-RTU, Modbus-TCP, OPC-UA, and S7
• Added ability to sort table columns on the Devices, Application Services, Notifications, and User pages

New Features

• MQTT Sparkplug Specifications added, allowing communication with SCADA systems

Enhancements

• Character range in device resource names improved to allow the use of spaces, ampersands, brackets, and more
• Events are now distributed by the MQTT broker as the internal message bus. This replaces Redis Pub/Sub which is no longer supported.

Edge Xpert Services

• The Sparkplug service has been added in Edge Xpert 2.2