4.2.1 Changelog

v4.2.1

Overview

Added

• Added a screen sleep feature on the Xpanel.
• Added automatic sleep timer in the Xpanel settings app.
• Added system.display.enableBacklight script interface to turn the backlight on and off.

Changed

• Improved performance when loading and editing projects in the designer.
• Changed alarm banner display option to be per-page.
• Online simulator timeout has been increased from 30 minutes to 2 hours.
• Default method for opening the runtime config menu from the three touch method to long press (3 seconds).

Fixed

• Issue with gateway occasionally becoming unresponsive.

Designer

Added

• Added a limit to the number of pages that can be open at once (50).
• Added a required amount of free RAM to open pages and save projects.
• Added Enable Backlight script.
• Added support for eXT2-12, eXT2-12W, eXT2-15, and eXT2-15W project sizes.
• Added the ability to enter hexadecimal values for Set Tag Value command.

Changed

• Changed Alarm Banner enabling/disabling to be per-page properties.
• Disabled autosave by default.
• Disabled the Show Comm Error Overlay property initially for new projects.
• Improved performance of editing objects on a page.
• Improved performance of editing tags in the Tag Editor.
• Updated I/O Address configuration helper for Allen-Bradley DF-1.
• Updated the online help file links.
• Updated the Online Simulator and Connection icons.
• Improved performance and stability when loading projects.
• Improved performance for page and project snapshots in the Welcome screen and Home tab.

Fixed

Fixed issue with Allen-Bradley DF1 I/O Address Editor displaying the incorrect format for O and I file types. Fixed issue with some commands not having the correct parameters when loading a project. Fixed issue with values with a leading zero not being copied correctly when copying tags into a spreadsheet.

Runtime

Added

• Support for enabling and disabling the LCD.

Changed

• Moved alarm banner enable scope from project-wide to page-wide.
• Changed default config menu opening method.

Fixed

• Tags not being loaded at startup.

Gateway

Fixed

• Allen-Bradley DF-1 driver:
  • Quickly closing and restarting the project should no longer fail to re-initialize the driver's connection to the PLC.
• Modbus RTU Master driver:
  • Fixed an issue where RX data from a previous request would not be properly cleared and would be included in future RX data frames.
• Hallim Loader driver:
  • Fixed an issue where analog tags were incorrectly parsing the provided address for the X/Y/M/L/K/F areas.
• General
  • A bug which caused a communication driver's thread to become unresponsive and reach 100% CPU usage has been resolved.
  • Selecting the "Control" option for the "Flow Control" setting of any serial driver no longer causes a crash.
  • Fixed an issue where multiple threads could interact with a container at the same time, resulting in a crash.

Changed

• The Allen-Bradley EtherNet/IP Client driver now groups registered tags in periodic requests, resulting in overall higher polling rates.
• The Siemens S7 driver will no longer perform byte-swapping when reading/writing string tag data.
• The online simulator timeout for drivers has been raised from 30 minutes to 2 hours.
  • All drivers will now be stopped, including virtual devices and the Sparkplug Edge Node used for runtime communications.
• The Modbus RTU Slave driver has had its request handling behavior updated to better handle invalid data/requests.

Platform

Added

• Added display sleep feature.

Changed

• Disabled video player for eXT and nXT devices.
• Changed default touchscreen calibration matrix for eXT2-10W.
• Changed default runtime config menu method to "Long Press (3s)" in Settings.

Fixed

• Fixed Touchscreen Driver.

Graphic Library

Changed

• Re-organized PLC and HMI images.