AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 1​.5 release notes

AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA: 1.5.0.373

Adapter Framework 1.8.1.62

Overview

AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA collects time-series data and relevant metadata from an OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) server and sends it to configured Open Message Format (OMF) endpoints such as PI Web API and CONNECT data services.

AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA can also collect health and diagnostics information. It also supports buffering, unsolicited data collection, on-demand discovery of available data items on a data source, on-demand or automatic history recovery of data items, and various Windows and Linux-based operating systems as well as containerization.

This version includes support for Polling-based data collection as well as support for client failover and server failover functionality.

For more information, see the Overview.

What's new

• Support for Polling mode for data collection from the data source, in addition to the existing subscription mode.

Fixes and enhancements

Fixes

This section lists items that were resolved in this release:

• Discovery service utilizes the client settings and respects the server's limits.

• Data Selection service utilizes the client settings and respects the server's Browse Limit.

• Creation of certificate directory path changed to handle case of ComponentId and ComponentType being the same.

• Graceful handling of exceptions during Discovery and automatic history recovery.

• Adapter is able to collect data from simple custom data types that are sub-types of built-in types.

Enhancements

This section lists enhancements in this release:

• Improved debug tracing and logging that will help troubleshoot issues better.

• Added validations for ClientSettings facet for high stream scenarios.

• Performance optimization enhancements

Known issues

This section lists problems and/or enhancements that have been deferred until a future release:

System requirements

See the System requirements for information on the installation kits available.

Installation and upgrade

Refer to Install the adapter or Upgrade the adapter.

Uninstalling the adapter

Refer to Uninstall the adapter.

Security information and guidance

We are committed to releasing secure products. This section is intended to provide relevant security-related information to guide your installation or upgrade decision.

We proactively disclose aggregate information about the number and severity of security vulnerabilities addressed in each release. The tables below provide an overview of security issues addressed and their relative severity based on standard scoring.

Overview of new vulnerabilities - Found or fixed

This section is intended to provide relevant security-related information to guide your installation or upgrade decision. AVEVA is proactively disclosing aggregate information about the number and severity of AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA security vulnerabilities that are fixed in this release.

For this release of AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA, the following vulnerabilities have been identified or fixed.

Security vulnerabilities fixed in AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 1.5.0.373 release

Vulnerability mitigations in AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 1.5.0.373 release

The following vulnerabilities were identified in AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 1.5.0.373 release.

Technical support and feedback

See Technical support and feedback for additional information.