Release notes

August 2026

Expectations and limitations

This release of CONNECT is available to selected customers.

New features and enhancements

The CONNECT early access experience introduces enhancements and foundational changes that distinguish it from the CONNECT original experience.

• Modernized customer portal experience: CONNECT has been redesigned to support intuitive navigation and a unified service catalog. This includes enhanced user management and data integration.

• Integrated data capabilities: Features from CONNECT data services are integrated within CONNECT itself, enabling better scalability, maintainability, and integration with CONNECT and its applications and services.

  For more information, see Data stores and Data modeling.

• Entity relationship modeling for industrial twin: CONNECT early access experience introduces a new capability to define and query relationships between industrial entities (like assets, events, and documents), forming the foundation for scalable digital twin architecture.

  For more information, see Entities storage.

• Policy- and role-based authorization: A new authorization model enables fine-grained access control over both services and resources, including support for custom roles, scoped permissions, and service-to-service authorization.

  For more information, see Roles and Role assignments.

• Navigate your assets, streams, and events on the Explore page: The all-new Explore page provides a unified view of how assets, streams, events, documents, visualizations, and processes are connected. Select an entity, stream, or type to see detailed information and associated content such as documents, streams, events, and 3D models. Use the Relationships view to navigate the associations between related entities, streams, and types in a knowledge graph.

  For more information, see The Explore page.

• Multi-tab panes in experiences: Group up to 20 content items into a single pane with labeled tabs so viewers can switch views without losing context or cluttering the workspace.

  For more information, see Add and organize panes and Configure pane properties.

• Stream property selection: When visualizing streams or asset stream references, you can now select which properties to include beyond the default Value property.

  For information about stream type properties, see Stream type properties.

• Revamped pages for browsing experiences and visualizations: The Browse Visualizations and Browse Experiences pages are revamped to provide a smoother and more visual experience for both content viewers and content managers.

  For more information, see Browse and manage visualizations and Browse and manage experiences.

• PI Vision to CONNECT agent: Use the PI Vision to CONNECT agent to publish multiple PI Vision displays at once and quickly move PI Vision displays into CONNECT. Once your PI Vision displays appear in CONNECT, you can view them alongside your other CONNECT data to compare and reference the information as needed.

  For more information, see the PI Vision to CONNECT agent (preview) documentation.

Known issues

While the CONNECT early access experience is functionally robust, several known limitations may impact the user experience.

• 1D/2D/3D data not yet available: 1D, 2D, and 3D data is not yet available in CONNECT early access experience. This affects the following areas:

  • Asset Information content items in visualizations and experiences: These content items should be disregarded for now. They can be added to visualizations and experiences, but do not have data to display.

  • 3D view, 2D view, and documents tab on Explore page: The 3D view and 2D view options use 2D and 3D data, so are not selectable. The documents tab can be selected, but does not have documents to display.