Release Notes

22133

Attribute values referencing other event frames are captured regardless of the order event frames are created.

22140

Unirecord data sources are now included in unirecord imports and exports.

22151

Duplicate event frames are not created when BatchID or Name contains not allowed characters.

22153

Restore DESCRIPT handling in phase step logic.

22156

Cache start and end times can no longer be permanently altered by arbitration events.

22196

Event frames separated by more than cache time no longer merge.

22200

A delay has been added to allow attribute "__BatchStartTime" time to be available.

22209

Interface will no longer have a delay in processing a batch when the local time is greater than GMT.

22211

MONITORTAGWINDOW now defaults to 0, meaning monitor tag counts don't get trimmed to the most recent days of activity and roll over at INT_MAX unless MONITORTAGWINDOW is deliberately set.

22216

Interface ID has been added to the message logs in order to uniquely identify log message.

22218

All generated unirecords will have the placeholder [TIMESTAMP] have the format "YYYY-MM-DD" for a SQL source and "YYYY/MM/DD" for non SQL source like EVT files.

22219

Unit procedure level event frames using different units will no longer be merged.

22221

Monitor tags now accurately reflect the number of batches and their child events.

22235

Interface configuration for RST and RET reads United States format standard.

22245

The unit procedure batch id attribute is controlled by the unit procedure recipe template batchid.

22250

Merging issue causes unit procedure and operation not to close.

22251

Empty UniRecord dump files are no longer generated.

22260

Batch event frames no longer merge event frames when merging is disabled and unique ids do not match.

22268

All RST and RET within the configuration will be parsed as US format. Fix in current development branch and in 4.3.x.x Branch.

22275

A check that verifies that a Procedure Event Frame and a Unit Procedure Event Frame are both generated by the same interface instance before linking them together.

22281

Procedures created by Operation recipes are properly updated extended properties for determining end time and merge.

22283

The Event log source is created during the interface install step.

22289

When network interruptions cause AFSDK to becomes out of sync and throw duplicate uniqueid exceptions, the interface attempts to complete the rest of the checkin, set the offending event frame(s) to a checked in state, and exits.

23832

A delay (/DELAYBUFFER) was added so the source data is available at the time of query. This helps event start times such as __BATCHSTART.

24117

Interface now supports the INCLUDEINCOMPLETEDATA configuration option. If set to true, the interface creates unit procedures and all its children without a unit.

25811

PI data server collectives and PI buffering to multiple PI data servers is now supported.

25995

There is a new AFERR (-500) value that gets set on the Batch Status tag during an EFGEN AF check in error. Customers can monitor the value of the tag and notifications and analyses can be performed in the event that an error occurs.

26466

Batch Interfaces now support an AF Interface Statistics element that stores the values of the PI tags recorded during interface execution. The location of the newly created element can be configured using the Batch Interface Configuration Manager and passed through the INI file.

26756

With the release of version 5, if you have a batch interface supported batch database, it will no longer be able to write to PIBatch Database. Version 5 only supports Event Frames Customers who need to write to PIBatch. The database needs to stay with Version 4.x.x.x Batch Interfaces.

27053

Added new logging level 3 (DB) to include Unirecord diagnostics messages into message log.

27091

Extra emphasis on ensuring AF checkin is performed before disconnecting, as well as the addition of the AFAutoCheckin feature.

67289

UniRecord exports now include all UniRecord fields.

67298

Event sorting is faster and memory consumption is better managed during event queuing.

67927

A UID in the UIDLIST with zero or empty start times will be ignored.

68377

Changed the Batch list management algorithm to improve event processing accuracy (prevent missed batches).

68907

Default account to setup interface service is now Default Virtual User (NT Service/).

69287

Updated the BIFConfig utility to only allow TagPath properties to be set on Asset Templates and Property Templates. Fixed issue where the TAGPATH value was not being saved properly.

69486

All attributes are now created on the correct event frame.

69854

Interface supports failover and includes a health tag that can be monitored.

70398

Float tag values are now evaluated correctly.

70403

Message logging includes exception data.

70471

Very long log messages are successfully logged.

72522

Interface stability improvements.

73489

Interface no longer stops due to locale thread lock issue.

73498

Setup kit creates the event source name under application logs to match with Interface application name (which is used by logging framework).

75880

Procedure level recipe events are processed correctly and have no missing end times.

Windows Server 2022 (64-bit)

Yes

Windows Server 2019 (64-bit)

Yes

Windows Server 2016 (64-bit)

Yes

Windows 11 (64-bit)

Yes

Windows 10 (64-bit)

Yes