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.

22156

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

22163

SQL Native client print message was disabled for Oracle based interfaces.

22172

When removing an interface from PI Event Frames Interface Manager, it will also remove any associated services.

22181

When adding an interface to PI Event Frames Interface Manager, the instance ID will be initialized as the same value of interface ID.

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.

22221

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

22224

Bifconfig properly creates new default virtual user service without errors.

22235

Interface configuration for RST and RET reads UnitedStates format standard.

22245

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

22246

BifConfig does not allow older interfaces to edit health tags.

22249

All batch interfaces remove passwords from INI file regardless of parameter capitalization.

22250

Merging issue causes unit procedure and operation not to close.

22260

Batch event frames no longer merge event frames when merging is disabled and unique ids don't 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.

22283

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

22464

For interfaces with a version 5.0.0 or greater, PI Event Frames Interface manager nows tail the windows event viewer instead of PI Message log.

23177

BifConfig now stores RST and RET as UTC Note that they can be edited in a local friendly time string and read into the interface correctly. When written by the configuration program, they will write the times out as UTC and a local time string as a comment.

23747

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

23793

The Event log source will be created as part of the setup process.

23794

PI Interface for Wonderware InBatch is now AVEVA Batch Management.

24781

The interface setup kit is using the same GUID for all the interface. This causes trouble when installing another batch interface on the same machine. Fixed to use different GUID for each interface.

24847

SQL Native Client is no longer supported, and is now replaced with OLEDB for all supported batch interfaces.

49860

Configuration "USECLOSEEVENTSONLY" when checked in the PI Event Frame Manager will work properly.

67289

UniRecord exports now include all UniRecord fields.

67650

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

67926

Interface will not allow Batch events with a zero start time.

68207

BifConfig will now store SCAN values as low as one second without complaint.

68907

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

70398

Float tag values are now evaluated correctly.

70403

Message logging now includes exception data.

70471

Very long log messages are successfully logged.

72522

Interface stability improvements have been completed.

73489

Interface no longer hangs 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