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About Version Features

Over the course of development, naturally there are changes and additions to the Ignition software. This page highlights any new functionality or modified behavior, but is not meant as a complete resource for new features. You can find more about these items by following any links.

Any pages that contain features that were added in a non-zero release (ie: not 7.9.0) will be accompanied by a display like this:

This feature is new in Ignition version 7.9.X

Upgrading Ignition

Upgrading Ignition is very easy, but there are a few things we recommend to ensure everything goes perfectly.

See the Installing and Upgrading page for a complete guide to protect your projects.

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New In 7.9

Gateway Webpage

Complete overhaul to look and feel of the Gateway Webpage. There are many updates to aid troubleshooting and self-diagnosis of your system. New logger system that gives better searching and filtering options. Automatically filtered loggers on each device/connection/etc. page, and the ability drill into any item.

Distributed Services

View and interact with Tags from any Gateway in your network. This allows for many more architectures including true scale-out systems.

    • Remote Tag Provider: Read and write to Tags on a remote system from any Gateway in your network.

    • Remote History Provider: View Historical Tag data from anywhere. Access data from any Ignition without dealing with additional database connections.

    • Remote Alarm Provider: Manage your alarm notification systems in one place. Allows any alarm throughout the Gateway Network to access these Notification Profiles and Pipelines.

Global Templates

Create templates in the Global space to give all projects on your Gateway access to those templates.

Multi-Monitor Support

The Vision modules now lets you open multiple client frames sharing the same client resources (user credentials, Client Tags). Interact with windows in each client frame from any other frame.

Security Zones

Restrict access to various services (remote Tags, Alarms, Pipelines, etc.) based on the Gateway trying to access it.

User Password Policies

Set password policies for your users. Enforce password length and complexity, force password updates, and restrict re-use.

Multiple Licences

Activate multiple licences on one Ignition Gateway. Add 3rd party modules simply, or combine licenses with ease.

ARM Support

Install Ignition on ARM processors.

OPC Array Read/Write

Write support has been added to array Tags.

Modbus Write Optimizations

Limit the size of Modbus OPC-UA writes.

Enable/Disable UA Connections

Enable or disable UPC-UA connections through scripting calls.