Product Updates
2023

Manufacturing Connect 2.11.0

4min

Release Date: May 31, 2023

New Features

Description

Activation Configs

Activation Configuration now offers a new Advanced Settings section. This section provides you the opportunity to customize the Remote Access (the connection between Manufacturing Connect and Manufacturing Connect Edge) parameter PersistentKeepalive(the interval in seconds of how often to send an authenticated empty packet to a Manufacturing Connect Edge).

Edge Remote

Added a new Settings tab to enable you to configure the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) of the Remote network interface.

Marketplace

Marketplace now offers the creation and synchronization of Primary and Secondary catalogs. A new Synchronization section has been added in each marketplace catalog application. This section enables you to synchronize a Secondary catalog to become identical to a Primary catalog.

Enhancements and Improvements

Description

Keycloak

Upgraded keycloak to 20.0.3.

Status Overview

The number of active and billable tags are now also displayed.

Templates

  • The Description field now has a character limit of 512.
  • Templates list now provide statistics for each template.
  • Redesigned Create Template from device to be similar to Manufacturing Connect's user interface version.

Alerts

  • When setting up a Metrics-based Trigger, Alert Delay, seconds must be at least 60 seconds.
  • When setting up a Metrics-based Trigger, Target Value is now in msgs/minute rather than msgs/seconds.

Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous releases have been resolved:

Description

Templates

Fixed an issue when uploading an invalid Parameterized Template (.zip folder). It previously yielded a successful result message but didn't add the template. It will now accurately display an error message.

Alerts

Fixed an issue with Metrics alerts for Connector online status operating improperly.

Admin Console

Fixed an issue where logging in and then reloading the page cause a log out and required another authentication.

Images

Fixed an issue where uploading of .upd files failed.

Security

  • Multiple vulnerabilities have been resolved as part of this release.

Known Issues

The following issues are unresolved in this release:

Description

Edge Devices

  • Expired site-based licenses do not display their expired status.

Templates

  • When creating a template, NTP/DNS/Timezone/Country/Docker Data are not automatically incorporated.
  • Uploading a template file circumvents the 512 character limit for Template Description.
  • Two or more templates can share the same description.

Upgrade

  • Users are able to downgrade Manufacturing Connect to an earlier version.