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title: Manufacturing Connect 2.12.0
slug: manufacturing-connect-2120
docTags:
createdAt: 2023-07-11T15:00:50.307Z
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Release Date: July 18, 2023
## New Features
| **Description** |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **License Server Management:**
* A new **License Clients** tab allows you to create activation requests for devices to connect to the license server through a proxy. |
| **MDE Settings:**
* A new Analytics feature is now available in MDE version 1.3.0, which includes the following:
- New or updated metadata concepts.
- Metadata buckets will only have one schema.
- Metadata buckets can only be attached to tags through *Types*.
- There are now two bucket types: metadata and tag metadata.
- New buckets flags.
- Old flags will be deprecated.
- You can display all values from a given bucket.
- Updated Type concepts.
- Two major categories of Types.
- Default types: Provided by MDE and read-only.
- Custom types: Defined by users.
- Both are identical but default types can't be edited and are displayed differently.
- New Type configuration components.
- Edge metadata
- Tag metadata
- Updated parser structure
- New real-time service, allowing better real-time metrics. The following can be provided in real-time:
- Total messages
- Messages per tag
- Last ten tag values
- Throughput of each stage of the system
- New transformation framework.
- New archetypes. |
| **User Interface:**
* A new standalone MDE UI application is available in MDE version 1.2 and later. |
## Enhancements and Improvements
| **Description** |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Support:**
* Clickhouse logs and upgrade logs are now available in support bundles. |
| **Activation:**
* If there is an unsuccessful activation through the license server, more details are now included in the error message to assist in troubleshooting.
* You now have the option of automatically applying the default password policy in Manufacturing Connect to activated devices.
* When you activate an edge device, the Google Pub/Sub connector is automatically created with a custom attribute. The attribute name is *mce\_hostname,* and the attribute value is the hostname, which includes the MAC address. |
| **Settings:**
* You have the option storing edge device data (OMA and RAW) in Clickhouse.
* You can configure the backup retention policy for edge device data by setting the number of backups to store. |
## Resolved Issues
| **Description** |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Edge Devices:**
* Fixed issue where expired site-based licenses do not display their expired status. |
| **Marketplace:**
* Fixed issue with an older Docker version causing the Marketplace Catalog app to crash. |
| **Templates:**
* Fixed issue with NTP, DNS, Timezone, Country, and Docker Data being automatically added to templates. |
| **Upgrade:**
* Fixed issue with being able to downgrade Manufacturing Connect to an earlier version.
* Fixed issue with not being able to upgrade Manufacturing Connect Edge through Manufacturing Connect. |
| **Users:**
* Fixed issue with an incorrect success message displaying after an unsuccessful attempt to add a user. |
## Known Issues
| **Description** |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Marketplace:**
* Marketplace applications may not launch successfully after upgrading from an older version of Manufacturing Connect. |
| **Templates:**
* Uploading a template file circumvents the 512 character limit for *Template Description*.
* Two or more templates can share the same description. |
| **Upgrade:**
* If you upgrade Manufacturing Connect, activated edge devices may display as offline and you will need to reboot Manufacturing Connect to view the devices as online. |
| **Backup**:
* After restoring a backup, the Grafana dashboard may not display. |
| **Edge Devices:**
* The disk usage data for edge devices may not display correctly and hide the value.
* The Docker version of Manufacturing Connect may not display events after enabling the **Forward Events** feature. |
| **Settings:**
* If you create a custom topic, the prefix for the topic may be incorrect. |