Product Updates
2025
Manufacturing Connect 2.31.0
3 min
release date december 1, 2025 review the current list of docid\ mrg6gmxj4s8e56y0bngxm new features description manufacturing data engine(mde) added compability with manufacturing data engine (mde) 1 5 1 asset management this release introduces viewer and administrator asset management roles for digital twin functionality in manufacturing connect edge visibility of edge devices is limited to the companies that you have access to assign roles in manufacturing connect admin console by navigating to settings > users , selecting a user, and scrolling to asset management roles with the new roles the viewer role provides view access to digital twins the administrator role provides full access to digital twins now you can define parameters for dynamic attributes in digital twin models in manufacturing connect edge, users can update parameter values by instance to define the topic for each dynamic attribute edge devices now synchronize automatically when a digital twin model is updated manufacturing connect and git integration now you can connect manufacturing connect with an external version control system (github, gitlab, or azure devops) and store, manage, and track changes to manufacturing connect edge template files configure the integration in the admin console in integration > git provider enhancements and improvements description edge devices manufacturing connect now displays a warning banner when disk space is low and pauses the ingestion of new messages previously, notifications only displayed in manufacturing connect admin console manufacturing connect now provides better handling and error messaging during image uploads when disk space is low applications you can now export marketplace catalogs events system events are now available in the admin console now you can filter and view both general and project specific system events additional manufacturing connect and manufacturing connect edge events are now available in company > events this includes system , licensing , digital twins, cloud storage , analytics , flows , and datahub event information alerts now the name of the trigger that you define displays in the trigger column in alerts > incidents instead of the trigger id the helps you easily identify the trigger that caused the incident or alert settings now you can bypass strict certificate validation for smtp servers with a new checkbox in settings > email > email settings enable to specify a mail server as trusted when the server uses a self signed or custom certificate keycloak admin users now display in the admin console ui when they are members of a team in settings > users > members ssl certificates error handling is improved for invalid root ca certificates now an error message displays in settings > domain/ssl > ssl settings when adding a valid ssl certificate and a key file with an invalid root ca certificate file under user defined licenses central license management now displays an edge device status (online or offline) mc backups backups are now compatible between manufacturing connect virtual machines and kubernetes deployments note that backups must be performed from the same manufacturing connect version ui now the displays company name instead of company code in various locations in the admin console application parameters you can now view the parameters that were enabled when an edge device was deployed in app parameters on the application details page project webhook notifications administrators can now set up a webhook notifications when a project is created, updated, or deleted setup notifications in alerts > triggers in manufacturing connect admin console resolved issues description events fixed issue where a incident resolved alert was inaccurately triggered when the mqtt connection was lost, which mislead users regarding alert status fixed an issue where a 500\ internal server error occasionally occurred when accessing events settings now https is enforced for keycloak admin console redirects fixed an issue where the system attemped to authenticate to an stmp server when the use authentication checkbox was unselected in settings > email > email settings security fixed issues with upstream security vulnerabilities fixed access issue with keycloak admin role for project level teams list resolved a cve 2024 38821 vulnerability cloud management corrected the delete icon that displayed in the action menu in cloud management > types section company/project list fixed issue where the company list did not always automatically refresh after adding new companies fixed issue where long company and project names (over 50 characters) always displayed fully in the admin ui dashboard fixed display issue where lengthy company and project names caused horizontal scrolling in the ui on smaller screens asset management fixed display issue where lengthy company and project names in the digital twin ui overlapped with edit buttons on the project tile applications fixed issue where an error prevented saving of component details after correcting initial input errors in marketplace fixed issue with inaccurate counts of deactivated edge devices in total devices in the application table system fixed issue where changing and saving ssl settings in the admin console could trigger an unknown error http failure response fixed an issue where a site based license server is provisioned to the device error occurred when activating manufacturing connect edge against manufacturing connect with a site license configuration in this case no clients were created in manufacturing connect fixed issue where a failed to check firmware upgrade status max retry attempts exceeded error displays in manufacturing connect after upgrading a manufacturing connect edge device, even when the device was upgraded successfully performance fixed performance issue that occurred when refreshing a company list that contained a large number of companies