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title: Manufacturing Connect 2.5.1
slug: manufacturing-connect-251
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createdAt: 2022-11-11T20:59:24.000Z
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Release Date: October 14, 2022
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**Note**: 2.5.1 is compatible with MDE 110
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## New Features
| **Description** |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Admin Console Settings:**
* Google Cloud Platform Cloud Credentials can be stored in `.json` format.
* Storage settings can be set to either *Local* or *Google Cloud Storage*. |
## Enhancements and Improvements
| **Description** |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Overall:**
* Restructured *Settings* menu.
* Removed various critical security vulnerabilities throughout Manufacturing Connect. |
| **Company List:**
* Companies are now split between *Edge Lifecycle Management* and *Asset Management*.
- *Edge Lifecycle Management*: Where users can manage Manufacturing Connect Edge devices. |
| **Applications:**
* Catalogs can now also be pushed to Manufacturing Connect Edge devices.
**Applications:**
* Logs are now provided for multi-container application. |
| **Alerts:**
* Tag values can now be used as a Source of a trigger and/or as part of the return message. |
| **Admin Console Settings:**
* Support Bundle now contains all user actions. |
## Resolved Issues
| **Description** |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Installation and Configuration:**
* Manufacturing Connect will now successfully launch on Virtual Machines. Previously failed with error: `/usr/bin/vaultbot: No such file or directory` |
| **Edge Devices:**
* When accessing a Manufacturing Connect Edge using RemoteUI, its *Flow Manager*>*Flow Definition*>*dashboard* external link was previously not reachable. (Still reachable when accessing the Manufacturing Connect Edge directly, without using the Manufacturing Connect RemoteUI.) This has been fixed.
**Edge Devices:**
* Manufacturing Connect can now successfully create a backup of an activated, licensed-provisioned Manufacturing Connect Edge instance. Previously failed to create backup with `message: "HTTP error: status=500 INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR; response=couldn't upload backup: unexpected response"`.
* Resolved an issue when creating a backup of Manufacturing Connect Edge instance with perpetual (node-locked) license. |
| **Activation:**
* Creating/modifying an activation configuration with a *Lease TTL* value beyond CA certificate expiration date is now restricted. |
| **Applications: **
* For an application that has been deployed to multiple Manufacturing Connect Edge devices, all the Manufacturing Connect Edge devices will now be displayed. Previously only displayed one Manufacturing Connect Edge device.
* Marketplace Catalogs in *Draft* state will no longer be available for deployment to Manufacturing Connect Edge devices.
* Reworded *Upgrade Application* to *Update Application*. |
| **Users:**
* Deleting a user with Grafana Administrator role will now automatically delete that same user from Grafana. |
| **Docker: **
* Uploading a docker image now shows correct creation date. |
## Deprecated Components and Features
| **Description** |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Admin Console:**
* Separate port 8445 is no longer needed. |
## Known Issues
| **Description** |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| For FireFox browser with self-signed certificate, there are failures on all file uploads of Manufacturing Connect Edge on Manufacturing Connect Admin Console. |
| Parametrized templates are not supported for instance-level templates |
| The Admin Dashboard usage stats are inconsistent with the Data Lifecycle Management statistics |