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title: Manufacturing Connect 2.5.6/2.8.0
slug: manufacturing-connect-256280
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createdAt: 2024-03-19T15:40:40.081Z
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Release Date: February 7, 2023
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**Note**: 2.5.6 Is compatible with MDE 110
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**Note**: 2.8.0 Is compatible with MDE 120
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## New Features
| **Description** |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Admin Console Settings**
Manufacturing Connect now offers long-term API Tokens. |
## Enhancements and Improvements
| **Description** |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Task List and Task Details**
Added additional multi-Manufacturing-Connect-Edge operations that can be monitored by Task List. |
| **Status Overview**
The Dashboard now also supports Processed/Failed tags metrics. |
| **Edge Management**
Edge Devices List now also show processed/failed tags metrics |
| **Edge Management**
This tab is now always available regardless of Marketplace license availability. |
| **Edge Management**
Multiple Select is now supported to delete multiple backups. |
| **Edge Management**
There is now a clear error message for pub/sub provision |
| **Edge Management**
Application Details now display Device ID and Device Status. |
| **Marketplace**
For Application Releases, variables can now be configured as *private*. This will make the variable values display as asterisks during deployment. |
| **User**
When creating a new user, a password is needed along with authentication. |
| **Admin Console Settings**
Support bundles now contain NTP Server Logs. |
## Resolved Issues
| **Description** |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Edge Management**
Fixed an issue with Manufacturing Connect Events not displaying. |
| **License Server**
Fixed an issue with License Server not accepting additional tag license |
| **Admin Console Settings**
Fixed issue where after upgrading to 2.7.0 Kafka SSL keystore became broken. |
| **Admin Console Settings**
Fixed an issue where after changing base domain name, location http header was still referring to the old base domain name. |
| **Security**
Resolved a vulnerability related to CVE-2022-4116, CVE-2022-32221. |
## Deprecated Components and Features
| **Description** |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Edge Management**
Metrics are not available for Manufacturing Connect edge versions below 3.2.0 and 21.5.0. |
| **Edge Management**
The *Explore* tab has been removed. |
## Known Issues
The following issues are unresolved in this release:
| **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 |
| **Login**
Incorrect MC System/User Local time may break authentication. |
| **Edge Management**
* Device list may be empty momentarily as it is actually loading.
* An edge device may incorrectly display `No active license` warning even though it does have a license.
* An edge device may incorrectly display Data status.
* Manufacturing Connect Edge instances may be shown as offline and cease the connection with the Manufacturing Connect when the Manufacturing Connect was upgraded. This occurred when the Manufacturing Connect used a IPv6 remote network. |
| **Edge Management**
For Docker version of Manufacturing Connect, when *Forward Events* is enabled, actions that trigger events do not display the events. |