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@shwethanidd shwethanidd released this 02 Sep 20:40
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This release contains new features, fixes to issues reported by the community and the development team. The following list highlights the most notable changes included in 8.1:

  • Historian related changes
    • Support for newer version of Mysql 8.0.
    • Updated SQL historians schema to combine topics and metadata into the same table. The new version of historian will work with existing tables (i.e. old schema) if tables already exists.
    • Updated SQL aggregate historian schema to store aggregates as double precision number instead of text – removed support for string aggregations such as GROUP_CONCAT.
  • Ability to allow capabilities to RPCs dynamically at run time.
  • Bug fixes for RabbitMQ federation and shovel. Added pytests for RabbitMQ federation and shovel.
  • Updated tests for web authentication.
  • Added testing of RabbitMQ VOLTTRON into Github actions/workflows.
  • Video tutorial on overview of platform driver.
  • Moved agents contributed by external community into 'services/core/contrib' folder, agents that may work but is not actively maintained by PNNL team into 'services/core/unsupported' and agents that are deprecated into 'deprecated' folder.

Known Issues:

  • RabbitMQ VOLTTRON does not work in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • There is a 6-7 compatibility issue when forwarding data from 6 instance to 7 instance