All modules
- Reliance executable files signed with an SHA-1 certificate are now signed with an SHA-2 certificate
- changed the format of the main project file (the file with an .rp4 extension)
- increased the security level of some parameters stored in a project
- increased the security level of passwords of project-defined users
- increased the security level of encrypted projects
- added checking the strength of a password when changing it
- added support for the Oracle database system
- custom reports: added detecting changes to a report template file performed by another program
- custom reports: added the possibility to read changes from a template file performed by another program
- list editors: added the possibility to change the order of items using a keyboard and drag & drop operations
- altered hardware verification in a software license by extending checking the computer's disk serial number and MAC address
- fixed detecting a license stored in a hardware key if multiple clients were connected to the License Service
- fixed software license verification on 64-bit Windows
- extended detecting a license stored in hardware keys; the license for a running module is verified in all hardware keys connected to the computer
- Activate License Wizard: "Retrieving registration key" step – added the possibility to create an email message with a request for sending the activation key
- fixed detecting a license only for Teco OPC Server in a hardware key
- optimized detecting the default printer and installing Microsoft Excel in Windows
- list editors (e.g., a text list in the Active Text component): added a command for duplicating items
All components
- fixed drawing rotating components in Windows 10 (rarely, a graphics card driver failure may have occurred, after which Windows was restarted)
- fixed displaying a tooltip that contains the "|" character
Progress Bar component
- RELI-51816 – component editor: added a property for setting a transparent background
Progress Bar, Track Bar, Scale components
- RELI-56118 – fixed selecting data structure fields when defining the component's range if the component was embedded into a window template
Edit Box component
- fixed formatting numeric values of tags whose range is specified using a state list; values that do not correspond to the states are formatted according to the operating system settings
Notepad component
- fixed drawing the component in the Reliance Design development environment
Track Bar component
- fixed localizing a query before setting a value
Check Box component
- fixed localizing a query for state 0 and a query for state 1
Container component
- trend: added a popup menu with commands from the trend viewer's toolbar
- report: fixed the memory error that occurred in the runtime software when displaying the report viewer
- added displaying the name of a structured tag in the development environment's "Information" window
Data Grid component
- added the possibility to localize some text strings into all languages supported in the runtime software
Data Tree component
- cell of type Display: added sorting cells in the tree's column by the cells' numeric values
Digifort component
- added support for Digifort 7.2
- added the possibility to choose a version of Digifort
Media Player component
- VLC media player: fixed the error that caused not starting playing after setting up the file for playing
Progress Wheel component
- a new component
Wago – Time Program component
- a new component
Time Program component
- added the possibility to alter the appearance of the time program ("Daily bar charts" and "Daily tables")
- added the possibility to set up the grouping of time slots ("By order of time slots in day and order of days in week" and "By order of time slots in day")
- added the possibility to set time units ("Hours and minutes" and "Milliseconds") for a time slot
- added the possibility to change the value range and use a state list to display the values
- added the possibility to set up a value caption
- added the possibility to set a data type ("Word (16b)" and "LongInt (32b)") for a time slot's time
Time Program and Teco – Time Program components
- added the "Data transfer > Timeout" property
Notepad, Equithermal Curve, Data Tree, Data Grid, Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Track Bar, Check Box, Combo Box components
- fixed the error that caused drawing the component improperly after changing the component's width from the Component Manager
AMiT – Time Program component
- a new component for editing time programs in AMiT devices
Combo Box component
- fixed displaying the component when its font reaches a particular size
- optimized drawing the component (substantially accelerated loading windows with a large number of components of this type)
Real-Time Chart component
- added the possibility to set X axis values in reverse order
- component editor: added checking the range of the special X and Y axes' values
Real-Time Trend component
- added the possibility to automatically position a trend's series axes above each other
- altered automatically positioning series axes side by side
- removed automatically updating the vertical axis' range according to the properties configured in the manager if the trend is magnified
Equithermal Curve, Track Bar, Combo Box, Data Tree, Notepad, Edit Box components
- fixed displaying tooltips at runtime
Internet Explorer, Media Player, Axis IP Camera, Vivotek IP Camera, Pelco IP Camera, Digifort components
- removed the possibility to configure the properties of tooltips
Vivotek IP Camera component
- fixed starting a project from Reliance Design if a window where a Vivotek IP Camera component is placed is open
Reliance Design development environment
- managers: added the Replace Object Properties Wizard
- managers: altered displaying the names of items in the lists for changing the order; the name of an object is now displayed instead of the complete name
- RELI-55970 – managers: substantially accelerated sorting objects by order (states, data structure fields, report items, trend series, real-time trend series)
- managers: added expanding the tree structure when opening the manager for the first time
- managers: CSV export/import – added an object's ID to the export
- managers: CSV export/import – the link to the original text string is now removed by an empty string when importing text
- Device Manager: added support for OPC UA devices
- Device Manager: added the "Max. time difference" property for a device (the "Advanced" page; it replaces the same-named property of a data table)
- Device Manager: CSV export/import – added/fixed exporting and importing some properties of devices and tags
- Device Manager: fixed saving the VIF property of an M-Bus device's tag if the property is set to "Manufacturer Specific"
- Device Manager: added new data types of special internal tags – "Memory used by Driver Server" and "Driver Server CPU load"
- Device Manager: alarm/event – added the "Negation" property for an inhibitor tag
- Device Manager: alarm/event – changed the default value of the "Require acknowledgment" property
- Device Manager: added the "OPC ItemID prefix" property for OPC and OPC UA devices
- Device Manager: added checking whether there are non-printable characters at the beginning and end of the "OPC ItemID" property for OPC and OPC UA devices' tags
- Data Structure Manager: added importing data structures from the DB format of Siemens' TIA Portal
- RELI-62147 – Data Structure Manager: added importing data structure arrays from the DB format of Siemens' TIA Portal
- Data Structure Manager: enabled importing nested data structures
- Data Structure Manager: when importing a data structure array, its array elements are now imported as separate tags independently of whether or not the "Import array elements as separate tags" option is activated in the Project Options dialog
- Communication Driver Manager: added CSV export/import
- Communication Driver Manager: added the "Updating tag value after write" property
- Data Table Manager: data table field – added the possibility to use a tag's eng. name as the name of a physical field
- Trend Manager: added the possibility to define shared trend axes
- Trend Manager: added a property that allows setting the type of vertical axis for a trend series
- Trend Manager, Real-Time Trend Manager: added the possibility to automatically position a trend's series axes above each other
- Trend Manager, Real-Time Trend Manager: added checking the range of the axis scale
- Custom Report Manager: improved the layout of the designer's toolbars when restoring the default settings
- Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed loading custom report items (changes to the encoding of item names no longer occur)
- Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed duplicating a report (links to Reliance objects in FastReport variables that contained national characters are now duplicated correctly)
- Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed aligning a page when previewing a report
- Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – altered the "Load Report Items" command so that it doesn't load FastReport's system tags
- Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – added support for states
- FastReport Designer: the "Copy Format Tool" command now also copies the "WordBreak" and "WordWrap" properties
- FastReport Designer: the "Save As" command renamed "Save Copy As"
- FastReport Designer: Alarm/Event Table Column Text object – published the DataSet property
- FastReport Designer: fixed localizing Reliance's conversion functions (Int64TimeToDateTime, LocalDateTimeToUTCDateTime, UTCDateTimeToLocalDateTime)
- FastReport Designer: fixed the "Highlight" command
- Script Manager: added the RScr.ExecScriptForThinClient method, which triggers a script in the context of a specified thin client
- Script Manager: added searching for scripts by choosing the "Quick Filter" command
- Script Manager: fixed running the manager's popup menu (Source Block Tools)
- Action Manager: added the "Copy tag value to Windows clipboard" action type
- Action Manager: added the "Paste from Windows clipboard to tag" action type
- Action Manager: action of type "Show current alarms/events" – fixed the text replacement of the link to a device ("Filter by device")
- Action Manager: the "Close dialog window" action type renamed "Close window"
- String Manager: added a status bar showing summary information
- User Manager: added a new method of authentication (verifying Windows users)
- RELI-54610 – User Manager: added the "User must change password" option
- User Manager: added the "Password never expires" option
- User Manager: added the possibility to define roles
- User Manager: user – the "User administrator" option renamed "Enable user administration"
- RELI-61871 – User Manager: changed the icon of the user that has been assigned the servicing right but doesn't have the "Enable user administration" option enabled
- User Manager: user – changed the default value of the "Disable customizing trends" and "Disable customizing reports" options
- State Manager: fixed sorting the state list by state value
- RELI-55725 – Project Structure Manager: moved some Web server settings from the Project Options dialog to the Project Structure Manager's computer properties
- Project Structure Manager: computer – added the "Servers use same alarm/event table" property to the "Redundancy" page
- Project Structure Manager: computer – added copying the properties on the "Web" page when copying/duplicating an object
- Project Structure Manager: server connection – removed the "Transfer alarms/events" property
- Project Structure Manager: server connection – added the "Client and server use same alarm/event table" property
- Project Structure Manager: server connection – altered the min. value of the "Connection timeout" property
- Project Structure Manager: connected device – hidden the "MEM file" page if not in use
- Project Structure Manager: communication channel – renamed the "Data transfer" property ("Connection") and its values
- Project Structure Manager: communication channel – "Connection" property – hidden the "MEM file" option if not in use
- Project Structure Manager: communication channel – added the "Maximum communication packet length" property (the "Other" page; it replaces the same-named property of a communication driver)
- Project Structure Manager: connected data table – renamed the values of the "Connection" property
- Project Structure Manager: connected data table – "Connection" property – hidden the "Direct/Indirect" option if not in use
- Project Structure Manager: added exporting/importing communication channels to/from the CSV format
- Project Structure Manager: CSV export/import – added the following properties of a modem: "Connection type", "TCP port", "IP address", "Command mode transition delay (ms)", "Idle period between dialing (ms)"
- Project Structure Manager: CSV export/import – added the "User profiles > Directory" and "Window records > Directory" properties
- Window Manager: fixed importing a window template's contents into a normal window
- Window Manager: improved importing a window if a same-named window already exists in a project
- Window Manager: enabled bulk exporting windows even for currently closed windows
- Window Manager: the name of a window file is always the same, no matter whether one or multiple windows are exported
- RELI-56113 – Script Manager: fixed the description of the parameters of the FormatCurrency, FormatDateTime, and FormatNumber functions
- RELI-56873 – design window: fixed closing a window template (previously, the window was saved even when canceling changes)
- Component Manager: fixed sorting the component list by type
- Project Diagnostics: improved testing communication zones of Teco devices
- Project Diagnostics: fixed diagnosing duplicate actions of type "Show historical alarms/events" and "Show current alarms/events"
- Project Diagnostics: fixed diagnosing an embedded trend's static link in the Container component; previously, static links to trends were evaluated even if dynamic links were specified
- Project Diagnostics: added diagnosing dynamic links to embedded reports and custom reports in the Container component
- Project Diagnostics: fixed diagnosing the procedures RTag.MoveTagValue, RTag.GetTagValue, RTag.UpdateTagValue, and RSys.PrintTagDbTrend in case when the procedures were located on the last line of a script's code
- Project Diagnostics: fixed diagnosing folders if detecting unused objects is not active in the Project Diagnostics Wizard
- Project Diagnostics: Device Manager: added checking the dynamic correction of a tag's analog value
- Project Diagnostics: Diagnostics Results – fixed displaying issues in the list of project scopes
- RELI-61684 – Project Diagnostics: fixed diagnosing the project language
- Project Diagnostics: Data Table Manager – added diagnosing a record's data range for MySQL and MariaDB databases
- Project Diagnostics: Project Options – added detecting weak passwords for an SQL connection
- Project Diagnostics: Project Options – removed diagnosing the database name for an SQL–PostgreSQL connection
- Project Diagnostics: Data Table Manager: extended checking the name of a physical table and the name of a physical field with respect to illegal characters
- Project Diagnostics: Action Manager: added diagnosing the list of devices for the action of type "Set tag value in multiple devices"
- Project Diagnostics: Device Manager – removed diagnosing errors for tags not used at runtime
- Project Diagnostics: added diagnosing the minimum size of components
- RELI-4067 – finding object usages: Project Structure Manager – "Disabled windows" (computer > Display) are not evaluated as unused objects
- Diagnostics Results, Object Usage Search Results: added the possibility to use the Component Manager for bulk fixing issues
- Project Options: added the "Check program running" option and related properties (Runtime > Recovery)
- Project Options: added the possibility to specify aliases of access rights
- Project Options: added the "Encoding" property, which specifies a CSV file's encoding when exporting object properties to the CSV file
- Project Options: added the "Import key" property, which determines how to import object properties from CSV files
- Project Options: added the "Level", "Max. file size", and "Max. file age (number of days)" properties (Runtime > Logging)
- Project Options: added the "Encoding" property for exporting data and alarms/events in the CSV format at runtime (Runtime > Data Export)
- Project Options: changed the default value of the "Access right checking method" property to "Require all specified access rights" (Security > Access Rights)
- Project Options: changed the default value of the dBASE table format to "dBASE VII" (Historical Data > dBASE Data Tables)
- Project Options: added the possibility to run the BDE Administrator (Historical Data > dBASE Data Tables)
- Project Options: added properties for setting up safe passwords (password strength)
- Project Options: added the possibility to set the maximum age of a password
- Project Options: added properties for setting up basic protection against DoS attacks
- Project Options: added properties for setting up the handling of IoT requirements (LoRaWAN and Sigfox)
- Project Options: added an option that allows accessing an API description on the data server's Web page
- Project Options: added options that determine which types of API methods should be enabled
- Project Options: added the "Show" option (for security reasons), which allows displaying and editing the SQL connection parameters
- Environment Options: added the possibility to administer Reliance's Windows services
- Scale Windows and Components Wizard: fixed saving the settings when moving from one step of the wizard to the previous
- Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: substantially accelerated exporting a project
- Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: fixed moving configurations up and down the list using the arrows
- RELI-55831 – Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: the file C:\Program Files (x86)\GEOVAP\Reliance4\WebServer\PagesCustom.zip can now be also located in the project subfolder \WebServer\PagesCustom.zip (this location is preferred)
- Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the possibility to automatically determine the data server address based on the Web page address (applies to the Web client run using Java Web Start)
- Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: the Re-export.bat file is now also part of the result of the export process; it is used for re-exporting the project (it runs Reliance Design, opens the project, exports it for remote users, closes it, terminates Reliance Design)
- Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: the wizard can now be completed without selecting the type of client (this is to allow removing the export from the project)
- Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the "Enable running Web Client as applet" option
- Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: fixed exporting some types of pictures
- Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the possibility to select access rights for Smart Client
- Back Up Project Wizard: fixed sending the project backup by email on Windows 10
- selection dialog boxes: added the possibility to display aliases of objects
- selection dialog boxes: added the possibility to display the complete list of objects
- selection dialog boxes: a standard dialog box is now used to select a communication channel
- added automatically running the License Service after module startup if the service is required when verifying a license (Environment Options > License > License detection method)
- Component Palette: fixed drawing text in the Component Palette's tabs on Windows 10
- optimized loading windows when project encryption is turned on/off (the allocated memory and the number of GDI objects no longer increase)
- handled the situation when a script's source code file is not found while opening a project (previously, such a project could not be opened)
Runtime software
- added support for the new method of authentication (verifying Windows users)
- fixed evaluating a special internal tag of type Program CPU load on multi-core processor systems
- added support for OPC UA devices
- added checking the version of Reliance with which a project was created or modified: if it is higher than the version of the runtime software, the project cannot be started
- added notifying of starting an unencrypted project (it is not displayed if the runtime software is started from Reliance Design)
- added updating special internal tags based on the folder
- optimized evaluating special internal tags of type Current alarm/event count (added an internal list of current alarms/events for each device)
- network communication between runtime software modules: increased the level of security
- network communication between runtime software modules: added changing the tag quality when the server stops responding
- added a separate property for the alarm/event checking interval
- fixed checking hard disk drives when starting a project: previously, a connected USB flash drive could not be removed safely at runtime
- alarm/event table in an SQL database: added an index on the "EndTimeStamp" column
- saving to dBASE IV data tables through TDBF: fixed saving tags of type String (previously, national characters were not saved correctly)
- saving to dBASE data tables: fixed saving tags of type WideString (UCS-2) and UTF8String (previously, national characters were not saved correctly)
- custom reports: fixed localizing text strings from a Reliance project
- reports, custom reports: fixed formatting numeric values of items whose tags' range is specified using a state list; values that do not correspond to the states are formatted according to the operating system settings
- improved the message about a missing license for a communication driver (the name of the device type is now part of the message)
- added logging requests for historical alarms/events
- added logging the situation when it fails to assign a new value to a tag
- IEC104 devices: added logging the situation when a tag value is not processed because the value's time stamp is older than the tag's time stamp
- alarm/event file-based database: fixed searching for archive files if the number of characters of a table's name is not equal to 2
- alarm/event file-based database: corrected the error message about an invalid file format (previously, when trying to read a damaged archive file, the message contained the name of a current file, e.g., AE.rdt)
- alarm/event file-based database: the "Limit accessible archive file count" option (Project Options) is now taken into account even at runtime (previously, it was only used at project startup)
- added a test when receiving data from communication drivers – it is testing whether or not the data's time stamp is significantly greater than the current time (depending on the value of the "Max. time difference" property specified for a device); if it is, the data won't be processed
- alarm/event synchronization: handled the situation when a client's alarm/event is stored with a time stamp that is significantly greater than the current time
- custom reports: Alarm/Event Table Column Text object – fixed displaying the value of the "Tag" and "Alarm/event type" columns
- scripts: RSys.SaveCustomReport method – fixed saving reports from scripts in different threads
- scripts: fixed the value of the StrPar3 property of the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered from a component in a template that is also embedded into a template
- scripts: fixed the value of the StrPar3 property of the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered from a component in a template dynamically linked to a tag
- custom reports of type FastReport: added the possibility for CSV report export to set a file's encoding (Project Options > Runtime > Data Export)
- custom reports of type FastReport: optimized exporting reports
- reports: removed setting up the page header's frame
- trend viewer: fixed wrapping the date on a trend's bottom axis; previously, the date was wrapped incorrectly when using a short date format with spaces in Windows
- value states: fixed getting a state's value according to the state's name; previously, when the state list contained two states of the same name, the value of the last state on the list was used (not the first one)
- improved logging when reaching the maximum size of a log file (now, the file is not deleted – at least one file per day is always retained)
- added logging Driver Server's system information to the runtime software's log files
- added the following information to the runtime software's log files: Currently connected thin client count, Current alarm/event count, Project uptime
- Motorola MOSCAD devices: removed generating alarms/events based on archive data
- altered the message about creating/not creating the alarm/event database's archive file (the archive file's name is now part of the message)
Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server
- substantially accelerated starting projects with a large number of window templates
- added restoring the default state of the main window (the display of the title bar, main menu, and toolbar) after project termination
- alarm/event viewers: altered the "Quick Filter" command so that filtering is not performed automatically when editing the text in the filter (filtering is started with a delay)
- "Select Directory" dialog: added the possibility to localize the dialog into all languages supported in the runtime software
- trend viewer: added a popup menu with commands from the trend viewer's toolbar
- trend viewer: added the possibility to define a trend's time range
- report viewer: added the possibility to export a report to a file in the following formats: Microsoft Excel 2003 XML (.xml), Microsoft Excel 2007 (.xlsx), and CSV (.csv)
- report viewer: CSV export – the dialog for confirming overwriting an existing file is now displayed only once (previously, it was displayed twice)
- report viewer: CSV export – the dialog for confirming overwriting an existing file is now displayed only if the user wants to export the data to a new file
- report viewer: corrected the text of a system message that is shown when an error occurs while loading the viewer's settings
- custom report viewer: fixed enabling commands in the viewer's toolbar for custom reports of type Text, Web page, and Web archive
- actions of type "Edit custom report": fixed saving changes to a template file after closing the designer
- actions of type "Select window": now, windows contained in the list of disabled windows (Project Structure Manager > computer) are no longer displayed in the "Select Windows" dialog
- altered the action of type "Close window" so that it allows closing a window of any type
- scripts: altered the RSys.CloseWindow method so that it allows closing a window of any type
- accelerated saving data of real-time trends at runtime
- now, if a fatal error occurs when updating a project, the "System Information" window is displayed
- "System Information" window: Network connections – added a new column named "Timeout exceeded"
- "Detailed Information on Alarm/Event" window: added the possibility to select the alarm/event's text (e.g., for the purpose of copying to the clipboard)
- removed notifying of a project run on an SSD if the runtime software is started from Reliance Design
- improved checking an SSD (previously, it took an unreasonably long time to check an SSD when multiple drives of different types were connected to Windows)
- added support for requiring safe passwords
- RELI-54610 – added support for the "User must change password" option
- fixed checking a name during user verification (now, non-printable characters at the beginning and end of the name are removed before checking)
- improved the "Previous Window" and "Next Window" commands on a computer with multiple monitors: the window is now displayed on the monitor on which it was last displayed (the mouse cursor position is no longer taken into account)
- added releasing window templates from memory
- altered the behavior of windows on a computer with multiple monitors: if a window is visible, it stays in the same position when activated (it is not moved to another monitor; the mouse cursor position is no longer taken into account)
Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server
- updated the library: OpenSSL 1.0.2o
- RELI-55771 – report viewer, custom report viewer: exporting reports to MS Excel is enabled only if it is installed
- server Web page: removed all inline scripts
- server Web page: improved the performance when generating the contents
- server Web page: fixed setting the project language on the page that contains the list of tags and the list of current alarms/events
- server Web page: the list of objects (e.g., tags) on the page is restricted if it contains too many objects
- server Web page: added the possibility to administer access restrictions (Blacklist and Whitelist) directly on the page
- server Web page: fixed displaying trends in the English version of the Diagnostics page
- server Web page: trends on the Diagnostics page are now updated automatically
- server Web page: added IoT requirements to trends on the Diagnostics page
- server Web page: added notifying of an unsupported browser (IE8 or older)
- server Web page: added a periodically updated list for a current log file to the Logs page
- Web server: increased the level of security
- added the security.txt file
- Web server: fixed setting the Last_Modified HTTP header field
- Web server: added basic protection against DoS attacks
- Web server: added support for handling IoT requirements (LoRaWAN and Sigfox)
- Web server: fixed the error (exception) that might have occurred when repeatedly starting a project
- Web server: handled requests that did not contain all required parameters
- substantially accelerated synchronizing alarms/events with client runtime software modules when using an SQL database at the server side
- added concurrently processing thin client requests for historical alarms/events
- added passing acknowledgment information to thin clients when acknowledging an alarm from the client runtime software
- data server redundancy: fixed synchronizing data tables after a primary server failure (previously, the secondary server did not send data that had not yet been stored in a database)
- RELI-56914 – added logging out of an HTTP session when a Smart Client session expires
- substantially reduced the number of hard disk write operations needed for handling client requests
- custom application interface of the Web service: GetCurrentAlarms – added the possibility to filter alarms by priority
- custom application interface of the Web service: fixed checking enabling calling API functions
Reliance Server
- fixed identifying service events
- if Reliance Driver Server must be rerun at runtime, it runs as a Windows service
Reliance Smart Client
- increased the level of security
- removed all inline scripts
- improved the performance when generating the contents
- substantially reduced the number of messages transferred between the server and the browser
- the error in communication with the server is now announced only after some unsuccessful communication attempts
- fixed setting the language after startup
- now, a session does not expire if a request is just being processed
- added support for the new method of authentication (verifying Windows users)
- added commands for setting a window's scale to 100 % and automatically (the scale adjusts to the resolution)
- fixed handling the "Update Tag Value" command invoked from a component's popup menu (previously, a failure occurred when updating a tag value)
- RELI-54900 – Container component: added the possibility for embedded trends, reports, and custom reports to open the browser in a separate window or tab
- all components: fixed evaluating two-state information (visibility, error state, etc.) if the control tag is of type Float or DoubleFloat
- all components: fixed parameters passed to a script triggered by a component placed in a window template
- Container component: added support for dynamic links to embedded reports and custom reports
- Container component: fixed the error that caused periodically increasing the size of an embedded trend on iOS
- RELI-61989 – Check Box component: fixed the behavior of the check box when disabled
- RELI-54070 – Data Grid component: added basic support for the component
- RELI-55867 – Edit Box component: fixed entering a text string that contains special characters (e.g., a tab)
- Display component: fixed displaying an error state
- Animation component: fixed the behavior of the component if there are multiple animations running in a window
- Animation component: fixed displaying an animation that is stopped if a static picture is not defined
- Progress Wheel component: added basic support for the component
- fixed executing actions linked "On log on user" and "On log off user"
- trend viewer: fixed displaying the viewer when a series is hidden
- trend viewer: improved displaying vertical axes when the "Y-Axes Above Each Other" option is active
- RELI-54895 – trend viewer: if the zoom is active, it is set to 100 % by dragging from left to right
- RELI-54901 – trend viewer: added the possibility to display data from a selected time range
- alarm/event viewers: reworked the list to an HTML table
- alarm/event viewers: added indicating (icon) that an alarm requires acknowledgment
- trend viewer: fixed displaying the viewer if a trend's title text does not fit on one line
- report viewers: fixed moving the horizontal scroll bar (sporadically, a popup menu was displayed while scrolling)
- RELI-54913 – report viewer and custom report viewer: added a popup menu
- RELI-55848 – report viewer and custom report viewer: added the possibility to set a transparent background
- RELI-55849 – fixed downloading a report (PDF, XLS, etc.)
- RELI-56808 – removed communication with the update server http://www.reliance.cz
- added support for requiring safe passwords
- RELI-54610 – added support for the "User must change password" option
- fixed checking a name during user verification
- fixed entering a new user password (the new password must be different from the old one)
- RELI-55981 – added the possibility to change the main window's title
Reliance Web Client
- extended the validity of the certificate by which the application's files are signed
- added support for Java 9
- fixed creating a shortcut
- fixed the error that occurred at startup (#### Java Web Start Error: #### null)
- handled the situation when a local copy of a project is damaged (e.g., due to an incomplete file download)
- substantially reduced the number of objects in memory
- improved the security of data transferred between the Web client and the server
- substantially reduced CPU workload for large-scale projects
- fixed memory leaks in projects with many windows
- added support for the new method of authentication (verifying Windows users)
- fixed language localization for tags' units
- fixed user log-on if performed after the same user's unsuccessful log-on (invalid credentials)
- added support for actions of type "Paste from Windows clipboard to tag" and "Copy tag value to Windows clipboard"
- handled switching from a secondary (backup) connection back to the primary connection when the primary server's response is very slow
- fixed handling the "Update Tag Value" command invoked from a component's popup menu (previously, a failure occurred when updating a tag value)
- all components: fixed aligning text drawn with a larger font
- all components: fixed the behavior of a component that activates a modal window and runs a script on a click at the same time (previously, the script was executed only after closing the modal window)
- Active Text component: fixed displaying the component if a tag value is outside the range
- Container component: added support for dynamic links to embedded reports and custom reports
- RELI-62300 – Container component: fixed evaluating the dynamic link to the structured tag (case sensitivity for the structured tag's name should not have been taken into account when evaluating the link)
- Data Grid component: added support for displaying the component (the component does not allow setting values and does not support controlling a selected row and column)
- Axis IP Camera component: fixed connecting to a camera's server if a name and a password are required
- Edit Box component: fixed setting a value when losing focus if the edit box is intended for entering a password
- Data Grid component: fixed a selected cell's background color
- RELI-62762 – Data Grid component: fixed setting a value
- Data Grid component: fixed updating the value of a tag linked to an element index if the component does not allow setting a value
- Data Tree component: fixed the behavior of the component if no header columns are defined
- Data Tree component: fixed loading the component if a node contains cells with the wrong names
- Real-Time Trend component: removed displaying custom axes that are only used by hidden series
- Real-Time Trend component: fixed automatically setting the axis range
- Real-Time Trend component: fixed dynamically controlling the axis range
- Check Box component: added support for word-wrapped text
- Combo Box component: removed updating the component if the combo box is expanded
- Combo Box, Check Box, Track Bar, Edit Box, Notepad, Time Program, Teco – Time Program, Equithermal Curve components: added support for the "Update timeout" property
- Progress Wheel component: added basic support for the component
- added support for controlling the size of a visualization window using tags
- fixed playing the sound of an alarm/event that did not require acknowledgment
- alarm/event viewers: fixed the foreground and background color (sporadically, default colors were used)
- alarm/event viewers: added indicating (icon) that an alarm requires acknowledgment
- alarm/event viewers: added the possibility to display the following columns: "Acknowledge", "Acknowledged", "Condition", "Active", "Note"
- historical alarm/event viewer: handled timeout expiration while downloading alarms/events
- historical alarm/event viewer: added the possibility to automatically update the list of alarms/events
- historical alarm/event viewer: disabled sorting (the list of alarms/events is always sorted by the date and time an alarm is triggered)
- trend viewer: added properties for printing to the "Chart Settings" dialog
- trend viewer: fixed displaying the dialog if the "Custom Range" option is active
- trend viewer: fixed displaying formatting tags on the time axis (previously, this was only working on Windows Vista and later)
- trend viewer: added the possibility to select a range type (point count/hour count)
- CSV export: a file's encoding now respects the option in the Project Options dialog
- "Download Historical Alarms/Events" dialog: added the possibility to select a defined filter from the list
- optimized requests for downloading historical alarms/events
- fixed entering an alarm/event note
- added support for requiring safe passwords
- RELI-54610 – added support for the "User must change password" option
- fixed checking a name during user verification
- fixed entering a new user password (the new password must be different from the old one)
- RELI-55981 – added the possibility to change the main window's title
- "System Information" window: fixed displaying the number of connected clients
- added support for the German language
Communication drivers
- fixed receiving a spontaneous message (BACnet, IEC104)
- fixed the error in communication that occurred after a request for archive data reading (communication was lost without being restored)
- added the possibility to communicate in modem mode on a serial port or an Ethernet socket
- fixed writing a tag (if multiple write operations followed quickly, only the last value was written)
- added the possibility to control DTR signals
- fixed switching a connection to a backup communication channel of type modem
M-Bus Communication Driver
- fixed decoding a tag that is stored in a device as an unsigned integer with conversion
BACnet Communication Driver
- fixed decoding received data if there are multiple devices with a different BACnet address on a single IP address
- fixed the error in communication with multiple device over a common BACnet router
IEC 62056 Communication Driver
- filtered out a parity bit during communication over Ethernet
- removed switching the communication speed during communication over Ethernet
- added decoding a tag value even when the tag's address is not contained in a response
- fixed waiting for an ACK packet confirmation
- added the Date and Time data types
- added checking a message's initial character
IEC 104 Communication Driver
- added an algorithm of sending a request for refreshing data transfer if the driver receives no data from a device within a specified time interval
- altered receiving data: data is received even when a device first sends data and then a message (confirmation) about activating data transfer
- the number of unacknowledged sent I-frames is reset after successfully adding a confirmation packet to a queue
- removed the flag that indicates waiting for a response after sending a general query that causes an error in confirming received I-frames
- fixed the error that caused not confirming received I-frames by the ACK packet
- prevented an unwanted Connect packet from processing
- sending a negative confirmation for a device of model RWE is now the same as for a device the model of which is not specified
- fixed the memory leak that occurred when deleting a sent I-frame
- fixed detecting a device according to ASDU
- RELI-56870 – fixed communication if a Web address (URL) is entered instead of an IP address
- fixed the wrong data length in the commands C_SC_NA_1, C_DC_NA_1, and C_RC_NA_1 if a tag's data type is longer than one byte
IEC 62056 Communication Driver
- added unlocking a device using an access code
Siemens Communication Driver
- RELI-62135 – fixed reading tags with addresses higher than 8191
KNX Communication Driver
- added the "IP address" property
- added new properties for optimizing connecting to the KNX TP network over a KNX IP router
- fixed the wrong data length stated in the communication packet header when writing non-digital tags
Mitsubishi Communication Driver
- added the possibility to define tags on the SM, SD, and SB register types
- fixed encoding the TimeSpan data type
- changed addressing tags from Mitsubishi devices (the register type of the address is now taken into account)
- added optimizing reading data
Sauter Communication Driver
- fixed the error that occurred when sending a user-defined message
Modbus Communication Driver
- fixed the error in communication that occurred when the “Network (Ethernet) – server mode” channel type was chosen
- added the possibility to communicate through communication zones defined for a Modicon device
- added support for HIMA safety solutions
M-Bus Communication Driver
- added the possibility to read tags whose VIF property is set to "Manufacturer Specific" as an array of bytes
Generic Communication Driver
- fixed the wrong return code when writing special physical tags for communication control
- added checking the length of received data with respect to the length of an input string
- fixed receiving data
- fixed communication over a UDP/TCP port in the server mode
Johnson Controls Communication Driver
- fixed setting the device's time
AMiT Communication Driver
- changed the default channel type to "Network (Ethernet)"
- changed the default UDP port to 59
- altered the behavior of the driver that occurs when one or more tags' properties are defined incorrectly (now, no failure in communication with a device occurs and reading values of correctly defined tags is not affected)
- added the function of reading and writing tags from an ActiveX object's local database, data is transferred from/to a PLC by the PLC itself
WAGO Communication Driver
- fixed reading digital tags' values through communication zones defined for a Wago device
Rittmeyer WSR3000 Communication Driver
- fixed the error in communication with a device
SMS Driver
- fixed sending long messages
DNP3 Communication Driver
- a new communication driver for the DNP3 protocol
SNMP Communication Driver
- a new communication driver for the SNMP protocol
DLMS Communication Driver
- a new communication driver for the DLMS protocol
IoT Communication Driver
- a new communication driver for devices communicating within the LoRaWAN and Sigfox networks
MQTT Communication Driver
- a new communication driver for the MQTT protocol
External Communicator
- fixed terminating the communication driver
- changed the location of the files that contain the communication driver settings; the files are located in "C:\Users\Public\Documents\GEOVAP\Reliance4\Settings\"
- added the following parameters to the communication driver settings: UseRTS, UseDTR, RequireCTS, RequireDSR
License Service, Reliance OPC Server
- fixed starting the programs if the Internet is not available
Reliance OPC Server
- added support for the cryptographic protocol TLS 1.1 and 1.2
- fixed an SSL connection
Reliance OPC UA Server
- a new Reliance module
Utilities
- added the R_IniFileWriter.exe utility for writing data to INI files
- added the R_DTExporter.exe utility for exporting the contents of an RDT file to the CSV format
- Reliance Remote Control Center: increased the level of security
- R_HistDataToDailyArcConverter: added loading some options for accessing dBASE data tables from a project's main file
- FastReport Designer: improved the layout of the designer's toolbars when restoring the default settings
- FastReport Designer: added displaying the name of a custom report in the title bar of the utility's main window
- FastReport Designer: added a function that allows loading recently opened templates
- FastReport Designer: added detecting changes to a report template file performed by another program
- FastReport Designer: added the possibility to read changes from a template file performed by another program
- FastReport Designer: fixed clicking on a trend in a report's preview
- FastReport Designer: fixed working with hyperlinks in a report's preview
- FastReport Designer: the "Copy Format Tool" command now also copies the "WordBreak" and "WordWrap" properties
- FastReport Designer: fixed the "Highlight" command
- License Key Utility: added support for the SNMP, DNP3, DLMS, IoT, MQTT and HIMA drivers
- RDT File Editor: added commands for adding or deleting a record
- RDT File Editor: added the possibility to open a project's main file
Installation program
- added a new module named OPC UA Server as an optional part of Reliance
- altered registering the License Service (the startup type is set to "Automatic (Delayed Start)")
- extended the Windows Registry by values ensuring that Web pages embedded into a visualization window through an Internet Explorer component are displayed in IE8's standards mode
Help and documentation
- fixed highlighting words in bold in PDF documents