Real-Time Chart component

• "Editing..." dialog: fixed setting the pie chart's radii

Reliance Design development environment

• Device Manager: structured tags in a Teco device – fixed calculating the addresses of nested tags that follow a tag of type Array of String (previously, the "Null-terminated String tags" option was not taken into account when calculating the size of a tag of type Array of String)
• Project Structure Manager: increased the maximum length of the "Community" property for a SNMP device's communication channel
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: fixed exporting window properties (the Web client didn't run scripts for window events)
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: fixed exporting sounds of alarms/events (the Web client didn't play sounds of some alarms/events)
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: exporting JNLP files for HTTPS is now performed only if HTTPS is enabled for a computer
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: fixed the wrong names of the JNLP files in the ThinClient_ConfigList.txt file

Reliance Web Client

• Data Grid component: fixed undesirably setting the value of the tag that specifies a selected row to -1

Communication drivers

• fixed the error in communication that occurred in projects where the packet list for the communication channel was inserted into a visualization window

All modules

• RELI-67999 – logging system information: fixed the Windows build number
• RELI-68000 – logging system information: fixed the list of network interface controllers
• managers: fixed showing message dialogs if the "Search Results" window is open (previously, a message dialog could have stayed hidden behind the "Search Results" window)

Level Fill Picture component

• fixed painting the component when exceeding the high warning or critical limits

Container component

• component editor: fixed setting static links to embedded reports and custom reports

Reliance Design development environment

• fixed a window file's XML format (it may have not been valid for some XML parsers)
• Data Structure Manager, Device Manager: fixed importing the number of characters for data structure fields and tags of type Array of String
• RELI-68062 – Device Manager: importing structured tags by ID – fixed searching for the project's existing tags by ID
• Device Manager: fixed the default value of the "Tag type" property after adding a new tag to a GE Fanuc device
• Device Manager: tag – added checking links to a state list and to tags on the "Range" page
• Device Manager: tag – fixed the text replacement of value input bounds
• Device Manager: fixed saving a HIMA device's properties (the "Advanced" and "Information" pages)
• RELI-68120 – Window Manager: fixed displaying the list of windows after adding a new window folder
• String Manager: fixed memory leaks

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• "Enter Tag Value" dialog: fixed writing tags of type DoubleWord and LargeInt (previously, values greater than 2147483647 could not be written)
• trend viewer: fixed loading the trend legend's appearance settings
• current alarm/event viewer: fixed checking positioning outside the screen during window activation

Reliance Smart Client

• IP camera components – fixed an image transmission failure

Communication drivers

• fixed communication with devices having the same IP address
• fixed running a driver on Windows XP

IoT Communication Driver

• fixed reading data from structured messages containing multiple parameters with the same name; now, the complete path (the names of all parameters separated by a period) can be entered

OMRON Communication Driver

• optimized reading data via the FINS protocol; now, the driver uses the maximum communication packet length

Siemens Communication Driver

• RELI-67970 – fixed communication with some types of devices when the maximum communication packet length is set to 255 bytes

Generic Communication Driver

• fixed receiving data during communication on a serial port

BACnet Communication Driver

• fixed undesirably generating a ReadPropertyMultiple communication packet after project startup if a device does not have support for this communication function

Reliance OPC UA Server

• fixed generating structured tags' address space

Reliance Design development environment

• RELI-67902 – String Manager: fixed the fatal memory error that might have resulted in a data loss

Reliance Design development environment

• Communication Driver Manager: added the Plum and GE Fanuc drivers to the list in the "Select Communication Driver Type" dialog
• Data Structure Manager: CSV export/import – added the "Data type" property for a Siemens device's data structure field
• Data Structure Manager: CSV export/import – added the "Property identifier" property for a BACnet device's data structure field
• String Manager: fixed memory leaks
• Project Diagnostics: fixed memory leaks

Runtime software

• special internal tags of type "Current alarm/event count": fixed evaluating the number of unacknowledged alarms/events (only those alarms/events that require acknowledgment are counted)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• fixed the memory leak that occurred when handling Web clients' requests
• RELI-67835 – REST API: fixed the result of a request for a list of object folders (e.g., "device_folders")

Reliance Web Client

• fixed processing alarms/events whose condition is of type "Event from device"

Reliance Smart Client

• fixed displaying a window's background picture

Communication drivers

• fixed the memory leak that occurred when multiple devices with the same IP address, the same port, and the TCP/IP communication protocol were defined
• fixed communication on a serial port

Modbus Communication Driver

• fixed server mode communication

BACnet Communication Driver

• fixed reading the value of a Priority Array tag whose data type is Word if no priority is set for an object and the Present Value property is set to Relinquish Default
• removed restricting the maximum number of a segmented message's received segments
• added resetting the COV function's timers for all tags after a failure in communication with a device occurs

Installation program

• added a missing file named R_DrvGEFanuc.dll

All modules

• fixed the error that might have caused checking a new version of Reliance to end up in an endless loop

Reliance Design development environment

• Project Diagnostics: fixed checking the uniqueness of the "WID" property for tags of AMiT devices (now, it is only checked within an AMiT device)

Reliance Design, Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• About box: fixed memory information

Runtime software

• added creating a backup of a file in which tags' last values are stored if this file's contents fail to load

Communication drivers

• fixed the error that might have caused processing a large number of write operations to end up in an endless loop

BACnet Communication Driver

• fixed the error in communication to a device with address 1 located in another network

Utilities

• Remote Control Center: fixed user authentication via Active Directory

Reliance Design development environment

• Picture Manager: fixed the "Replace Picture" command (previously, changing a picture was not saved)

Runtime software

• fixed logging historical data and alarms/events to the PostgreSQL database system
• Active Directory: fixed changing a user password

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• scripts: RSys.PrintDbReport method – fixed printing rows that contain data from a database table
• scripts: RSys.PrintDbReport method – fixed the summary calculations

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• server Web page: fixed user log-on

Reliance Smart Client

• fixed logging off the user who was logged on automatically after project startup

Modbus Communication Driver

• fixed server mode communication

OMRON Communication Driver

• fixed respecting the maximum length of the FINS protocol's communication packet

Help and documentation

• updated the Reliance Design manual
• updated the Scripts manual

All modules

• used a new compiler (Delphi Rio, 10.3.2) and a user interface library (VCL)
• extended the validity of the certificate by which the modules' files are signed
• substantially accelerated running all Reliance modules
• substantially accelerated loading and starting a project
• improved logging information to a file
• changed the maximum length of a user password to 72 characters (applies to passwords of users authenticated by Reliance)
• changed the control for time editing
• "Quick Filter" command: added searching by using wildcard characters
• "Quick Filter" command: added the possibility to filter by object aliases
• "Quick Filter" command: added the possibility to show nonmatching results
• "Quick Filter" command: added the possibility to enforce updating the object list
• managers: added commands for collapsing/expanding the object tree structure (tree-view)
• managers: "Search Results" displayed after using the "Find Object" command – added handling the Ctrl+A keyboard shortcut for the "Select All" command
• "Select Directory" dialog: fixed removing a directory using the Delete key
• "Select Directory" dialog: fixed the behavior of the "New Folder" command
• "Select Directory" dialog: fixed editing a newly added folder
• "Select Directory" dialog: fixed localizing the default name of a new folder
• selection dialog boxes: fixed displaying the status of the "View > Aliases" item
• custom reports of type FastReport: fixed setting the DatabaseName property according to the SQLConnection property in an ADO Database object

All components

• RELI-67682 – fixed displaying the border for components with invalid links to tags and for components linked to tags with invalid values

Animation component

• enabled running an animation in Reliance Design when the animation speed is controlled by a tag
• fixed playing an animation with its "Rewind to start" option being active
• fixed dynamically controlling an animation's reverse operation

Components of type time program

• enabled writing a time program into the memory of the runtime software if a device is not online

Time Program component

• component editor: fixed saving changes made through the "Edit > Method" option
• fixed reading a time program's configuration that was not stored in tags of type Array of Byte (8 b) and DataBlock

BACnet – Time Program component

• fixed decoding a time program in the Real and Double formats
• added displaying an edited value
• added the possibility to edit an analog time program
• added checking a time overlap of defined events

Internet Explorer component

• added the possibility to run a Reliance project-defined script in the JavaScript code of the page displayed in the browser

Container component

• report: fixed localizing the viewer when an error occurs (the link to a report is controlled by a tag)
• report: added displaying the viewer if a database or a table is unavailable
• report: added displaying an error message if a database or a table is unavailable
• trend: removed the sporadic "List index out of bounds (0)" error
• fixed memory leaks

Progress Wheel component

• fixed drawing dynamic limits

Grid component

• altered painting so that the height of rows (and the width of columns) is always the same

Picture component

• fixed setting a picture's layout in the component editor

Pipe component

• component editor: altered enabling/disabling the "Colors" properties' controls (the "Static" page)
• component editor: fixed aligning controls (the "Static" page)

Data Tree component

• Tree Structure Editor: cell editor – added the "Used" option
• Tree Structure Editor: added the "Fix Missing Links" command (development environment)
• added indicating an invalid link and an invalid value for tags that control node visibility
• invalid links to tags and tags with invalid values are displayed based on the settings in the Project Options dialog (Components > Display)
• cell of type "Display": fixed displaying units after changing the link to a tag
• cells of type "Check box" and "Progress bar": fixed sorting cells in a tree column
• fixed setting the sorting of a column saved to a user profile
• fixed displaying changes to the link to a tag

Data Grid component

• fixed scrolling outside a selected row
• fixed terminating editing a real number in a cell's in-place editor
• fixed word wrapping
• fixed automatically sorting a data grid by column "-1"
• fixed automatically sorting numeric-type tags
• fixed dynamically controlling a selected row and column
• fixed drawing a data grid
• fixed memory leaks

Teco – IRC component

• fixed evaluating an invalid value of the main tag
• fixed enabling editing cooling temperatures for a selected module

Button component

• added support for displaying the standard popup menu
• fixed executing an action, running a script, and activating a window after clicking on a pressed button

Combo Box component

• fixed dynamically controlling the component's item count

Sauter – Time Program component

• fixed editing time

Wago – Time Program component

• fixed displaying units

Notepad, Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Equithermal Curve components

• fixed print restriction specified for a computer or user

Edit Box, Notepad components

• fixed updating the components after the time specified by the "Update timeout" property expires

Edit Box component

• RELI-67339 – fixed displaying values in components placed in templates embedded into Container components dynamically linked to a structured tag
• fixed updating the value of a tag after writing data; the tag's value range is specified by a state list

Reliance Design development environment

• moved the "Back Up Project" command from the Project menu to the File menu
• moved the "Back Up Project" command from the Project toolbar to the Standard toolbar
• "Configure Toolbars" dialog: fixed displaying the list of command names
• managers: added the "Alias" column to the bottom list
• Data Structure Manager: added generating field addresses based on their order for Siemens devices
• Data Structure Manager: added importing data structures from the CSV format for Omron devices from the Sysmac development environment
• Data Structure Manager: added importing data structures from the CSV format for Allen-Bradley devices from the Studio 5000 Logix Designer development environment
• Data Structure Manager: handled importing data structures whose names contain a character that is identical with the object name separator
• Data Structure Manager: fixed importing a Siemens device's array-type data structure field from the DB format
• Data Structure Manager: fixed the import of the string length while importing data structures from the XML format (IEC EN 61131-3)
• RELI-67270 – Data Structure Manager: set the default string length to 80 characters when importing a string with its length undefined from the XML format (IEC EN 61131-3)
• Data Structure Manager: the enumeration is imported from the XML format (IEC EN 61131-3) as Word
• Device Manager: added a new tag kind – "Derived"
• Device Manager: added new types of derived tags – "Copy", "Array element", "Bit", "Array element bit", "Logical product (AND)", "Logical sum (OR)"
• Device Manager: added the "Perform only write commands that change value" option for a tag (the "Advanced" page)
• Device Manager: added the "Generate alarms/events from archive data" option for some device types (e.g., Elgas2)
• Device Manager: alarm/event CSV export – removed "Column_151" (the alarm description was exported twice)
• Device Manager: disabled the "Save last value" option for structured tags
• Device Manager: structured tags of Omron devices – disabled the "Symbolic name" property if generated automatically
• Device Manager: structured tags of MQTT devices – disabled the "Topic" property if generated automatically
• Device Manager: tags nested in a structured tag from an IEC104 device – added disabling the "Qualifier" property if specified by a data structure field
• Device Manager: added importing tags of Allen-Bradley devices from the Connected Components Workbench development environment
• Device Manager: handled importing tags whose names contain a character that is identical with the object name separator
• Device Manager: fixed importing tags from an EDE file that contains "keyname" instead of "# keyname"
• Device Manager: added the CX model for Omron devices (this model differs from the other models in that it works with the String data type)
• Device Manager: added importing tags of GE Fanuc devices from the Proficy Machine Edition development environment
• Device Manager: added new types of special internal tags – "Project update is available" (only available for updating a project via the Web server), "Web server – received data", "Web server – sent data", "Program thread count", "Driver Server thread count", "Program GDI object count", "Driver Server GDI object count", "Program User object count", "Driver Server User object count", "Any user is logged on", "Logged-on user has specified access rights"
• Device Manager: importing tags from an OPC UA server – removed verifying the OPC UA server's endpoint URL
• Device Manager: importing tags from an OPC UA server – fixed importing tags to folders created in the "Import Tags from OPC UA Server" window
• Device Manager: importing tags from an OPC UA server – added importing array-type tags' element count
• Device Manager: importing tags from an OPC UA server – set the array element count to 0 for array-type tags whose dimensions are not defined in the OPC UA server
• Device Manager: CSV export/import – added the "Alarm/event start delay" and "Alarm/event end delay" options for a tag
• Device Manager: added the "Development environment compatibility" property for a Modicon device (if the "SoMachine Basic, Twido" option is selected, the driver computes the length of the %MD, %MF addresses in another way; if the "Unity Pro" option is selected, the driver decrypts the DateTime data type as an 8-byte string stored in BCD)
• Trend Manager: CSV export/import – added vertical axis types (combo box) and the "Title" option for a trend series
• Trend Manager: changed the default value of the "Paging" property to "Time range"
• Report Manager: added the "Word wrap" option for report rows
• Report Manager: moved the column list from the "Basic" page to a new page named "Columns"
• Report Manager: fixed setting the font color after changing it from the "Select Font" dialog
• Report Manager: report – removed a report's title preview, column header preview, and page footer preview
• Report Manager: report item – removed an item's column header preview and column row preview
• Report Manager: report item – altered editing the title
• Report Manager: fixed linking a report item to a data table field
• Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed formatting report item values based on a tag whose value range is specified by a state list
• Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – added deleting the IniFile parameter before saving a template
• Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – improved the "Select Series Type" dialog for a Chart object
• Custom Report Manager: added support for keyboard shortcuts in the viewer
• User Manager: added a new method of user authentication – via Active Directory
• User Manager: disabled the "User must change password" and "Password never expires" options if Windows is used for user authentication
• User Manager: fixed duplicating the user that has not yet been saved
• Action Manager: added the "Select array element" action type
• Action Manager: added the "Show tag report" action type
• Action Manager: added the possibility for the "Run application" action type to set a directory in which the application should start
• Action Manager: added the possibility for the "Run application" action type to dynamically control the "Application file" property
• Action Manager: added the "Enable context menu" option for the "www link" action type
• Script Manager: accelerated replacing text in scripts
• Script Manager: added the RSys.ShowTagDbReport method
• Script Manager: changed the default settings of the "Find Text" and "Replace Text" dialogs' options
• Script Manager: added the "Replace in Scripts" command
• Script Manager: script – added the "Enable running from embedded Web browser" option
• Script Manager: script – hidden the "Terminate after exceeding max. execution time" option if not used by any project-defined script
• Picture Manager: added the possibility to edit a picture in encrypted projects
• RELI-4545 – Picture Manager: fixed updating picture thumbnails
• Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: special internal tags of type Date, Time, Date/time, Project start date/time, and Last run script date/time – added the possibility to configure the "Time stamp base" property
• Communication Driver Manager: changed the default value of the "Communication channel main loop interval" property
• Project Structure Manager: computer – data server redundancy – added the possibility to define multiple secondary servers
• Project Structure Manager: computer – added an option for the new method of updating a project (via the Web server)
• Project Structure Manager: computer – added selecting Active Directory servers
• Project Structure Manager: computer – added selecting syslog servers for sending log records
• Project Structure Manager: computer – added a storage location for certificates
• Project Structure Manager: computer – added the "Log information to file" option (the "Other" page)
• Project Structure Manager: server connection – added a property named "Server response timeout before using secondary connection"
• Project Structure Manager: communication channel – added the possibility to define a reception port even for communication over TCP
• Project Structure Manager: IEC104 device communication channel – fixed displaying the "Data transfer refresh interval" property's units
• Window Manager: quick filter – added the "Title" column
• Window Manager: accelerated bulk deleting windows
• design window: added support for component styles (commands: "Copy Style", "Apply Style", etc.)
• design window: removed window-template blinking if the template contains no components
• design window: fixed enabling/disabling commands in grouped components' popup menu
• design window: fixed enabling/disabling commands in the main menu when selecting a component by pressing the right mouse button
• Replace Object Properties Wizard: fixed replacing access rights in the design window and components
• Replace Object Properties Wizard: fixed replacing font names in components
• Replace Object Properties Wizard: fixed replacing confirmation text in components
• RELI-66624 – Replace Object Properties Wizard: fixed replacing the alarm types property in the Container component (embedded objects: Current alarms/events and Historical alarms/events)
• Replace Object Properties Wizard: fixed replacing the custom filter property in the Container component (embedded object: Historical alarms/events)
• Replace Object Properties Wizard: fixed replacing the communication channel property in the Container component (embedded object: Communication channel)
• Back Up Project Wizard, Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: set the correct date and time for files compressed in ZIP archives
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: substantially reduced the size of the Web Client export files in case of a large number of configurations
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: substantially accelerated the export of projects with a large number of windows
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: removed unsupported commands from the computer list's popup menu
• Project Diagnostics: added checking the "Terminate script on error" option
• Project Diagnostics: added checking items in FastReport-type custom report templates (for ID-defined items)
• Project Diagnostics: added checking circular references for actions of type "Execute actions"
• Project Diagnostics: added checking the installed BDE drivers for data tables of type dBASE and Paradox
• Project Diagnostics: accelerated checking custom reports of type FastReport that contain ADO Database objects
• Project Diagnostics: accelerated checking SQL connections in custom reports of type FastReport
• Project Diagnostics: component locations can now be detected outside the window bounds
• Project Diagnostics: added notifying when the "Handled exceptions" option is active (Project Options > Runtime > Logging)
• Project Diagnostics: fixed displaying the number of issues in the folder of device tags
• Project Diagnostics: fixed checking updating tags in a folder
• Project Diagnostics: fixed detecting the use of text strings in custom reports of type FastReport
• Project Diagnostics: fixed checking custom reports of type FastReport
• Project Diagnostics: fixed the wrong evaluation of an unused object of type Communication zone
• Project Diagnostics: fixed the wrong evaluation of a missing value of the "ItemID" property for an OPC device's tag
• Project Diagnostics: fixed the wrong evaluation of a missing value of the "NodeId" property for an OPC UA device's tag
• Project Diagnostics: altered the prefix of the issue description in item lists and scripts
• Project Diagnostics: Diagnostics Results, Object Usage Search Results – removed closing the window when pressing the Esc key
• Project Diagnostics: fixed memory leaks
• Project Options: added options for setting up the program's behavior during user inactivity (Runtime > User Inactivity)
• Project Options: now, after confirming the dialog, the properties changed by the user are the only ones to be checked
• Project Options: added the "Allow running in older version of program" option (Runtime > Start and Termination)
• Project Options: added the "Log only write commands that change value" option (Tags > Input and Writing)
• Project Options: SQL connection – added the "Backup connection" option
• Project Options: added options for the new method of user authentication (Active Directory)
• Project Options: added new types of log records – System information and Security
• Project Options: added options for syslog servers
• Project Options: CSV export/import – added the "Alarm/event group type" property
• Project Options: handled setting duplicate object names in lists
• Project Options: altered adding a new item to the item list (the new item is now added right below the item you select)
• Project Options: Web > API – fixed enabling and disabling the controls
• Environment Options: added the possibility to set up the method of browser emulation for Internet Explorer in Windows
• Environment Options: fixed the picture format descriptions in the English version (Picture Manager > Editors; previously, they were displayed in Czech)

Runtime software

• network communication between runtime software modules: increased the level of security
• network communication between runtime software modules: added deleting a command queue when the communication with the server is interrupted
• network communication between runtime software modules: client–server redundancy – now, the client switches to a connection with higher priority only after receiving the first valid communication packet from the server (previously, this was performed immediately after establishing communication)
• network communication between runtime software modules: client–server redundancy – added switching to the next connection in order if the server on the current connection does not respond for a specified time
• OPC UA devices: added assuming tags' values and quality after communication with the OPC UA server is restored (previously, the tags' quality remained set to bad until the next value change)
• IEC104, DNP3, DLMS, MQTT devices: altered checking the sequence of real-time data's time stamps (now, the value whose time stamp is identical with that of the previous value is also processed)
• scripts: handled repeatedly calling the RSys.RestartProject method in quick succession
• RELI-67548 – reports: fixed checking available archive files
• accelerated terminating scripts at project termination/restart
• logging is now performed in a separate thread
• enabled logging debug information before loading a project
• after restarting a project, the user who was logged on before the restart will be logged on automatically
• added sending log records to selected syslog servers

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• added the possibility to change the scale of visualization windows (zoom)
• alarm/event viewers: status bar – extended the area for displaying the alarms/events' start date/time and their total number
• historical alarm/event viewer: fixed the automatic update button's title
• "System Information" window: removed the "Devices", "Data tables", "Tags", and "DDE sharing" pages
• information about starting and terminating a project is now more detailed
• scripts: added further information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method (the CustomIntPar1 and CustomStrPar1 properties)
• removed the query regarding waiting for terminating a script after a request for project termination/restart
• main window title bar: added displaying a visualization window's scale
• components' standard popup menu: added the "Show Report" command
• alarm/event viewers: added disabling/enabling the "Quick Filter" command according to the alarm/event list's row count
• alarm/event viewers: fixed sorting by the "Occurrence count" column
• trend viewer: tag trend – fixed loading the trend appearance's design settings
• trend viewer: the ruler is now positioned on the last record after opening the viewer
• report viewer: added the "Update" command for updating the Navigation panel
• report viewer: added the "Auto-Update" command for automatically updating the Navigation panel
• report viewer: added the "Sort" command, which specifies a report's record order
• report viewer: removed the following commands from the Navigation panel's popup menu – "Collapse All", "Expand All", "Collapse Node", "Expand Node"
• report viewer: altered enabling/disabling commands according to the availability of data in a data table
• report viewer: fixed localizing error messages
• report viewer: summary calculations – fixed calculating an average value for a column
• report viewer: fixed detecting the last record loaded from a data table
• report viewer: fixed displaying the time range in the viewer's status bar
• report viewer: improved automatically selecting a node in the Navigation panel
• report viewer: fixed displaying data from archive files
• report viewer: fixed loading the viewer appearance's design settings
• report viewer: accelerated loading data when displaying the viewer
• report viewer: summary calculations – added formatting a report item's summary calculation values based on a tag
• report viewer: print preview – fixed setting the summary calculations' legend font
• report viewer: print preview – the "Export Report" command renamed "Save Report"
• fixed enabling/disabling the "Change Password" command during user verification through Windows

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• network communication between runtime software modules: altered the logic of generating the message that contains information about establishing and restoring communication with clients (the message is generated only after receiving the first valid communication packet from a client)
• data server redundancy: added support for multiple secondary servers
• data server redundancy: data tables for which logging is turned off are not synchronized between servers
• data server redundancy: fixed synchronizing data tables with data from IEC104, DNP3, DLMS, and MQTT devices (previously, a synchronization failure could occur if the primary server received data from a device before starting the synchronization)
• data server redundancy: fixed adopting the primary server's properties (previously, the secondary server did not adopt the SMS driver's properties and the directory list that should be updated when updating the project)
• data server redundancy: server connections defined for the secondary server are not taken into account
• data server redundancy: special internal tags are now updated only if the server is active (except for those defined within the System device)
• data server redundancy: the previous value of special internal tags of type "Current device's physical tag date/time" and "Current device's historical data date/time" is now preserved when the secondary server assumes the active role
• updated the library: OpenSSL 1.0.2s
• the OpenSSL library is loaded at project startup only if HTTPS is enabled
• added support for loading certificates from a new storage location (from the Project Structure Manager)
• added support for a new method of updating a project (via the Web server)
• fixed the name of a window passed to the SenderName parameter in a script triggered by the Web client
• IoT: added support for receiving messages from Disruptive Technologies' devices
• improved the server's performance when handling some types of requests (Web Client, API, OPC server)
• improved the server's performance when connecting the Web client
• restricted the amount of real-time data and the number of alarms/events provided to the Web client as part of a single request
• server Web page: fixed changing a user password (sporadically, the HTTP 404 error message occurred)
• server Web page: added a trend displaying transferred data to the Administration > Server Diagnostics page
• server Web page: lists on the Project page now display object IDs
• server Web page: fixed localizing text strings in the trend legend on the Administration > Server Diagnostics page
• server Web page: report viewers – fixed displaying a report's background (previously, the "Print on white background" option in the runtime software affected the display of the report on the Web page)
• server Web page: report viewer – added support for changing the direction of sorting records by time
• server Web page: report viewer – added support for displaying a tag report
• server Web page: fixed the Web client's configuration list (sometimes, the list contained HTTPS links even if disabled)
• REST API: added support for writing tag values (POST)
• REST API: fixed writing tags of type String if the written value contains characters from a character set other than the basic one (e.g., Czech characters)
• REST API: improved the help system

Reliance Server

• removed the dependency on the "Reliance Driver Server" service (does not apply to projects already registered as a Windows service)
• fixed checking whether a project was started successfully
• removed the cause of the 1061 error (The service cannot accept control messages at this time) that occurred when terminating the service
• added logging information about changes in the service status

Reliance Web Client

• improved the performance when communicating with the data server
• fixed establishing communication with the server
• alarm/event viewers: fixed drawing a long alarm/event text string in the "Alarm/Event Explanation" dialog
• alarm/event viewers: fixed sorting alarms/events by start date/time if having the same start date/time
• current alarm/event viewer: fixed displaying internal alarms/events generated after connecting to the server
• historical alarm/event viewer: the text string defined for an alarm/event is now displayed (previously, the text string stored in the alarm/event database was displayed)
• historical alarm/event viewer: fixed sorting alarms/events by start date/time (previously, the alarms/events were not sorted correctly if some columns were hidden)
• trend viewers: fixed saving a trend to a file (previously, the resulting picture did not show the date on the time axis)
• trend viewers: when saving a trend to file, the resulting picture's size is identical with that in the viewer
• trend viewers: users whose "Enable user administration" option is active are allowed to configure trends
• trend viewers: fixed page orientation when printing a trend
• custom trends: fixed disabling/enabling controls for setting the axis' minimum and maximum
• RELI-67521 – all components: fixed displaying a component linked to a tag that is not allowed to be used at runtime
• components displaying pictures: fixed displaying a picture in the EMF and WMF formats
• components displaying the standard popup menu: added the "Show Report" command
• Button component: added support for the standard popup menu
• Button component: fixed text alignment
• Data Tree component: fixed distinguishing colors for cells linked to tags with invalid values
• Sauter – Time Program component: added support for the component
• Time Program component: fixed loading a time program (added support for missing data types and a new time format)
• Time Program component: altered checking a time program's data so that it doesn't require the sequence of time slots
• Simple Time Program component: fixed displaying time stamps
• Grid component: altered painting so that the height of rows (and the width of columns) is always the same
• Grid component: added support for the "Different color for even rows" option
• fixed displaying some components if the screen resolution is different from the visualization project resolution
• actions of type "Run application": added support for a directory in which the application should start
• actions of type "Run application": added support for dynamically controlling the path to the application
• actions of type "Show tag report": added support for this action
• Options dialog box: fixed moving the alarm/event viewers' columns
• fixed displaying information based on the locale settings (e.g., the digit group separator) if started using the launcher
• fixed drawing the virtual keyboard if the Web client is started using the launcher
• fixed redundancy if the Web client is started using the launcher
• fixed notifying when the user enters the wrong user name while logging on to the client
• fixed checking the strength of a password (previously, passwords were checked even when the user was not authenticated by Reliance)
• fixed changing a user password authenticated by Reliance (previously, it was not possible to leave the password field empty when checking the strength of passwords was disabled)
• reduced CPU workload
• Web Client Launcher: the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from OpenJDK (13) is now used
• RELI-66894 – Web Client Launcher: fixed running the launcher on some Windows versions (updated the JNA library)
• Web Client Launcher: fixed running the Web client on Windows with classic settings
• Web Client Launcher: the R_WebClientLauncher.exe file is now signed with a certificate
• Web Client Launcher: fixed running the Web client if the launcher is located in a directory whose path contains a space
• Web Client Launcher: the launcher's Linux version is now provided as a tar.gz archive

Reliance Smart Client

• fixed displaying a window’s title with no text
• fixed formatting special internal tags’ values
• fixed switching the program language (sporadically, the project language was switched as well)
• fixed changing a user password (sporadically, the HTTP 404 error message occurred)
• fixed the control for selecting a date in Google Chrome
• fixed changing a user password authenticated by Reliance (previously, it was not possible to leave the password field empty when checking the strength of passwords was disabled)
• trend and alarm/event viewers: improved navigating to the previous page
• trend viewers: now, the last data is loaded when opening a trend (previously, the time axis shifted to the current time)
• trend viewers: users whose "Enable user administration" option is active are allowed to configure trends
• trend viewers: fixed the number of decimal places for a ruler value
• alarm/event viewers: fixed filtering by device
• current alarm/event viewer: fixed sorting (the latest alarm/event on top)
• report viewer: added support for changing the direction of sorting records by time
• components displaying the standard popup menu: added the "Show Report" command
• Button component: added support for the standard popup menu
• Button component: fixed painting the flat button
• Picture component: added support for dynamically linking the component to a project-defined picture
• Picture component: fixed support for dynamically linking the component to a picture via a URL
• Animation component: fixed playing if the component is not linked to a tag
• Time Program component: fixed loading a time program (added support for missing data types and a new time format)
• Grid component: altered painting so that the height of rows (and the width of columns) is always the same
• Grid component: added support for the "Different color for even rows" option
• Gauge component: fixed painting the gauge's dial and scale if the operating angle is set to 360° or is turned off
• Container component: improved the performance when generating an embedded object's contents
• actions of type "Show tag report": added support for this action
• actions of type select object (e.g., "Select trend"): fixed checking security
• some contents are now displayed as a popup window (there is no need to navigate between pages)

Communication drivers

• fixed terminating a communication driver after project termination
• fixed logging (writing to the correct file when using multiple channels for communication with one device)
• fixed switching communication from the backup connection back to the main one after the communication is restored
• fixed reading archive data after a failure in a TCP connection
• fixed loading a modem object into a communication driver if no device is connected through the modem
• substantially reduced the amount of system resources (User objects) used for projects with a large number of communication channels
• reduced CPU workload for projects with a large number of communication channels (sockets)
• fixed communication while using multiple communication channels whose order is different from the one in which they were added to the project
• fixed communication via an Ethernet modem when communicating with multiple devices with the same IP address
• fixed communication when using the NVT protocol
• fixed communication via a modem
• fixed the behavior of a driver when terminating and restarting communication due to switching the server from the standby role to the active role (data server redundancy)
• fixed reading archive data if a communication failure occurs after receiving a request for archive reading but before sending the first request for archive data
• fixed evaluating an unsuccessful attempt to open a communication channel during communication over TCP in the server mode
• fixed repeatedly attempting to open a communication channel during communication over TCP in the server mode
• optimized logging information to a file so that there's no CPU and HDD overload

AMiT Communication Driver

• extended tags' forced update interval

Allen-Bradley Communication Driver

• added the possibility to communicate with the CompactLogix, Micro800, and SLC5 models
• added support for communication over an RS232/Ethernet 1761 NET-ENI converter
• added the Date data type for tags

BACnet Communication Driver

• fixed decoding a Trend Log object's archive data if it contains values stored in different data types or with StatusFlags
• added checking and restricting the maximum APDU size read from a PLC

DMB Communication Driver

• added the possibility to communicate online
• avoided sending commands and setpoints if any tag is not yet set (updated) by the runtime software
• optimized reading archive data

DNP Communication Driver

• added reading data defined as an event
• added resetting the class-request timer if the response does not contain data

GE Fanuc Communication Driver

• a new communication driver for GE Fanuc control systems communicating via the SNP protocol

IEC 104 Communication Driver

• added interrupting the UDP connection after receiving a negative I-frame acknowledgment due to a mismatch between I-frame counters
• added the possibility to communicate in the UDP server mode for use in narrowband networks
• added resetting counters and a flag that indicates starting data transfer after receiving a request for establishing communication

IEC 62056 Communication Driver

• fixed the addresses of tags nested in structured tags

IoT Communication Driver

• improved tag identification
• added the possibility to process the time stamp of a tag's received data

M-Bus Communication Driver

• fixed decoding data of two quantity-addressed tags whose VIFE is identical, but VIF is different (the first tag's VIF is 0xFB, the other tag's VIF is 0xFF)

Mitsubishi Communication Driver

• fixed decoding data when using the MELSEC A compatible 1E communication protocol
• fixed reading tags whose update interval is tag-controlled (at the tag folder level)

Modbus Communication Driver

• added support for PLC models programmed in e!COCKPIT
• fixed decoding tags of type Array of Bool
• added the possibility to define a tag of type Array of Bool for the Coils and Inputs register types
• fixed writing an array-type tag in a device communicating via an Ethernet socket in the server mode

MQTT Communication Driver

• altered the Public message (command) payload so that the JSON format is respected
• added authentication
• fixed decoding a value if the tag's "Parameter name" property is not specified and the value is in braces or quotes

OMRON Communication Driver

• increased a tag's maximum bit number to 15
• added the possibility to read/write a tag stored in BCD
• fixed reading digital tags lying in the Counter or Timer areas

Plum Communication Driver

• a new communication driver for Plum telemetry systems communicating via the GAZ-MODEM2 protocol

Siemens Communication Driver

• RELI-66394 – fixed communication
• fixed reading tags whose update interval is tag-controlled (at the tag folder level)

SNMP Communication Driver

• fixed communication via the V1 protocol
• fixed the wrong version of the protocol shown in a communication message
• fixed reading tags whose address value is greater than 127
• fixed evaluating the numbering of communication packets
• fixed receiving data when there are a large number of devices on the same UDP port
• optimized communication: now, the driver uses one request to read multiple tags; a communication channel's "Max. object count to read concurrently" property in the Project Structure Manager allows setting the maximum number of objects to read
• fixed decoding an empty string
• fixed decoding tags of type Gauge32, Counter whose size is 3 or 5 bytes
• fixed decoding tags of type IP address

SMS Driver

• fixed terminating communication (e.g., when switching the active role when using data server redundancy)

OPC UA Client

• new versions of the libraries for communication via OPC UA (Softing OPC UA SDK 1.46)
• accelerated OPC group tag registration

Reliance OPC Server

• fixed the slow startup of the Reliance OPC Server module in environments with a limited Internet connection

Reliance OPC UA Server

• new versions of the libraries for communication via OPC UA (Softing OPC UA SDK 1.46)
• added the possibility to set automatically receiving client certificates for secure communication
• fixed the error that caused duplicating the display of some objects in the address space
• fixed writing a value into a tag if its units are set
• fixed generating the "NodeId" property for tags whose units are set
• Monitoring Client: at client startup, the status of the Reliance OPC UA Server service is checked with the option to run it
• altered generating the object tree structure, similarly to how it is done in Reliance OPC Server
• fixed sharing structured tags with OPC UA clients
• the array length is now set for array-type tags
• fixed detecting changes to a project if a tag's data type changes during runtime
• fixed evaluating communication with the Web server

Utilities

• Project Converter: fixed converting users (previously, the users were not assigned access rights)
• Project Converter: added checking the installed BDE drivers
• Reliance Remote Control Center: fixed text strings in some columns' titles in the computer table (this applies to the English version – previously, they were shown in Czech)
• Reliance Remote Control Center: improved communication with the runtime software (now, the connection is not interrupted while restarting a project)
• Reliance Remote Control Center: added user authentication through Windows
• RDT File Editor: fixed handling the Delete key if a cell is in the edit mode (previously, the command for deleting a row was invoked)
• RDT File Editor: added canceling a cell's edit mode when the "Read-Only" option is turned on by the user

Help and documentation

• Data Servers manual: completely rewritten
• Data Servers manual: removed the Russian version of the manual
• RELI-66394 – Data Servers manual: fixed the link to the IRswCustomClientWS.wsdl interface

All modules

• activated compiler optimization
• "Quick Filter" command: added support for the virtual keyboard
• "Select Directory" dialog: fixed renaming folders by choosing the "Rename Folder" command
• managers: fixed sorting objects (an exception may have occurred after displaying a manager)
• fixed drawing SVG images
• custom reports: improved formatting report items' values

All components

• for dynamic rotation (when the angle is controlled by a tag), the "Relative" option is now considered (Project Options > Components > Dynamic Properties)

Progress Bar component

• fixed localizing the property editor

Container component

• historical alarms/events: added support for dynamic links to the custom filter
• fixed the error that caused changing the size of the component in the runtime software

Combo Box component

• fixed updating the appearance of the component in the Reliance Design development environment after switching the project language
• fixed updating the item list in the runtime software after switching the project language
• RELI-65704, RELI-65936 – fixed drawing the component

Data Tree component

• RELI-54561 – added a new cell type named "Check box"
• RELI-54559 – added the possibility to control the visibility of nodes

Progress Wheel component

• fixed property descriptions in the Component Manager
• fixed displaying units in the property editor
• fixed setting the value style from the property editor

BACnet – Time Program component

• fixed decoding a time program with a binary value of the Present Value property
• added the possibility to set the "Default data type" property to NULL

Reliance Design development environment

• managers: "Search Results" window displayed after using the "Find Object" command – added searching by choosing the "Quick Filter" command
• Data Structure Manager: improved displaying controls of a data structure's "Field address" property when disabled
• Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: added a new data type of special internal tags ("Reliance software type flag")
• Device Manager: added the "Select OPC UA Server Endpoint URL" dialog for an OPC UA device
• Device Manager: added the "Import Tags from OPC UA Server" dialog for an OPC UA device
• Device Manager: enabled the "New OPC Group" command for an OPC UA device
• Device Manager: added the "Time units in OPC UA server" property for an OPC UA device
• Device Manager: fixed exporting/importing tags to/from OPC CSV for an OPC device
• Device Manager: added the "Time units in OPC server" property for an OPC device
• Device Manager: importing tags from an OPC server – added the possibility to change an OPC group
• Device Manager: importing tags from an OPC server – removed displaying specific properties of an OPC tag with its ID from 7 to 99
• Device Manager: importing tags from an OPC server – changed the default value of the "OPC tag properties as standalone tag" option (now, it is disabled)
• Device Manager: importing tags from an OPC server – fixed dynamically linking limits
• Device Manager: importing tags from an OPC server – changed displaying an OPC tag's properties (currently, the properties whose ItemID is not valid are not displayed)
• Device Manager: added the possibility to define alarms generated by events from a BACnet device ("Condition > Event from device")
• Device Manager: CSV export/import – added/fixed exporting and importing some properties of devices
• Action Manager: added action types: "Show list of windows" and "Select custom alarm/event filter"
• Script Manager: fixed displaying newly imported objects in a different color than the other imported objects
• Script Manager: added updating scripts in open editors after importing the scripts
• Script Manager: CSV export/import – added the "Repeat end" property
• Script Manager: RTag.MoveTagValue method – expanded the use of the method to array-type tags and structured tags
• Script Manager: added the RScr.ExecScriptOnComputer method, which executes a script on another computer
• User Manager: user – added the "Disable resizing main window" option (the "Restrictions" page)
• Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – improved editing the properties of a trend with a large number of series
• Custom Report Manager: report item – added decoding the value of the "Test value" property based on the data type of a report item's tag
• Custom Report Manager: removed the "Use states" option (replaced with the "Value format" property)
• Custom Report Manager: removed the "Occurrence count" property
• Project Structure Manager: computer – added the "Disable resizing main window" option (the "Restrictions" page)
• Project Structure Manager: computer – added the "Log internal alarms/events" option (the "Alarms/Events" page)
• Project Structure Manager: computer – added the "Keyboard type" property (the "Display" page)
• Communication Driver Manager: added the "Communication channel main loop interval" property
• Communication Driver Manager: MQTT Driver – added the possibility to generate and edit the client identification string
• Project Diagnostics: OPC and OPC UA devices – added diagnosing the "ItemID"/"NodeId" property
• Project Diagnostics: OPC devices – added diagnosing the "OPC server Prog ID" property
• Project Diagnostics: OPC UA devices – added diagnosing the "Endpoint URL" property
• Project Diagnostics: fixed diagnosing the "www link" action type
• Project Options: added the "Consolidate repeated alarm/event occurrences into one instance" option (Alarms/Events > Other)
• Project Options: added the "Start delay" and "End delay" properties (Alarms/Events > Other)
• Project Options: added the "Date and time on toolbar" property (Runtime > Appearance)
• Project Options: added the "Alarm/event list" option and a "Background color" property (Alarms/Events > Colors)
• Project Options: added the "Enable SOAP API", "Enable REST API", and "Secure REST API" options (Web > API)
• Project Options: added a new rule for strong passwords named "Enforce password history" (Security > Passwords)
• Project Options: added the possibility to edit HTTP headers sent by the Web server (Web > Server)
• Environment Options: fixed registering the Reliance 4 Driver Server service (previously, the "Register" command did not register Reliance 4 Driver Server as a COM server)
• RELI-65757 – Environment Options: added the possibility to specify the color of a window's grid
• RELI-65759 – Environment Options: added the possibility to specify a window template's background color (the template' transparency is indicated by the checkerboard pattern of the specified color)
• design window: altered handling the arrow keys – arrows: grid movement (if the grid is enabled), Ctrl+arrows: shift by 1 pixel, Ctrl+Shift+arrows: size by 1 pixel, Alt+arrows: grid movement * 5 (if the grid is enabled), Alt+Shift+arrows: size by grid * 5 (if the grid is enabled), Ctrl takes precedence over Alt
• RELI-65794 – Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: the Re-export.bat file now uses relative paths
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: removed generating files used to directly run Web Client (files with .bat, .sh, and .exe extensions)
• added a tool for generating a security audit (the "Project > Perform Security Audit" command)
• "Select Data Structure Field" dialog: fixed the list of available fields (previously, only the fields of a window template's data structure were available)
• removed displaying the message about a time-limited license if the development environment is started using the Re-export.bat file (exporting a project for remote users)
• added property descriptions to the main project file (the file with an .rp4 extension)
• added the description of the structure of files located in a visualization project's Main\System directory to the Info.txt file

Runtime software

• added the possibility to consolidate repeated alarm/event occurrences into one instance (if there is an unacknowledged instance of an alarm/event, new instances of this alarm/event won't be created)
• OPC UA devices: added setting invalid tag values after a failure in communication with an OPC UA server occurs
• OPC UA devices: added restoring communication with an OPC UA server after a failure occurs
• fixed an analog value correction for tags of type DateTime, Date, Time, and TimeSpan
• scripts: RTag.MoveTagValue method – expanded the use of the method to array-type tags and structured tags
• scripts: added further information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered by an alarm/event (last occurrence time and occurrence count)
• scripts: improved logging – added a script's execution time
• scripts: RAlm.DbAlarmsEx method – fixed handling the From and Till parameters (now expected in UTC)
• improved logging project updates (added messages about errors that occur when moving files)
• license detection: fixed the wrong system message about the status of the License Service
• updated support for the Turkish language

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• alarm/event viewers: added the possibility to select multiple rows
• alarm/event viewers: added the "Occurrence count" and "Last occurrence date and time" columns
• alarm/event viewers: the background color now depends on the settings in the Project Options dialog
• current alarm/event viewer: changed sorting if alarm/event consolidation is turned on (alarms/events are now sorted by the "Last occurrence date and time" column)
• historical alarm/event viewer: added a status bar showing summary information
• historical alarm/event viewer: improved changing the automatic update interval (now, it takes effect immediately)
• report viewer: added the possibility to define the displayed data's time range
• report viewer: added the possibility to hide table columns from the column header's popup menu
• report viewer: summary calculations are now displayed directly in the report viewer
• report viewer: removed the necessity of logging on the user for the viewer settings to be changed
• report viewer: removed distinguishing colors for valid and invalid records
• action of type "Select custom alarm/event filter": added the logged-on user's filters to the list in the "Select Alarm/Event Filter" dialog
• "Enter Tag Value" dialog: you can no longer enter non-numeric characters when editing numeric values
• User Manager: increased the level of security
• added support for the Windows virtual keyboard (the "On-Screen Keyboard" application; based on a new property named "Keyboard type")

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• updated the library: OpenSSL 1.0.2p
• server Web page: fixed alphabetically sorting lists of objects (e.g., devices)
• server Web page: fixed the displayed object count on the page with a list of objects (e.g., devices)
• server Web page: fixed updating the page title
• server Web page: fixed the sporadic error that consisted in showing a second vertical scroll bar
• server Web page: added links for downloading Web Client's launchers (Reliance Web Client Launcher) for Windows and Linux
• server Web page: reworked language localization (one HTML document for all language versions of the page)
• added support for custom reports of type Text and Web page
• Web server: added a REST API, including its help system
• Web server: optimized the server's performance when providing large files

Reliance Server

• RELI-50852 – scripts: RSys.PrintCustomReport method – added support for printing custom reports of type FastReport

Reliance Smart Client

• added support for a new data type of special internal tags named "Reliance software type flag"
• added support for a new action type named "Show list of windows"
• added automatically adjusting the scale when changing the size of the browser window
• vector components: fixed drawing the central gradient
• components drawing a frame: fixed the color of a component's lowered/raised frame
• Container component: historical alarms/events – added support for dynamic (indirect) links to the custom filter
• Real-Time Trend component: fixed the number of points displayed on the time axis
• Display component: fixed painting eng. units' shade
• Real-Time Trend component: now, a trend makes better use of space if its title is not displayed
• Edit Box component: fixed the alignment of values
• Notepad component: added support for writing values (into the main tag)
• Progress Bar component: fixed the wrong color of the foreground
• Data Grid component: fixed the wrong color of the background and foreground of the data grid's cells if the color is controlled by a tag
• alarm/event viewers: the alarm/event list is now displayed in a table with optional columns
• alarm/event viewers: fixed displaying a comment on an alarm/event
• alarm/event viewers: the background color now depends on the settings in the Project Options dialog
• trend viewer: fixed displaying a bar chart
• fixed selecting a project language
• fixed executing some actions linked to user events (log-on/log-off)
• some contents are now displayed as a popup window (there is no need to navigate between pages)

Reliance Web Client

• added support for running Web Client using a new launcher (Reliance Web Client Launcher)
• added support for a new data type of special internal tags named "Reliance software type flag"
• added support for a new property named "Date and time on toolbar"
• added support for a new action type named "Show list of windows"
• RELI-62957 – fixed concurrently displaying multiple windows overlapped with one another
• Data Tree component: fixed the background color of the component and the background color of cells
• Data Tree component: fixed drawing the component if no columns are defined
• Container component: historical alarms/events – added support for dynamic (indirect) links to the custom filter
• Real-Time Trend component: fixed the number of points displayed on the time axis
• Real-Time Chart component: added support for controlling the number of series points
• RELI-65842 – Real-Time Chart component: fixed displaying the names of points
• Equithermal Curve component: fixed updating the curve
• Edit Box component: fixed the sequence of setting a value and executing a script that was invoked after the value had been changed
• Edit Box component: fixed the edit box's border style
• Progress Wheel component: fixed displaying out-of-range values
• alarm/event viewers: the background color now depends on the settings in the Project Options dialog
• alarm/event viewers: added support for consolidating repeated alarm/event occurrences into one instance (added the "Occurrence count" and "Last occurrence date and time" columns)
• trend viewers, components containing a trend: fixed scrolling a trend
• added Plastic Look and Feel
• fixed establishing communication with the server using the HTTPS protocol
• fixed displaying a popup menu on Linux
• preset Plastic Look and Feel as default on Linux

Communication drivers

• added the possibility to communicate – in the server mode – with a device whose IP address is unknown on condition that there is only one such device in the communication channel
• added support for a new property named "Communication channel main loop interval"

Communication drivers M-Bus, PROMOS RT, Teco

• added checking for the end character

Teco Communication Driver

• fixed writing a digital-type tag if the value of the "Updating tag value after write" property in the Communication Driver Manager is other than "Immediately, before sending command to PLC"

Allen-Bradley Communication Driver

• a new communication driver for Allen-Bradley's Micrologix control systems communicating via the Ethernet/IP protocol.

BACnet Communication Driver

• added support for receiving current data through segmented messages
• added processing all received data by the COV function (previously, only the Present Value property was processed)
• fixed reading a time program if the Present Value property's data type is Bool
• fixed reading after time synchronization
• optimized sending COV subscriptions if tags for both the Status Flags property and the Present Value property are defined for an object
• fixed sending COV subscriptions too early
• fixed evaluating the receipt of an error code

DMB Communication Driver

• fixed updating a special physical tag of type "Latest call date" if the communication channel type is other than modem
• fixed some log messages

DNP3 Communication Driver

• fixed acknowledging communication packets in the transport and application layers
• added support for receiving segmented messages

Elgas Communication Driver

• fixed checking the source address and port of a received message for Elgas2 devices

Generic Communication Driver

• added a function for restarting the driver after an error occurs repeatedly while receiving data
• added the possibility to control the speed of communication by a special physical tag

Hima Communication Driver

• handled the situation when a single tag generates two different alarms

M-Bus Communication Driver

• added receiving a segmented message indicated by a flag in DIF; in such a case, the order of items will not be reset until the last message is received
• fixed reading too much data after closing and opening the communication channel if the device does not support the SND_NKE command

Modicon Communication Driver

• added the M241 model, which does not support the Mask Write 4X Register 22 function for writing; the Preset Single Register 06 function is used instead

OMRON Communication Driver

• a new communication driver for OMRON control systems communicating via the Ethernet/IP and FINS/UDP protocols

Reliance OPC Server

• fixed the memory leak that occurred when removing an OPC group
• fixed loading the tag tree view if data structures are used

Reliance OPC UA Server

• RELI-66117 – fixed notifying clients from OPC UA Server when a change is made to the address space

Utilities

• RDT File Editor: fixed displaying information about files with an .rp4 extension
• License Key Utility: fixed writing a license into the hardware key while upgrading it using a license file

Installation program

• added a new module named OPC UA Local Discovery Server as an optional feature

All modules

• Reliance executable files signed with a certificate with an SHA-1 time stamp are now signed with a certificate with an SHA-2 time stamp
• 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 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 requests (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 requests 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 requests (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 feature
• 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

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• server Web page: increased the level of security

Reliance Smart Client

• increased the level of security

All modules

• file selection dialogs: fixed showing the On-Screen Keyboard (launching osk.exe) on 64-bit Windows

Container component

• trend: handled the “List index out of bounds” error occurring when using dynamic links and specifying a non-existent trend
• communication channel: fixed the memory error that sporadically occurred when switching the program language

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• alarm/event viewers: new alarms/events are only displayed when meeting quick-filter conditions (even if only filtering by device is used)

Reliance Smart Client

• fixed entering a tag value with a decimal part

Siemens Communication Driver

• removed accurately checking the length of received data (sometimes, the checking caused an error in communication to S7-300 and S7-1500 PLCs)

All modules

• trend property editor: removed converting format strings based on the operating system settings
• report viewer: added support for states

Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Equithermal Curve components

• removed converting format strings based on the operating system settings

Reliance Design development environment

• Device Manager: fixed the format of the address of tags from Mitsubishi devices for some registers (Hex, Oct)
• Project Options: reports – added the “Numeric value format” property

Reliance Smart Client

• fixed loading visualization windows containing multiple components (sporadically, not all components were loaded)
• RELI-55756 – substantially accelerated loading visualization windows

Modbus Communication Driver

• fixed the error in communication that occurred when the “Network (Ethernet) – server mode” channel type was chosen

Johnson Controls Communication Driver

• fixed setting time

Mitsubishi Communication Driver

• fixed the format of the address of tags for some registers (Hex, Oct)

Utilities

• Project Converter: fixed converting system colors
• Project Converter: fixed converting the Real-Time Trend component
• License Key Utility: added support for the KNX driver

Installation program

• RELI-55799 – License Service: resolved the problem of verifying a digital signature (previously, the process of verification could slow down starting the service, which sometimes resulted in not completing the installation)
• RELI-55799 – License Service: changed the method of starting the service so that the installation is completed even if the service fails to start
• removed the registration of Reliance Server as a Windows service

All modules

• updated the FastReport library to version 5.5.6
• updated the TeeChart library to version 2016.18.160504
• added support for data specific to thin clients (values of internal tags for which the “Share with thin clients” option is inactive)
• added support for alarm/event group types and their use in the algorithm of alarm/event filtering and notification
• fixed converting a text value to a date if the date format set in Windows contains spaces (like, for example, in Windows 8)
• fixed activating a time-limited license stored in a software key
• custom reports of type FastReport: fixed memory errors in the RDT Table component (with the class name TfrxRDTTable)
• custom reports of type FastReport: fixed the error (exception) in the TfrxRAEMemoView object that occurred during the display of text values

All components

• added support for displaying the standard popup menu

Display component

• added the possibility to define the component’s error state
• fixed the display of a colon when using the LCD display style

Combo Box component

• added checking exceeding the range of the main tag’s value
• fixed determining the number of items in the drop-down list (previously, the number of dynamic items was not limited by the number of array elements)

Data Grid component

• fixed the behavior when the data type of the tag linked to a column was invalid (the tag was not of type array)

Container component

• current alarms/events: added support for dynamic links to alarm/event groups
• trend: added support for dynamic links to trends
• RELI-51441 – added the possibility to embed a report
• added the possibility to embed a custom report
• improved the display of information about an embedded object in Reliance Design

Equithermal Curve component

• RELI-39298 – fixed displaying some information

Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Equithermal Curve components

• “Editing...” dialog: added basic support for using the virtual keyboard at runtime

Real-Time Trend component

• fixed updating the trend after loading a window

Teco – Time Program and Time Program components

• fixed the error in the time program editor that caused not transferring a change in the last time stamp of the day to the following day
• fixed the error in the time program editor that caused not transferring a change in the first time stamp of the day to the previous day
• fixed (in the time program editor) copying the settings to selected days (the "Copy" command)

BACnet – Time Program component

• fixed the width of the time program editor at runtime

Pipe component

• RELI-8364, RELI-54886 – fixed drawing 3D pipes

Pipe, Active Text, Active Picture components, vector components

• component editor: fixed localizing the label of the timer that controls component blinking

Reliance Design development environment

• RELI-52128 – Device Manager: added the "Transfer between server and thin clients" option for a tag (it is only enabled for internal tags)
• RELI-54004 – Device Manager: tags nested in a structured tag from a Wago device – fixed the value of the “Address unit” property if the data structure’s “Individually” option for the “Field address defined by” property is active
• Device Manager: added support for Mitsubishi and KNX devices
• Device Manager: changed the range of a Modbus device’s address from 1–247 to 0–247
• Device Manager: added the possibility for an OPC device to define a tag of type DataBlock
• Device Manager: added the possibility to decode the value of a tag from a Modbus device in the BCD format (only for the Byte, Word, and DoubleWord data types)
• Device Manager: analog value correction – added the possibility to control the correction properties by tags
• RELI-54914 – Device Manager: fixed checking a tag's initial value (previously, the initial value could not be entered and saved in hexadecimal format)
• Device Manager: structured tags can now by copied from a virtual device into the System device and vice versa
• Device Manager: substantially accelerated importing alarms/events from CSV
• Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: added a new data type of special internal tags (Last records from log file)
• Data Structure Manager: fixed the size and alignment of the list of data structure fields in the manager's bottom right pane (when a large number of fields were defined, their order could not be changed)
• State Manager: a new manager allowing you to define state lists
• Data Table Manager: changed the default value of the "Time stamp base" property to "UTC"
• Trend Manager: added the possibility for a line-type chart to set the line's width
• RELI-54800 – Trend Manager, Real-Time Trend Manager: moved the properties for vertical axis configuration from the “Basic” page to a separate page
• RELI-54800 – Trend Manager, Real-Time Trend Manager: added an option named “Automatically position series vertical axes”
• RELI-54800 – Trend Manager, Real-Time Trend Manager: added properties for setting up the position of the vertical axis
• Action Manager: added action types: “Select alarm/event groups”, “Select alarm/event types”, “Select device”, “Select trend”, “Select real-time trend”, “Select report”, “Select custom report”, “Select window”
• Action Manager: converted actions of type “Show device's current alarms/events” to “Show current alarms/events”
• Action Manager: converted actions of type “Show device's historical alarms/events” to “Show historical alarms/events”
• Action Manager: actions of type “Show current alarms/events” and “Show historical alarms/events” – added the possibility to activate quick filtering
• Action Manager: added the possibility to dynamically control the link to an object for actions of type “Show trend”, “Show report”, “Show custom report”, “Edit custom report”, and “Activate window”
• Script Manager: improved checking scripts (project diagnostics is used when checking scripts)
• Script Manager: added an optional parameter named ExecForEachThinClient to the RScr.ExecScript method (if ExecForEachThinClient = True, a script is executed in the context of each connected thin client)
• Script Manager: time script – the “First execution time” property renamed “Execute every day at (hh:mm:ss)”
• Script Manager: time script – added the “Repeat end” property, which specifies the time until which a script is to be repeated
• Script Manager: RAlm.CreateAlarm, RAlm.EnableDeviceAlarms, RAlm.DisableDeviceAlarms methods – changed the AlmType parameter type to Variant
• Script Manager: RAlm.CreateAlarm method – changed the AckRights parameter type to Variant
• Script Manager: added the RScr.SetCurrentScriptUser and RScr.ResetCurrentScriptUser methods, which allow setting/resetting the user on behalf of which subsequent statements in the current script are to be performed
• RELI-8283 – Script Manager: added the RProj.ObjectExists method, which determines whether or not an object (e.g., a device, tag, alarm/event) exists in a project
• User Manager: "Phone number" property – added the possibility to specify a list of phone numbers separated by a semicolon
• User Manager: disabled the “User administrator” option for a user that has been assigned the servicing right (such a user is always entitled to administer users)
• User Manager: fixed the information about the number of subordinated objects (i.e., the user count) shown on the “Basic” page of the root folder's properties
• User Manager, Project Structure Manager: added the restriction “Disable entering tag values in Project Manager”
• RELI-52186 – Window Manager: improved importing the window contents from XML files (invalid links to project objects are displayed only after the import is completed)
• Window Manager: improved exporting/importing the window contents to/from XML files (the name of the window is now exported and then used during the import)
• Window Manager: added bulk exporting and importing windows
• Project Structure Manager: server connection – added the possibility to limit the age of alarms/events downloaded from the server if the alarms/events are stored in an SQL database (the “Limit downloaded record age” and “Max. age of records (day count)” properties)
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Data transfer refresh interval" property for an IEC104 device's communication channel (the "Other" page)
• Project Structure Manager: Modbus device communication channel – added the “Network (Ethernet) – server mode” channel type
• Project Options: added the possibility to define alarm/event group types
• Project Options: the dialog can no longer be invoked more than once at a time
• Project Options: Web – added the possibility to require access rights for the Project section on the Web page
• Project Options: Web – added the possibility to choose the default Web page
• Project Options: Web – added the possibility to embed custom HTML code into the Welcome! page
• Project Options: Web – added the possibility to set the SSL version
• Project Options: added the “Access right checking method” property
• Project Options: added the possibility to configure the color and the width of the border for components with invalid links to tags
• Project Options: added the possibility to configure the color and the width of the border for components linked to tags with invalid values
• Environment Options: fixed the error that caused not updating the title bar after changing the “Show version number in title bar” option
• Project Diagnostics: accelerated diagnosing custom reports
• Project Diagnostics: dBASE data tables – added checking whether the maximum number of columns (allowed for a physical table) is exceeded
• Project Diagnostics: fixed checking whether components are assigned an action, script, popup menu, or other visualization project functions
• Project Diagnostics: added checking the definition of states for components with dynamically controlled states
• Project Diagnostics: added checking missing nested tags for Container components that display a window template
• Project Diagnostics: added checking the structured tag type for Container components that display a window template
• Project Diagnostics: added testing archives for Motorola, Omni, and Sevbus devices
• Project Diagnostics: Media Player components – fixed detecting the installation of a supported version of VLC for Windows
• Create New Project Wizard: step “Visualization project resolution” – changed the default option from “Automatic” to “Custom”
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: fixed exporting pictures and real-time trends if dynamic links are used in the project
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: handled the situation when the computer address is used for a configuration, but the address is not specified in the Project Structure Manager
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: accelerated the export of projects with multiple configurations
• exporting a project for remote users, Project Diagnostics: substantially accelerated performing the operation for projects with many windows
• added the “X”, “Y”, “Width”, and “Height” properties for visualization windows (it is now possible to control the position and size of windows using tags)
• “Select Access Rights”, “Select Alarm/Event Types”, “Select Alarm/Event Groups” dialogs: added support for quick filtering

Runtime software

• added support for Mitsubishi and KNX devices
• OPC devices: added displaying and logging information on the process of registering OPC groups at project startup
• OPC devices: added converting data types for working with time for the SIMATIC NET OPC server (an OPC server for Siemens PLCs)
• fixed checking a license (previously, a false message “Connection with the license service has been restored.” was displayed)
• scripts: fixed the RProj.GetObject and RProj.GetObjectList methods – previously, they didn’t return objects of type String
• scripts: object of type String returned by the RProj.GetObject or RProj.GetObjectList function – added the possibility to get a text string in the active language (the “Alias” property) or in the specified language (the GetAlias method)
• scripts: added further information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered in the context of a thin client (the WebServerSessionName and UserName properties)
• scripts: methods of the RUser object that are not related to user log-on – users are searched in the list of all users defined within a project (not only those connected to the computer)
• scripts: RTag.GetTagElementValue method – added testing a tag's data type (if the tag is not of type array, an error occurs)
• data tables in MySQL and MariaDB: fixed the syntax of the ALTER TABLE command for adding new fields (columns) to a database table
• handled the situation when the client runtime software obtains (from the data server) a changed value of the tag that it doesn’t know
• historical alarms/events: message about setting the value of a tag – the “User (command)” column now shows the alias/name of the user who wrote the value into the tag (even when written from thin clients)
• optimized evaluating special internal tags of type Current alarm/event count (the tags are evaluated only if there is a change in current alarms/events, e.g., when a new alarm is triggered)
• network communication between runtime software modules: now, only necessary data is transferred when writing a string-type tag
• network communication between runtime software modules: fixed writing a string-type tag longer than the maximum length of a communication packet
• network communication between runtime software modules: altered writing array-type tags from the client side (a tag at the server side will be written as a whole only after the transfer of all data from the client side)
• fixed the computer (configuration) name/ID passed as a parameter to the script triggered by a request from a thin client of type Smart Client
• fixed checking the availability of the Maatrix server
• added support for the Arabic language
• virtual keyboard: fixed the error that caused unintentionally closing the virtual keyboard in windows where components' visibility was controlled by a tag
• now, it is not possible to run a project when the number of data points is exceeded
• added logging SQL statements whose execution takes more time than the specified time period (the default value is 1000 ms)
• added warning of situations where the project or project version running in the client runtime software is different from the one running on the server
• added logging errors and information on establishing/restoring communication with devices (PLCs)
• added logging information on starting and ending playing Postmort records (writing the information to the alarm/event database and the log file)
• added logging project update progress in more detail (added a list of the files that were updated and removed)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• Managers: the “Diagnostics” page is now hidden if empty
• User Manager: fixed selecting a script
• User Manager: changed the display of the “Log-on/Log-off” page (now, it is only displayed to users that have been assigned the servicing right, which allows selecting scripts and actions)
• Project Manager: added the possibility to enter a value for all tags
• RELI-54006 – avoided multiple project startup by repeatedly clicking on a shortcut in quick succession
• alarm/event panel: enlarged the left side, which shows the number of current alarms/events (when the number was big, the text extended into the graphical symbols)
• added support for controlling the position and size of windows using tags
• trend viewer: the “Load Design Settings” command now also restores the width of the trend's left margin
• trend viewer: tag trend – a tag's compound alias is now used as the series name (previously, the tag's alias was used)
• alarm/event viewers: in the “User”, “User (command)”, and “Ack user” columns, an empty string is now displayed instead of “none”
• alarm/event viewers: added the “User (command)” column (if the alarm occurred as a result of writing an internal tag, the column contains the name of the user who did the write operation)
• “Enter Value” dialog: fixed displaying the edit box with the calendar on multi-monitor systems
• RELI-54635 – report viewer: fixed the error that caused the wrong display of column headers of report items with identical names
• report viewer: fixed the error that caused not updating the names of columns in the “Create Filter” and “Edit Filter” dialogs after changing the project language
• “Select Alarm/Event Types” dialog: added displaying aliases instead of names
• “Select Alarm/Event Groups” dialog, list of access rights: fixed updating the alias when switching the project language
• Recipe Editor: enabled some special characters for the name of a recipe
• altered the size/position of controls in the user interface so that text strings in all program languages are displayed correctly

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• updated the library: OpenSSL 1.0.2k
• generated a new SSL certificate: hash functions SHA-2, PKCS #1 SHA-256 with RSA encryption
• added support for gzip compression (optimizing the size of HTTP messages)
• fixed setting the Content-Length header in HTTP messages
• improved session management on the server
• substantially accelerated synchronizing alarms/events with client runtime software modules when using an SQL database at the server side
• substantially accelerated synchronizing alarms/events with client runtime software modules when there are a large number of current alarms/events
• the message about writing a tag from a script triggered by a thin client request now contains information on the user logged on to this thin client
• server Web page: a new, responsive Web page
• RELI-53809 – fixed filtering historical alarms/events by date for Web clients
• server Web page: added the possibility to download all log files
• server Web page: added an overview of network connections with other runtime software modules
• server Web page: fixed finding an offset from UTC in the client’s Web browser
• server Web page: report viewer – added the possibility to enter a time range
• server Web page: custom report viewer – added the possibility to export a displayed report to the following formats: HTML, PDF, CSV, XLS, XLSX, and XML
• RELI-54225 – custom application interface of the Web service: fixed encoding the return value and parameters of some functions (e.g., GetCurrentAlarms, AcknowledgeAlarms)
• custom application interface of the Web service: fixed writing multiple tags at a time (the SetMultiNumericTagValue and SetMultiStringTagValue functions)
• custom application interface of the Web service: fixed the functions that return the current value of a tag (sporadically, the functions could return the value of another tag when multiple clients were connected at the same time)

Reliance Web Client

• RELI-52128 – added support for tags specific to thin clients
• added support for state lists
• if there are redundant servers in a project, the client always attempts to connect to the primary server (previously, it could stay connected to the secondary server)
• fixed the height of windows of type top tray
• added support for customizing the main window's title and the splash screen
• trend viewer: added the possibility to set the ruler width
• trend viewer: the format of time axis labels now adjusts to the range
• trend viewer: fixed selecting a file type while saving a trend to a file as a picture
• trend viewer: fixed options in the dialog for printing a trend
• trend viewer: improved the behavior of the viewer if failing to download the trend's data from the server
• trend viewer: tag trend – a tag's compound alias is now used as the series name (previously, the tag's alias was used)
• trend viewer, alarm/event viewers: fixed the behavior of the separator in the Text Data Viewer
• report viewer, custom report viewer: redesigned the viewers on the server Web page
• alarm/event viewers: fixed setting the filter while displaying a viewer
• alarm/event viewers: fixed displaying alarm/event colors
• alarm/event viewers: added support for the "User (command)" column
• “Alarm/Event Information” dialog: extended the displayed information
• historical alarm/event viewer: fixed displaying an active alarm/event whose “Require acknowledgment” option is active
• historical alarm/event viewer: fixed downloading alarms/events using the “Download Historical Alarms/Events” dialog if invoked from the historical alarm/event viewer embedded into a visualization window through a Container component
• current alarm/event viewer: fixed displaying the user
• “Tag Information” dialog: fixed displaying the tag data type
• selection dialog boxes: fixed canceling quick filtering
• all components: added support for displaying the standard popup menu
• RELI-53898 – Button component: fixed writing a constant value into a digital tag that has contact labels (text strings for the states 0 and 1)
• Combo Box component: fixed updating the list of items (if dynamic)
• Combo Box component: fixed determining the number of items in the drop-down list (previously, the number of dynamic items was not limited by the number of array elements)
• Combo Box component: improved checking the entered value
• Display component: added support for the error state
• Container component: current alarms/events: added support for dynamic links to alarm/event groups
• RELI-54521 – Container component: added support for dynamic links to trends
• Real-Time Chart component: fixed the pie chart's sector colors
• Real-Time Trend component: added support for dynamic links to trends
• Equithermal Curve component: fixed loading the equithermal curve’s points
• Edit Box component: added checking the entered value’s format and range
• Edit Box component: fixed painting the component's frame if the text is wider than the component
• Pipe component, vector components: fixed displaying the component if it is linked to a tag, but no state is defined
• Data Grid component: handled loading the component a column of which is linked to a non-array–type tag
• Data Tree component: fixed checking access rights for entering a value in a cell
• Data Tree component: fixed drawing transparent pictures
• added support for new action types: “Select alarm/event groups”, “Select alarm/event types”, “Select device”, “Select trend”, “Select real-time trend”, “Select report”, “Select custom report”, “Select window”
• added support for dynamic links to objects for actions of type “Show trend”, “Show report”, “Show custom report”, “Activate window”
• fixed the behavior of the action of type “Show picture” if the picture was only used within the Action Manager
• fixed the behavior of the action types “Select file”, “Select directory”, “www link” (dynamic URL)
• fixed the behavior of actions executed after user log-on
• added support for executing an action at project startup
• fixed loading a project if the window after project startup was dialog
• RELI-54349 – fixed automatically closing a dialog window (e.g., after user log-off)
• added support for quick filtering for actions intended to show alarms/events
• handled setting the program language to a language that is not supported
• added support for highlighting components linked to tags with invalid values with a colored border (color, width)
• fixed alphabetical sorting for objects containing characters from the extended character set
• fixed the color of a selected item in menus on Windows 10 (previously, its text was white on a gray background)
• when repeatedly logging on the same user, actions, scripts, and other operations related to this event are no longer performed
• added support for special internal tags of type Last records from log file
• inhibited access to the Options dialog box if the main toolbar is hidden
• the command for restarting the application is now enabled in all operating systems

Reliance Smart Client

• RELI-52128 – added support for tags specific to thin clients
• added support for state lists
• the color of the button for displaying the main menu in the toolbar indicates the status of current alarms/events
• added the following commands to the main menu: “Log On”, “Change Password”, “Log Off” (previously, they were only available on the visualization window page
• a command for changing the scale has been added to the toolbar (in the responsive mode only)
• fixed the height of windows of type top tray
• added support for activating tray-type windows
• added support for new action types: “Select alarm/event groups”, “Select alarm/event types”, “Select device”, “Select trend”, “Select real-time trend”, “Select report”, “Select custom report”, “Select window”
• added support for dynamic links to objects for actions of type “Show trend”, “Show report”, “Show custom report”, “Activate window”
• fixed evaluating a special internal tag of type Current program language
• fixed the behavior of the action for setting the program language
• RELI-54935 – fixed the rule for automatically recognizing the program language (the Slovak language is now considered)
• fixed running scripts when clicking the window
• the language of the information text shown after user log-on and the user language are now the same (previously, the user language was not taken into account)
• fixed displaying the information text after entering an access code
• RELI-54944 – added support for customizing the main window's title and the splash screen
• RELI-54902 – entering a tag value: improved entering tag values (the control for entering a value is determined by the type of Web browser)
• entering a tag value: accelerated writing internal tags
• entering a tag value: fixed entering the value of a tag of type Date and DateTime
• trend viewer: fixed localization on the page for setting up the trend
• RELI-54520 – trend viewer: fixed displaying the viewer if the viewer window is small
• RELI-54799 – trend viewer: added the possibility for a trend series to set the line's width and the shadow's size
• trend viewer: fixed displaying the background of the legend in Google Chrome
• trend viewer: tag trend – a tag's compound alias is now used as the series name (previously, the tag's alias was used)
• alarm/event information page: extended the displayed information
• report viewer, custom report viewer: added the possibility to export a displayed report to the following formats: HTML, PDF, CSV, XLS, XLSX, and XML
• report viewer: added the possibility to enter a time range
• RELI-53982 – trend viewer: enabled automatically scrolling the trend even if the "Zoom" option is active
• all components: added support for displaying the standard popup menu
• components displaying text: fixed displaying text with multiple lines
• Display component: fixed displaying a value while considering the locale settings
• Display component: added support for the error state
• Combo Box component: fixed determining the number of items in the drop-down list (previously, the number of dynamic items was not limited by the number of array elements)
• Real-Time Trend component: added support for dynamic links to trends
• Real-Time Trend component: a specified width of a series' line is now taken into account
• Animation component: fixed starting the animation in some situations
• Animation component: fixed the error that caused the animation to blink in some browsers
• Animation component: fixed the behavior of the component if the total cycle of the animation is longer than the data update interval
• Scale component: fixed the numbers’ color
• Check Box component: fixed displaying the component for both left and right alignment
• RELI-54521 – Container component: added support for dynamic links to trends
• RELI-53946 – Popup Menu component: fixed displaying the component’s popup menu
• Container component: current alarms/events: added support for dynamic links to alarm/event groups
• RELI-51441 – Container component: added support for embedded reports and custom reports
• BACnet – Time Program component: fixed checking access rights
• Container component: removed double loading the contents of an embedded object
• Button component: fixed displaying the component with its “Flat button” option being active
• added support for special internal tags of type Last records from log file
• RELI-54878 – removed logging sensitive information
• added logging information on establishing an SSL connection

Reliance Mobile Client

• removed the module from the Reliance system

Communication drivers

• fixed the wrong evaluation of a secondary (backup) connection failure after a primary connection failure occurs
• added clearing the input and output buffers before closing the TCP socket
• added ending communication to devices if no client is connected

Mitsubishi Communication Driver

• a new communication driver for Mitsubishi control systems (series FX or Q) communicating via the MELSEC A compatible 1E and MELSEC QnA compatible 3E protocols

KNX Communication Driver

• a new communication driver for the KNX protocol, which allows connecting to devices in the KNX/IP network

Modbus Communication Driver

• added server mode communication (the driver acts as a Modbus server without checking the IP address of connected clients)
• fixed reading current values of tags from Motorola, Sevbus, Omni, and Elgas2 devices after a connection failure occurs when the connection is not controlled by a tag
• Sevbus devices: fixed the error that caused extreme archive reading to end up in an endless loop after reaching the maximum archive record
• Sevbus devices: fixed the required length of archive record no. 0 when reading a daily extreme archive
• Sevbus devices: reset the archive data reading flag after receiving an error code
• Sevbus devices: increased the maximum extreme archive record number to 8400
• Sevbus devices: fixed the daily extreme archive address
• Sevbus devices: handled the situation when – in a two-channel device – each channel's time stamp is different when reading hourly archives
• Sevbus devices: added resetting a flag that indicates a request for archive reading after a failure in communication with the device occurs
• Sevbus devices: added synchronizing the system time
• added decoding the value of a tag from a Modbus device in the BCD format (only for the Byte, Word, and DoubleWord data types)

Modbus Communication Driver, Cimon Communication Driver

• fixed updating a tag after writing data when the PLC does not respond for a longer time

Siemens Communication Driver

• fixed sending an Init packet after switching to a secondary (backup) connection and then back to the primary connection
• fixed the error in communication that occurred when sending a packet for writing in the time between a packet for establishing communication and a packet for communication initialization
• fixed reading data after calling the UpdateValue function or after writing data
• improved checking the length of a received communication packet

IEC 104 Communication Driver

• fixed evaluating a time-stamped tag's quality descriptor
• fixed sending a general query after writing a tag with a write type identifier of C_IC_NA_1
• added sending the STOP DT command after receiving data while data transfer is not activated for the communication driver
• fixed updating a tag after calling the UpdateValue function
• fixed listing the set time's value in the packet list when calling the function for time synchronization
• added the function of reactivating data transfer after not receiving data for more than 30 minutes if the UDP protocol is used
• fixed generating a packet with the device's ASDU if ASDU is part of the tag address
• added support for the "Data transfer refresh interval" property

IEC 62056 Communication Driver

• filtered out a parity bit during communication over Ethernet

M-Bus Communication Driver

• fixed decoding the value of a tag for which – at unit order transition – the VIB parameter changes in the following way: VIF is extended by VIFE1
• fixed decoding integer data types if a tag was defined as an unsigned data type

Elgas Communication Driver

• fixed reading the current value of a differential counter
• a flag that indicates storing the counter’s historical data in the DoubleFloat format is now taken into account
• added the reading of a statistical data daily archive
• fixed repeatedly reading auxiliary tags for calculating current values after a connection failure occurs

Sauter Communication Driver

• fixed the error in communication with a device that occurs when the connection is controlled by a tag and is inactive

Teco Communication Driver

• fixed the sequence of writing data to a PLC if multiple commands were generated in a script at the same time

Rittmeyer WSR3000 Communication Driver

• fixed loading a project into the driver

Generic Communication Driver

• increased the maximum length of a message to be sent from 3000 to 65535 bytes (characters)
• increased the maximum length of a received message from 8192 to 65535 bytes (characters)

Reliance OPC Server

• fixed synchronously calling the Read method – previously, an error (exception) occurred when sending a request for data of multiple tags

Utilities

• License Key Utility: added automatic updates (License Key Utility Updater)
• License Key Utility: added activating a license
• License Key Utility: added a license for Reliance OPC UA Client
• License Key Utility: added a license for Reliance OPC UA Server
• FastReport Viewer: fixed opening a report of type FastReport containing a chart
• RDT File Editor: added the possibility to save the contents of an RDT file to a CSV file (the “Save As” command)
• Project Converter: fixed setting a picture’s automatic update interval from a Web address (URL)

All modules

• dialog boxes with a message: fixed the status of the "Don't show this dialog again" option when showing the dialog

Gauge component

• component editor: fixed saving the frame's properties; previously, saved properties caused an error when loading the window, which resulted in not loading the component and the following components stored in the window’s file

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• report viewer: the "Word wrap" property (set for columns' titles) is now considered

Data Grid component

• fixed directly editing values (the Up and Down arrow keys did not allow changing a value)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• Recipe Editor: fixed editing recipe item values (the Up and Down arrow keys did not allow changing a value)

Reliance Web Client

• fixed checking access rights (sporadically, some operations were disabled, but should have been enabled)
• trend viewer: added setting the ruler width according to the value specified in the Trend Manager

Siemens Communication Driver

• RELI-53914 – fixed the byte order when writing tags of type SmallInt (16 b) and LongInt (32 b)

All modules

• most modules are allowed to address the operating memory up to 4 GB (on 64-bit Windows)
• changed the system of access rights (the number of access rights is now unlimited)
• controls used to edit the link to the project's objects now have the same bubble help
• selection dialog boxes: when opening a dialog for the first time, the correct item is now set by default
• selection dialog boxes: revised sorting the lists that also contain folders (folders and other objects are now sorted separately in each list)
• historical trends: the "Value count" property renamed "Point count"
• fixed drawing SVG images
• fixed logging information about the operating system on Windows 8.1 or later versions
• fixed activating a time-limited license if done from a module different from the one the license was intended for
• “Customize Trend” dialog and standard message dialog: dialogs are now shown on the monitor from which they were invoked (based on the mouse cursor position)
• “Select Directory” dialog: the vertical bar on the left (favorite places) now contains a shortcut to the Startup folder
• Activate License Wizard: altered text strings informing of the result of the license activation process
• custom reports of type FastReport: the "ConnectionString" property of an ADO Database (with the class name TfrxADODatabase) renamed "SQLConnection"
• managers: the tree structure is now restored to its default appearance after canceling searching by choosing the "Quick Filter" command
• fixed painting menus (the error could cause CPU overload)

All components

• control tags' value (e.g., visibility, enabled, position, size) is taken into account even when the tags' quality is bad
• RELI-53578 – replaced the library for drawing SVG images

Active Text component

• managers: added the "Vertical alignment" property to CSV export/import
• fixed displaying the component in the following circumstances: the component displays multi-line text, word wrapping is enabled, the project's version is 4.6.0 or older (previously, the text was aligned vertically to the center of the component)

Animation component

• fixed displaying the static picture

Text component

• fixed displaying the component in the following circumstances: the component displays multi-line text, word wrapping is enabled, the project's version is 4.6.0 or older (previously, the text was aligned vertically to the center of the component)

Button component

• RELI-52381 – fixed aligning word-wrapped text

Display component

• fixed displaying the shade
• fixed displaying aliases and descriptions of the Units zone object's properties in the Component Manager

Vivotek IP Camera component

• updated the type library interface in order to support the latest models of cameras; a driver for version 4.0.0.19 or later is now required
• added the possibility to set up an HTTP port

Axis IP Camera component

• added the possibility to set up a port

Sauter – Holiday Program component

• fixed editing a holiday

Teco – Time Program component

• added support for the following time programs from Mosaic's RegoLib library: TProg1, TProg2, TProg31, and TProg41

Real-Time Trend component

• fixed adopting the series line's color and width from the manager while the "Use properties configured via Manager" option is active
• removed automatically repainting series according to random numbers when editing the trend in Reliance Design
• to automatically generate the position of vertical axes, the "Use properties configured via Manager" option must be active

Real-Time Chart component

• removed automatically repainting series according to random numbers when editing the trend in Reliance Design
• RELI-52326 – added the possibility to dynamically control series point count

Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Equithermal Curve components

• RELI-51903 – added the possibility to hide the component's border (a new property named "Border style")
• RELI-52152 – added the possibility to set the component's background color
• fixed the error that caused displaying a popup menu upon the completion of scrolling the trend

Media Player component

• added a property that allows periodically playing a multimedia file
• added the possibility to control muting the sound by a tag
• VLC media player: updated the type library interface to version 2.2.1
• VLC media player: fixed the behavior on computers on which no VLC media player is installed

Combo Box component

• added the possibility to dynamically control the list of items by an array-type tag
• fixed CPU overload when the component was hidden
• fixed painting the confirm button's picture

Edit Box component

• preset the project font for the label after placing the component into a visualization window
• fixed indicating an invalid value of the main tag if the main tag was of type DateTime, Date, Time, or TimeSpan
• RELI-51989 – fixed setting the edit box's background color

Combo Box and Edit Box components

• RELI-51990 – reduced CPU workload while updating the component

Gauge component

• fixed entering tags for controlling dynamic limits from the component editor

Clock component

• added the possibility to specify the font of the dial numbers
• fixed the wrong definition of marks of type Circle and Square (previously, half of a mark's size was defined by the "Size" property)

Time Program and Teco – Time Program components

• fixed copying the time program

Container component

• added the possibility to dynamically link the component to a structured tag
• fixed duplicating the component (previously, the "Share column settings with other containers" option was not copied while duplicating the component)

Data Grid and Data Tree components

• RELI-52190 – added an option that determines whether to allow highlighting the currently selected row in the specified color

Data Grid component

• tag values are displayed even when the tags' quality is bad
• added the possibility to dynamically control columns' visibility
• added the possibility to directly edit tag values

Data Tree component

• fixed the horizontal scroll bar

Scale and Track Bar components

• added the possibility to control the range by tags

Reliance Design development environment

• substantially reduced the number of hard disk write operations while saving data to files with .rdt and .log extensions
• altered working with objects to avoid uselessly allocating GDI objects (the "Out of resources" error might have occurred in large projects)
• added the "Server Web Page" command to the Tools menu
• RELI-51883 – all managers: preset a valid file name when exporting objects to CSV
• all managers: fixed handling the Shift+Ins keyboard shortcut (the "Paste" command)
• Device Manager: changed the default value of the "Dec. place count" property for a tag (it is now set to 2)
• Device Manager: added the possibility for a string-type tag to specify the value list using a tag of type Array of String, Array of UTF8String, or Array of WideString (UCS-2)
• Device Manager: tag CSV export – fixed numerical constants in the description of tag data types
• Device Manager: tag CSV export/import – added data/quality/time stamp change scripts
• Device Manager: added adopting the "Comment" and "Description" properties from data structure fields to tags
• Device Manager: added the "Share with thin clients" option for a tag (the "Sharing" page)
• Device Manager: added the "Share with custom applications through Web service" option for a tag (the "Sharing" page)
• Device Manager: added support for the Date and Time data types for a BACnet device's tag
• Device Manager: added the possibility for an M-Bus device to suppress sending the SND_NKE function as a packet for establishing communication
• Device Manager: added support for Sevbus telemetry systems, which allow connecting a Taiga device by the French manufacturer SIS
• Device Manager: added support for Motorola MOSCAD telemetry systems
• Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: added the following new data types of special internal tags: "Date", "Time", "Date/time", "Project start date/time", "Project uptime", "Random value", "Sawtooth wave", "Sine wave", "Free disk space", "Memory used by program", "Program CPU load", "Program version", "Project name", "Main project file", "Project directory", "Logged-on user", "Current program language", "Current project language", "Connected thin client count", "Server status (redundancy)", "Last script run", "Last run script date/time", "Current device's physical tag date/time", "Current device's historical data date/time", "Current device's valid physical tag count (%)", "Computer", "Active window", "Serial number"
• Device Manager: added the "External ID" property for a device and for a tag (the "Information" page)
• Device Manager: fixed the structure of the device table (the Objects_0000000C.rdt file)
• Device Manager: altered importing tags into a Teco device from the ST format (IEC EN 61131-3) – the RegoLib library's time programs (TProg1, TProg2, TProg31, TProg41) are now imported as DataBlock
• Device Manager: added the possibility for a tag to run a script after receiving archive data (the "Scripts" page)
• Device Manager: added the "Time stamp precision" property for a tag (the "Advanced" page)
• Device Manager: added the possibility for an M-Bus device to define a tag of type Date
• Device Manager: fixed checking the uniqueness of the "WID" property for an AMiT device's tags (previously, a digital-type tag with the same WID could not be added)
• Device Manager: the bit number is now taken into account when sorting an AMiT device's tags by address
• Device Manager, “Select Tag” dialog box: structured tags in a Wago device – fixed the address of nested tags displayed in the "Address" column
• Communication Driver Manager: removed the "Log interface method calls" option
• Communication Driver Manager: added the "Maximum communication error count" property for AMiT Driver
• Trend Manager: moved the "Chart type" property to the level of trend series
• Action Manager: added action types: "Show logged-on user information" and "Acknowledge all alarms/events"
• RELI-51935, RELI-52097, RELI-52144, RELI-52036 – Script Manager: added the following methods: RSys.ExecAppAndWait, RSys.ExecAction, RSys.ExecActionAndWait, RSys.GetByte, RSys.GetWord, RSys.SetByte, RSys.SetWord, RTag.GetByte, RTag.GetWord, RTag.SetByte, RTag.SetWord, RSys.ShiftLeft, RSys.ShiftRight, RTag.ShiftLeft, RTag.ShiftRight, RTag.TagExists, and RScr.GetCurrentThreadName
• RELI-52097 – Script Manager: added the "Insert Action" command ("Insert Parameter > Insert Action")
• RELI-52303 – Script Manager: fixed text replacement when choosing the "Replace All" command
• Script Manager: added the RConst and RProj objects
• Script Manager: added the RConst.ProjObjType property and its subproperties corresponding to constants of object types used in Reliance projects (e.g., device, tag, alarm/event)
• Script Manager: added the RProj.GetObject method, which returns a project-defined object (e.g., device, tag, alarm/event)
• Script Manager: added the RProj.GetObjectList method, which returns the list of project-defined objects (e.g., devices, tags, alarms/events)
• Script Manager: added the possibility to access some properties of project-defined objects (ObjectType, ID, Name, Alias, CompoundName, CompoundAlias, FullName, FullAlias, ExternalID, Comment, Description)
• Script Manager: added the possibility to access some tag properties (Value, Quality, TimeStamp, LocalTimeStamp, IsQualityGood, EngUnits, EngName, CharacterCount, ElementCount, DecimalPlaceCount)
• Script Manager: added the possibility to access some alarm/event properties (Text)
• Script Manager: added the possibility to access some user properties (PhoneNumber, EmailAddress, Code)
• Script Manager: added the possibility to access some SQL-connection properties (ConnectionString, DatabaseName)
• Data Table Manager: reduced automatically generated names of physical fields in new projects (the prefix F_ is now used instead of Field_)
• Data Table Manager: disabled the "Convert to local time" option when the time stamp base is set to "Local time"
• Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed editing trend series properties from scripts
• Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed the error that caused the deletion of selected PNG images in Picture objects
• Window Manager: fixed sorting (folders and windows are now sorted separately)
• User Manager: added the possibility to select scripts to be run after user log-on/log-off
• User Manager: added the possibility to select actions to be executed after user log-on/log-off
• User Manager: added the "Run script" option for a user (the "Notification" page)
• Project Structure Manager: added support for custom types of alarms/events for a printer
• Project Structure Manager: added the possibility for a computer to select actions to be executed after user log-on/log-off (the "Log-on/Log-off" page)
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Export project to SQL database" property for a computer (the "Other" page)
• Project Structure Manager: added the option for connecting to the Maatrix service for a computer (the "Maatrix" page)
• Project Structure Manager: DMB device communication channel – added the possibility to store the packet list for the communication channel in array-type tags (the "List" page)
• Project Structure Manager: added the possibility to link packet list tags to a modem
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Max. bad communication count" property for a communication channel (the "Advanced" page; it replaces the same-named property of a communication driver)
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Evaluate communication error" and "Max. time since last successful comm." properties for a communication channel (the "Advanced" page; it allows evaluating a communication error based on the expiration of the maximum time since the last successful communication with the device)
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Run script" option for a computer (the "Notification" page)
• Component Manager: accelerated displaying localized property names
• Component Manager: project text strings can now be highlighted in green
• Component Manager: added the possibility to change a text string by selecting from the list of project-defined text strings
• Project Diagnostics: fixed checking a timer in components
• Project Diagnostics: fixed checking status text in the BACnet – Time Program component
• Project Diagnostics: fixed activating controls of the "Outside temperature" equithermal point in the Equithermal Curve component
• Project Diagnostics: fixed diagnosing unused structured tags in the Data Tree component
• Project Diagnostics: added deleting external data (files) after deleting unused objects (windows, pictures, scripts, or custom reports)
• Project Diagnostics: fixed diagnosing the "IP address/URL" property
• Project Diagnostics: fixed detecting an invalid link to limits (previously, invalid links were detected despite the fact that dynamic limits were not defined for some tags)
• Project Diagnostics: altered testing the version of drivers for Vivotek IP cameras
• Project Diagnostics: fixed diagnosing the secondary server's properties
• Project Diagnostics Wizard: fixed enabling/disabling the project scopes tree view (previously, an error occurred when going back through the wizard)
• RELI-40154 – Project Options: added the possibility to configure colors for the display of alarms/events (Alarms/Events > Colors)
• RELI-40154 – Project Options: added the possibility to configure colors for the display of alarms/events of a particular type (Alarms/Events > Types)
• Project Options: added the possibility to define any number of access rights and to change their order
• Project Options: added the possibility to export/import object lists (e.g., languages or SQL connections) to/from CSV
• Project Options: added the "End active alarm when disabled/inhibited" option (Alarms/Events > Other)
• Project Options: added the "Show error state if tags have invalid values" option (Components)
• RELI-51665 – Back Up Project Wizard: set the "Next" button as default
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the "Use project and computer name for naming web client files" option
• RELI-51882 – fixed saving locking the window
• Scale Windows and Components Wizard: a new wizard that replaces the “Transform” dialog box
• Restore Project from Backup Wizard: added a new method of restoring a project from a backup file (restoring a project at the end user site)
• RELI-51706 – fixed positioning the development environment's windows (the Windows taskbar's position and size are now considered)
• design window: when a window is closed by clicking the close button, it is now also released from memory (does not apply to templates)
• design window: fixed handling the "Select All (Ctrl+A)" command when the window contained a Notepad component
• fixed creating a project shortcut when the name of the project or computer contains illegal characters (e.g., a slash)
• Environment Options: added the possibility to set up displaying dialog boxes with a message (confirmation)
• Environment Options: removed the "Delete XML file on remove window" option
• Environment Options: added the "Use main window monitor" option
• “Project Information” dialog: fixed the displayed number of tags and data points used by the secondary server (when using data server redundancy)

Runtime software

• substantially reduced the number of hard disk write operations while saving data to files with .rdt and .log extensions
• added detecting SSD hard drives at project startup (a message on how to minimize the number of SSD writes is shown)
• fixed detecting a license stored in the software key if the hardware key designed for another Reliance module was connected
• fixed writing physical tags of type DoubleWord (previously, values greater than 2147483647 could not be written)
• fixed saving a device's time-stamped data in case when the data involved several values with an identical time stamp: values in some columns of a database table were taken from the previous record although they were read correctly from the device by the communication driver
• added checking a device's time-stamped data when receiving it from the communication driver: when a value is undefined (NaN or infinity; NaN = not a number), the runtime software does not process the value
• automatic project update: the directories and files not contained in the source directory will be removed from the target directory (this applies to the following directories: Main\System, Main\Windows, Main\Pictures, Main\Scripts, Main\Strings, Main\CustomReports, Main\MMedia, ThinClients)
• fixed loading real-time trends' historical data: if the number of points displayed in a real-time trend was reduced, an error occurred when loading the trend's historical data
• RELI-52865 – fixed displaying the message about the loss of a communication driver license (previously, an error occurred when periodically checking the license)
• RELI-51778 – OPC devices: added reactivating OPC groups in case the OPC server is restarted if the "Add OPC groups to OPC server as inactive" option is turned on
• devices using native drivers: added re-enabling updating data in case Reliance Driver Server is restarted if the tags are updated based on the folder and the update is controlled by a tag
• IEC104 devices: fixed generating alarms/events when using dynamic limits
• fixed updating time stamps of special internal tags defined within online-connected physical devices
• currently, the message "Connected to driver" is displayed only if the message "Communication driver terminated" has been shown previously
• custom reports: fixed displaying a custom report item containing Text objects whose text is highlighted under specified conditions
• custom reports: fixed indenting axes' titles for Chart objects
• custom reports: fixed painting the grid of Chart objects
• custom reports: altered (made more specific) the error description if failing to export a report to a format not supported by this type of report
• RELI-51935, RELI-52097, RELI-52144, RELI-52144, RELI-52036 – added the implementation of the following methods: RSys.ExecAppAndWait, RSys.ExecAction, RSys.ExecActionAndWait, RSys.GetByte, RSys.GetWord, RSys.SetByte, RSys.SetWord, RTag.GetByte, RTag.GetWord, RTag.SetByte, RTag.SetWord, RSys.ShiftLeft, RSys.ShiftRight, RTag.ShiftLeft, RTag.ShiftRight, RTag.TagExists, RScr.GetCurrentThreadName
• data/quality/time stamp change scripts: a tag's eng. name is passed to a script
• added further information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a data/quality/time stamp change script (device/tag external ID)
• added support for connecting to Maatrix
• User Manager: alarm/event groups – aliases are now displayed instead of names
• user aliases are now displayed instead of user names
• DDE server: added loading the "DDE topic" and "DDE server" properties from the main project file
• added logging information about unsuccessful user log-on
• added logging information to functions for reading historical data from a database
• sorting list elements: changed the QuickSort algorithm from recursive to iterative
• data tables in PostgreSQL: fixed the syntax of the ALTER TABLE command for adding new fields (columns) to a database table

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• handled saving a custom report containing a trend from scripts if the target directory did not exist
• RELI-52226 – substantially reduced CPU workload while using some types of components
• current alarm/event viewer: fixed drawing text (sometimes, an ellipsis was shown instead of the end of the text)
• current alarm/event viewer: changed highlighting alarms/events (now, the selected row remains always highlighted, not the alarm)
• historical alarm/event viewer: if the virtual keyboard is enabled, the viewer is displayed as a normal window; otherwise, it is always shown on top of the other open windows
• RELI-40172 – historical alarm/event filter editor: added the inequality operator (the "Not Equal" command in the toolbar)
• alarm/event viewers: added support for the virtual keyboard
• RELI-51852 – trend viewer: legend – fixed the value of a series that corresponds to the position of the ruler/cross if the series' "Stairs" option is activated
• trend viewer: the "Load Design Settings" command now restores the visibility and position of custom vertical axes
• trend viewer: the accuracy of the time displayed in the legend now depends on the value of a tag's "Time stamp precision" property
• report viewer: the accuracy of the time displayed in the "Time" column now depends on the value of a tag's "Time stamp precision" property
• report viewer: added the possibility to write the selected record's time stamp to a tag
• report viewer: added the possibility to execute actions
• report viewer: added the possibility for string-type items (columns) to dynamically control the list of available values for filtering
• custom report viewer: added the possibility to export a report to the following formats: CSV, XLS, XLSX, XML, ODS, ODT, DBF, RTF, TXT, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, and GIF
• custom report viewer: fixed the error that consisted in BDE Query (TfrxBDEQuery) and BDE Table (TfrxBDETable) objects to create a working table in the main directory of Reliance's program files
• “Enter Value” dialog: altered the display of user-defined names for logical 0 and 1 for tags of type Bool and Array of Bool – text definition for one state will suffice to display the names
• “Information on Tag” dialog: added a tag's value, time stamp, quality, and kind
• “Customize Trend” dialog: the "Display style" property renamed "Paging"
• “Customize Trend” dialog: added displaying page size units (points, hours)
• “Customize Trend” dialog: fixed updating text strings after setting the program language to Spanish (previously, Czech text strings were displayed)
• alarm/event panel: added using the "Alarm/event text font" option activated for a computer (the "Alarms/Events" page)
• recipes: fixed searching for a recipe by name when controlling the recipe name by a tag (first, a recipe with an identical name is found; if there is none, a recipe the name of which starts with the name that is searched for is found)
• Recipe Editor: fixed entering a value for items linked to tags of type Date, Time, and TimeSpan
• RELI-51160 – Recipe Editor: added the "Duplicate" command
• Recipe Editor: fixed the recipe item numerical value format (the Windows locale settings is now considered)
• Postmort Record Player: added further playing speed options (100x, 200x, 500x, and 1000x faster)
• Postmort Record Player: records to play will be made available even if the "Complete data recording interval" property is set to a value greater than 1 hour
• fixed repainting visualization windows on monitor No. 3 or higher (in applications with more than two monitors)
• scripts: added further information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered by a component (the component's main tag ID and the ID of the tag to which the container is linked)
• delayed sending information about changes made through managers to other runtime software modules (the default value is 5 s)
• removed displaying the "Error occurred" dialog in case when the logging of handled errors was active and a handled error occurred

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• updated the library: OpenSSL 1.0.2f
• data server redundancy: fixed synchronizing current values of internal tags whose last value is not saved (after a primary server failure and the restoration of communication between the servers, the value of a tag from the primary server might have been used)
• the HTTP server now sends clients an X-UA-Compatible header so that a Web page in Internet Explorer is not displayed in Compatibility View
• RELI-51749 – custom reports: fixed displaying reports in the English version
• custom application interface of the Web service: fixed the wrong behavior of the GetCurrentAlarms function that occurred when the name of the device that does not exist in the project was passed to the DeviceName parameter
• custom application interface of the Web service: added the Connect3 function
• custom application interface of the Web service: extended parameters passed to the GetCurrentAlarms and AcknowledgeAlarms functions
• RELI-53638 – custom application interface of the Web service: added checking access rights when acknowledging alarms/events
• custom application interface of the Web service: corrected the documentation

Reliance Server

• fixed calling some communication driver functions when terminating a project running as a Windows service

Reliance Web Client

• added support for special internal tags
• added support for executing actions after user log-on and log-off
• added support for the alarm/event font defined for a computer
• fixed positioning the main window in the working area of the monitor
• added support for a tag's "Time stamp precision" property
• trend viewers: added support for background pictures (the "Back Image" property)
• trend viewers: fixed the trend title in the tag trend viewer
• trend viewers: fixed displaying the bottom axis if the legend is shown and positioned at the top
• trend viewers: fixed setting the range of a trend's axis (the error caused the trend data to be hidden)
• trend viewers: fixed the sample count displayed in the status bar
• trend viewers: added support for ruler colors
• fixed setting the trend range through the "Custom Time Axis Range" dialog
• RELI-51852 – trend viewer: legend – fixed the value of a series that corresponds to the position of the ruler/cross if the series' "Stairs" option is activated
• RELI-51720 – alarm/event viewers: added displaying information in the columns Tag, Type, and User for internal alarms/events
• RELI-51750 – alarm/event viewers: fixed filtering internal alarms/events by alarm/event type
• alarm/event viewers: quick filter – text searching is now performed within all displayed columns
• alarm/event viewers: quick filter – added the "Match Beginning of String" command
• alarm/event viewers: added support for alarm/event colors
• alarm/event viewers: fixed saving settings in the dialog for downloading alarms/events
• historical alarm/event viewer: fixed downloading alarms/events (previously, the time range was not considered for internal alarms/events)
• fixed displaying the alarm/event panel
• “Enter Tag Value” dialog: added support for editing multi-line text
• fixed controlling window visibility using a tag
• added support for the "Show error state if tags have invalid values" option
• fixed working with keyboard shortcuts for executing actions
• RELI-51740 – Real-Time Trend component: added support for background pictures (the "Back Image" property)
• RELI-51740 – Real-Time Trend component: fixed the font style of the trend's title
• RELI-51740 – Real-Time Trend component: fixed displaying labels on the time axis
• Real-Time Trend component: added support for controlling the range of a trend's vertical axes by a tag
• RELI-53659 – Real-Time Chart component: fixed displaying some types of series
• BACnet – Time Program component: fixed editing the time program
• Teco – Time Program component: added support for the Mosaic RegoLib library's ON/OFF time programs
• Data Grid component: added support for the "Line" and "Border style" properties
• Container component: fixed saving the width of columns in the alarm/event viewer
• Container component: removed sending too many requests to the server
• Container component: removed the memory leak that could cause slowing down applications with many containers
• Container component: added support for dynamically linking the component to a structured tag
• Combo Box component: added support for dynamically controlling the list of items by an array-type tag
• Vivotek IP Camera component: added support for series 7000 and 8000
• Gauge component: fixed updating the component when changing the range
• Scale, Progress Bar, Track Bar components: added support for controlling the range by a tag
• Grid component: added support for painting lines in the error state
• vector components: fixed displaying the border and the fill
• RELI-52796 – vector components: fixed displaying the error state
• Active Text, Active Picture, Pipe components, vector components: fixed displaying the yellow frame that indicates invalid tag values
• added support for actions of type "Show logged-on user information" and "Acknowledge all alarms/events"

Reliance Smart Client

• updated the library: jQuery 2.1.4
• fixed running the client in the Desktop mode (previously, decreasing the size of the page did not work)
• fixed displaying the scroll bars
• grouped some of the commands in the main menu
• added the Options page
• added support for special internal tags
• added support for a tag's "Time stamp precision" property
• fixed menu and toolbar visibility
• added support for changing the scale of visualization windows (in the responsive mode)
• Czech is now activated if the program language is set to Slovak (previously, English was activated)
• trend viewers: added the trend editor
• RELI-51852 – trend viewer: legend – fixed the value of a series that corresponds to the position of the ruler/cross if the series' "Stairs" option is activated
• alarm/event viewers: added support for alarm/event colors
• alarm/event viewers: improved displaying an alarm/event with a long text string on small displays
• added support for the "Show error state if tags have invalid values" option
• Pipe, Scale, Clock components, vector components: the components are now displayed using inline SVG
• fixed components' dynamic visibility
• Display component: added support for the value/unit offset
• Combo Box component: fixed the appearance of the component if the number of items contained in the combo box is greater than the number of items configured for the component
• BACnet – Time Program component: fixed saving the time program
• Teco – Time Program component: fixed displaying the component
• Teco – Time Program component: added support for the Mosaic RegoLib library's ON/OFF time programs
• Time Program component: added the possibility to set a value using a scroll bar
• Time Program, Teco – Time Program, BACnet – Time Program components: added the possibility to update the time program from the server
• Display component: added support for the "Number format > Use locale settings" option
• Container component: added support for dynamically linking the component to a structured tag
• Clock and Gauge components: fixed painting the end of the dial pointer (hands)
• Combo Box component: added support for dynamically controlling the list of items by an array-type tag
• Real-Time Trend component: added displaying the component's frame
• Vivotek IP Camera component: added support for series 7000 and 8000
• Grid component: added support for painting lines in the error state
• Progress Bar and Gauge components: added support for component rotation
• Scale, Progress Bar components: added support for controlling the range by a tag
• added support for executing an action and running a script after user log-on/log-off
• added support for the action of type "Show logged-on user information"
• added support for the action of type "Show options"
• added saving the page settings before displaying a report
• fixed switching the project language
• substantially reduced the length of some links

Communication drivers

• fixed restarting a project running as a Windows service (previously, the Reliance Driver Server service had to be restarted to load the current project)
• Reliance Driver Server – a specified directory for log files is now taken into account
• Reliance Driver Server is no longer blocking Windows termination
• removed displaying a window with an error message when reading/writing data from/to a serial port
• fixed communication when the number of TCP sockets is limited
• fixed automatically establishing communication during tag-controlled reading
• added setting a flag that indicates a communication error if failing to create a packet for establishing communication
• fixed terminating the communication driver during communication over TCP in the server mode
• fixed releasing the communication driver from memory after driver termination if multiple serial ports were used in the project
• fixed reestablishing communication in the server mode after a connection failure occurred
• fixed modem control
• added updating special physical tags' time stamps every 10 seconds
• fixed switching the program language (under certain circumstances, Czech text strings were written to log files also in the English version)
• to automatically update special physical tag values' time stamp, the "Allow reading" option must be active
• fixed the error (exception) that occurred during project termination
• fixed evaluating a communication error when disconnecting the device due to the line being idle
• fixed repeatedly sending a communication message to establish a connection on a secondary (backup) channel

Teco Communication Driver

• fixed the memory error that occurred when reading a string-type tag through multiple communication zones
• added support for the "TC650" model (for this model, only even-length communication packets are generated)
• fixed writing values greater than 2147483647 into tags of type DoubleWord

DMB Communication Driver

• added DMB Communication Driver

M-Bus Communication Driver

• added the possibility to communicate in the server mode
• added the possibility for the Itron Cyble model to read tags from different frames
• added decoding a variable-length value to the array data type
• added decoding the DATE AND TIME data type as DateTime and Date
• added the possibility to define the Date data type
• added the possibility to read all values contained in the data message header through special physical tags

Siemens Communication Driver

• optimized (accelerated) reading tags located in the address space of type DB – Data Block
• added the possibility to specify the length of a communication packet
• added checking received data block count
• fixed the communication error caused by generating too long a message
• fixed reading tags addressed as Peripheral Inputs and Peripheral Outputs

IEC 104 Communication Driver

• RELI-52031 – handled receiving a frame with any transfer cause
• fixed the communication error that occurred when receiving data divided into multiple messages
• fixed establishing communication on a secondary (backup) communication channel
• fixed the data transfer interruption on the active channel when establishing communication on a secondary (backup) channel

Modbus Communication Driver

• added support for Sevbus telemetry systems, which allow connecting a Taiga device by the French manufacturer SIS
• RELI-51815 – fixed reading Inputs in the server mode
• RELI-52121 – fixed receiving data of the Preset Multiple Registers 16 function in the server mode
• RELI-51815 – fixed responding to a request for data from the Coils and Inputs register types in the server mode (invalid values of the other bits were returned by the driver)
• fixed writing a tag of type DateTime
• altered reading digital tags from the Coils and Inputs register types so that even fewer than eight bits would be read
• added support for Motorola MOSCAD telemetry systems

AMiT Communication Driver

• added repeatedly sending a request to which no response was received
• fixed releasing the communication driver from memory after project termination

Elgas Communication Driver

• fixed writing a tag that controls communication with a device
• fixed reading a differential counter
• fixed hanging up a modem after the completion of historical data reading
• fixed logging the date and time of an archive record (a daily and a binary archive)
• fixed evaluating date and time if the DST offset function is activated in the device
• fixed reading data from an Elcor-94 device

Johnson Controls Communication Driver

• fixed writing digital-type tags
• fixed mask write for multiple digital-type tags at a time

Generic Communication Driver

• fixed decoding received data if the device sends the data spontaneously – with no previous request
• added the possibility to communicate in the server mode

SMS Driver

• fixed sending messages containing a line ending and some special characters

BACnet Communication Driver

• fixed the error in communication with a device located in another network
• fixed acknowledging received data during communication with a device located in another network

Reliance OPC Server, License Service, License Key Utility

• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 is now used by the modules

Auxiliary tools and utilities

• fixed the path to the executable file of Reliance OPC DA Wrapper
• Project Converter: fixed converting components with links to a non-existent popup menu
• Project Converter: fixed the undesirable change of the original project's main file format (a file with a .prj extension)
• Project Converter: fixed text in the English version (previously, it was shown in Czech)
• Project Converter: fixed converting windows if the program language is set to French
• Reliance Remote Control Center: added displaying text information on the process of restarting the project running in Reliance Server as a Windows service
• Custom Report Designer, custom report viewer: added the possibility to export a report to the following formats: CSV, XLS, XLSX, XML, ODS, ODT, DBF, RTF, TXT, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, and GIF

Installation program

• removed .NET Framework 2.0

All modules

• used a new compiler (Delphi XE5) and a user interface library (VCL)
• updated the FastReport library to version 5.11
• TDBF – new support for accessing dBASE tables (BDE substitution)
• RELI-51271 – modified the "Quick Filter" command to be case-insensitive for letters with diacritics
• trends, real-time trends: fixed saving vertical and horizontal axis positions configured for a trend series
• RELI-51245 – trends, real-time trends: fixed setting axes' multi-line labels

All components

• component property editor: controls for defining a link to objects – when saving the changes, the link to an object is now saved even if the object is not used (i.e., when the check box is turned off)

Button-type components

• fixed drawing status text for buttons with the use of rotation

Popup Menu component

• component editor: added the possibility to add items linked to actions by selecting from the "Select Action" dialog

BACnet – Time Program component

• added the "Default data type" property

Gauge component

• added support for controlling the range by a tag

Data Tree component

• fixed saving the link to a tag after adding a new node
• fixed saving text strings with Unicode characters to a node or cell
• fixed duplicating a node (previously, the child nodes were automatically sorted)
• fixed setting the row height

Time Program component

• component editor: altered enabling/disabling controls based on the "Editing > Method" property
• component editor: improved controls for editing numerical values by adding up-down controls

Progress Bar component

• fixed displaying the component when exceeding the range (previously, the segmented indicator did not display the state corresponding to the maximum value)

Container component

• current alarms/events: added the possibility for filtering based on types and groups
• current alarms/events: added searching by choosing the "Quick Filter" command
• historical alarms/events: added the possibility for filtering based on types and custom filter
• historical alarms/events: added searching by choosing the "Quick Filter" command
• RELI-51695 – communication channel: fixed checking the specified channel before saving the changes (sporadically, a message about the non-existence of the channel was shown)

Real-Time Chart, Real-Time Trend, Equithermal Curve components

• fixed saving a back image

Digifort component

• a new component for the Digifort IP surveillance system

Reliance Design development environment

• managers: added the "Synchronize alias" property to CSV export/import
• managers: fixed the sporadic "Access Violation" error that might occur when saving changes within managers
• managers: fixed saving the display style in the bottom left pane (View > List/Details/Thumbnails)
• managers: changed the way the Project Structure Manager is displayed after adding a new object and saving the changes – now it is only displayed if this object's connection has any properties to configure in the Project Structure Manager (device, data table, recipe type) – otherwise, it is connected to the computer automatically
• Device Manager: updated the descriptions of exported properties (tag data types)
• Device Manager: added the possibility for a Siemens device to import tags from a file in the XLSX format exported by DB Import from a STEP 7 project
• Device Manager: fixed importing an array-type tag's array element count and date type from the TIA Portal (the XLSX format) for a Siemens device
• Device Manager: fixed the "List index out of bounds" error occurring when importing tags from an EDE file that does not contain optional columns
• Device Manager: added the "Check real-time data time stamp sequence" property for an IEC104 device
• Device Manager: added the possibility for tags of an M-Bus device to define the address by the order in the communication message
• Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: added new types of special physical tags for an Elgas2 device (Serial number, Firmware version, Device name)
• Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: added a new data type of special physical tags for an M-Bus device – System status (the tag value is contained in the communication message header)
• Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: added a new data type of special internal tags (Current alarm/event count)
• Device Manager: added the minimum interval of alarm/event notification (E-mail, SMS)
• Device Manager: added support for Omni 3000 and Omni 6000 devices
• Device Manager: replaced the label "Address" with the "ASDU address" option for an IEC104 device
• RELI-51628 – Device Manager: added the "ASDU address" option for an IEC104 device's tags and tag folders (tags within a single IEC104 device can now be defined with different ASDU addresses)
• Data Structure Manager: disabled the "Order" option of data structures for device types without support for this option
• Data Structure Manager: fixed the default value of the "Field address defined by" property of data structures for some device types
• Data Structure Manager: added the possibility for a Siemens device to import data structures from a file in the XLSX format exported by DB Import from a STEP 7 project
• Data Structure Manager: fixed the "List index out of bounds" error occurring when importing data structures from an EDE file that does not contain optional columns
• Data Table Manager: added the "Redundant table" property for a data table (the "Other" page)
• RELI-51714 – Data Table Manager: removed restricting the length of the "Physical table name" property's value for a data table
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Automatically log on user" property for a computer (the "Log-on/Log-off" page)
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Alarm/event text font" property for a computer (the "Alarms/Events" page)
• Project Structure Manager: the "Connection timeout" property of a computer (the "Redundancy" page) – the minimum allowable value is now set to 1 s
• Project Structure Manager: properties of a computer – some properties from the "Alarms/Events" page have been moved to the new page "Notification"
• Project Structure Manager: fixed saving a Siemens device communication channel's "TCP/UDP port" property's value when the default value has changed
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Network number" and "MAC address" properties for a BACnet device's communication channel (the "Other" page)
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Maximum unacknowledged sent I-frame count (k)" property for an IEC104 device's communication channel (the "Other" page)
• Project Structure Manager: renamed the "Maximum unacknowledged I-frame count" property for an IEC104 device's communication channel (the "Other" page) to "Maximum unacknowledged received I-frame count (w)"
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Delete oldest data" property for a connected data table (applies to SQL-based data tables)
• Project Structure Manager: connected devices – added the "Type" column to the bottom left pane
• Project Structure Manager: computers – added the "Address" column to the bottom left pane
• Project Structure Manager: computer CSV export/import – fixed importing/exporting the list of directories to automatically update
• Project Structure Manager: connected devices – added displaying the properties even if devices of a different type are selected
• Script Manager: added CreateObject, GetLocale, SetLocale, Escape, and Unescape to the list of available functions
• Script Manager: added Empty, Null, Nothing, True, and False to the list of available constants
• Script Manager: added the RAlm.CurrentAlarmsEx method, which allows displaying current alarms/events that meet the specified parameters (the possibility for filtering based on the device, types, groups, and time range)
• Script Manager: added the RAlm.DbAlarmsEx method, which allows displaying historical alarms/events that meet the specified parameters (the possibility for filtering based on the device, types, custom filter, and time range)
• Script Manager: added the RUser.GetUserAlarmGroups method, which returns the specified user's alarm/event groups
• Script Manager: fixed selecting whole words
• User Manager: user properties – the "Alarms/Events" page has been renamed "Notification"
• Custom Report Manager: added a new component named TDBF Table (with the class name TfrxTDBFTable) designed for accessing files with a .dbf extension
• Custom Report Manager: fixed automatically synchronizing ID-based custom report items' name if the item was not named
• Custom Report Manager: fixed searching for a custom report item by ID (previously, it was searched for in the list of all defined items, not in the list of the custom report's items)
• Real-Time Trend Manager: fixed selecting a tag for a trend series
• RELI-51290 – Real-Time Trend Manager: fixed saving the "Blocking tag" option
• RELI-4017 – Picture Manager: improved the behavior when adding a picture folder
• Action Manager: added the "Show application help contents" action type
• Action Manager: added the possibility for the action of type "www link" to use the default Web browser
• String Manager: added searching by choosing the "Quick Filter" command
• Project Options: added the possibility to set up the method of accessing dBASE data tables (Historical Data > dBASE Data Tables)
• Project Options: added the possibility to display alarms/events' date/time with millisecond precision
• Project Options: added the possibility to define alarm/event types
• Project Options: added the possibility to delete alarms/events older than the specified value
• Project Options: added the possibility to set up an alias for the System device
• Project Options: added the possibility to set up the dialog for entering a tag value (the "Show tag alias/name" and "Show device alias/name" properties)
• Project Options: changed the tree structure on the left side of the dialog
• Project Diagnostics: added the possibility to reperform the diagnostics from the "Diagnostics Results" window
• Project Diagnostics: Diagnostics Results – "Perform Scope Diagnostics" command – fixed diagnosing the Component scope
• Project Diagnostics: Diagnostics Results – removed listing unused objects in a different color
• Project Diagnostics, finding object usages: the settings are now saved separately
• design window: fixed changing the component size by dragging the mouse (previously, an error occurred when pressing the Esc key while dragging the mouse)
• changed the way of releasing visualization windows from memory when closing a project (sporadically, the "Access Violation" error occurred)
• RELI-39399 – design window: fixed selecting grouped components
• RELI-7153 – design window: fixed updating container components after a change in a window template
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the possibility for individual configurations to specify the data server address
• Back Up Project Wizard: updated the backup directory list
• Environment Options: added the possibility to store log files in the project directory
• Environment Options: added the possibility for paths to restore the default settings

Runtime software

• real-time trends: added saving data at runtime and after project termination
• added support for automatic user log-on
• logging writing a tag: added the previous tag value to the message
• extended alarm/event text formatting tags
• alarms/events linked to a Bool-type tag: text for the logical 0 (1) state is now displayed instead of a value of 0 (1)
• fixed sending messages using the RINet.SendMail function (previously, message text duplication occurred)
• data tables: improved generating time stamps for new records (this ensures the uniqueness of time stamps even when adding multiple records in a short time)
• data tables: added saving sampled data to a physical database before each access to data
• data tables: fixed initializing the last record from the last tag values if it is not possible to open a physical table after project startup (this only applies to data from an IEC104 device)
• data tables in MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL: fixed testing the cause of the error that occurred when saving a new record
• added the implementation of the following methods: RAlm.CurrentAlarmsEx, RAlm.DbAlarmsEx, and RUser.GetUserAlarmGroups
• fixed initializing values when using an analog value correction for a tag defined within a Modbus device in the Slave mode
• scripts: fixed running a script with its "Run on thread initialization" option activated and the "User interface (GUI) thread" option selected
• files in the directories "C:\Program Files (x86)\GEOVAP\Reliance4\Cert" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\GEOVAP\Reliance4\Config" can now be located in the project directory, for example, C:\Project1\Main\Cert" and "C:\Project1\Main\Config" to be part of a project backup
• RELI-51663 – IEC104 devices: fixed generating alarms/events linked to structured tags
• IEC104 devices: added generating alarms/events in offline mode
• fixed sending an email message through the SSL/TLS secure connection
• added logging potential errors while sending an email or text message
• added logging information about successfully sending an email or text message
• added support for the French language
• added support for the Spanish language
• updated support for the Russian language

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• RELI-51291 – fixed the action of type "Run application" (previously, the action failed to run applications the names of which contained spaces)
• altered handling the action of type "Run application" so that it is possible to use some of the commands supported in the command prompt (e.g., "start www.reliance-scada.com")
• scripts: the dialog displayed by calling the MsgBox and InputBox functions from a script run with its "User interface (GUI) thread" option selected is now modal
• alarm/event viewers: changed the default size of the toolbar's buttons to small buttons
• historical alarm/event viewer: added searching by choosing the "Quick Filter" command
• current alarm/event viewer: added searching by choosing the "Quick Filter" command
• current alarm/event viewer: the appearance of the viewer and the appearance of the historical alarm/event viewer are now the same
• report viewer: fixed previewing a report (previously, the report preview disappeared while preparing for printing)
• report viewer: substantially accelerated loading data when choosing the "Load All Records" command
• RELI-51653 – report viewer: translated the names of some properties in the "Create Filter" and "Edit Filter" dialogs
• custom reports: fixed displaying a Chart object (the error could cause not displaying data in all series)
• removed the message "Cannot show window. Insufficient access rights for this operation." when activating a window after project startup
• added the possibility to stop loading historical alarms/events when a file-based database is used
• historical alarms/events filter editor: changed the way of selecting a device, tag, computer, and user (the drop-down list replaced with a selection dialog box)
• extended the area for displaying the title in visualization windows' title bar
• RELI-40040 – trend (report) selection dialog – added saving the "Insert trend window into main window" ("Insert report window into main window") option
• fixed repeatedly switching between visualization windows – it no longer causes an inserted trend viewer/report viewer to close
• trends, real-time trends: fixed loading user settings (the axis title's angle was undesirably changed to 90°)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• updated the OpenSSL library to version 1.0.2a
• RELI-51254 – server Web pages: report viewer – fixed the time range when displaying a report
• RELI-51550 – fixed the list of connected thin clients, which is returned by the RWS.GetThinClientList function
• fixed the error that might have caused terminating the generation of reports from data stored in relational databases
• data server redundancy: secondary server – distinguished waiting for establishing communication and waiting for a response from the primary server
• data server redundancy: added the possibility to store both servers' historical data in a single database
• custom application interface of the Web service: added the LogonUser, LogoffUser, GetCurrentAlarms, and AcknowledgeAlarms functions
• added logging information about user log-on/log-off to/of the server from a thin client

Reliance Control Server

• fixed the error that sporadically occurred when successively running multiple projects with thin clients of type Smart Client within a single instance of the data server

Reliance Server

• fixed running the service if the "Automatically update project" option was active (it could cause turning off the service if the update took a long time)
• fixed terminating the service (sporadically, the following error occurred: "DDE Server Window: R_Srv.exe – Application Error")
• RELI-51239 – data server Web page security no longer applies to Smart Client's Web pages

Reliance Web Client

• removed switching to the main window when communication is restored
• added the possibility to restart the Web client (only if it is run through Java Web Start)
• added support for automatic user log-on
• users not connected to the computer can no longer log on
• user settings (e.g., trend appearance settings) are now saved to a user profile on the server
• added support for redundancy
• selection dialog box: added the possibility for quick filtering
• added support for the System device's alias
• dialog for entering a tag value: added support for the "Show tag alias/name" and "Show device alias/name" options
• trend viewers: added support for another trend type (area)
• trend viewers: fixed setting a date in the dialog box for specifying a trend's custom range
• trend viewers: added the possibility to assume another user's settings and pass user settings to another user
• custom trends: added support for separate axes for series
• alarm/event viewers: added support for the "Show milliseconds" option
• alarm/event viewers: fixed filtering a device's internal alarms/events
• alarm/event viewers: added support for alarm/event types and groups
• Real-Time Trend component: added support for separate axes
• Real-Time Trend component: added support for localizable axis labels
• Gauge component: added support for controlling the range by a tag
• Container component: current alarms/events – added the possibility for filtering based on types and groups
• Container component: historical alarms/events – added the possibility for filtering based on types and custom filter
• Data Tree component: fixed changing a tag value in cells of type Progress bar (previously, tag values could not be changed)
• Data Grid component: added support for the "Element index" property (corresponds to the selected row)
• added support for the BACnet – Time Program component
• added support for the Digifort component
• added support for the "Show application help contents" action type
• fixed the sporadic error that caused updating tag values to be interrupted
• added support for the French language
• updated support for the Russian language

Reliance Smart Client

• updated libraries: jQuery 2.1.3, jQueryMobile 1.4.5
• RELI-51479 – added support for the so-called app mode (the possibility to display an application in full screen mode on Android OS and iOS)
• RELI-51420 – the link to the main window is now independent of the window's ID
• menus are now displayed in the side bar
• added the possibility to turn on/off the quick search filter
• fixed entering from the keyboard on iOS 8
• fixed displaying the client in IE9
• added support for automatic user log-on
• users not connected to the computer can no longer log on
• added support for the System device's alias
• added support for the "Show tag alias/name" and "Show device alias/name" properties on the page for entering a tag value
• trend viewers: added support for other types of trends (bar, area)
• trend viewers: added support for separate axes
• trend viewers: added support for zooming
• trend viewers: added the possibility for vertical axes to be positioned above each other
• trend viewers: fixed displaying trends if the data came from different data tables
• alarm/event viewers: added support for the "Show milliseconds" option
• alarm/event viewers: added support for alarm/event types and groups
• fixed the value of the tag that generated an alarm/event on the page with information on the alarm/event
• added support for component rotation
• RELI-51550 – fixed the parameters passed to a script when clicking a component
• Real-Time Trend component: added support for separate axes
• Real-Time Trend component: added support for controlling the range of vertical axes by a tag
• RELI-51242 – Edit Box component: fixed entering characters with diacritics
• Gauge component: added support for controlling the range by a tag
• Gauge component: added support for displaying limits
• Container component: added support for embedding trends, current alarms/events, and historical alarms/events
• added support for the Time Program component
• added support for the Digifort component
• added support for the "Show application help contents" action type
• added support for opening a Web page in a new panel using the action of type "www link"
• RELI-51298 – added help

Communication drivers

• fixed registering Reliance Driver Server as a COM server by running the batch file R_DrvSrv_RegServer.bat
• fixed terminating communication channel threads
• RELI-3027 – localized text strings in log files into English
• the communication test interval is now ignored when tag-controlled communication with a device is activated
• fixed automatically establishing communication with a device when the connection was controlled by a tag

Sauter Communication Driver

• fixed reading data using packet 80
• fixed decoding tags with the following data words: D, E, N

BACnet Communication Driver

• removed a time program's write priority
• added the "Network number" and "MAC address" properties
• added the possibility to suppress reading tags using the Read Property Multiple function (instead, the Read Property function is used)
• added the possibility to specify a nonstandard property identifier even for a standard ASHRAE object

Siemens Communication Driver

• fixed restoring tag-controlled communication with a device
• added reading and writing long arrays and strings
• fixed the wrong reading/writing a tag with an address higher than 8191
• fixed writing an array-type tag located in data blocks
• fixed decoding the DATE AND TIME data type

Teco Communication Driver

• fixed writing a tag of type Array of String

IEC 104 Communication Driver

• removed checking the CMNA address for the RWE model (only IP address-based identification is now used)
• fixed decoding a tag value with a type identifier of M_ME_TD_1 – a normalized time-stamped value
• RELI-51628 – added support for tags with different ASDU addresses within a single IEC104 device
• acknowledging sent I-frames is carried out by receiving any I-frame
• RELI-51305 – fixed the processing of received data so that the driver would accept time-stamped data even for tags having a non-time-stamped type identifier
• RELI-51666 – fixed the wrong information in the packet list for the communication channel
• added support for the "Maximum unacknowledged sent I-frame count (k)" property

M-Bus Communication Driver

• fixed reading data if the device contains a variable-length value
• fixed reading data if the device used VIF-code 7C – VIF in following string

Modbus Communication Driver

• fixed reading data if the device contains a variable-length value
• fixed reading the serial number from the data message header
• added support for Omni 3000 and Omni 6000 devices

Cimon Communication Driver

• added writing an array element

Elgas Communication Driver

• fixed writing a tag of type Gas composition
• fixed the evaluation of initial character checking

AMiT Communication Driver

• fixed reading a bit tag lying in a substitution tag of type LongInt (32 b)

Generic Communication Driver

• added more detailed logging of an input string

SMS Driver

• RELI-51074 – fixed sending a message if the 7-bit encoding was used (the message text was duplicated when sent)

External Communicator

• fixed clearing an input buffer

Auxiliary tools and utilities

• Project Converter: fixed converting a project to a newer version (sporadically, the conversion was not completed)
• Custom Report Designer: added support for the French and Spanish languages
• custom report viewer: added support for the French and Spanish languages

Installer

• added a new setup launcher utility (the program named Setup.exe on the top level of the directory structure) – the recommended installation method
• the new setup launcher utility is signed with a certificate from a trusted certificate authority (Thawte)

Help and documentation

• Reliance Design manual: added MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL to the list of supported database systems
• Reliance Design manual: added links to FAQ on the website
• RELI-51112 – Reliance Design manual: added the description of the Button component's "Set digital tag directly" property
• VBScript manual: added the documentation for the following functions: Escape, Unescape, SetLocale, GetLocale, and CreateObject
• VBScript manual: added the documentation for the constants Empty and Null
• VBScript manual: added the documentation for the locale constants
• VBScript manual: added the documentation for the error code constants