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

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 an 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 (_-~!@#$%^&()=+,.;'{}[] and space)
• 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: Open SSL 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

IEC104 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

IEC62056 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 MBus 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 MBus 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 an AMiT device
• 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: Open SSL 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

MBus 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

IEC104 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 Communication 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 TIA Portal (the XLSX format) for a Siemens device
• Device Manager: fixed the "List index 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 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, user 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

IEC104 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

MBus 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 Communication 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 by 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

All modules

• added support for the PostgreSQL database system
• custom report viewer: extended saving viewer settings to a user profile
• virtual keyboard: fixed the error that consisted in failing to enter numbers on the numeric keypad after pressing Shift + any key from "0" to "9" on this keypad
• RELI-40409 – managers, object selection dialogs: improved searching by choosing the "Quick Filter" command

Data Tree component

• fixed the error that caused detecting an invalid link to a tag despite the fact that the link to the tag was not enabled
• fixed the error that consisted in automatically sorting the data tree by the specified column, although the "Automatic sorting" property was not active

Grid, Round Bar components

• RELI-40440 – fixed setting some properties on the "Static" page from the component editor (only if the link to the main tag was specified)

Button component

• added the "Set digital tag directly" property

Combo Box component

• RELI-40451 – fixed the text color of a selected item

Edit Box component

• fixed painting the component (component blinking occurred when the component's height was smaller than the size of the edit box)

Reliance Design development environment

• added the "Scroll bars" property for visualization windows (scroll bars can now be displayed within individual visualization windows if the components are placed outside the visible part of the window)
• all managers: fixed generating the name of objects from a CSV file (previously, the names were generated incorrectly if they contained the ";" and CRLF characters)
• Data Structure Manager: added the possibility for a Schneider Modicon device to import data structures from UnityPro and SoMachine – the CSY (XML) format
• Data Structure Manager: added the possibility to import data structures from TIA Portal (the SCL format)
• Data Structure Manager: fixed the import of data structure array elements from the IEC EN 61131-3 format
• Device Manager: added a new device type (Schneider Modicon) and the possibility to import tags from UnityPro and SoMachine
• Device Manager: added a new device type – Cimon
• Device Manager: added automatically incrementing the address of a tag when duplicated
• RELI-40593 – Device Manager: fixed importing tags (previously, tag changes were indicated incorrectly)
• Data Table Manager: added the "Physical field name" column to the detailed view of data table fields
• RELI-6502 – Script Manager: periodic scripts – the repeat interval can now be greater than 23:59:59,999
• Script Manager: condition scripts – the repeat interval can now be greater than 23:59:59,999
• Script Manager: added the RUser.GetUserCode method, which returns the specified user's code
• RELI-40723 – Picture Manager: handled editing a picture via an external editor if a project is encrypted
• Custom Report Manager: fixed importing report properties from a CSV file
• Custom Report Designer: fixed saving the contents of the template loaded by using the "Open Report" command to a custom report template
• Action Manager: added action types: "Change user password", "Select file", and "Select directory"
• Project Structure Manager: redundancy options (properties) for a computer (the "Redundancy" page) – added the possibility to adopt the properties located on the "Screen" page
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Resolution" property for a computer (the "Screen" page)
• Project Structure Manager: properties of a connected data table – enabled setting the "Network" option for the "Connection" property for data tables of type SQL
• Project Structure Manager: added repainting visualization windows after making changes on the "Screen" page
• Project Structure Manager: added the possibility for a Siemens device to specify the "Rack", "Slot", and "TSAP" properties on the "Other" page of the channel properties
• Create New Project Wizard: added a step with the possibility to specify the visualization project resolution
• Replace Object Properties Wizard: Data Tree component – fixed replacing object properties in all columns
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the possibility to adopt the resolution from the corresponding computer in the Project Structure Manager
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the "Check for changes" option, which determines whether, at project startup, to compare the checksum of the files of the running project and the project last exported for remote users (if the checksums differ, a warning will be displayed)
• exporting the project for remote users: scripts (Linux, Mac OS X) for running the Web client now use the ANSI encoding
• Environment Options: added the possibility to constrain the cursor to a script's text

Runtime software

• added support for transferring data tables of type SQL via a server connection
• added the implementation of the RUser.GetUserCode method
• RELI-40673 – report viewer: fixed displaying text strings based on the program language in the summary calculations header
• fixed failure to find the highest bit of a DoubleWord-type tag using the RTag.GetBit method

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• added the "Change Password" command to the main menu
• historical alarms/events: changed the background color of a selected row when the window is inactive
• added adjusting the size of the main window when the screen resolution has changed
• added support for the "Scroll bars" property in visualization windows
• increased the minimum size of windows placed in the main window (this prevents the windows from being extremely decreased)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• data server redundancy: added support for the synchronization of SQL-based data tables
• data server redundancy: secondary server – fixed adopting the project update settings from the primary server
• data server redundancy: secondary server – fixed loading connected users, trends, and reports after a change is made during runtime
• updated the OpenSSL libraries to version 1.0.1h, which fixes security bugs
• added support for a secure connection via HTTPS on Windows 8
• improved the caching of files provided by the server
• added the possibility to change the logged-on user's password
• server Web pages: report viewer – fixed the HTTP 404 error that occurred when opening a report if access rights were used to secure access to the server Web page
• server Web pages: statistics – fixed setting the chart page size
• fixed providing the values of integer-type tags with correction to Reliance OPC Server

Reliance Web Client

• trend viewer: fixed the series order in a trend
• custom trends: added the possibility to save individual trends under a specified name
• access rights of the user logged on to the Web client are now used for opening a page on the server (user logon is not required again)
• RELI-8310 – added the possibility to change the logged-on user's password
• added support for actions of type "Change user password", "Select file", "Select directory"
• RELI-40597 – Options dialog: added a new option named "Log Communications" (it is inactive by default)
• RELI-40716 – fixed activating windows that were not loaded dynamically upon project startup
• Progress Bar component: fixed displaying limits if they were not within the range of the component
• Button component: added support for the "Set digital tag directly" property

Reliance Smart Client

• updated libraries: jQuery 2.1.1, jQueryMobile 1.4.3, Flot 0.8.3, pickadate 3.5.3
• optimized the size and number of downloaded CSS and JS files
• substantially optimized the amount of data transferred when updating a window (only the contents of the changed components are now transferred)
• fixed updating components placed in a window in the Internet Explorer browser
• fixed displaying a Web page in the Chrome browser (the page was not displayed completely)
• fixed displaying a Web page when changing the orientation on iOS in the Safari browser (the page was not displayed completely)
• fixed the error that caused displaying a Web page as a "dialog"
• added the possibility to change the logged-on user's password
• added support for the action of type "Change user password"
• improved the behavior after pressing the Enter key in the filter's edit box
• alarm/event viewers: fixed filtering while the "Automatic update" option is active
• trend viewer: fixed the series order in a trend
• dialog for setting a tag value: added the possibility to restrict the range of the entered value and to warn of out-of-range values
• fixed displaying a Web page when the initial window was of type tray
• eliminated undesired component blinking when being updated
• fixed the position of components when controlled by a tag
• Real-Time Trend component: fixed painting labels on the time axis
• added support for the Gauge component (limits are not supported)
• added support for the Clock component
• Internet Explorer component: avoided repeatedly downloading a Web page if the address was controlled by a tag
• RELI-40627 – Check Box component: fixed setting a tag value (in few cases, it didn't work properly)
• Button component: added support for the "Set digital tag directly" property

Siemens Communication Driver

• fixed writing an array-type tag
• fixed decoding certain float-type values
• fixed the error in communication that caused a temporary connection failure when generating a communication packet longer than 255 bytes

Elgas Communication Driver

• added support for writing values into tags in an Elgas2 device (for these tags, this is enabled in the Telves configuration tool)
• fixed reading historical data from Elcor-94 devices

Modbus Communication Driver

• added the possibility to communicate in the Modbus Slave mode

BACnet Communication Driver

• fixed the error in communication that occurred when using the COV function with its activation interval set to 0

IEC62056 Communication Driver

• fixed the evaluation of the comm. test interval if communication with the device is faster than specified by the interval
• fixed switching the communication speed using the NVT protocol if the "Network (Ethernet)/serial (RS-232, RS-485)" channel type is selected

IEC104 Communication Driver

• handled the situation when there are two devices with the same IP address and a different communication port
• handled the situation when a communication packet (message) is received with no initial character

Cimon Communication Driver

• a new communication driver for Cimon PLCs

SMS Driver

• added removing all characters not contained in the ASCII character set from the text of a message before sending it (this only applies to the 7-bit encoding)

Example projects

• associated a program language with a project language (in all projects)
• VBScript is now used as a scripting language for projects with custom reports

Components with support for blinking

• fixed the "Access Violation" error that sometimes occurred after releasing a window from memory if a global timer was used

Active Picture component

• RELI-40605 – fixed displaying the component when the main tag's value does not correspond to any state and the project was created with a version older than 4.6.2 (the error consisted in displaying the first state's image)

Data Tree component

• fixed the error that caused the unwanted sorting of branches in the tree view
• fixed replacing object properties

Pipe component

• component editor: translated the text string "Out-of-range value" in the English version

Runtime software

• databases in MySQL: fixed saving real numbers (sporadically, the decimal part was removed)
• databases in MySQL: increased the accuracy of real numbers by using a column of type Double

Components with support for blinking

• fixed the "Access Violation" error that sometimes occurred after releasing a window from memory

Simple Time Program component

• fixed copying the settings between individual days

Reliance Design development environment

• managers: fixed the sporadic "Access Violation" error that might occur when closing a manager
• RELI-40588 – Data Structure Manager: import from the ST and XML formats (IEC 61131-3) – fixed the import of data structure array elements (for imported elements, a data structure was not set up)
• Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed saving an SQL query in an ADO Query component (with the class name TfrxADOQuery)
• Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed the error that caused displaying the alarm/event column in Czech after adding an Alarm/Event Table Column Text Object component (with the class name TfrxRAEMemoView) in the English version of the development environment

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• fixed transferring changes made through the User Manager, Trend Manager, or Report Manager to the runtime software on the other computers if the source project location is specified as "Source computer + shared directory name"

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• RELI-40582 – fixed computing the check sum (hash) of project files

All modules

• fixed the text color of a selected item in combo boxes

Edit Box component

• component editor: translated the text string "Require confirmation" in the English version

Runtime software

• fixed the sporadic error that caused not running a project when restarting it using the Reliance Remote Control Center utility
• handled the situation when the "Language" option is active in the Project Structure Manager, but a valid project language is not selected

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• updated the OpenSSL libraries to version 1.0.1g (fixed the so-called Heartbleed bug); generated a new (self-signed) certificate
• server Web pages: fixed the language of the current alarms/events page

Reliance Smart Client

• fixed entering a time value for tags of type DateTime
• fixed selecting a date using a calendar

Siemens Communication Driver

• fixed loading the "TSAP PC" and "TSAP PLC" properties

All modules

• added support for the MySQL and MariaDB database systems
• managers: added the possibility for quick filtering
• selection dialog boxes: added the possibility for quick filtering
• selection dialog boxes: added saving the column sorting settings
• trends, real-time trends: changed the default value of the "Clip Points" property to active (sporadically, the inactive state of the property caused drawing series outside the rectangle delimited by axes, e.g., over the title)
• added support for timers controlling component blinking
• trend property editor: fixed setting the "Position %" property to a value greater than 100 ("Chart > Axis > Position")
• RELI-39985 – multi-state components: revised displaying component states according to the main tag's value

Vector components

• RELI-2046 – added support for blinking

Animation component

• added copying the "Run animation" property when copying the component

Pipe component

• added support for blinking

Equithermal Curve component

• fixed displaying the values of the "Output temperature falloff" and "Falloff operation start and end delay" properties on the "Operation panel" page

Data Tree component

• added the possibility to set the height of the column header

Picture component

• fixed the dynamic loading of SVG pictures from a file and from a Web address (URL)

Edit Box component

• avoided undesirable component blinking in a window template

Internet Explorer component

• altered URL dynamic control – if no address is specified, the "about:blank" address is used

Real-Time Chart component

• fixed selecting tags of type Date, Time, TimeSpan (amount of time), Array of Date, Array of Time, Array of TimeSpan (amount of time) in the "Select Tag" dialog box ("Series > Data > X-value")

Real-Time Trend component

• fixed automatically indenting custom vertical axes

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

• fixed saving component settings to a user profile while loading the design settings (the Load Design Settings command at runtime)

Data Grid component

• fixed the error that caused not changing array element values of tags with an index greater than 255

Axis IP Camera component

• fixed the error EZeroDivide that occurred after loading a window if the mouse cursor was placed over the component

Elgas – Gas Composition component

• a new component for displaying and specifying gas composition

Johnson Controls – Time Program component

• fixed loading a time program from a file

BACnet – Time Program component

• fixed writing a time program into a device

Reliance Design development environment

• managers: added the possibility to synchronize the "Alias" property for some types of objects (tags, recipe items, real-time trend series, data table fields, trend series, recipe items)
• Device Manager: added the possibility for tags to choose a script to be run after changing the value, quality, and time stamp (the "Scripts" page)
• Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: added a new tag kind named "Special internal"
• Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: added a new data type of special internal tags named "Active alarm count in device"
• Device Manager: added the possibility to define tags of type LargeInt (64 b), Array of LargeInt (64 b) in an OPC device
• Device Manager: added the "Log unsuccessful write commands to alarm/event database" property for a tag (the "Advanced" page)
• Device Manager: added the "Add OPC groups to OPC server as inactive" property for an OPC device (OPC groups will be activated only after project startup)
• Device Manager: added the possibility to display integer-type tags in binary format
• Device Manager: added the "S7-200" and "LOGO!" models for a Siemens device
• Device Manager: added the possibility for a Siemens device to import tags from TIA Portal (the XLSX format)
• Device Manager: added special tags named "System date and time", "System status", and individual components of "Gas composition" for an Elgas2 device
• Device Manager: allowed changing the data type and editing the bit number for a data structure field in a Siemens device if the "Field address defined by" property in the Data Structure Manager is set to "Individually"
• Device Manager: added the possibility to define tags of type AI, AO, and BI in a Johnson Controls FX15 device (the "Ref" property)
• Data Structure Manager: added importing data structures for Elgas2 devices from a CSV file
• Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: fixed calculating the address of data structures for Teco and Wago devices if the Time or TimeSpan (amount of time) data type has been used
• Trend Manager, Real-Time Trend Manager: added the possibility to localize the title of vertical axes
• import of tags from an OPC server: added importing array element count for tags of type Array of String
• Project Structure Manager: added the possibility for a computer to select a script to be run after successfully or unsuccessfully sending a text message
• Project Structure Manager: added the possibility for a computer to choose a tag to which GSM signal quality information is to be passed
• Project Structure Manager: added two new options – "230400 bd" and "460800 bd" – to the "Communication (Comm.) speed" property for SMS Driver and a communication channel
• Action Manager: added the "Set tag value in multiple devices" action type
• Action Manager: action of type "www link" – added the possibility to dynamically control a Web address (URL)
• Action Manager: added the "Require confirmation" option on the "Security" page
• Script Manager: added the RSys.GetBit and RTag.GetBit methods that return the current value of a selected bit of a specified tag.
• Script Manager: added the RTag.SetBit and RSys.SetBit methods that set the value of a selected bit of a specified tag.
• Script Manager: added the RTag.DecTagValue method that subtracts a specified value from the value of a numeric-type tag
• Script Manager: added the RTag.IncTagValue method that adds a specified value to the value of a numeric-type tag
• Script Manager: added the RSys.GetProgramLanguage method that returns the active language of the program (runtime software)
• Script Manager: added the RSys.GetProjectLanguage method that returns the active language of the project
• Script Manager: added the "Require confirmation" option on the "Security" page
• Script Manager: fixed aligning controls in the "Outputs" pane after maximizing it
• Script Manager: added VBScripts constants to the "Code Templates" pane
• Script Manager: VBScripts constants are now offered by the editor
• Data Table Manager: improved checking the name of a physical table and the names of the fields in the physical table
• Window Manager: fixed collapsing and expanding a window folder (avoided opening the window selected in the folder)
• Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed the error that occurred when adding a multi-line localizable text string
• Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed the error that caused creating an object of the wrong type by dragging and dropping items from the "Data Tree" panel onto the report design work space
• String Manager: fixed the error that caused disabling the "Edit" command after opening the manager
• String Manager: added the "Multi-line Editor" command to the popup menu
• RELI-40183 – Project Options: fixed changing the default value of the interval of the first timer in the list
• Environment Options: fixed the error that caused incorrectly displaying information on successfully associating file types with the corresponding programs if User Account Control (UAC) is active
• Environment Options: added the "Show version number in title bar" option ("Environment > General") that allows for displaying Reliance's version number at both design-time and runtime
• RELI-8581 – moved the "Import array elements as separate tags" option from Environment Options to Project Options
• Project Diagnostics: improved checking the name of a physical table and the names of the fields in the data table
• Project Diagnostics: fixed searching for a script selected to be run on restoring the communication specified on a communication channel's "Advanced" page (Project Structure Manager)
• Project Diagnostics: fixed drawing text color when multiple lines have been selected
• Project Diagnostics: fixed displaying action property controls
• RELI-39762 – fixed the error that caused not selecting the right localizable text string if the same string had been defined for multiple localizable strings
• RELI-39978 – improved accessing the main window menu from a visualization window if the visualization window is maximized
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: fixed exporting multimedia files with diacritics in their names
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: fixed positioning components in Smart Client if the scroll bars in the visualization window were in a non-zero position when exporting the project
• RELI-40153 – Replace Object Properties Wizard: added the "Show performed replacement count" option

Runtime software

• RELI-8680 – added transferring changes made through the User Manager, Trend Manager, or Report Manager to the runtime software on the other computers (e.g., adding a new user)
• data tables in an SQL database: the "TimeStamp" column set as the primary key
• data tables in an SQL database: added an index on the "TimeStamp2" column
• substantially accelerated loading historical data and alarms/events from an SQL-based database
• fixed calculating the address of data structures for Teco and Wago devices if the Time or TimeSpan (amount of time) data type has been used
• IEC104 devices: added/fixed generating alarms/events linked to internal tags
• sending alarms/events via text and email messages: avoided the multiple sending of a message to a single phone number
• stopped logging some information to an alarm/event database: a message about en error in a script; notifying the user that write operations cannot be performed (e.g., because a tag is not intended for writing)
• added the evaluation of tag quality based on a time stamp even for special tags
• added the implementation of the following methods: RSys.GetBit, RTag.GetBit, RTag.SetBit, RSys.SetBit, RTag.IncTagValue, RTag.DecTagValue, RSys.GetProgramLanguage, and RSys.GetProjectLanguage
• data tables: periodic data reading with a time stamp from a device – avoided the situation when no data from a device is received after sending a request (added resetting the previous request's flag once half of the interval has expired)
• data tables: altered periodic sampling – the first record after project startup can be created only after the expiration of the specified sampling interval
• fixed loading information (after project startup) on the last record in the data table stored in a SQL database
• trend viewer: fixed aligning axes of series via the trend editor
• added support for the Slovenian language

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• fixed handling the action of type "Execute actions" so that it would work even if it is invoked by a keyboard shortcut
• “Note Related to Alarm/Event” dialog: allowed changing the size of the window

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• fixed providing files by the HTTP server (sporadically, the server sent an empty file, which might have caused problems, for example, when running the Web client)
• server Web pages: report viewer – fixed the error that caused a data table record with a time stamp corresponding to the upper limit of a displayed time interval to be shown within the previous interval
• fixed the error of the action of type "Play sound" that caused it to not stop playing a sound
• report viewer: added support for scrolling pages with the mouse wheel
• added logging information on connecting/disconnecting Smart Client
• added the IP address of a thin client to the information on the thin client's user log-on and log-off
• server Web pages: report viewer – fixed the error that caused displaying the wrong time range in the navigation tree view
• server Web pages: improved the help system for the custom application interface of the Web service (added method syntax)

Reliance Web Client

• added support for displaying internal alarms/events
• added support for confirming prior to executing actions and running scripts
• added support for synchronizing the "Alias" property for some types of objects
• added support for displaying a tag value in binary format
• added support for the Simple Time Program component
• added support for the Equithermal Curve component
• Picture component: added support for loading an external picture from a Web address (URL)
• Line component: added support for displaying different line styles
• vector components, Pipe component: added support for blinking
• Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart components, trend viewers: fixed displaying the stair-like shape of the curve (the "Stairs" property)
• Button component: fixed the error that caused the momentary button to stay pushed in upon quickly pressing and releasing the mouse button
• trend viewers: a tag value in the legend is displayed with respect to hexadecimal format of the tag
• trend viewers: fixed displaying some duplicate data in a trend (which affected the appearance of a bar trend)
• avoided blinking a tag value, which sporadically happened after writing a new value into a physical tag
• fixed the error that consisted in removing a line break when writing a note related to an alarm/event
• fixed executing actions invoked by pressing a key
• added support for the Slovenian language

Reliance Smart Client

• updated libraries: jQuery 2.1, jQueryMobile 1.4.2, Flot 0.8.2, pickadate 3.3.2
• added options for displaying the Web page ("Responsive", or "Desktop")
• added support for displaying internal alarms/events
• added support for confirming prior to executing actions and running scripts
• added support for displaying a tag value in binary format
• fixed the error that might have caused a component's text to be displayed outside the component area
• improved the behavior when the project graphical resolution is higher than the browser resolution (the visualization can be scrolled)
• added support for selecting a date using a calendar
• added support for actions of type "www link" with a tag-controlled Web address (URL)
• added support for the BACnet – Time Program component
• Picture component: added support for loading an external picture from a Web address (URL)
• Edit Box component: added support for entering values (so far, the component has only displayed a tag value)
• Text component: added support for the vertical alignment of text
• Active Text component: added support for the vertical alignment of text
• Teco – Time Program component: fixed writing data from an on/off (two-state) time program
• button-type components: fixed displaying multi-line (word-wrapped) text
• vector components, Pipe component: fixed the sporadic error that caused the components to be positioned incorrectly
• Internet Explorer component: fixed navigating if the Web address (URL) has changed into an empty string
• Display component: fixed foreground and background colors when exceeding or falling below the limit
• Progress Bar component: fixed displaying vertically
• components displaying text: fixed displaying the font whose name contains the at sign (e.g., @Arial Unicode MS)
• fixed the caching of JS and CSS files by the browser
• fixed the sporadic error that caused alarms/events from other configurations to be displayed
• fixed the sporadic error that caused details on the wrong alarm/event to be displayed
• trend viewer: handled the error that caused a trend to be displayed twice on Android 4.1 (it is an Android bug)

Reliance Mobile Client

• added support for displaying internal alarms/events
• added support for confirming prior to executing actions and running scripts
• vector components, Pipe component: added support for blinking

Communication drivers

• fixed checking the maximum time period for a dial-up connection
• fixed repeatedly dialing up a device
• added a time delay after changing communication parameters via an NVT command
• handled the situation when a communication port failed to open while changing communication channel parameters via an NVT command

Elgas Communication Driver

• added the reading of an Elgas2 device's daily archive
• added time synchronization
• fixed decoding an address during communication in the server mode
• fixed changing the quality of a special physical tag of type Gas composition to good once the connection with an Elgas2 device is interrupted and reestablished

Modbus Communication Driver

• fixed the error that occurred while reading more than one tag via a single communication packet from the extended memory
• fixed exchanging (swapping) the byte order for the "Inteli Drive DCU" and "FlowX" models when writing data into a tag of type String
• RELI-40243 – fixed reading Coils and Inputs through a communication zone that must be 8 bits longer than it is necessary for proper reading

MBus Communication Driver

• fixed decoding a 3-byte integer

AMiT Communication Driver

• fixed writing a digital-type tag that lies within the sign bit of a substitution tag

Siemens Communication Driver

• added support for the "S7-200" and "LOGO!" models
• avoided exceeding the maximum length of a communication packet (255 bytes)
• fixed writing tags of type Integer and LongInt

Promos Communication Driver

• fixed updating a tag after writing data

BACnet Communication Driver

• fixed decoding data
• fixed the error that occurred while decoding a tag with the weekly-schedule or priority-array property identifier
• fixed decoding a tag of type Float

SMS Driver

• added the possibility to pass GSM signal quality information to a tag defined within the visualization project
• added support for running scripts after successfully or unsuccessfully sending a text message

Utilities

• RDT File Editor: added support for selecting multiple lines
• Project Converter: inactivated the property for enabling linking components to other objects (e.g., popup menu) if no object is selected

Example projects

• added the following projects: LogDataToMySQL, IEC104, Modbus, CustomReport_GasReport, CustomReport_ProductionLine, FTP, WindowTypes
• renamed the project OPC_EmbeddedServer to OPC_RemoteServer

All modules

• fixed automatically activating a time-limited license stored in the software key
• RELI-39306, RELI-4969, RELI-39147 – added support for the following new data types: Date, Time, TimeSpan (amount of time), Array of Date, Array of Time, Array of TimeSpan (amount of time)

All components

• fixed saving component settings to a user profile while terminating the project
• added logging information about failure to read/write component settings from/to a user profile

Vector components

• RELI-39495 – fixed the error that caused the component's width and height to be decreased by 1 pixel

Display component

• added the "Require confirmation" property that applies to entering a new value for the main tag

Button component

• added the "Require confirmation" property that applies to entering a new value for the main tag
• fixed the vertical centering of word-wrapped text
• avoided showing a hand-shaped cursor (pointer) over the component when it is disabled

Text, Active Text components

• added the possibility to specify the vertical alignment of text

Check Box component

• component editor: added the possibility to select text strings for queries shown before setting the value of the main tag

Equithermal Curve component

• fixed the error that occurred after writing data if the window containing the component was freed from memory before the time determined by the "Update timeout" property elapsed
• fixed the error that caused the curve line width to grow after the window was freed from memory if data changes had not been saved

Data Grid component

• set the right column header style
• fixed the "Restore Defaults" command so that it would also restore the order of columns

Media Player component

• added a new player type – "VLC media player"
• RELI-1828 – added the possibility to control the name of the file to be played by a tag
• fixed loading visualization windows containing this component if Windows Media Player is not installed on the computer

Data Tree component

• fixed saving column size and order to a user profile
• fixed executing double-click actions for cells not linked to a tag
• fixed updating data in cells
• fixed the "Restore Defaults" command so that it would also restore the order of columns

Progress Bar component

• RELI-39575 – fixed detecting the bad quality (invalid value) of the main tag's dynamic limits

Picture component

• added the possibility to load the picture from a Web address (URL)

Combo Box component

• RELI-3925, RELI-39484 – fixed text color at runtime (if it was different from the default color)
• fixed showing the default query before setting the value

Container component

• RELI-39425 – trend: fixed setting the time axis range so that the trend would display the latest data (sporadically, the range wasn't correctly updated after loading the trend settings from a user profile and the trend displayed old data)

Johnson Controls – Time Program, Johnson Controls – Holiday Program, Sauter – Time Program, Sauter – Holiday Program, BACnet – Time Program, Teco – IRC components

• fixed securing the components by access rights

BACnet – Time Program component

• added the possibility to add a new event by double-clicking a blank cell
• fixed the appearance of the editor, the editor is no longer resizable

Sauter – Time Program, Sauter – Holiday Program components

• added a query before writing data to a device

Reliance Design development environment

• managers: added displaying objects imported with an error in a different color than other imported objects
• Device Manager: added replacing links to tags when duplicating a device (e.g., replacing dynamic limits of tags, alarm inhibitor tag)
• Device Manager: added replacing links to tags when copying objects (tags, communication zones, alarms/events) from one device and pasting them into another (e.g., replacing dynamic limits of tags, alarm inhibitor tag)
• Device Manager: added the "Show milliseconds" property for a tag (the "Advanced" page)
• Device Manager: export/import of tags to/from the CSV format – added the "Tag data type" property (for an IEC104 device) and the "Allow reading" and "Allow writing" properties (for all device types)
• RELI-2193 – Device Manager: disabled the "OPC ItemID" property for structured tags in an OPC device if it's not used
• Device Manager: added a new device type – Siemens ˜– for Siemens PLCs (SIMATIC S7-300, S7-400, and S7-1200)
• Device Manager: added a new device type – IEC62056 – for telemetry systems that support the IEC 62056-21 communication protocol (standard)
• Device Manager: added the "Reset message counters when data transfer interrupts" property for an IEC104 device
• fixed exporting/importing some properties of an IEC104 device to/from the CSV format
• Device Manager: added the "Flow-X" model for a Modbus device; adjusted communication to this model, beyond the Modbus standard
• RELI-39305 – Device Manager: fixed saving the order of bottom list view columns when closing the manager
• Device Manager: added the possibility to import tags to an Elgas2 device from a CSV file generated by the Telves configuration tool
• Data Structure Manager: added the possibility to define data structures for a Siemens device
• Data Structure Manager: altered importing data structures from the ST IEC6113-3 format so that the following information would be ignored: directives enclosed in braces – {}, program code beginning with the BEGIN directive, and declaration of local structured variables in the VAR_TEMP section
• Communication Driver Manager: added the "Interval between reception and transmission", "Maximum communication error count", and "Communication error count before reset comm. channel" properties for the BACnet driver
• Data Table Manager: added the "Max. time difference" for a data table that is related to reading time-stamped data from a device (the "Basic" page)
• Trend Manager, Real-Time Trend Manager: fixed the series color when importing series from the CSV format
• Trend Manager: added a new trend type named "Area"
• Real-Time Trend Manager: added the possibility to control the vertical axis range (scale) by a tag
• Real-Time Trend Manager: added automatically activating the "Stairs" property for series linked to a digital tag, which results in the stair-like shape of the curve
• Script Manager: added the "Go to Line Number" command
• String Manager: fixed the resizing of the rightmost column
• RELI-39324 – Window Manager: fixed renaming a window when only letter case changed
• Action Manager: added action types: "Connect", "Disconnect", "Show options", "Custom trend"
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Screen" page for a computer
• RELI-2768 – Project Structure Manager: added new properties for setting up the main window's position and size for a computer (the "Screen" page)
• Project Structure Manager: added new properties for setting up the display on multiple monitors (the "Screen" page)
• Project Structure Manager: changed the default value of the "Show window border" property of a computer (now inactive by default)
• Project Structure Manager: enabled the "Online" property for connected devices of type OPC, DDE, Generic, M-Bus, and M-Bus Sensonic Plus
• Project Structure Manager: outgoing E-mail configuration (the "E-mail" page) – added the possibility to send a test message in order to check if the settings are correct
• Project Structure Manager: communication channel properties – changed enabling/disabling controls based on the "Accept connections in server mode only" property
• Project Structure Manager: communication channel properties – enabled the "Advanced" page for a connected Inmat device
• Backup Project Wizard: added the possibility to preset the E-mail address of the project backup recipient
• Backup Project Wizard: fixed overwriting an existing backup file
• Restore Project from Backup Wizard: fixed displaying the path to files being restored
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the possibility to show/hide selected configurations on the Web page
• Custom Report Designer: fixed showing the help (previously, it was shown in the background – behind the development environment)
• Project Diagnostics: added the possibility to detect objects that are not connected to any computer via the Project Structure Manager
• RELI-39407 – Project Diagnostics: added the "Disallow Use at Runtime" command to the popup menu in the "Diagnostics Results" window
• finding object usages: Active Text component – fixed the description of the object of type String
• Project Options: added refreshing the edited item name in the list of items (e.g., SQL connections, Alarm/event groups)
• Project Options: added the possibility to define timers
• Environment Options: fixed associating files types with Reliance utilities
• added the "Create Window Template" and "Replace Object Properties" commands to the Edit menu (previously, they were only available in the popup menu of a design window and could not be assigned a shortcut)
• altered switching between windows by using the "Window > Next" and "Window > Previous" commands – now only open (visible) windows are switched

Runtime software

• tags in offline devices are no longer loaded by communication drivers – if the "Save last value" property of a tag is active, the value is not lost when the project is restarted (previously, when the project was restarted, the last value was overwritten by a zero/empty value retrieved from the driver)
• databases in Microsoft SQL Server: added setting the AutoClose option to Off (False) after creating a database or before writing data to a database for the first time (this substantially speeds up connecting to the database)
• databases in Microsoft SQL Server: changed the default timeout values – SQL Server connection timeout = 30 s (previously 15 s), command timeout = 600 s (previously 30 s)
• custom reports: Alarm/Event Table Column Text Object (with the class name TfrxRAEMemoView) – fixed displaying localizable strings based on the project and program language
• custom reports: fixed the error that caused the "RDT Table" object to not include the last record of the physical table
• added logging project update progress

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• report viewer: fixed the error that might have occurred after closing the viewer if the user canceled generating a report preview including summary calculations
• added logging information about failure to read/write component settings from/to a user profile
• report viewer: fixed handling the error that can occur when saving the settings to a user profile (previously, the viewer could not be closed when an error occurred)
• report viewer: fixed restoring the default summary calculations settings after user log-off
• report viewer: fixed displaying text strings based on the current program language in summary calculation results
• added automatically showing scroll bars if the project's graphical resolution is bigger than the size of the main window of the runtime software
• trend viewer: added the possibility to display a cross instead of the ruler (the "Ruler/Cross" option)
• allowed starting the project through a shortcut if it is already running as a service (in Reliance Server)
• improved the list of recent projects (also updated if a project is run from Reliance Design)
• fixed the display of the system menu and icons in the title bar if the main window has hidden borders
• added enabling/disabling the "Server Web Page" command based on the logged-on user
• fixed handling the action of type "Close dialog window" so that it would work even if it is invoked by a keyboard shortcut

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• fixed checking the thin client session expiration time when processing a request took longer than the session timeout
• server Web pages: report viewer, custom report viewer – fixed the Web page language
• server Web pages: report viewer – fixed generating the time range displayed in the navigation tree view
• server Web pages: optimized hard disk access count (Web page templates are now loaded into memory)
• server Web pages: enlarged the font to improve readability
• added logging the name of the user that logged on (previously, the user name was missing in the log message)
• commands received from thin clients: added the thin client IP address to the message about setting the value of a tag

Reliance Web Client

• program files are now signed with a certificate from a trusted certification authority (Thawte)
• handled the position of the main window after startup so that it wouldn't be outside the screen area
• added support for new action types: "Connect", "Disconnect", "Show options", "Custom trend"
• fixed handling the action of type "Close dialog window" so that it would work even if it is invoked by a keyboard shortcut
• added a command for displaying a custom trend (the possibility to select data table fields to be displayed)
• trend viewer: added support for a separate vertical axis for each series
• trend viewer, Real-Time Trend component: added automatically activating the "Stairs" property for series linked to a digital tag, which results in the stair-like shape of the curve
• Display, Button components: added support for the "Require confirmation" property that applies to entering a new value for the main tag
• Container component: trend – fixed the sporadic error that caused data not to be displayed if there were multiple Container components used for embedding a trend
• Notepad component: fixed enabling/disabling entering text and toolbar actions
• added support for the Pelco IP Camera component
• added saving the position and size of the object selection dialog
• added sharing the settings of a trend among the trend viewer and Container components
• fixed activating a window configured to be placed in a specified position
• fixed activating a window if there are already many windows loaded in memory
• fixed displaying reports/custom reports when a thin client builds an invalid URL
• fixed playing alarm/event sounds on some computers
• components: avoided showing a hint when it is disabled
• fixed the display of text strings in the user interface if the program language is set to Turkish
• fixed the caching (provided by Java Plugin) of Web client program files

Reliance Smart Client

• updated libraries: jQueryMobile 1.3.2, jQueryMobile DateBox 1.3.0
• changed the main menu to a popup window (displaying the menu does not require reloading the page)
• substantially optimized the number of downloaded pictures
• added the preloading of pictures (when a picture is to be displayed, it is available immediately)
• added the "Previous" and "Next" commands to the toolbar
• alarm/event viewers, trend viewer: added saving the settings
• trend viewer: fixed the time stamp displayed based on the ruler position
• trend viewer, Real-Time Trend component: added automatically activating the "Stairs" property for series linked to a digital tag, which results in the stair-like shape of the curve
• all components: added support for performing multiple operations on a mouse click (e.g., activating a window, executing an action, and running a script)
• all components: fixed handling mouse events that occurred over multiple overlapping components
• all components: added support for the taphold event (tapping and holding for a longer time) – it brings up a context menu
• Check Box, Combo Box components: added support for showing a query before setting the value of the main tag
• Display, Button components: added support for the "Require confirmation" property that applies to entering a new value for the main tag
• button-type components: fixed the display of the button in the disabled state
• Animation component: fixed the error that resulted in sending a lot of requests to the server
• Combo Box component: fixed setting the value of the main tag
• Edit Box component: fixed the position of the component when the label is hidden
• Internet Explorer component: the referenced Web page is now embedded into the window's page
• added support for the Pelco IP Camera component
• added checking bounds when entering a new value for a tag (the value must be within the bounds)
• fixed dynamic visibility for components in a window template
• fixed the error that consisted in not returning to the previous page after entering a new value for a structured tag
• fixed running a script/showing a popup menu when clicking the window
• fixed the error that caused not displaying some components' pictures in tray windows
• fixed the error that caused not displaying the Smart Client page if the initial window was secured by access rights

Reliance Mobile Client

• Display, Button components: added support for the "Require confirmation" property that applies to entering a new value for the main tag

Communication drivers

• added logging information to separate files during communication over UDP while using the same transmission port but different reception ports for multiple communication channels
• fixed the error that occurred as a result of repeatedly loading a project in the communication driver without ending the driver each time the project terminated
• fixed automatically switching over to a secondary (backup) channel (except for the Teco and IEC104 drivers)
• fixed the detection of a communication error on a secondary (backup) channel
• Teco, Modbus, Wago: added support for the following new data types: Date, Time, TimeSpan (amount of time), Array of Date, Array of Time, Array of TimeSpan (amount of time)
• fixed the error that might have occurred during driver termination after terminating a project containing a communication channel of type Dial-up (modem)
• RELI-39326 – a tag is updated even when a write request is waiting in the request queue
• fixed repeatedly sending a command (writing a tag) after establishing a connection to a device (except for the QMD driver) – this only happened if the connection to the device was controlled by a tag and if the write request was received when the connection was not established

Elgas Communication Driver

• fixed reading the current value of the CounterBase converted volume (it is not multiplied by Digit)
• added more detailed logging of reading the parameters

IEC104 Communication Driver

• fixed decoding received data during communication over TCP if the data comes divided into multiple packets (messages)
• fixed working with the "Maximum unacknowledged I-frame count" and "Received I-frame acknowledgment timeout (T2)" properties
• added deleting counters when the device closes the connection
• altered the processing of received data so that the driver would accept time-stamped data even for tags having a non-time-stamped type identifier and vice versa
• the value of tags having a read type identifier of M_ME_NA_1, M_ME_TD_1, M_ME_ND_1 and write type identifier of C_SE_NA_1, P_ME_NA_1 is now converted to the Float data type in the range -1..+1
• fixed decoding the value for digital tags – only the zeroth bit (SPI), which contains the information, is used
• RELI-39367 – avoided repeating commands (writing a tag)
• RELI-39356 – fixed writing a tag when using the qualifier (whether the qualifier is used or not depends on the type identifier for writing)
• fixed writing a tag with a normalized value
• RWE model: fixed passing a tag's qualifier when calling the Update function
• fixed updating received data even if receiving a type identifier intended for writing

Modbus Communication Driver

• fixed the memory error that occurred when updating (reading) a tag of type Array of Word or Array of DoubleWord with an odd number of elements and the device's "Swap words" property was active
• fixed the error that occurred when loading a project containing a tag of type Array of LargeInt
• added the "Flow-X" model; adjusted communication to this model, beyond the Modbus standard

Siemens Communication Driver

• a new communication driver for Siemens PLCs (SIMATIC S7-300, S7-400, and S7-1200)

IEC62056 Communication Driver

• a new communication driver for telemetry systems that support the IEC 62056-21 communication protocol (standard)

Generic Communication Driver

• fixed the error that occurred when loading a project not containing a tag of type Input buffer

BACnet Communication Driver

• added handling the "Interval between reception and transmission", "Maximum communication error count", and "Communication error count before reset comm. channel" properties

Teco Communication Driver

• added a priority update of an array-type tag after writing an array element

Utilities

• R_DTWriter utility: fixed reading command line parameters passed to the program

Installation program

• added hardware key driver setup files and the "HASP Key Driver Setup" shortcut in the Start menu (in the Reliance 4\Tools folder)

All modules

• added support for pictures in the SVG format

All components

• added showing a hand-shaped cursor (pointer) over all components that respond to a mouse click

Level Fill Picture component

• fixed handling pictures in the WMF and EMF formats

Button-type components

• graphical button: added the "Layout" property – added the possibility to change the way of displaying the state pictures if the picture and component sizes differ

Container component

• added copying some properties when duplicating the component
• added the possibility to embed a control that displays an online packet list for a selected communication channel (the "Embedded object" property = "Communication channel")

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

• added the "Print Trend" (or "Print Chart") command to the component's popup menu

Real-Time Trend component

• fixed adjusting the vertical axis range (scale)

Real-Time Chart component

• component editor: extended the set of tag data types (that can be used to define series points) by the DateTime and Array of DateTime types

Data Grid component

• added the possibility to execute actions and run scripts
• component editor: added the possibility to add multiple columns at a time
• added the possibility to display a popup menu when the component is clicked

Data Tree component

• added a new cell type named "Progress bar"
• added the "Enable setting value" property for a cell
• renamed the "Execute action" command to a more descriptive name (action type name)
• cell of type Display: changed the way of painting a transparent background
• fixed pasting a node (previously, it was allowed to paste a node only once)
• fixed sorting by text when the "Use cell alias or name" property of a node was active and the alias was not specified

Axis IP Camera, Vivotek IP Camera components

• added the possibility to control the directory (path) for saving video files by a tag

Axis IP Camera component

• fixed recording video when the media type was set to mjpeg

Johnson Controls – Time Program component

• fixed closing the editor dialog by the OK button

Sauter – Time Program component

• runtime editor dialog: fixed displaying the toolbar on Windows XP

Sauter – Holiday Program component

• runtime editor dialog: fixed displaying the toolbar on Windows XP
• runtime editor dialog: fixed the progress bar position
• runtime editor dialog: fixed painting the focused column

Vector components

• fixed the background color when painting certain fill styles, e.g., grid (previously, the background was always black)

Reliance Design development environment

• added a warning that displays if the project being opened has been saved/modified with a later version of the development environment
• RELI-8710 – in certain dialog windows, set the default button for confirming or closing the window using the keyboard
• managers: added displaying newly imported objects in a different color than the other imported objects
• RELI-38970 – managers: import from the CSV format – fixed importing text strings associated with imported objects (previously, the same string might have been added if the default language was not the first language in the list)
• Action Manager: added the "Minimize main window" action type
• Action Manager: added the "Execute actions" action type
• Action Manager: improved the GUI for action type selection
• Action Manager: added the "Generate Name" command that renames the selected action(s) based on its (their) properties
• RELI-8860 – String Manager: fixed finding strings
• Device Manager: added the "Generate Name" command that renames the selected alarm/event(s) based on its (their) properties
• Trend Manager, Real-Time Trend Manager: added automatically generating a unique color for a newly added series
• Trend Manager, Real-Time Trend Manager, Report Manager, Data Structure Manager: improved displaying series/item order
• RELI-8652 – Report Manager: added the "Word wrap" property for a report item (the "Title" page)
• Communication Driver Manager: added the "Maximum packet count for writing into one device" property – the default value is 1000; value of 0 – the feature is not active
• Communication Driver Manager: added the "Number of days for which log files are kept on disk" and "Maximum log file size" properties
• Device Manager: added the possibility to define tags of type WideString (UCS-2), Array of WideString (UCS-2) in an OPC device
• Device Manager: added the possibility to import tags into an AMiT device from an ini file (DB.ini, SW.ini)
• Device Manager: added automatically generating a unique address (WID) for tags of type other than Bool in an AMiT device
• Device Manager: added checking the address (WID) to be unique for tags of type other than Bool in an AMiT device
• Device Manager: added checking the address of tags in a Wago device
• Device Manager: added automatically deactivating the "Allow writing" option for tags in a Wago device when "Register type" is changed to "%Q"; the same logic is applied when importing tags
• Device Manager: added the "Elster Instromet" and "Pemit Datalogger" models for a Modbus device
• Device Manager: added the "Daniel 2350" model for a Modbus device; in this model, a tag is always counted as a single element, i.e., also Float and LongWord
• Device Manager: added the "Itron Cyble" model for an MBus device
• Device Manager: fixed updating the drop-down list of the "Quantity (VIFE1)" property of tags in an MBus device after opening the manager
• Data Structure Manager: import from the ST format – handled the situation when the data type definition is not ended with the END_TYPE directive (in that case, the program ends importing type definitions when it encounters the VAR_GLOBAL directive)
• Data Table Manager: changed the default archive file type for data tables to "Daily"
• Script Manager: added the RSys.SetMonitorPower method, which sets the state of the monitor (display)
• Script Manager: added the RSys.GetUTCDateTime method, which returns the current system date and time (expressed in UTC)
• Script Manager: added the RSys.IsPrimaryServer method, which determines whether the computer on which the project is running is configured in the project as the primary server (when using redundancy)
• Script Manager: added the RSys.IsSecondaryServer method, which determines whether the computer on which the project is running is configured in the project as the secondary server (when using redundancy)
• Script Manager: added the RSys.IsActiveServer method, which determines whether the computer on which the project is running currently has the active role (when using redundancy)
• Project Structure Manager: allowed editing the number of data bits and stop bits of a communication channel of type Serial (COM port) also for device types other than Generic
• Project Structure Manager: added the redundancy options (properties) for a computer (the "Redundancy" page)
• Project Structure Manager: stopped disabling the "Comm. timeout" property of a Generic device's communication channel of type Network (Ethernet) (the property value is now considered)
• RELI-8133 – Project Structure Manager: added the "Log alarm/event text" property for a computer (the "Alarms/Events" page)
• Project Structure Manager, User Manager: added the "Disable Postmort Record Player" property for a computer and a user (the "Restrictions" page)
• Project Diagnostics: fixed checking a DDE device's communication channel properties
• Project Diagnostics: added checking window templates for circular references
• RELI-7991 – Project Diagnostics: altered (made more specific) the error description if detecting missing nested tags or invalid links to data structure fields
• RELI-4021, RELI-8116 – Project Diagnostics: added the possibility to bulk delete unused objects
• Project Options: changed the default archive file type for the alarm/event database to daily (Alarms/Events | Database | File-based)
• Project Options: added the possibility to explicitly enable/disable the custom application interface of the Web service (Web)
• Environment Options: added the possibility to restore the default position and size of tool windows (Window Layout)
• Environment Options: added the possibility to associate file types with the corresponding programs even if User Account Control (UAC) is active
• design window: fixed the error that could cause the loss of information when opening a project with a version earlier than the one the window was saved with
• design window: added guidelines for aligning components by the center
• design window: fixed the "Select All (Ctrl+A)" command (previously, it also selected components located on hidden layers)
• RELI-8681 – design window: fixed UTF-8 encoding/decoding when loading a window
• design window: fixed setting the window title after importing a window
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added checking the data server address before running the Web client upon the completion of the export for remote users
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the "Enable concurrent user logon" option
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the possibility to control enabling sending commands to devices from thin clients by a tag
• Export for Remote Users Wizard, Project Options: changed the GUI for selecting the screen resolution
• "Project" > "Register As Service" command: added dependence on the Reliance 4 Driver Server service
• "Tools" menu: added the "Open Log File Folder" command

Runtime software

• added the possibility to execute an action after running a project (after project startup)
• added the implementation of the following methods: RSys.SetMonitorPower, RSys.GetUTCDateTime, RSys.IsPrimaryServer, RSys.IsSecondaryServer, and RSys.IsActiveServer
• added performing an analog/digital value correction (if it is active for a tag) before processing historical data received from a (native) communication driver
• IEC104 devices: added generating alarms/events linked to tags that are not time-stamped

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• Project Manager: fixed folders shown only under the current computer
• historical alarms/events: added the possibility to automatically update the content (the "Auto-Update" option on the toolbar)
• alarm/event viewers: added the possibility to display the "Note Related to Alarm/Event" field in a separate column
• RELI-8486 – fixed blocking the Windows Start menu (if the "Disable Start menu" option is active) on 64-bit Windows
• added checking the fixed size of the main window specified in the project's main file (if the height/width exceeds the current screen resolution, it is decreased respectively)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• added support for redundancy (limitation: currently, the program cannot replicate/synchronize data tables stored in an SQL database)
• added stopping the Web server when the project is terminated
• added logging information about user log-on and log-off from a thin client
• server Web pages: statistics – added regular saving to hard disk
• server Web pages: statistics – added a new chart displaying the history of hard disk free space
• server Web pages: devices and tags – added displaying tags nested in structured tags
• server Web pages: report viewer – fixed the display in the English version (colors and fonts in the header and navigation tree-view)
• server Web pages: report viewer – added the possibility to export a report to the following formats: HTML, CSV, PDF, XLS, XLSX, and XML
• server Web pages: report viewer – fixed considering locale settings when a report is opened from the Web client

Reliance Web Client

• added support for associating a program language with a project language
• added disabling printing based on security restrictions
• historical alarms/events: fixed sporadic displaying duplicate alarms/events
• alarm/event viewers: fixed formatting the tag value nested in alarm/event text (previously, the decimal part was not displayed)
• alarm/event viewers: by default, alarms/events are now sorted by Start Date/Time
• trend viewer: added the possibility to choose chart page size units (hours, days)
• trend viewer: fixed the error that consisted in displaying a blank chart (the problem might have occurred when quickly switching between trends)
• trend viewer: fixed disabling customizing a trend based on security restrictions
• added support for the "Minimize main window" action type
• added support for the "Execute actions" action type
• added showing a title bar in visualization windows (if enabled)
• main window: added information about (possible) failure to connect to the data server
• added support for pictures in the SVG format
• RELI-39225 – all components: fixed painting text using symbol fonts (Wingdings, Webdings, etc.)
• button-type components: graphical button – added the possibility to change the way of displaying the state pictures if the picture and component sizes differ
• Data Tree component: added support for the "Enable setting value" property of a cell
• Data Tree component: fixed the sporadic error that consisted in not updating the values in cells of type Display
• Data Tree component: fixed the error that consisted in not allowing the user to set/enter tag values if editing the tree structure was not enabled
• Data Tree component: fixed considering the "Allow changing sorting" property (previously, it was ignored)
• Data Tree component: fixed the error that consisted in wrong sorting if cells of type Display contained the value of a string-type tag
• Data Tree component: added support for the "Progress bar" cell type
• Data Tree component: added support for setting tag values through cells of type Active text, Active picture, and Progress bar
• Data Tree component: renamed the "Execute action" command to a more descriptive name (action type name)
• Data Tree, Data Grid components: eliminated undesired component blinking after opening its parent window
• Data Tree, Data Grid components: fixed setting the selected row controlled by a tag if the row index was greater than the row count
• Data Tree, Data Grid components: fixed painting the header
• Data Tree, Data Grid components: fixed aligning text in the header
• Data Tree, Data Grid components: added a popup menu command for restoring the default size of columns
• Data Grid component: added the possibility to execute actions, run scripts, and display a popup menu
• Data Grid component: added support for controlling the selected column by a tag
• Data Grid component: added support for multi-line (word-wrapped) text
• Data Grid component: fixed the background color in places where there are no cells
• Popup Menu component: fixed the error that consisted in showing separators that were not defined at design time
• Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart components: added support for printing
• Real-Time Trend component: fixed the error that consisted in ignoring the vertical axis settings from the Real-Time Trend Manager
• Real-Time Trend component: fixed the series order so that it would correspond to the order defined through the Real-Time Trend Manager
• Real-Time Chart component: fixed displaying series of type Area
• Real-Time Chart component: fixed displaying time stamps on the horizontal axis
• Edit Box component: added checking bounds when entering a tag value
• Notepad component: fixed saving data if the component is configured to save data to a selected file
• Notepad component: avoided keeping the file locked if the component is configured to save data to a selected file
• vector components: fixed painting lines using different styles
• Options dialog: added the option that affects the distance of a historical trend axis from the edges
• select object dialog: handled the situation when the sorting of objects was changed during the selection
• fixed the error that might (under certain conditions) block using the Web client when a modal window was displayed in combination with a stay-on-top window
• fixed saving the main window position when the program terminates (previously, the position was not saved if the main window's title bar was hidden)
• fixed the error that consisted in not allowing the user to enter a value for a tag of type DateTime using the keyboard
• fixed handling the "Disconnect" command when the connection to the server is not established
• added repainting the virtual keyboard after pressing the Shift key
• the virtual keyboard is now automatically displayed only with windows in which user input (e.g., entering a value) is expected
• added Turkish as a program language
• the Web client now considers the "Automatically check for new version of Reliance 4" option

Reliance Smart Client

• updated libraries: jQuery 1.9.1, jQueryMobile 1.3.1, Flot 0.8.1
• current alarms/events: now updated automatically (without needing to refresh the page)
• current alarms/events: added the possibility to quickly filter the content by device
• added a historical alarm/event viewer
• alarm/event viewers: added indicating alarm/event status by the background color
• trend viewer: fixed the time zone of time stamps on the horizontal axis
• trend viewer: fixed displaying the title (previously, alias or name was displayed)
• added support for associating a program language with a project language
• added support for pictures in the SVG format
• added showing a title bar in visualization windows (if enabled)
• Display component: fixed the background color if the component was configured to indicate exceeding/falling below limits but the main tag had no limits defined
• button-type components: graphical button – added the possibility to change the way of displaying the state pictures if the picture and component sizes differ
• Button component: fixed considering the "Write const. value" property (previously, the "Enter Value for Tag" dialog was shown)
• added support for the Container component
• RELI-8326 – fixed displaying text that begins with a single space
• fixed zooming using gestures under certain conditions
• fixed the error that caused some components to "disappear" after switching the project language
• optimized the size of HTTP requests sent to the server
• optimized the number of HTTP requests sent to the server

Reliance OPC Server

• fixed the wrong behavior that occurred when using data structures

Communication drivers

• added checking the maximum packet count for writing (after reaching the maximum count, further write operations are not performed; information about this situation is included in the packet list in the Project Structure Manager and in the log file)
• fixed the communication error on a secondary (backup) channel (the error introduced in version 4.5.2)
• the number of stop bits is no longer set automatically based on parity – the setting configured through the Project Structure Manager is now considered
• fixed the false message about the version of the communication driver and the runtime software being different
• added driver version information to log files
• fixed server mode communication
• fixed sporadic "freezing" the program that might occur when disconnecting the runtime software from the driver while terminating the project (as a result, the runtime software also appeared "frozen" and did not end)
• M-Bus: fixed updating the tags whose values are not contained in the first response to the REQ_UD2 request
• M-Bus: Itron Cyble model – altered decoding data if it contains wrong values
• M-Bus: Enbra Supercal 531 model – added a time delay (equal to communication timeout) between sending the "wake up" and "connect" packets
• M-Bus: Enbra531 model – added reinitializing the connection to the device after receiving the wrong data
• M-Bus: when the driver receives a packet, it now identifies the source device also by IP address if the communication channel type is Network (Ethernet)/Serial (RS-232, RS-485)
• M-Bus: added periodically initializing the connection using the SND_NKE command if there are any data requests; the initialization is performed at intervals determined by the "Comm. test interval" property
• Sauter: fixed the communication error that might have occurred when multiple writes were performed during a short time
• BACnet: added reading data using the COV function (COV = Change of Value)
• BACnet: added the possibility to define bit-array tags (StatusFlags, AckedTransitions, ...) as Bool or Byte
• Modbus: when writing data through the "Force Multiple Coils" function, the driver now writes up to 8 bits at a time if their addresses are contiguous
• Modbus: Wago device – fixed reading/writing tags located in the upper byte of a Modbus address
• Modbus: added support for the "Elster Instromet" and "Pemit Datalogger" models
• Modbus: added support for the "Daniel 2350" model; in this model, a tag is always counted as a single element, i.e., also Float and LongWord
• AMiT: improved generating the initialization string – handled the situation when the tag name contains an illegal character
• Johnson Controls: fixed error code description
• Johnson Controls: DX9100 model – fixed reading/writing time programs
• Johnson Controls: fixed reading data from the addresses 13–18
• Johnson Controls: when the driver receives a packet, it now identifies the source device also by IP address if the communication channel type is Network (Ethernet)/Serial (RS-232, RS-485)
• Elgas: fixed communication through a channel of type Network (Ethernet)/Serial (RS-232, RS-485)
• Elgas: fixed reading historical analog data (previously, two incorrect analog values were added to the data after establishing a connection to the device)
• Elgas: Elags 2 device – altered the reception of historical data so that the digital archive would also contain tags of type Setpoint
• IEC104: RWE model – to update a single tag, the driver now sends the C_IC_NA_1 command (general query) instead of the C_RD_NA_1 command
• IEC104: fixed decoding data sent in a continuous block having a common address of ASQ=1
• SMS: stopped using the file SMS_Drv.ini (the list of AT commands used for the driver initialization can now be configured through the Communication Driver Manager)
• SMS: fixed receiving and sending text messages when a PIN was required

Example projects

• added the project CustomReport_dBASE (demonstrates displaying data from a dBASE table)
• ThinClientRequestHandlingFromScript: added a missing window file
• altered the project BoilerRoom_RedundantServers: used data server redundancy
• removed the project RedundantDataTables (it showed how to implement redundancy through scripts – it is no longer needed)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• trend viewer: fixed scrolling the chart using the right mouse button
• report viewer: fixed sporadic "freezing" the program that might occur when invoking the print preview (the preview window, which is modal, was displayed in the background)

Communication drivers

• fixed the default values of communication options so that communication would work even if the communication driver (the object that defines communication options) is not connected to the computer in the Project Structure Manager
• handled the error that can occur while processing timed-out packets during a warm restart of the communication channel
• Modbus: fixed generating a communication packet (the error introduced in version 4.2.3)
• Modbus: fixed converting a Wago address to the corresponding Modbus address
• BACnet: fixed updating the time stamp for tags of type String
• IEC104: fixed processing received data if the project contained two tags with the same type identifier for reading and the first was not readable (and the same for writing)
• Teco: fixed reading data from the databox through communication zones
• Inmat: fixed communication

All modules

• fixed reading license registration information
• file open dialog: added the possibility to invoke On-Screen Keyboard
• file save dialog: added the possibility to invoke On-Screen Keyboard
• fixed logging memory status on 64-bit Windows

Real-Time Chart component

• RELI-3506 – added the possibility to specify a color for each series point
• fixed displaying point names on the X axis
• changed the icon in the Component Palette (the original icon was too similar to that of the Real-Time Trend component)

Data Grid component

• RELI-8444 – fixed automatically repainting the component when the associated array-type tags' data has changed

All IP Camera components

• added a warning (internal system message) if the respective device drivers have not been installed

Axis IP Camera component

• added support for H.264
• fixed the error that consisted in recording only video (without sound)

Pelco IP Camera component

• a new component for Pelco IP cameras

BACnet – Time Program component

• fixed the maximum for the off time to be 24:00
• fixed the display of the toolbar on Windows XP, changed icons
• fixed the error that consisted in rewriting the first state item of the time program
• added the possibility to define an event for multiple days at a time

Johnson Controls – Time Program component

• fixed the mask for Sunday and a holiday (previously, they were exchanged)
• fixed generating the end of an event (the "Occupied" state instead of "Invalid")
• fixed the display of the toolbar on Windows XP, changed icons

Reliance Design development environment

• Data Structure Manager: added importing data structures for BACnet devices from the EDE format
• Data Structure Manager: changed the default value of the "Field address defined by" property of data structures for most device types (previously "Individually", now "Offset")
• Data Structure Manager: added displaying data structures and their fields in a different color after importing them (all imported objects have a different text color regardless of whether their properties have changed)
• Device Manager: added displaying tags in a different color after importing them (all imported tags have a different text color regardless of whether their properties have changed)
• Device Manager: fixed importing tags from the ST format (IEC EN 61131-3) – fixed setting a change flag for tags representing array elements if their address has changed
• Device Manager: added/fixed support for structured tags from BACnet devices (added calculating the value of the "Instance number" property, added assuming the value of the "Object type", "Object number", "Property identifier", and "Property number" properties from the respective data structure field)
• Device Manager: fixed the number of displayed items in the drop-down list of the "Tag data type" property of tags from Modbus and Wago devices (previously, only one item was visible under certain circumstances)
• Device Manager: fixed the order of controls in property panes of tags from devices of type Modbus, Wago, BACnet, IEC104, Johnson Controls, wsr3000, and AMiT
• Device Manager: added the "Send general query after connect" property for an IEC104 device (general query = request for the data of all tags)
• Device Manager: alpha-sorted the items in the "Property identifier" drop-down list available for tags of a BACnet device
• Device Manager: added a new device type – TMC
• Device Manager: increased the maximum value (from 7 to 31) of the bit number for tags of a Promos device
• Device Manager: fixed displaying the address of an Elgas device (removed the decimal separator)
• Device Manager: changed the default property values of a BACnet device
• Device Manager: added the possibility to modify the bit number for tags of AMiT, JohnsonControls, Teco, and Wago devices through a spinner control
• Device Manager: added importing structured tags into a BACnet device from the EDE format
• Device Manager: added the "Data type conversion" property for OPC devices
• RELI-8135 – Device Manager: added dynamic bounds for setting the value of a tag (the "Prohibit violating bounds" option and subordinate settings on the "Security" page)
• Data Table Manager: added the possibility to control the interval of reading time-stamped data from a device by a tag
• RELI-3438 – Real-Time Trend Manager: added the possibility to configure a vertical axis for a trend and a separate vertical axis for each series
• Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed e-mailing a report from the preview
• Custom Report Manager: added a new custom report type – Web Archive (*.MHT)
• Custom Report Manager: added a new component named RDT Table (with the class name TfrxRDTTable) designed for accessing files with an .rdt extension
• Custom Report Manager: added a new component named Alarm/Event Table Column Text Object (with the class name TfrxRAEMemoView) designed to display information from a specified column of the alarm/event database table
• Project Structure Manager: added new authentication and security options to outgoing E-mail configuration (computer | "E-mail")
• Project Structure Manager: removed the "Device type" option from the SMS configuration – it is no longer needed (computer | "E-mail")
• Project Structure Manager: fixed the undesirable change of the "Channel type" property when bulk changing another property of multiple communication channels
• Project Structure Manager: added the time synchronization options for a BACnet device's communication channel (communication channel | "Time")
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Serial communication mode" option for a communication channel of type "Network (Ethernet) (if this option is active and there are multiple devices with the same IP address, the communication driver will wait for the response from the device before sending a request to the next device – similarly to serial communication)"
• String Manager: fixed the "List index out of bounds (-1)" error
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: disabled the controls or whole steps of the wizard that don't make sense for selected thin client types
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the file \ThinClients\Private\ThinClient_ConfigList.txt that contains the links for launching thin clients in particular configurations (it is intended for situations when the configurations are not published)
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the revision number to JAR filenames (it solves the problem of JAR file caching by the Java Plugin)
• Project Diagnostics, finding object usages: fixed finding unused structured tags when using more complex window templates
• Project Options: extended the Web server options so that the following connection setup would be possible: only HTTP, only HTTPS, both HTTP and HTTPS
• design window: hidden scroll bars in window templates (avoided shifting the content of a window template using the scroll bars, which resulted in painting the identically shifted content in Container components linked to that template)

Runtime software

• fixed the sporadic error that caused increasing the file size of data tables connected through a server connection (on the client side)
• added generating alarms/events based on the changes in tag values (e.g., for IEC 104 devices)
• when generating alarms/events, the start time is copied from the time stamp of the respective tag (previously, computer time was used)
• added exporting the project for communication drivers during starting the project
• sped up starting the project
• components' standard popup menu: the "Show Trend" command – improved the algorithm for selecting the data table used as a data source for the trend of a tag (added comparing the data tables by logging interval, and if needed, also by name)
• components' standard popup menu: added the "Relinquish Command For Tag" for tags from BACnet devices connected through a server connection (on the client side)
• added logging relinquishing the command for tags from BACnet devices to the alarm/event database
• report viewer: fixed hiding the columns (that were previously configured to be hidden) based on the settings stored in user profiles
• report viewer: added loading settings from a user profile after user log-on (if the viewer has already been open)
• RELI-8141 – RSys.PrintDbReport method: added the possibility to restrict the range of printed data to the current file of the data table as in Reliance 3 (this behavior can be activated by adding a line in the form Param6=1 to the section Section200)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• Recipe Editor: fixed the "Access Violation" error that sometimes occurred while browsing through the list of recipe types
• improved the project startup progress information
• RELI-8572 – substantially accelerated loading windows that contain window templates (previously, templates were loaded from files more times than necessary)
• fixed loading window templates containing a circular reference (previously, the program ended up in an endless loop and needed terminating)
• removed the notification about the availability of a new version of Reliance 4
• historical alarms/events: hidden the value in the "Tag value" column for the message about setting the value of a tag (previously, a value of 0 was always displayed)
• RELI-8135 – added checking dynamic bounds for setting the value of a tag

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• added the OpenSSL 1.0.1c libraries
• added support for a secure connection with the Web service
• added further information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered by a thin client request (session ID)
• added further information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered by a request from Smart Client (information about the Web browser)
• fixed the memory leak that occurred when checking for program updates as a result of a request from Smart Client
• server Web pages: Reliance Web Client – added a noticeable button for launching the default (first) configuration to the page displaying the list of configurations
• server Web pages: administration – added information on the number of connected custom applications and instances of Reliance OPC Server
• server Web pages: statistics – fixed the memory usage chart
• server Web pages: updated the documentation for the custom application interface of the Web service
• server Web pages: fixed displaying the number of connected thin clients
• server Web pages: fixed the caching of pages
• custom application interface of the Web service: added the GetInfo function, which returns information on the server and the current project
• custom application interface of the Web service: added the GetObjectList function, which returns the list of object identifiers for a specified object type
• RELI-8440 – custom application interface of the Web service: added the GetObjectInfo function, which returns information on a specified object
• custom application interface of the Web service: added the GetProjectString function, which returns a project-defined string
• custom application interface of the Web service: fixed the Connect and ConnectEx methods that sporadically returned a false error code (invalid password)

Reliance Web Client

• updated SW components (JGoodies Looks 2.5.2, Toedter JCalendar 1.4, JNA 3.3.0)
• RELI-8135 – added checking dynamic bounds for setting the value of a tag
• added the "Relinquish Command For Tag" for tags from BACnet devices
• fixed aligning controls in the "Chart Properties" dialog
• added support for a secure connection with Reliance's data server
• trend viewer: series and limit colors are now the same as in the runtime software's trend viewer
• Data Tree component: fixed saving the selected node index to the control tag
• Data Grid component: fixed automatically repainting the component when the data of the foreground or background color control tag has changed
• Edit Box component: fixed the alignment of the label
• Time Program, Teco – Time Program components: fixed checking the write data security
• RELI-3506 – Real-Time Chart component: added the possibility to specify a color for each series point
• RELI-8388 – trend viewer: fixed maximizing the viewer window
• fixed running the script on closing the window
• fixed the error that consisted in executing all actions that had no shortcut as a result of pressing a multimedia key (e.g., Mute)

Reliance Smart Client

• now based on jQuery 1.8.2, jQueryMobile 1.2
• added a trend viewer (supports: historical trends, tag trend, auto-scroll, swipe navigation, ruler)
• added support for the action of type "Update tag value"
• added support for the action of type "Show tag trend"
• added the "Relinquish Command For Tag" for tags from BACnet devices
• added a standard popup menu for the Display component (contains commands: "Show Trend", "Update Value of Tag", "Enter Value for Tag", "Relinquish Command for Tag", "Information on Tag")
• added support for checking user inactivity
• added running scripts on loading/activating/deactivating/closing/freeing a window
• optimized the size of the pages and transferred data
• fixed writing the levels in Teco time programs
• avoided repeatedly refreshing the page as a result of errors in the transferred data (now, an error message is displayed)
• fixed the error that consisted in showing a tray window even if it was listed as disabled
• fixed displaying the active project language in the main menu
• fixed setting the program and project language based on the logged-on user
• fixed displaying components in visualization windows when the project contained a window of type Left tray
• fixed zooming using gestures on the iOS operating system (iPhone, iPad)
• fixed displaying the background of visualization windows after changing the display orientation (portrait/landscape)
• fixed the error that consisted in not allowing the user to enter a value with a decimal part for a tag in some Web browsers
• Progress Bar component: fixed painting the component if the displayed value was out of bounds
• RELI-8326 – fixed displaying text that contained multiple spaces in a row

Reliance Mobile Client

• added checking dynamic bounds for setting the value of a tag

Reliance OPC Server

• fixed displaying the "Reliance 4 Servers" window content when a BACnet device was used in the project

Communication drivers

• fixed the error in establishing a connection through a modem
• fixed the error in reestablishing a connection through TCP/IP after a communication error
• adjusted the communication so that the reading of historical data would proceed continuously without being interrupted by the reading of real-time data
• fixed decoding the received data when the NVT protocol is used
• fixed the error that sometimes occurred during project termination and that resulted in not terminating the communication driver process
• fixed logging communications over Ethernet so that the log file would contain data separated based on communication packets
• reduced the size of the communication driver DLLs
• Sauter: fixed sending and receiving a user-defined message
• BACnet: fixed decoding the priority-array property represented as Bool
• BACnet: added support for device time synchronization
• IEC104: added optionally sending a general query after establishing a connection with a device (general query = request for the data of all tags)
• IEC104: fixed the quality of tags after a communication error
• AMiT: fixed the error in the initialization of the ATouch ActiveX control if there are multiple devices with the same IP address
• QMD: added support for devices with the TMC protocol
• Modbus: fixed the error in communication with Wago devices when using communication zones
• Elgas: added support for devices with firmware version later than 2.0
• Generic: fixed the error in the received data in the special tag of type Input string

Utilities

• added the R_HistDataToDailyArcConverter.exe utility intended to convert a Reliance project's historical data to daily archive files (allows converting monthly archive files to daily ones)
• added the R_Int64TimeConverter.exe utility intended for conversions between the Int64Time and DateTime data types

Example projects

• added the project IPCamera_Pelco (allows displaying video from a Pelco IP camera and controlling the camera)
• added the project CustomReport_AlarmsEvents_File (demonstrates displaying alarms/events from a file-based database)
• added the project CustomReport_AlarmsEvents_SQL (demonstrates displaying alarms/events from a SQL-based database)

All modules

• “Customize Trend” dialog: suppressed the error message "No context-sensitive help installed" that was previously displayed after pressing the F1 key

Data Tree component

• fixed the error that consisted in not showing the number of node cells in the "Edit Node" and "Add Node" dialogs
• fixed the error that consisted in not allowing the user to define the link to a tag after adding a new node if the component had not been saved

Data Grid component

• added the possibility to display multi-line (word-wrapped) text
• added the possibility to edit the value of a tag using the keyboard

Real-Time Chart component

• optimized updating the chart

BACnet – Time Program component

• a new component for editing time programs in BACnet devices

Reliance Design development environment

• Device Manager: added the "InteliDrive EM" model for a Modbus device with the possibility to specify an access code
• Device Manager: renamed the "Alarm/event delay" property of a tag to "Alarm/event start delay" (the "Advanced" page)
• Device Manager: added the "Alarm/event end delay" property for a tag (the "Advanced" page)
• Device Manager: fixed showing property controls of device folders, communication zone folders, and alarm/event folders (previously, property controls of a tag folder were also sometimes shown, which resulted in an "Invalid class typecast" error)
• RELI-8232 – Script Manager: fixed checking scripts
• Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed the error that consisted in not allowing the user to check/uncheck the "Select custom template" option in the "Select Custom Report Type" dialog
• Project Diagnostics: added checking if communication drivers are connected to computers in the Project Structure Manager
• Project Diagnostics: Container component – fixed checking the link to a structured tag if the embedded object was a window template (previously, a false error message was displayed)
• Project Options, Environment Options: added remembering the last selected item
• RELI-8144 – design window: fixed the error that caused shifting components by the grid size not to function if the grid was not displayed in any of the open windows
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: fixed exporting pictures stored in the WMF and EMF formats
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added THE possibility to run Smart Client
• added support for context-sensitive help in the English version

Runtime software

• RSys.ActivateWindow method: revised the implementation to be similar to that of the RSys.CloseWindow method so that the requested operations would be performed in the right order (previously, the RSys.ActivateWindow method was handled with higher priority)
• RSys.SaveCustomReport method: a custom report can now be saved (exported) also in the XLSX and XML formats
• added further information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered by an alarm/event (alarm/event text not preceded by start date and time)
• report viewer: fixed the error that sporadically occurred when loading further records while using a filter and resulted in showing an empty message dialog
• custom report viewer: fixed e-mailing a report via ESMTP
• “Enter Tag Value” dialog: added the possibility to resize the dialog
• “Enter Tag Value” dialog: added support for editing multi-line text

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• added a warning about logging handled exceptions being active
• components' standard popup menu: added the "Relinquish Command For Tag" for tags from BACnet devices (currently, it is only functional for directly connected devices, i.e., if the runtime software communicates with the device through the BACnet driver)
• fixed running a script on acknowledging an alarm created by the RAlm.CreateAlarm method (previously, an error occurred – the script did not execute and the acknowledgment was not completed)
• Recipe Editor: disabled Drag & Drop operations with recipe types and recipe items (dragging and dropping with the mouse has no function and caused "Access Violation" errors to occur)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• renamed some parameters in the URL (backward compatibility is maintained)
• optimized the amount of transferred data (compressed HTML, CSS, and JS files)
• changed the SSL encryption method from SSL3 to TLS1
• RELI-8095 – fixed server Web page authentication

Reliance Server, Reliance Driver Server

• fixed running the program as a Windows service on the Local System account (previously, the service failed to start)

Reliance Web Client

• fixed entering limits for a tag
• fixed the trend viewer invoked from a modal dialog window (previously, the user could not work with it)

Reliance Smart Client

• updated the jQuery framework to version 1.7.2
• updated the jQueryMobile framework to version 1.2
• support for the Web browser in BlackBerry devices: removed the unnecessary cookies from the Web pages
• support for the Web browser in BlackBerry devices: changed the type of AJAX requests from POST to GET
• support for the Web browser in BlackBerry devices: altered the method of creating client sessions so that a single client could be connected to the server from multiple IP addresses at the same time
• fixed the error caused components to stop repainting (it might have occurred when the server was processing many requests)
• fixed updating the image from IP cameras
• fixed opening certain visualization windows in Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 7.5
• RELI-8162 – avoided connecting to the server at www.reliance.cz if checking for updates is disabled
• RELI-8161 – fixed components' dynamic visibility (previously, it did not work correctly for components that were initially hidden)
• fixed checking the access code (previously, it did not work correctly under certain conditions)
• fixed the error that caused the shortening of time intervals between requests for data that occurred while switching between visualization windows
• added support for actions of type "Close dialog window" (invokes the command for displaying the previous page)
• added support for running scripts (on the server)
• button-like components: fixed painting word-wrapped text
• Check Box component: added support for setting the tag value
• Radio Buttons component: added support for setting the tag value
• Combo Box component: added support for setting the tag value
• Popup Menu component: added support for the component
• Animation component: added support for playing a set of pictures

Communication drivers

• BACnet: added support for reading and writing time programs
• BACnet: fixed writing the properties different from present-value and the Bool data type
• BACnet: added decoding the priority-array property with the possibility to represent it as Bool, Word, or Array of String
• BACnet: added support for relinquishing the command for a tag, either from components' standard popup menu (the "Relinquish Command For Tag" command) or by writing a value of "0" into the priority-array property
• Modbus: added support for the "InteliDrive EM" model (an access code is sent to the device before establishing a connection with it)
• Teco: added the possibility to read registers with addresses higher than 65535

Help and documentation

• added the English version of the context-sensitive help for the development environment
• updated the English version of the manual for the development environment

Example projects

• added the project DataGrid_WordWrap (demonstrates displaying word-wrapped text in the Data Grid component)
• DataTree_ControlArea: fixed the error that resulted in failing to open the project

All modules

• by using a new Delphi compiler and new GUI libraries (VCL), improved performance, security, and the integration of individual modules into the Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems
• added a number of security improvements
• notification of a new version is now displayed at most once a day
• fixed verifying the software key via License Service
• object selection dialogs: increased the speed of selecting multiple items
• numeric value edit box: fixed increasing and decreasing the value using the keyboard (the Up and Down arrow keys)

All components

• component editor: it is no longer possible to enter a negative value for component width and height

Vector components

• RELI-4868 – fixed painting the gradient-style fill of a component embedded into a window (as part of a window template) through a Container component

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

• fixed enabling/disabling certain controls on the "Security" page

Container component

• RELI-4697 – added the possibility to embed a historical trend (the "Embedded object" property = "Trend")
• added the possibility to embed historical alarms/events (the "Embedded object" property = "Historical alarms/events")

Data Tree component

• RELI-4877 – added support for images in the PNG format
• component editor: fixed presetting the "Sort by column" property to "-1" (previously, the value was preset to "0")
• double-clicking left mouse button now expands/collapses the selected node
• avoided running an action (linked to a node) or prompting the user to enter the value for a tag (linked to a node) after clicking on the component outside the node
• added notifying the user of insufficient access rights when working with secured nodes and cells

Data Grid component

• added the possibility to control the selected column by a tag

Teco – IRC component

• runtime component editor: avoided displaying text in the background pane when editing daily programs

Sauter – Time Program component

• fixed displaying localized property names and descriptions of time program commands in the Component Manager

Teco – Time Program component

• component editor: fixed invoking the "Select String" dialog from the edit box for entering the time program name
• runtime component editor: fixed increasing the value of the controlled process variable by using the mouse when editing the time program

Johnson Controls – ON/OFF Time Program component

• a new component for editing ON/OFF (two-state) time programs

Level Fill Picture component

• added showing the "Enter Value for Tag" dialog after double-clicking the component

Line component

• RELI-7170 – fixed painting the arrow

Reliance Design development environment

• managers: fixed automatically switching to edit-name mode after adding a new folder
• managers: fixed updating the selected object's name in the status bar after renaming the object and saving the changes
• managers: avoided adding the same localizable string multiple times when importing objects from the CSV format (it only happened under very special circumstances)
• Device Manager: added the possibility to specify the tag data update settings on the level of a tag folder (the "Update tags based on folder" option and subordinate settings)
• Device Manager: added the possibility to control the OPC group update interval by a tag (the "Update interval" | "Dynamic" option)
• Script Manager: added the RSys.Int64TimeToDateTime method, which converts a specified date and time value from the Int64Time format to the DateTime format
• Script Manager: added the RSys.DateTimeToInt64Time method, which converts a specified date and time value from the DateTime format to the Int64Time format
• Script Manager: added the RSys.UTCDateTimeToLocalDateTime method, which converts a specified date and time value from UTC to the local time
• Script Manager: added the RSys.LocalDateTimeToUTCDateTime method, which converts a specified date and time value from the local time to UTC
• Script Manager: added displaying the selected script's ID and name in the status bar
• String Manager: the "Translate by Google" command now supports the Google API v2
• String Manager: the "Translate by Google" command now allows for translating multiple strings at a time
• String Manager: setting the "Untranslatable" flag no longer reverts the string to the default language
• Action Manager: added the "Show information on tag" action type
• Action Manager: added the "Show tag trend" action type
• Action Manager: added the "Update tag value" action type
• Action Manager: added the "Show tag limits" action type
• Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – avoided creating the file named Report1_00000000.rrt, which sporadically happened after creating the first report in the project
• Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – added the possibility to import multiple localizable strings at a time in the designer
• RELI-1471 – Picture Manager: fixed the error that occurred when saving certain pictures in the JPEG format (the picture was not saved as a result of the error)
• Project Structure Manager: added the possibility to specify a script to be run after receiving the data for a data table from the server (the "Run script on" | "Receive data from server" property of a connected data table)
• RELI-7193 – Window Manager: improved the behavior when adding a new folder or window
• Window Manager: improved browsing using the keyboard
• RELI-7148 – Window Manager: fixed moving multiple windows into a folder using the mouse (previously, not all the windows were moved)
• RELI-7150 – Window Manager: the "Replace Object Properties" command is now enabled only for open windows
• RELI-1452, RELI-4554 – Component Manager: fixed the sporadic error that might occur when editing the value of a property and caused the newly entered value to be lost
• Create New Window Template Wizard: added the "Add components and link them to data structure fields" option
• Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: it is no longer possible to add a computer to the list of configurations multiple times
• RELI-7562 – Replace Object Properties Wizard: added repainting Button components after replacing the values of certain properties
• RELI-7149 – Replace Object Properties Wizard: added setting input focus to the "Text to find" edit box after showing the wizard
• Project Diagnostics: added checking password strength
• Project Diagnostics: added checking the settings related to creating data table archive files
• Project Diagnostics: Project Options – fixed invoking the dialog from the Project Diagnostics Results window if an error is reported that is related to creating archive files for the alarm/event database (e.g., invalid link to a tag; previously, an "Access Violation" error occurred)
• Project Diagnostics: Project Options – fixed selecting the option controls in the "Web" section
• Project Diagnostics: Button component – fixed selecting the "Query for state 0" and "Query for state 1" controls in the component editor
• Project Diagnostics: Button component – added checking the "Confirm-violation limits" object
• Project Diagnostics: Button component – fixed checking security (previously, if there was an error, it was reported twice)
• Project Diagnostics: Animation component – fixed selecting the state (in which an error was found) in the list of states in the component editor
• Project Diagnostics: Combo Box component – fixed selecting the item (in which an error was found) in the list of items in the component editor
• Project Diagnostics: Check Box component – fixed selecting the "Query 0" and "Query 1" controls in the component editor
• Project Diagnostics: Popup Menu component – fixed checking localizable strings in items of type Separator
• "Welcome" window: added a link to YouTube
• RELI-7825 – Information Window: fixed the display of the button for switching the project language
• added the "Project" > "Register as Service" command
• Component Palette: it is no longer possible to remove a component from the palette if a project is open
• RELI-7203 – the number of pixels by which the selected component is shifted when pressing the Alt+arrow keys changed to five times the grid size
• the number of pixels by which a component created by duplicating is shifted changed to the grid size
• fixed the sporadic "Access Violation" error that might occur when duplicating a window
• RELI-7990 – fixed the grouping of components after duplicating a window
• RELI-6504 – fixed updating the Component Manager after ungrouping components (previously, the components remained selected but changing properties through the Component Manager only affected one of the components)
• RELI-7745 – optimized the speed of generating the name for a new component (substantially sped up designing windows with a large number of components)
• RELI-7911 – "Window Properties" dialog: fixed checking the properties before closing the dialog
• "Window Template Properties" dialog: hidden the controls of properties that don't make sense for a template

Runtime software

• added the implementation of the following methods: RSys.Int64TimeToDateTime, RSys.DateTimeToInt64Time, RSys.UTCDateTimeToLocalDateTime, and RSys.LocalDateTimeToUTCDateTime
• custom reports of type FastReport: fixed exporting reports to the MS Excel format (previously, numerical values were exported in the wrong format if "Decimal symbol" and "Digit grouping symbol" in the Windows Control Panel were set to the same character)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• substantially accelerated loading windows that contain window templates
• substantially reduced the number of GDI objects allocated when using window templates
• Recipe Editor: added displaying engineering units for recipe items
• Recipe Editor: altered the display of numerical values of recipe items (the number of decimal places configured for the respective tag is used)
• log-on user dialog: added a delay after entering invalid credentials
• RELI-7874 – removed the input focus from the component in an inactive visualization window after switching into the runtime software from another program (e.g., by using Alt+Tab)
• trend viewer: fixed the sporadic "List index of out bounds" error that might occur after using the "Show Trend from Specified Date and Time" command
• trend viewer, historical alarms/events: added automatically saving and loading settings when the user logs on/off
• report viewer: fixed displaying summary calculation results in the preview if some of the columns are hidden
• historical alarms/events: improved loading records from the file-based database (avoided loading records by pages of 1000 records – all available records are displayed)
• multi-monitor system: windows are now shown on the monitor from which they were invoked (based on the mouse cursor position)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• added a warning if the TCP port is already open (e.g., it is being used by another program)
• improved security (added verifying the commands received from thin clients by the server)
• server Web pages: added support for the SSL 3.0 security protocol
• server Web pages: changed the method of user authentication (Basic Access Authentication replaced with authentication through a form)
• server Web pages: statistics – optimized generating charts (occurs only when the page is requested to be displayed)
• server Web pages: statistics – charts are generated by using the Flot JavaScript library
• server Web pages: statistics – added the possibility to switch between a normal and stacked chart
• server Web pages: statistics – added the following information: number of accesses filtered by the whitelist/blacklist, invalid requests (e.g., incorrectly encrypted data), invalid credentials, and requests that cause an HTTP error with codes 403 and 404
• server Web pages: added the documentation for the custom application interface of the Web service
• WSDL: added the description of the custom application interface of the Web service
• custom application interface of the Web service: added a function named Connect2 that expects a password hash
• renamed the files Filter_BlackList.txt and Filter_WhiteList.txt to IPBlackList.txt and IPWhiteList.txt and moved them to the Config folder

Reliance Web Client

• fixed running the Web client as an applet if multiple data servers were specified when exporting the project for remote users
• added support for verifying commands by the server
• added support for actions of type "Show information on tag", "Show tag trend", "Update tag value" and "Show tag limits"
• RELI-7743 – fixed indicating the bad quality of tags by painting a yellow border (it should now behave the same as in the runtime software)
• fixed the sporadic error that caused time program components to write outside the memory that is allocated for the time program
• Radio Buttons component: fixed displaying the component in the mode in which each button corresponds to a digital tag
• Data Tree component: added support for using the keyboard to execute actions and prompt the user to enter the value for a tag
• Data Tree component: fixed running the action linked to a tree node
• Data Tree component: fixed displaying cells of type Display
• Data Grid component: fixed unselecting the grid row based on the control tag value (when the value was set to -1)
• RELI-4697 – Container component: added the possibility to embed a historical trend
• Container component: added the possibility to embed historical alarms/events

Reliance Mobile Client

• improved security (added verifying the commands received from thin clients by the server)

Reliance Smart Client

• The first public version of the new client of the Reliance SCADA/HMI system intended for making visualization applications available to the user via Web pages. It is designed for use with smartphones and tablets that are very popular among users these days and their popularity is rapidly increasing. In addition to smartphones and tablets, the client can also be used for any device equipped with a Web browser (e.g., a standard PC with a touchscreen).

Communication drivers

• changed the way of loading projects (used the JSON data format)
• BACnet: a new communication driver that implements the basic objects and services of the BACnet communication protocol according to the ASHRAE standard
• Johnson Controls: added support for reading and writing time programs from/to the FX series devices

Utilities

• Custom Report Designer: fixed registering the "ConnectionString" property of the TfrxADOQuery component

Example projects

• added the following projects: AccessDLLFromScript, DataTableWithDateTimeColumn, ComponentInfoInScripts, ClientServerAppWithBackupCommToPLC
• added the descriptions of the following projects: CustomRecipeEditor, DataGrid_SelectItemDialog, MotorDetails_WindowTemplate, RedundantDataTables, SendAlarmsUsingGroups_Simple, Stopwatch, AccessDLLFromScript