30^th March 2023¶

Scope¶

We have worked hard to deliver a great MindSphere Private Cloud experience, but we are still tracking some known issues. If you find others, please give us your feedback by contacting our MindSphere Support.

We recommend that you read the following release notes carefully. These notes contain important information for installation and use.

These release notes are relevant for MindSphere Private Cloud Release in March 2023.

Private Cloud Release Notes¶

Within this release of MindSphere Private Cloud, you will experience the MindSphere services and applications in the same way with from our public cloud offerings.

Depending on the chosen plans and services for each deployment, the following service will be available with this release:

• Asset Management
• Device Management
• Edge App Release Management
• Edge Services
• Event Management
• Firmware Release Management
• Firmware Update IoT2040
• Firmware Update IoT2050
• Firmware Update Nano
• Firmware Update Software Agent
• Firmware Update Software Agent in Docker
• IoT TS Aggregates Services
• IoT Time Series Service
• MindConnect Device Management
• Operator Cockpit
• Plugin IoT2050 UI
• Plugin MindConnect Software Agent UI
• Resource Access Management
• Settings UI
• Token Management Service
• Visual Explorer Add-On
• Visual Explorer API Add-On

Asset Management¶

Applicable for:

• Subscribers of Capability package: Standard package

What's new?

• Within this release, enable subscription-based notification for Event Management, TimeSeries and Asset Management application on private cloud.

Advanced Intimation:

• This release will enforce the page size limit of 200 for the below asset management GET APIs in the upcoming release. All customers, users, app builders needs to adapt based on above changes, if not adapted.

Device Management¶

Applicable for:

• Subscribers of Capability package: Standard package

What's new?

• Within this release, AWS Public and VPC & LPC will be same versions for all Edge Services. Browsing Service will be enabled in the upcoming release.

Edge App Release Management¶

Applicable for:

• Subscribers of Capability package: Standard package

What's new?

• Within this release, AWS Public and VPC & LPC will be same versions for all Edge Services. Browsing Service will be enabled in the upcoming release.

Edge Services¶

Applicable for:

• Subscribers of Capability package: Standard package

What's new?

• Within this release, AWS Public and VPC & LPC will be same versions for all Edge Services. Browsing Service will be enabled in the upcoming release.

Event Management¶

Applicable for:

• Subscribers of Capability package: Standard package

What's new?

• Within this release, enable subscription-based notification for Event Management, TimeSeries and Asset Management application on private cloud.

Firmware Release Management¶

Applicable for:

• Subscribers of Capability package: Standard package

What's new?

• Within this release, AWS Public and VPC & LPC will be same versions for all Edge Services. Browsing Service will be enabled in the upcoming release.

Firmware Update IoT2040¶

What's new?

• Within this release, OPC UA browsing is supported on MindConnect IoT2040.

Firmware Update IoT2050¶

What's new?

• Within this release, OPC UA browsing is supported on MindConnect IoT2050.

Firmware Update Nano¶

What's new?

• Within this release, OPC UA browsing is supported on MindConnect Nano.

Firmware Update Software Agent¶

What's new?

• Within this release, OPC UA browsing is supported on MindConnect Software Agent.

Firmware Update Software Agent in Dockere¶

What's new?

• Within this release, OPC UA browsing is supported on MindConnect Software Agent in Docker.

IoT TS Aggregates Services¶

Applicable for:

• Subscribers of Capability package: Standard package

What's new?

Advanced Intimation:

• IoT TimeSeries Aggregate V3 API is deprecated and will be removed in upcoming releases. Migrate to upgraded version V4 API. Details are available at IoT Time Series Aggregates Service – V3.x to V4.x Migration Guide or Version 4.x - What's New?.

IoT Time Series Service¶

Applicable for:

• Subscribers of Capability package: Standard package

What's new?

• Within this release, enable subscription-based notification for Event Management, TimeSeries and Asset Management application on private cloud.

MindConnect Device Management¶

What's new?

• Within this release, AWS Public and VPC & LPC will be same versions for all Edge Services. Browsing Service will be enabled in the upcoming release.

Operator Cockpit¶

Applicable for:

• Subscribers of Capability package: Standard package

What's new?

• Guideline for Customer Notes: Key Manager Service's (KMS) API is modified to handle inactive and deleted tenants gracefully. It will show the proper error message if the token is requested for a tenant who is in DELETED status or in INACTIVE status whose deletion is already in process.

Plugin IoT2050 UI¶

What's new?

• Within this release, IoT2050 UI plugin is supported in Azure VPC.

Plugin MindConnect Software Agent UI¶

• Within this release, MindConnect Software Agent UI plugin is supported in Azure VPC environment.

Resource Access Management¶

Applicable for:

• Subscribers of Capability package: Standard package

What's new?

• Within this release, the ability to create and manage Resource Groups is available via the already existing Resource Access Management service APIs. Resource Groups allows users to better organize the resources. They serve as anchor for access rights to underlying resources.

Settings UI¶

Applicable for:

• Subscribers of Capability package: Standard package

What's new?

• Within this release, Cloud Foundry Service credentials are also available to users with “TenantAdmin” role, in addition to users with “OperatorAdmin” role.

Token Management Service¶

Applicable for:

• Subscribers of Capability package: Standard package

What's new?

• Guideline for Customer Notes: Key Manager Service (KMS) API is modified to support the SDS program. If the respective payload, such as caller context and caller context type is provided, impersonated user token can be generated.

Visual Explorer Add-On¶

Applicable for:

• Subscribers of Capability package: Standard package

What's new?

• We improved:
  • Increased timeout of Tableau Server from backend to prevent various errors.
  • Licenses were not reset automatically.
  • Data sources from child tenants were not scheduled.
  • IDL append mode did not consider file deletions.
  • IDL append mode did not consider SDS deactivation.
  • After editing a data source, it was missing in the overview until next refresh.
  • Users with site roles "Viewer" or "Explorer" were able to edit data sources, if allowed by Tableau permissions.
  • Usernames were compared case-sensitively for permission checks in Visual Explorer Connector.

Visual Explorer API Add-On¶

Applicable for:

• Subscribers of Capability package: Standard package

What's new?

• We improved:
  • Increased timeout of Tableau Server from backend to prevent various errors.
  • Licenses were not reset automatically.
  • Data sources from child tenants were not scheduled.
  • IDL append mode did not consider file deletions.
  • IDL append mode did not consider SDS deactivation.
  • After editing a data source, it was missing in the overview until next refresh.
  • Users with site roles "Viewer" or "Explorer" were able to edit data sources, if allowed by Tableau permissions.
  • Usernames were compared case-sensitively for permission checks in Visual Explorer Connector.

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