2nd October 2021 (Europe 1)

Scope

We have worked hard to deliver a great MindSphere 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 region Europe 1 Release in September 2021 with version "V1801.CW.EU1.N0930".

Asset Manager

Applicable for:

  • IIoT for Makers

Known issues

  • If a VFC workflow for an asset in a subtenant exists, it is not shown in the respective tile in the Asset Manager for a tenant admin.

  • Fleet Manager navigation is not working correctly if you have to re-login, as query parameters are lost. This problem will be addressed soon. Please try again by clicking the Fleet Manager navigation button.

  • If you are using app specific roles you need to assign plugin roles as well. This is up to now only possible for MindConnect LIB plugin, MindConnect Nano and MindConnect IoT2040.

  • The Connectivity Management view currently only shows assets derived by BasicAgent, MindConnect Nano, MindConnect IoT2040, MindConnect Library or Industrial Edge or a derived type of the mentioned ones.

Asset Management API

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues

  • Currently it is possible to use a variable name equal to the aspect name which leads to errors for example in Fleet Manager.

Cloud Foundry

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Additional Info:

  • Available and Updated buildpacks:

Buildpack

Version

Details

dotnet-core-buildpack

2.3.25

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/dotnet-core-buildpack/releases/tag/v2.3.25

go-buildpack

1.9.28

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/go-buildpack/releases/tag/v1.9.28

java-buildpack

4.37

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-buildpack/releases/tag/v4.37

nodejs-buildpack

1.7.46

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/nodejs-buildpack/releases/tag/v1.7.46

php-buildpack

4.4.34

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/php-buildpack/releases/tag/v4.4.34

python-buildpack

1.7.26

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/python-buildpack/releases/tag/v1.7.26

ruby-buildpack

1.8.35

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/ruby-buildpack/releases/tag/v1.8.35

staticfile-buildpack

1.5.17

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/staticfile-buildpack/releases/tag/v1.5.17

mendix-buildpack

4.15.6

https://github.com/mendix/cf-mendix-buildpack/releases/tag/v4.15.6

binary-buildpack

1.0.36

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/binary-buildpack/tree/v1.0.36

  • PostgreSQL11 Migration Assist is available. It is recommended to migrate your a9s PostgreSQL 9.4. The version 9.4 is deprecated and will be removed in the future.https://developer.mindsphere.io/paas/a9s-postgresql/using.html#migrate-the-service-instance-to-another-postgresql-version-into-new-postgresql-instance

  • Please note that redis32 and rabbitmq36 are going to be deprecated and might be removed in the future.

  • Buildpack version deprecation warnings:

    • The first release of the Ruby buildpack after 2021-04-23 will no longer include ruby versions 2.5.x. 

      The first release of the Go buildpack after 2021-04-23 will no longer include Go versions 1.14.x.

  • Parachute values added to Backing Service Metrics API - You can now see the Parachute threshold and if your Backing Services was stopped or is going to be stopped.

  • Backing Service Backup Page added to LogMe Service Dashboard. The Kibana Page can be opened with a link on Backing Service Backup Page.

Container Registry

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Fixed issues

  • Fixed a sporadic HTTP ERROR 431

Cross-Tenancy

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues

  • Only single asset sharing is available in the first release.

  • Sharing of assets derived from basicAgent and their corresponding plugins is not yet supported.

  • Tenant assets can not be moved under collaborators root asset or shared assets.

  • The successful implementation of a new sharing is normally completed within 2 minutes. If the new sharing is not successful within this time, the internal retry mechanism starts automatically after 4 minutes to complete the sharing. This issue will be addressed soon to prevent delays in the implementation.

Data Exploration built on Tableau®

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues

  • If you receive NULL values for timestamps on a Windows PC, please change your language for non-Unicode programs to English (United States). You'll find the settings in Control Panel → Region and Language → Administrative.

Developer Cockpit

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

Known issues

  • Currently, it is not possible to call MindSphere Core API's (e.g. Asset Management) from API Apps when using them as external dependencies from Standard Application hosted on different tenant.

  • Currently, not all roles and scopes are supported by Custom App Credentials. In this case, use the other provided options.

  • Application versions that contain a "#" character cannot be deployed in the Operator Cockpit. We advise customers not to use "#" in production version strings.

  • Applications cannot be deleted after being transferred to the production system.

  • the System is automatically suggesting an Internal App Name and an Initial Version for more convenience.

  • Layout issues in Internet Explorer 11 in combination with high resolution displays and 125 % font scaling.

Identity and Access Management

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues

  • If you have problems logging off in Internet Explorer 11, please refer to Overcoming Logout Problems in IE11

  • App specific roles: 

    • Additional core app roles are coming soon.

    • Some apps are still accessible via their direct URL and allow the use of shared functionality if the user has been granted rights via the app-specific role of a different app.

Integrated Data Lake

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues

  • In Time Series Import user interface, the user can only view first level of child asset at the moment when importing the time series data.  The workaround for this approach is to use backend API to import data related to multiple child assets

  • It is observed that browser crashes randomly when trying to download files > 400MB.  It is advisable to use backend API for downloading objects > 400MB

  • When uploading the data using cross account access via native applications e.g. AWS CLI, the default permission is set to user of the account. The user has to provide the parameter (--acl bucket-owner-full-control) so the bucket owner (Integrated Data Lake) will get the necessary access to generate pre-signed URLs.

IoT and Storage Services: File Service

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

What's new?

Within this release, we have made enhancements to the performance of the following:

  • search operations related to files with faster execution of queries

  • caching improvement to fetch the results faster and

  • over memory optimization in execution of requests.

Known issues

  • For security reasons a strict timeout is enforced. Currently, this leads to the situation that the size of a file which can be uploaded/ downloaded depends on the network bandwidth at client side.

  • When uploading files to the File Service, a file name cannot contain blank spaces. Blank spaces in the file name will prevent the file form being stored.

  • After deleting an asset, associated files might still be accessible for up to 30 minutes as this data is deleted asynchronously.

  • After deleting a file, it will take some time (up to 60 seconds) to create the file with the same name again.

  • After creating or deleting the file, it will take some time (up to 3 seconds) to get the file in "search file" API.

IoT and Storage Services: Time Series Service

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

What's new?

  • Within this release, we have revamped the Time Series Storage mechanism, that can result in the slight reduction of Storage Volume. This can be viewed in UTS, in Time Series Storage metrics.

Known issues

  • The maximum payload size of a message sent to Time Series Service as part of a PUT request cannot exceed 1 MB.

  • The service will never return more than 2000 records in a response.

  • After deleting an asset, respective time series data might still be accessible for up to 30 minutes as this data is deleted asynchronously.

  • When getting the job status of a bulk import job, the response might not always contain detailed information on errors that occurred.

  • When creating or updating an aspect it might take up to 30 minutes until aggregated data can be read for this aspect. Writing data or reading raw data is possible immediately.

  • When ingesting time series data for multiple asset and aspects in single request, the combination of records should be unique.

  • Get Latest Value with query parameter "latestValue = true" will work with a delay up to 2 hours from the time of ingestion. Refer to developer documentation 'sample' section for more information.

  • While using Get Latest Value with query parameter  "latestValue = true", historic/late arriving data may take more than 1 day to reflect in the response.

MindConnect Edge Analytics

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known Issues

  • Within this release, the Analysis Package for Event-Based Data Upload has been extended with an option to upload target data to the Integrated Data Lake.

  • After successful onboarding and when the App is onboarded to another Asset, the data communication can have issues and the Edge Analytics Engine can appear unresponsive within the Control UI. In this case, please re-install the MindConnect Edge Analytics App on the Industrial Edge device and re-onboard to the target Asset.

  • With a new onboarded device and when trying to assign a data point license, it can happen that the update button only appears after several seconds. A refresh of the page can cure the situation.

  • When uploading Event Based Data Upload or Data Upload package to MindConnect Nano device and there are no enabled input signals within the Analysis Package configuration, the update ends in error state "Prepare Environment or Update/Start Configuration". Having critical error message in User Logs.

  • Note: A full configured monitoring of the Analyzing Packages Vibration Characteristic Values and Vibration Frequency Spectra with all channels of one SM1281 can exceed the CPU performance of the MindConnect Nano. Also in other scenarios dependent of tasks running in parallel on the MindConnect Nano, CPU load can get to high. The recommendation is to use only two fully configured Vibration Frequency Spectra Analyzing Packages in parallel.

  • Deactivating a data point within a MindConnect data source will not deactivate a connection check in Edge Analytics Engine. This can lead to an error if the target device is no longer available.

  • DataBus and Event Based Data Upload configuration can be created without data or deactivated data, which will lead to a critical error on project start.

  • In some sporadic cases of a configuration update via Edge Analytics Manager it is possible that the Mind Connect Nano gets stuck in "project stopping" - In this case, the MindConnect Nano should be rebooted.

  • If a migration of SM1281 configuration has been done with EAE Version 1.0.6 speed is shown with unit m/s - The configuration has to be recreated to fix this issue and show a correct unit in rpm.

  • On updating to the new Firmware version, the currently defined project will still run. Existing configurations can't be modified with the new Firmeware. Instead the complete project has to be re-created to use the new feature of Trigger Rules.

  • It is recommended to use at minimum Mozilla version 78.0.2 or Microsoft Edge version 83. To ensure the app will be loaded correct.

MindSphere IIoT for Makers

Applicable for:

  • MindSphere IIoT for Makers

What's new?

  • Within this release, Mendix starter templates and example applications support Mendix Studio Pro 9.4

Operator Cockpit

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues

  • Limitations for update of Cloud Foundry applications:

    • The service instance names for each service should be same in the current and new version of the application. If the service instance names are different in the new version and the existing version of an application, then the existing service instances will not be readily available even after zero-downtime version upgrade.

    • During manual deployment of a new version of an application, do not use the same component names as available in the existing version. This might create name conflicts and usability issues. In order to avoid such conflicts, while deploying a new version of an application, append green at the end of the component name.

  • For every individual (single) application, one Cloud Foundry space must be deployed.

  • After modifying the authorization of a user via the Operator Cockpit user interface, the change is not immediately visible. The user has to close the browser and login again.

  • After deployment of an app, there is a security feature in place validating if the app is known to MindSphere or the app has somehow been modified. Sometimes issues occur with regards to name changes or deploying from various folders. The apps need to be deployed as they are assigned from the developer.

Operations Insight

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

What's new?

  • With this release, Operations Insight's dashboard overview page also shows Visual Flow Creator dashboards.

  • Start for free now includes a new Operations Insight Tour: "Analyze time series".

Known issues

  • Work orders are not supported for sub-tenants

  • Rules are not enabled for sub-tenant users

Settings

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

What's new?

  • With this first release of Identity Provider federation, MindSphere customers can now bring their own Identity Provider(s) and integrate it with the MindSphere tenant to achieve a single sign-on capability.

  • It is now possible for the MindSphere users to enable the federation using Identity Provider Federation section, using the Settings app. Identity Provider Federation currently supports federation based on two protocols, SAML and Open ID Connect.

Start for Free

What's new?

  • Within this release, we have added Operations Insight to the Start for Free tenant, and removed Fleet Manager and Visual Analyzer.

Known issues

  • MindSphere Start for Free is only compatible with a web browser and therefore cannot be launched from a mobile browser.

  • The creation of tenant takes approximately 2 minutes.

  • If the TourGuide is interrupted, check that your internet connection is stable. If this is not the problem, then re-launch the user journey from your Launchpad.

  • The data coming from the simulated pump asset will only be available the first 7 days after account creation.

  • While trying to launch an auto registered app which was created with the same name as that of a deleted app, a "Forbidden" error occurs.

    Workaround: The issue does not occur if you re-launch the browser after registration and then launch the app again.

  • For tenants with Enabled Session Persistency (see documentation), it is not recommended to use Google Chrome in incognito mode.

Subtenant Functionality

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues

  • Applications can use the subtenant functionality via the provided APIs. Tenant administrators should pay attention when assigning such apps to subtenant users as subtenant isolation cannot be ensured by the platform. The app might expose data to the user that is not intended to be seen.

  • When moving an asset from a parent tenant to a subtenant, there might be a delay of up to 30 minutes until a subtenant user will be able to see data related to that asset.

  • Please be aware, if you provide a user (even subtenant user) the role "mdsp:core:TenantAdmin", this user is then able to get access to all kinds of tenant data.

Upgrade

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

Known issues

  • Currently no personalized notifications for subscriptions (TenantAdmin) or subscription requests (StandardUser) are available.

  • Purchasing request notifications are send to all tenant admins.

  • Upgrade is providing a fast provisional access to the requested quota. It requires an approval by the commercial contact who will be informed separately.

  • Supported Language: English only.

  • Supported Currency: EUR only.

Usage Transparency

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

What's new?

  • With this release, the following additional metrics for "Notification service" will be shown on the Customer Dashboard:

    • number of notifications via Email per month

    • number of notifications via Push messages per month

    • number of notifications via SMS messages per month

    The three new metrics will replace the existing metric "Notifications per month".

Visual Explorer

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

What's new?

  • Within this release, both the project selection and the IDL file selection in the data source wizard of Visual Explorer Connector have been hierarchically organized.

  • With this release, Visual Explorer dashboards in Operations Insights will automatically receive data updates when opened.

Known issues

  • Any request within Visual Explorer is limited to an execution time of 60 sec.

  • The "share via link" functionality works unreliable.

  • Support time series data types “LONG” with values for safe integer ->(253-1) to (253-1).

  • If the value is e.g. 263 the value will be reset to safe integer ->253-1.

Visual Flow Creator

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess IoT Value Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

What's new?

  • It is now possible to assign / migrate existing flows to other users.

Known issues

  • Subtenant users cannot use the time series subscription node.

  • Compute hours are assigned to the main tenant only. This means that VFC cannot be used with additional test tenants.

Web components

Applicable for:

  • MindAccess Developer Plan Subscribers

  • MindAccess Operator Plan Subscribers

What's new?