Mango 3.6 Release.
/Hello fellow Mango users,
We are excited to announce that Mango 3.6 is now available. Mango 3.6 bring powerful new features that bring you more productivity, security and performance.
New :
New Data Source & Data Point management with bulk editing
New Event Detector & Event Handler management
New Event Handlers for Reports & Slack
New BACnet Device Browser and Point manager
New Modbus Read & Write Tools
Security improvements
Many new Admin tools now available completely in the new UI
BACnet Local Devices
System Settings
MangoES Configuration
SQL Console
New UI visualization components and improvements to the Dashboard Designer
Mango UI highlights
Data source and data point editor
You can now edit data sources using the new UI. Less switching to the legacy UI! Also available as a component (ma-data-source-editor) to use in your own dashboards.
Edit multiple data points at once.
Event handler editor
It is now easier to create event handlers set them up to handle multiple event types. Also available as a component (ma-event-handler-editor) to use in your own dashboards.
Event detector editor
Create an edit event detectors right from the Data point details page. Also available as a component (ma-event-detector-editor) to use in your own dashboards.
Better filtering of events
You can now select more specific filters from the “More options” toolbar on the events page.
Better notification of events
Mango 3.6 includes configurable notification of events via visual popups and sound.
Easily create dialogs from markup
Create your own dialogs for your dashboards using simple markup.
Detailed Release Notes
Read the detailed release notes here.
Important Notes and Highlights
Modify email FTL Model for events, references to evt.alarmLevel in overridden templates should be changed to evt.alarmLevel.value()
Default role of ‘user’ has been added. This role is now inherent in anything that is a permissions holder. This means that if anything has a permission of user added to it any valid User can access it. This also means that the role of user is pointless to add to any User because they inherently have it.
Add subject property to Email Event Handler to allow choosing what goes into the email subject. All Email event handlers are upgraded to keep legacy operation. i.e. if you previously had a name/alias set then the subject will include that
H2 Database upgrade to use the more performant MV Store, this also resolves the ever growing database problem. Ensure you make a backup of your database prior to doing an upgrade.
REST API
Isolate v1 and v2 contexts to allow for better version management of the API, note that this isolation has resulted in some data models slightly changing. If you are using custom code to access the API please test your code against the latest beta release
Data Source v2 models
Publisher v2 models
Bugfix for NPE in deprecated EmailEventHandlerModel in REST v1, suggest using v2 endpoints instead
Expose char(1) columns in database as boolean for RQL queries, i.e. /rest/v1/users?disabled=false or /rest/v1/users?disabled=N
Fix bug in RQL queries over in-memory lists where not having a sign on the sort parameter would cause the query to fail
Fix bug in RQL queries where empty IN clause would fail on MySQL
Serial Port
adding env properties serial.port.linux.readPeriods and serial.port.linux.readPeriodType to allow adjusting the rate at which the port is polled for incoming data in Linux
adding env property serial.port.eventQueueSize to limit the size of the queue to hold generated serial port events before they are processed
Purge RX/TX buffers on serial port immediately after opening it
Mango Javascript
Improved performance
Improve security when executing and testing scripts
Restrict Java class access for scripts without ‘superadmin’ permission
Improve performance when adding/removing context points to a running script
Add publisher control to RuntimeManager script utility
New UI Components:
Create and Edit Data Sources and Data Points
Create and Edit Event Detectors and Event Handlers
Report Event Handler
Excel Report Event Handler
Slack Event Handler
Security
Default role of ‘user’ has been added. This role is now inherent in anything that is a permissions holder. This means that if anything has a permission of user added to it any valid User can access it. This also means that the role of user is pointless to add to any User because they inherently have it.
Users can no longer update their password to the previous password
DEBUG level log message for IPs that connect to a Virtual Serial Socket
Adding an HTTP session timeout override setting to the User
Show last password change date when editing a user
Show last login date when editing a user
General
Removing log messages from startup/shutdown status api
Improve performance for publishing data point attributes i.e. Reliability
File store definitions which do not supply permissions and no permissions definitions are found default to admin only
Fix bug in Change and NoChange event detectors to prevent them raising events with timestamps in the future
Fix bug where Change and NoChange event detectors could be initialized to wait too long for the first change/no change event
Optionally track anonymous usage statistics to better target future development
Added new Rate of Change event detector
New Modules
Slack Event Handler - to push events to slack channels
New Spanish Translation module