Release Notes – January 2024

CDP Framework v4.12

Highlights in the CDP Framework release

Intelligent Edge

• No-code pipelines to forward data to cloud
• Store and forward to safeguard unstable connections
• Forward any variable or event/alarm
• Tag conversion from internal variable names to a structured naming hierarchy and tag standard
• Add metadata to variables and events/alarms (units, description …)
• Multiple pipeline support (e.g. continuous spare upload, high-speed event-triggered upload)
• Upload to any cloud and simultaneously to multiple clouds

Intelligent Cloud

• No-code pipelines to receive data from any Edge system
• Support variables (tags) and events/alarm
• Support meta data
• No pre-configuration required of Edge systems or data
• Pre-integrated support and pipelines for InfluxDb
• For CDP Edge systems, the possibility to open system UI in cloud
• Deploy cloud applications directly from CDP Studio
• Real-time update/modification of cloud applications

• UI/HMI Designer – Major updates

• New node widgets: Table, Tree and List
• New Node container widget, a powerful widget that loads a UI file for every matching object it finds on a specified target routing.
• Node widgets will adapt to the content in the control system
• Create UI’s that adapt to system configurations (adaptive UIs)
• Support for bright, day, dusk and night themes for the Open Bridge 5.0 guidelines
• Single connection from the control system to a widget container using relative routing inside the widget container
• Web-UI now supports Events and Alarms
• Scripts and template files to create update OpenBridge themes with colours provided in scss files
• Web UI application authentications via external reverse HTTP proxies

Other highlights

• Database Read and Write operators
• New JSONQuery operator, allows to query any value from the input JSON string
• MQTTClient now supports MQTT v5 request->response pattern
• Events/alarms can now be logged
• String support in all IO servers and logger
• Large message packet support inside an application
• RaspberryPi 5 now supported
• Cyber Security operator login screen can be customized
• Angles2Rotation and Rotation2Angles port conversion operators added to Kinematics library
• Unit Test support
• New no-code logger functions: EventLogReader, LogServer, LogWriter, ValueLogReader
• New no-code Sequencer main functions: MessageQueue, RequesrRetry, DebugPrinter
• New no-code Sequenser DataHandling functions: DBQuesry, DataNodes, RangeScanner, Grouper, JSONDecode, JSONDecoder, JSONEncode, JSONEncoder, JSONQuery, ProtobufDecode, ProtobufDecoder, ProtobufEncode, ProtobufEncoder, SeriesCompressor, SeriesDecompressor, SeriesMarge
• New no-code Sequencer IO functions: TextFileReader, TexFileWriter, CSVFileReader
• New examples and tutorials

Install the CDP Framework 4.12 version using “Help -> Package Manager” and selecting “Add or remove CDP versions”. and select the CDP 4.12 for the toolchains you use. If you have issues with building projects after the update, run the Clean command from CDP Studio project tree.