Release Notes
Overview
This page provides a list of merged product improvements between the LTS 5.0 release and the LTS 6.0 release.
"Release Notes" document each new improvement in functionality in the Tulip product.
It exhaustively documents changes to:
- The Tulip product i.e. your-instance.tulip.co
It provides partial documentation for:
- The Tulip Player
It does not include documentation on:
- The Tulip IoT Gateway
Here's an explanation of each column below.
Unique ID: The unique ID of the pull request where this functionality was merged into the product
Release: The specific release of Tulip where this was launched. I.E. r199
Release Notes: A few sentences that describe the change.
Type of Change: Chosen from one of three options-
Feature Enhancement: A new capability within an existing feature that will not affect the functionality in published apps
New Feature: An entirely new feature with functionality independent of all existing features. Will not affect published apps.
Changes Production Apps: A new feature that could affect the behavior of existing published apps
Implemented By: The Product Specs where the changes are reflected. In many cases, Product Specs will not be updated due to bug fixes or small edge cases that are too specific and unique to document.
User Requirements: The URS numbers that this relates to (and links to those pages)
| Unique ID | Release | Release Notes | Type of Change | Implemented By | User Requirements |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6775 | 206 | New items in the Activity History show up on top | Feature Enhancement | M_ACTIVITY | 800, 813 |
| 6792 | 206 | Machine triggers in apps can now use machine variables | Feature Enhancement | M_TRIG, M_APP_VER_VAR | 103 |
| 6771 | 206 | Add link to library to top menu and when creating a new app. | Feature Enhancement | C_MENU | 458, 115 |
| 6800 | 206 | Allow embedding docs in govcloud | Feature Enhancement | M_APP_VER_STEP_REG_WIDGET | - |
| 6798 | 206 | Harmonizes order of selecting id then record placeholder for loading table records | Feature Enhancement | M_TRIG | - |
| 6866 | 206 | Add Tulip U and Community links to welcome email | Feature Enhancement | NA (Non-Functional) | - |
| 6463 | 206 | Update field components in table record modals | Feature Enhancement | M_TABLE_RECORD_FIELD | - |
| 7074 | 207 | Machine variables can be used for “Last Machine Output” datasources | Feature Enhancement | M_MACH, M_TRIG, M_APP_VER_VAR | 239, 346 |
| 7075 | 207 | Ensure exporting a connector does not include sensitive secrets and tokens | Feature Enhancement | M_CONN | 29 |
| 7088 | 207 | Unusable options are removed in machine-related app triggers | Feature Enhancement | M_MACH, M_TRIG | - |
| 6951 | 207 | Redo the page error placeholder | Feature Enhancement | NA (Non-Functional) | - |
| 6924 | 207 | Use increment endpoint to ensure triggers always properly increment table records | Feature Enhancement | M_TABLE_RECORD, M_TRIG | 804 |
| 7175 | 208 | Update Tulip logo and favicon in Factory, Player, Gateway, and EdgeMC | Feature Enhancement | NA (Non-Functional) | - |
| 7289 | 209 | Factory: Make trigger and connector timeouts and execution limits configurable | Feature Enhancement | M_CONN_FUNC, M_TRIG | 436, 47, 215 |
| 7677 | 209 | Add support for "zin" protocol to player & factory (for DMGM only) with zin: as the allowed prefix | Feature Enhancement | M_TRIG | - |
| 7276 | 209 | Added image input (allows camera, upload, or both) to non-form steps. This replaces the existing camera input since it includes that in its functionality. | Feature Enhancement | M_APP_VER_STEP_REG_WIDGET | 86, 85 |
| 7367 | 210 | Allow images to be viewed in full resolution when in full screen mode and printing | Feature Enhancement | S_PLAYER | 814 |
| 7414 | 210 | Add a data matrix detector for vision cameras. This is behind a feature flag. | Feature Enhancement | M_DETECTOR | 259 |
| 7349 | 210 | Record Gateway RPC and Player events in segment | NA (Non-Functional) | - | |
| 7306 | 210 | Include release version in support tickets. Also enable the support form for sysadmins. | Feature Enhancement | NA (Non-Functional) | - |
| 7323 | 210 | Rounding floating point values in vision detector settings to 2 decimal points. | Feature Enhancement | M_DETECTOR | 803 |
| 7279 | 210 | Update SAML attribute mapping with advanced access control. | Feature Enhancement | S_AUTH | 26 |
| 7319 | 210 | RTSP connections will attempt re-connection on stream failure. | Feature Enhancement | M_DETECTOR | - |
| 7301 | 210 | LDAP and SAML users can now set a "Device Password" on their profile page which allows them to authenticate using their email address and this password in Kado to register Tulip Gateways. | New Feature | S_AUTH | 26 |
| 7338 | 210 | Increase maximum number of columns in a table to 200. | Feature Enhancement | M_TABLE | 18 |
| 7554 | 211 | Analytics: Rate limit exporting shared analyses to CSV to prevent overloading our server | Feature Enhancement | M_ANALYSIS | 46 |
| 7512 | 211 | Factory: Automatically pull correct LTS info when showing version | Feature Enhancement | R_SACC | 41 |
| 7538 | 211 | Add an option in Tulip Tables to download a dataset of images with annotation for ML purposes. This is behind a feature flag and not available for LTS customers. | Feature Enhancement | M_TABLE | - |
| 7397 | 211 | CELOS: Improve naming in CELOS auto-provisioning | Feature Enhancement | M_MACH, M_MTYP | 372, 346 |
| 7761 | 212 | Tables API: Allow use of updatedAt and createdAt columns in filters | Feature Enhancement | M_TABLE | 242 |
| 7671 | 212 | API Docs: Add isIn as an option for filters | Feature Enhancement | M_TABLE | 465 |
| 7624 | 212 | Page title for Dev Mode is now "Dev Mode" instead of "Player" | Feature Enhancement | R_APPE | - |
| 7631 | 212 | Add warning color and additional help text to telemetry in vision camera preview page | Feature Enhancement | M_DETECTOR | - |
| 7909 | 213 | Remove the onlyVisibleAnalyses feature flag and hard code the intended behavior into the dashboard rendering | Feature Enhancement | M_ANALYSIS | 464 |
| 7911 | 213 | Rely on setting up the cached analysis subscription to update analysis cached results, instead of forcing an update when the analysis enters the viewport. | Feature Enhancement | M_ANALYSIS | 464 |
| 7925 | 213 | Add feature flag to enable development version of apps to run in validation mode. | Feature Enhancement | R_DEVM, S_AUTH, M_STAT | 850 |
| 7870 | 213 | Add station operator role | New Feature | M_USER_ROLE | 375 |
| 7817 | 213 | Connector Host now maintains connection to OPCUA server when a single request times out | Feature Enhancement | M_MDTS | 371 |
| 7799 | 213 | Update queries endpoint to support updatedAt and createdAt | Feature Enhancement | M_TABLE_QUERY | 465 |
| 7893 | 213 | This is the final ticket for workspace v0.0. Workspaces is now available behind a feature flag. | New Feature | M_WORKSPACE | 114 |
| 7779 | 213 | Add shop floor activity feed events | Feature Enhancement | M_ACTIVITY | 51 |
| 7896 | 213 | Allow users to restore previously published version of a machine. This only applies when versions are enabled for machines, which is controlled by a feature flag and not available to LTS customers by default. | Feature Enhancement | - | - |
| 7831 | 213 | Created At and Updated At are now columns that can be used in filters with table queries and in the interactive table widget. Also, these columns can be added to an interactive table widget. | Feature Enhancement | M_TABLE, M_APP_VER_STEP_REG_WIDGET | 242 |
| 7764 | 213 | Change wording "View table charts" to "View table analyses". Similar changes to other places that use charts as well | Feature Enhancement | M_ANALYSIS | - |
| 7811 | 213 | Tables API: runAggregation endpoint can use updatedAt and createdAt in filters | Feature Enhancement | M_TABLE | 242 |
| 7765 | 213 | User Management: Add roles for users that can approve apps but not build and build apps but not approve | Feature Enhancement | M_USER_ROLE | 375 |
| 7919 | 213 | Make fast time triggers and workspace feature flags non-experimental. | Feature Enhancement | R_SACC, M_TRIG | 125, 150 |
| 7720 | 213 | Add Machine and Machine Type versioning. This is behind a feature flag and not available for LTS customers as of LTS6. | Feature Enhancement | - | 53 |
| 7841 | 213 | When a variable or a form field has a value that doesn't match the declared type, ignore this value but still report all the other variable / form fields / table records. | Feature Enhancement | M_APP_VER_COMP | 803 |
| 6716 | 213 | Improve analytics timestamp filtering performance | Feature Enhancement | M_ANALYSIS | 242 |
| 7836 | 213 | Trim trailing whitespace when creating table record IDs | Feature Enhancement | M_TABLE | - |
| 7840 | 213 | Changes the time from a dropdown with options (e.g. 30 seconds, 1 minute) to an open ended input field for entering seconds. | Feature Enhancement | M_TRIG | 125, 150 |