Litmus Edge 4.0.4

release date november 26, 2025 review the current list of docid\ eax yfkpggsv lhc4um5u note a litmus edge docid\ mq3ipntmu2r6tm271cgut is now available for you to easily explore and develop in the product new features description devicehub devicehub introduces tag browsing, new drivers and driver versions, and additional features tag browsing tag browsing introduces optimized loading times for tag searches and improved navigation that makes it easier for you to find and add tags tag browsing replaces browse tags and server search functionality and improves on the previous search in several ways unified search search through one ui rather than through two separate methods which simplifies the overall search experience persistent results search results load once and persist for faster searches spreadsheet support download your search results for further processing in excel multi tasking perform other tasks in litmus edge during searches drivers a new generic device driver can be used to listen on tcp, upd, serial ports with advanced configurations for secure connections, data payload parsing, reading, writing, streaming, and more to allow litmus edge to connect to any device on the industrial plant floor you can now enable or disable new payload fields ( statuscode , sourcetimestamp , and servertimestamp ) when you select the publish additional attributes checkbox in the connect a device dialog when adding or editing a device the opc ua client advanced driver now supports locale settings the allen bradley df1 serial driver now supports micrologix plcs this release introduces the following drivers abb abb robot web services ab (allen bradley) ab logix ethernet ab logix serial ab micro800 ethernet b\&r b\&r pvi ethernet bacnet bacnet mstp beckhoff beckhoff twincat 3 ads ethernet euromap euromap63 ge ge ethernet absolute ge ethernet symbolic generic generic device generic scale historian historian mysql server client historian postgresql server client historian microsoft sql server client ignition ignition module jtekt toyopuc jtekt toyopuc cmp link ethernet jtekt toyopuc cmp link serial keyence keyence nano mitsubishi mitsubishi iq r ethernet modbus modbus multi station rtu to tcp converter odva odva cip ethernet omron omron hostlink omron fins serial omron fins ethernet omron nj ethernet siemens siemens s7 200 serial siemens s7 200 ethernet siemens sinumerik 808d ethernet torque tool open protocol ethernet note that the jtekt toyopuc cmp link driver was separated into the two new drivers mentioned above for the drivers, maximum register address limits are set and data processing is improved for register types additional features with the opc ua client advanced driver, now the timestamp in tag payloads reflects the ocp ua servertimestamp when driver mode is set to subscription and additional parameters are enabled you can now use the new browse registers procedure to filter 200k+ tags with improved loading screens and cached results flows manager you can now debug and fix an unresponsive flow by enabling safe mode debug and change the flow in safe mode and then redeploy the corrected flow previously, you could not stop a flow for debugging purposes digital twins now you can define parameters in digital twins > models > parameters for a digital twin model after defining a parameter, you can use it as part of a topic expression for each dyanmic attribute when creating an instance, you can update parameter values by instance to define the topic for each dynamic attribute digital twins tranformations now support jsonpath and jsonata for applying transformation schemas to dynamic attribute payloads you can also use a jsonata playground to test out your transformations before adding them to a model you can now subscribe to specific static and dynamic attribute data on unique topics, published at user defined intervals for static attributes and event based for dynamic attributes to enable this feature, select publish attributes when you add or update an instance analytics analytics introduces new processor nodes, ai model and ai vision, variables and parameters support, and enhancements to existing features analytics provides a new rate limiter processor node new ai processor nodes and models are introduced use the nodes to integrate your llms and slms with litmus edge define and manage ai model connections choose from providers such as openai, cloudflare ai gateway , grok 3 , ollama, google gemini, nvidia, and anthropic use system and user prompts for flexible ai interaction trigger ai chat calls based on user input generation link multiple ai processors for advanced workflows analytics now support user defined variables create and manage variables by navigating to analytics > variables , through the api, or with javascript and tengo script processors you can now define and reuse static parameter values in analytics use parameters to easily update and maintain consistency with your terminology the new javascript processor function allows you to write javascript the new spc charts function is available with statistical calculations the new image preview processor allows you to view image files and base64 images in analytics ui the new jsonata processor allows user to apply jsonata transformations to analytics data flows the filewriter processor now supports user defined output columns for parquet files integrations use the new mqtt aws iot sitewise edge integration connector to stream data to aws sitewise as part of litmus edge deployments through aws iot sitewise edge gateway data source a new integration connector supports mqtt v5 and enables litmus edge to connect and use version 5 features in your mqtt brokers you can now import topics from devicehub, digital twins, and analytics in the integration connector added the new oracle smart operations in fusion cloud scm integration connector applications new filters support granular searches of marketplace applications filters at the top of the page on applications > marketplace enable you to filter by category and sort results by newest or oldest applications you can also apply additional search parameters depending on the applications that you are searching on you can now specify create , update , and delete settings for the modify permission for example, you can now allow a user to maintain (but not remove) running marketplace applications and containers marketplace applications can now display a degraded status that helps you identify issues with applications that are running degraded status displays when an application is running and one or more containers have exited synchronizing marketplace catalogues has been improved now you can view the last sync date and time for catalogues select specific catalogues and sync only those catalogues sync all catalogues the marketplace catalog app in litmus edge manager now supports adding fully compliant docker compose files to new application releases in litmus edge system a new privilege grants or denies launching docker containers in privileged mode this lets you to give users the rights they need for templates, backups, restores, and upgrades without granting full system access find the new modifyprivileged privilege under marketplace in system > access control > users you can now manage labels for all your edge instances through custom key value pairs (for example, environment production ) this feature supports adding, modifying, and deleting labels you can now authenticate users in litmus edge using the openid connect (oidc) protocol terminal user interface (tui) a new factory reset option allows you to reset a litmus edge device when the web ui is unavailable high availability a beta version of high availability is introduced in this release now you can define and configure primary and backup edge instances in system > high availability http proxy you can now redirect data traffic through an http proxy server for the device management, authentication, and licensing components configure the server in system > network > proxy or through an api the http proxy feature is also available in litmus edge docker enhancements and improvements description devicehub devicehub provides improvements to drivers, logging, usability, tags, and more drivers the ab ethernetip ethernet driver now supports integer based reading for i and o registers the ab compactlogix ethernet advanced now supports array datatypes the b\&r pvi ethernet driver now supports the bool datatype the torque tool ethernet driver has been enhanced with support for mid0019 and other improvements heidenhain 640 ethernet (gen1 3) and heidenhain 530 ethernet (gen1 3) drivers now support writing to the file register type the koyo ethernet (gen1 3) driver now supports additional register types analog inputs (k/wi) and analog outputs (v/wo) the fuji nb serial (gen1 3) driver now supports additional register types input relay (word), output relay (word), data register (32 bit), and data register (string) sql driver query fields have increased character limits to allow for larger and more complex queries mqtt generic and mqtt generic over ssl connector have been removed from litmus edge with this release and replaced gen2 connectors now you can convert shift jis encoded strings to unicode using the keyence serial driver to read japanese data several enhancements have been made to the snmp manager driver including device and tag settings you can now configure the omron fins ethernet driver to use either tcp or udp as a connection protocol the driver also supports multiple data types, including bool , int , word , dword , and more the opc ua driver now includes support for alarms and events to enable real time monitoring the opc ua client advanced driver now supports browsing and reading extensions objects without non atomic reads you can now set retry counts and timeouts for the modbus rtu over tcp driver aligning its functionality with the enron modbus driver you can now define the station id at the tag level for the modbus tcp driver you can now configure the response timeout for all modbus drivers the sparkplug b client driver has improved features including automatic tag metadata and support for nbirth, dbirth, ndeath, and ddeath topics you can now update point type browsing for the fb107 driver you can now access logix controllers without ethernet modules for ab logix ethernet driver you can now set the persistence layer size limit during connector creation and updates the default size is set to 10mb for each connector the mssql driver performance is improved with connection handling, decimal support, and updated configuration nomenclature you can now browse mqtt brokers using the mqtt client driver a new write response topic is now available for various drivers that allows you to view a success/failure responses for write requests that the driver sends write responses are now supported for the following drivers ab, generator, mitsubishi, mqtt, omron, siemens, and snmp a subscription register type has been add to the osi agent advanced driver logging a new improved logging system has been introduced for the following drivers danfoss fc/tsc, dh agent, emerson, euromap, historian, modbus, network utilities, opc ua, osi pi, omron, opc ua, osi agent, profinet, and sql usability various improvements have been made for the arm 64 builds spaces are now automatically replaced with underscores in new browse task names station id no longer displays in the edit tag dialog when override station id is configured for a device polling interval no longer displays in the add tag dialog when driver type is set to subscription for the opc ua client advanced driver now you can filter by driver name in table view in devicehub > devices and sort the ip , port , and status columns improved status descriptions for devicehub devices in grid view in devicehub > devices the s7commplus driver now supports browsing, reading, and writing on multiple instance data blocks you can now edit existing metadata key/value pairs directly using the edit (pencil) icon you can now select from a dropdown menu to browse for tags where on going and completed tasks are sorted by latest timestamps improved usabilty for asset discovery now an error displays on the edit device dialog box when entering an incorrect formula in thetag formula field an error message displays when creating a new item with unsaved changes in the metadata section, along with clear buttons for active input fields tags you can now view tags organized in ndata and ddata folders with tagnames indicating their types for browsing the sparkplug b driver you can now copy the masked tag token directly from available topics browsing is easier through improved tag retrieval, better loading times, and background processing additional updates improved litmus edge's resource usage and performance with large numbers of devicehub devices and limited resources you can now delete a devicehub device during watchdog restarts you can now display system events and ui notifications for browsing tasks you can now use int64 and uint64 data types, along with h string and i string registers for modbus tcp power meter applications you now have improved handling for time types (time, date, dt, tod) as u64 , formatted into appropriate strings the asset discovery feature now lets you discover devices on the profinet protocol this includes a new rest api for profinet, integration with the asset discovery ui, rbac, and license permissions the asset discovery feature has been added for litmus edge docker builds to discover plcs and industrial assets on the network you can now discover mdns devices through asset discovery you can now define metadata keys using the hyphens symbol digital twins the following improvements have been made to digital twins general improved digital twins static and dynamic attributes list view in schema tab for models static attributes value limit increased to 1000 characters added duplicate key validation for user defined jsonpath and jsonata transformations you can now use a new topic structure for digital twin subscriptions and enable wildcard access at the model level with the format digitaltwins \<modelnam> \<instancename> now you can update existing configuration setting using templates and also export and import datahub configurations error handling during imports has been improved you can now import digital twins instance topics into the integration connectors with a complete list view, selection capability, and detailed import success/failure notification table view, sorting, and organization have been improved you can now download or export a csv containing existing dynamic attributes you can also download a sample csv file with default attributes to get started quickly system events now include event details related to configuration changes to digital twin models and instances you can now output nested and flattened payloads in parallel this provides you flexibility when sending data to multiple sources with different parsing capabilities , for example a cloud streaming service and sql or legacy database models pushed from litmus edge manager can no longer be edited in litmus edge a new flag also identifies models sourced from litmus edge manager error handling and messages an error message now displays for instance level csv import failures the instance name now displays on the instance page along with the uuid and the model name error notifications now display in the schema editor for invalid function names error handling has been improved to prevent creating invalid jsonata transformations through api operations pop up restrictions replace missing scope errors for viewer role actions on digital twins models flows manager minor ui improvements have been implemented you can now selectively delete flow related files in the ui analytics you can now manually trigger the inject processor using a new button on the inject, filereader, and filewriter nodes navigation is improved in analytics as page transitions now automatically save configurations and the connect wire process no longer prompts for definitions by default usability enhancements have been introduced in the ui the filewriter and filereader processors now support csv and parquet as output and input file types you can now parse utc time values in parquet files using filereader the code editor now ensures that code is properly aligned pinned analytics groups are now preserved when you refresh the analytics page improved wire processor creation and switching between wire types wire types are now defined by downstream processor logic for improved usability a new plc uptime/downtime tracker processor enables you to track kpi downtime periods based on specific plc values that indicate uptime or downtime states now json and array datatype parameters and variables are exported from template downloads as json objects and arrays this makes it easier for you to edit json parameters applications you can now group containers by application on the catalog apps page for expanded views, status indicators, and quick action options the error message now displays more details for failed catalog synchronizations you can now filter catalog applications logs by container tag to provide targeted insights for each container you can now update marketplace applications where the old version stays active until the new version is fully downloaded you can now see all ports for connected docker containers you can now update docker images to the latest version with an enhanced button that triggers a docker pull image command you can now view publisher and category metadata on application tiles in the marketplace integrations improvements have been made to connectors, subscriptions, security, and to product usability connectors an updated create > create connector button was added to the add a connector dialog box for creating new connectors integration connectors have been enhanced in the following ways optimized streaming throughput and data handling improved resources management and lower cpu and memory usage persistent storage management options per connector improved logging and error handling template enhancements allow for scalable create and update connector workflows you now have an increased limit to maximum parallel publish count for nats connector to 100,000 the add connector dialog box now has an improved display for limit hits in numeric fields you can now view providers organized into groups in the create connector form each group includes a name, logo, and a detailed list of providers you can now access cloud storage features from the integrations menu in litmus edge docker builds performance and animations improved in the add connector ui subscriptions inbound subscriptions in integration connectors now support dot notation in local topics you can now enable, disable, or remove all subscriptions simultaneously with enhanced backend endpoints to handle over 30,000 subscriptions you can now enable and disable all subscriptions using ui icons consistent warning banner styles now display across subscriptions and instance dialog boxes security you can now choose oauth 2 0 as an authentication option for rest api integration connector when connecting to external applications now you can use oauth m2m authentication for connecting cloud storage jobs to databricks handling of credentials has been improved in the ui and with api use usability a disabling persistent storage will remove all saved data warning message now displays when disabling the persistent storage size limit for an integration connector or when changing the queue mode or size limit improved summary information when uploading subscriptions through csv file to an integration connector advanced connection settings for kafka connectors are now located under advanced parameters validation has been improved when entering a source path for a cloud storage sync job you can now schedule jobs to run on a specific day and time in a week in cloud storage sync cloud storage sync has improvements to the ui and performance, including provider logos in the selection drop down readme displays for each cloud provider support for parallel uploads to databricks, allowing up to four files to be transferred simultaneously opcua warning messages are improved for invalid security mode and policy combinations during configuration improvements include support for importing up to 100k nodes in the opc ua hierarchy support for seven aggregation functions improved ldap and ad login options updated devicehub type conversions a new statistics tab in the server ui replaces the connections tab system the following improvements have been made to systems general remote access connection information now displays the number of bytes received in addition to bytes sent this can help you to identify tunnel issues the number of bytes now displays in mb or gb format depending on the value size litmus edge now automatically sizes packets when icmp feedback is missing by attempting icmp path mtu discovery first and falls back to tcp mtu probing to determine the correct packet size the last modified date for users now displays in system > access control > users > manage users improved user experience with 2fa setup added missing logs in docker support bundle you can now easily add multiple topics by separating topic names with commas in system > access control > tokens and write topics you can now access existing events from various components in the edge device in your litmus edge manager a notification now displays to indicate that your license is about to expire nfs file systems have improved recognition for litmus edge deployments in kubernetes clusters the external storage feature has been enhanced with new events for adding, editing, and removing external storage mounts the docker template option has been renamed to docker binding ip for clarity when exporting templates in the packet capture page file details now display including interface, start time, stop time, and size, and options to download or remove the file files now remain available for download for one hour this allows for multiple downloads within that period before you need to manually delete to start a new capture you can now use the enhanced grpc streaming feature to transfer up to 1,000,000 tags for backup and restore purposes you can now successfully import templates and restore backups, even if certain components are not running you can now modify the mtu (maximum transmission unit) setting directly in the update network interface dialog you can now track user logout events similar to user login templates you can now choose to download and upload encrypted templates that are secured with a plain text password or an encryption key now a dialog box displays all items in a template upon upload to prevent the import of incorrect templates you can now export and import cloud storage configurations security you can now regenerate oauth client secrets, manage secret rotation, and set new expiry dates for expired clients directly from the access control tokens interface you can now configure oidc providers with the addition of client id and client secret fields in the edit oidc provider dialog box logging you now have unified structured logging across all edge device components you can now track ftp service changes with new event logging for server start/stop, user addition, and user removal user interface the login page has an improved ui docker edge applications no longer display in the dashboard for litmus edge instances running in docker as containers do not run in this deployment method options that do not apply to litmus edge instances running in docker have been removed from system > device management > template docker compose with docker compose, containers with the same network name are now added to that network a new network is also created in cases where no network exists high availability the beta version of high availability includes improvements prevents selecting self as backup and validate version and license compatibility status indicators such as the current role, rsync success/fail, last sync timestamp, and heartbeat safeguards to prevent dual active situations resolved issues description devicehub fixed an issue where long vendor names overlapped on the asset discovery home page fixed issue where quotes were not preserved when uploading tags from a csv file fixed a response timeout issue where a delay intended for an ethernet connection recovery was also applied to serial connections now the delay no long occurs for serial connections fixed issue where large metadata tag values were truncated fixed issue with pagination not displaying the correct number of pages after applying a search filter in the tags table view fixed issue where an error occurred when attempting to create a tag for a device with an expiring license fixed issue where w eb ui responsiveness decreased over time when modifying watchdog settings for 50+ devices bacnet fixed issue where the bacnet driver could not write analog values for a tag dnp3 ethernet with fb extensions fixed issue with emerson dnp3 fbx driver where an application alarm contained a null value fixed issue with emerson dnp3 fbx driver where calibration events contained a null value fixed issue where the emerson dnp3 with fb extension driver did not reconnect after power cycling a device fixed issue where tagging a time device using tunneling incorrectly used fb device value, ensuring accurate data representation for fb3000 device fixed issue where tag values were incorrect with the dnp3 ethernet with fb extensions driver when the network connection was disconnected and connected again fixed issue where time data type values were parsed incorrectly when retrieved from fb3000 devices by the dnp3 ethernet with fb extensions driver fixed issue where dnp3 ethernet with fb extensions did not publish the latest event for hae records euromap fixed issue where the euromap63 gen1 driver read old tag files instead of the latest, causing operational disruptions ge fanuc fixed issue where the fanuc cnc ethernet (gen1) cnc rdcommand function would consistently return a command value of 0 in the payload opc ua fixed opc ua client advanced driver issue where a badcertificateuntrusted error occurred after 45 minutes of connection fixed issue with pagination not displaying the correct number of pages after applying a search filter in the tags table view modbus fixed issue where a modbus tcp driver published incorrect data when zero based addressing was disabled roc800 fixed issue where the roc800 ethernet driver would return null for history registers when opcode 139 requested more than 60 points fixed issue where the roc800 ethernet event register excluded the old value for w\&m events from the payload the roc800 ethernet driver now makes proper index requests based on the opcode 6 code from roc800 devices digital twins fixed issue where a model deleted event was incorrectly recorded when a delete of a model was prevented because of associated instances fixed issue where setting a high number interval caused a digital twin model to crash analytics resolved issue with analytics template uploads where value wire connections were uploaded as events wire connections resolved issue where a failed to unsubscribe from processor instance error displayed when deleting a processor fixed issue where no error notification displayed when adding an invalid variable name in analytics > variables fixed issue where flows manager was unresponsive when flows manager encountered unexpected flow contents now you can now update analytics processor names fixed issue where enabling pass through value in analytics resulted in an array output instead of a string fixed issue where the define connection feature did not allow users to assign custom names when creating events/values connections fixed issue where the switch node incorrectly displayed data type errors when using int or uint fixed issue where no data being returned after applying a filter to a database batch input fixed issue where copying an analytics flow resulted in all connection names reverting to default values applications a duplicate check box selection for marketplace displayed on the system > device management > template page fixed an issue where deleting a docker compose application deployed from litmus edge manager marketplace removed the associated network in litmus edge fixed issue where last run time and next run time did not reflect the sync timer interval defined in cloud storage sync fixed issue causing 500 server errors on applications pages and registry id not found errors fixed issue where users could not disconnect a running container from a docker network using the ipvlan driver fixed issue where the links field in docker compose files returned nil fixed issue where you could not delete docker containers stuck in a restarting state after deploying grafana release 8 5 0 fixed issue preventing deployment of marketplace apps from aws ecr fixed issue where containers launched from the marketplace with unless stopped restart policy were incorrectly starting after a reboot integrations fixed an issue where the influxdb integration connector required a manual reconnect when the influxdb application stopped and started again fixed an issue with aws sitewise integrations where data was delayed and sent in bulk rather than at the polling interval defined for the driver this occurred when some devicehub tags had a null value fixed issue preventing users from defining empty local topics for inbound subscriptions fixed issue where the mssql connector failed to transition to a failed state when disconnected fixed issue where aws sitewise connector intermittently failed to publish multiple messages due to low number of batch messages the kafka connector now alerts you when there is a failure in sending data to the cluster, instead of displaying a misleading connected status search for local topics when adding a new subscription topic to an integration connector now returns only alias or raw topics, and excludes write, pollonce, and batchwrite topics now an accurate connection status displays for the azure event hubs connector opc ua server fixed issue with opcua hierarchy api that intermittently resulted in the generation of duplicate tags fixed issue with long overlapping opcua node names fixed import issue where number of failed tags was negative this occurred when importing a large number of tags fixed import issue where a memory leak occurred when importing tags with arrays containing many values you can now directly import analytics topics from datahub into the opc ua hierarchy system cloud backups did not include configurations for the default mqtt connector for litmus edge manager activation after a restore, the connector was missing from the ui even though events show it was recreated fixed an issue where the auth category was included in templates used to backup and restore litmus edge instances this caused an override of authentication configurations, such as ldap, on those instances an error message now displays when attempting to add a user who already exists in an external directory, such as ldap fixed issue where an opc ua server would not start on a docker instance running on an arm processor fixed issue where litmus edge did not start because an invalid certificate was generated from litmus edge manager in this case, a ' failed to start nginx server ' message displayed fixed issue where password policy setting descriptions were missing on the access control page fixed issue where the ok button was missing, allowing users to bypass the time zone difference warning and successfully log in resolved the following vulnerabilities in zerotouch binary cve 2024 45337 cve 2024 45338 fixed issue where multiple hostnames could only be added in one entry if the first hostname was a fully qualified domain name (fqdn) fixed issue where users encountered a dm error couldn't get wg info file does not exist error upon activation after upgrading from latest lts version user interface activating litmus edge with an invalid activation code resulted in two different error pop ups causing confusion about the specific error reason when changing your password, a new password and current password must be different error message displayed even after modifying the current password upgrades in some cases, a failed to check firmware upgrade status max retry attempts exceeded error displayed in litmus edge manager after upgrading a litmus edge device, even though the device was upgraded successfully docker deployment of litmus edge new features description support bundle you can now download a support bundle for the litmus edge docker version