What's new in versiondog 9.8.6 (November 2023)¶

The following table represents the optimizations made in the current versiondog version.

Device integration and version control
- We continuously improve the functionality and scope of supported devices / editors and have now integrated:
- Exception handling when deleting temporary files when comparing TIA Portal projects
- Fixed Siemens TIA portal: Compare in offline/online comparisons to only compare languages/texts that the PLC supports
- Fixed Siemens TIA Portal: Compare not detecting differences in non-symbolic addressing in logic networks under certain circumstances
- Fixed Siemens TIA Portal: Incomplete symbolic names
- Fixed Siemens S7: Compare crash related to jump marks
- Parallel uploads of RSLogix 5000 jobs on the same machine no longer supported. To scale the upload, you need to have multiple agents on different machines
- Error corrected when comparing Rockwell RSLogix 5000 projects
- Error corrected when comparing RSLogix 500 projects so that "false positives" are not displayed
- Error corrected for graphical comparison of Rockwell RSLogix 5000 projects
- Error corrected when comparing Omron CX Programmer projects
- Error corrected when comparing Omron Sysmac Studio projects so that differences in EtherCAT nodes are displayed correctly
- Removed Omron CX Programmer Perl interpreter
- Fixed Siemens WinCC upload failing if the database name contains hyphens
- Fixed Beckhoff TwinCAT compare not detecting differences in safety in ports. Added Beckhoff TwinCAT compare safety CRC
- Improved logic network comparisons for RSLogix 5000
- Fixed CODESYS 2 project export to correctly pass credentials to the editor on modern Windows systems
- Exception handling for JSON comparison
- Exception handling for ASCII comparison
- Error corrected when comparing Scalance switches
- Error corrected when comparing EPLAN projects
Ease of use / interface
- For a simpler and more secure handling of and access to information, we have improved the user interface.
- Adjustment of the description text for the Maintenance mode button
- Possibility to hide settings in the AdminClient via INI entries
System performance / stability
- A stable and efficient software is vital and will be improved by these adjustments.
- Error corrected in the export module in relation to special characters
- Improved the security of server-client communication
- Error corrected when storing device information in the database using an upload agent
- Error corrected when swapping out versions via the Archive Manager
- Error corrected during job execution
- Error corrected during server synchronization
- Error corrected in the job configuration interface
- Error corrected in the ReportClient
- Adjustment to AdminClient so that only administrators can create a support package
- Various 3rd party libraries updated
- libcurl.dll removed from installation directory and HowTo created on how to remove libcurl.dlls from older versions