IOT Platform 6.4

Community Release Date:
 22-01-2025.
Private Servers Release Date:
 29-01-2024.
See complete changelog here.
Added
* Plugin Installation Dialog
:
* Support for custom volumes, enabling the mounting of custom file storages to plugins like Node-RED, FTP, etc.
Custom Volumes to be attached to Plugins
* Support for configuring custom environment variables, e.g., for enabling Node-RED projects.
Custom Environment Variables on Plugins
* Virtual Devices
: Initial support for devices that are always connected and can fetch data from external resources (e.g., endpoints via products). Example use case: creating a weather device fetching weather data and forecasts.
Virtual Devices
* Product Plugin Exporter
: Export products to a file storage, with options to:
* Set plugin image, name, description, and version.
* Edit markdown readme with images, changelogs, etc.
New Product Plugin Exporter
* New Event
: endpoint_call_response
, providing the result of endpoint calls.
* Billing Menu for Admins
: Added a menu item linking to the customer portal.
New Billing
* Account Deletion
: Community users can now delete their accounts.
Community users can remove their accounts
* Enhanced Product Profile Resources
: Resources can now target endpoints, plugins paths, call other api resources, and enable operations based on their responses.
* Experimental MongoDB Backend
:
* Support for custom data retention policies for individual buckets.
* Deprecates InfluxDB for new instances.
MongoDB Backend as new
Improved
* Default Plugin Shell
: Updated to point to /bin/sh
 (used in minimal images). Configurable via the task.shell
 parameter.
* Plugin Installation
: Plugins can now be installed directly from file storages, where Plugins are exported by default in the Plugin Exporter feature.
* Plugin Management Page
: Migrated to Angular with new features:
* Supports reading readme.md
 and images from file storage.
New Plugin Management Page.
* Console Component
: Updated to Angular with text search functionality.
* 
New console component migrated to Angular
* Charts
: Migrated to Angular using ng-apexcharts
, resolving several issues.
* Location Updates
: Location properties now update with the current latitude and longitude values.
* File Storage API
:
* Added support for specifying storage paths using the path
 parameter.
* Automatically creates parent directories when uploading a file via PUT
 if they do not exist.
* Swagger API Schema
: Improved schema definitions for better clarity and usability.
Fixed
* Bucket Operations
:
* Resolved bucket writes with empty tag values.
* Fixed bucket reads not using the project
 field.
* Endpoint Calls
:
* Fixed endpoint call tests not displaying application/json
 body with UTF-8 encoding in response headers.
* Plugin Environment Variables
:
* Fixed creation of environment variables for plugins without default values.
* Fixed issues when adding environment variables to such plugins.
* Project Roles
: Fixed form creation for project roles.
* Device Buckets
: Fixed an unauthorized message when a project member accesses DeviceBucket
.
* Resource Streams
: Fixed product resource streams not initializing for non-IoTMP/PROTO devices on connection.
* Dashboard
:
* Fixed window titles containing placeholders.
* Fixed removal of incorrect sub-widgets in group widgets.
* Fixed missing sources in widgets within group widgets.
* Sharing a dashboard now automatically grants file storage read permissions if required (e.g., for HTML widgets).
* Frontend API
: Fixed API resource permissions.
* Mobile App
: Fixed issues with loading HTML widgets.
* HTML Widgets
: Fixed reliance on public access to file storage.
* Project Switching
:
* Admin users within a project no longer see the info page.
* Redirecting to the default state when switching projects now applies to all users.
* Resource List
: Under some conditions, a resource list, i.e., devices, may display duplicated items.