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Added support Support for .NET 6 (formely .NET Core), multi-platform runtime target, allowing to deploy the application to multiple types of hardware platform and  operating operating systems.

New Designer UI for Project Configuration, easier to use, more diagnostics features, multiple windows management and tracking latest versions.

New Tag Providers: InfluxDB, SQLInfluxDB Data Provider, enable seamless browsing of InfluxDB data, as well use it as an historian storage target.

MQTT and OPC-UA Explorer and Simulation tools

Performance improvements: (We still need to do benchmark tests before we write about this features, but server memory requirements for some project may reduce 10% to 50%, CPU improvements smaller than the memory, need to test to define if significaste to use in marketing or not.

EdgeGateway for Cisco Routers

EdgeGateway for Universal Robots

HTML5 Web Assembly displays, enables .NET programming for Web pages and better performance. Web displays using WebAssembly, HTML5/CSS3, allowing to run on current browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari with no installation of plug-ins

Memory usage improvements, powering large size and mission critical applications.

HTTP REST APIs and Web Services integration tools, with JSON, XML Tools to easily do HTTP Requests from displays or exchange web services data with other other applications. 

Execution Profiles for Projects. Allows easy to setup profiles when the Project is opened from Dev, Validation or Production environments. 

Enhanced export and import features, to JSON and CSV files, facilitating project documentation and integration with third party version controls systems.

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ControlLogix enhancements: unsolicited messages

Self-aware Asset Displays. Ability to Create Self-aware SCADA displays, that will automatically create symbols based on the data models.

New built-in Code editor, for C#, VB.NET and Python

EdgeGateway for Cisco Routers

EdgeGateway for Universal RobotsHTML5 enhancements, web-assembly 

Improvements and enhancements

Symbols and Components Improvements new Editor tools, Map symbols to tags, templates and categories,, more symbols in the library. 

Assets and Unified Namespace enhancements, Easier Unified Namespace, updated Tags, Assets and Data Sources configuration tools, making easier to combine Local Tags and Remote data sources, browse the tags values as you add elements.

Drawing tools user interface, enhanced usability to manage industrial icons, symbols and graphical components.

ComboBox and ListBox populated from SQL sources

Trend Chart connecting directly with SQL databases

New ProjectManager interface, easier access to select your projects and create new ones.

New Drivers: <<< add here >>>.

TagHistorian. Use multiple sources, including SQL, TagProvider (Canary, InfluxDB, PI?) and Custom Script classes.

Alarm Acknowledgement: additional tools to track unacknowledged alarms.  Ack, UnAck, AckNotRequest, Normalized and Active again with no Ack

Option for Automatic management of TCP/IP connection ports when running multiple projects. Tools to allow easier installation as Windows Service for multiple projects. 

mobile Mobile layouts: when defined layouts, easier definition for the mobile version

(Replace new code editor:  themes, JSON, XML, Python 

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New layout type (grid layout with splitters)

Symbols can how tilting code to execute when added to the displays.   (Built0n Labels, StateColors)

Drawing tools: Introduction of Connector to link objects, with poly lines or new horizontal/vertical only lines.

Templates: added scripts and alarms connected with the template

Smart Symbols Wizard

Migration Guide

Select project, upgrade button, build, test

Deprecated Features

Themes control mappings properties mapping, iOS replace by WebAssemblies