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Release notes 5.2 - 4.3

Here you can find all ABB Ability™ History release notes. Each release note will tell you what is new in each version. In the Release history chapter, we have listed all the ABB Ability™ History versions, and brief summaries of their functionalities. More detailed information can be found from the respective articles, that can be found from the left-hand side menu.

Release history

ABB Ability™ History 5.2

Released in September 2019

  • Certificate-based Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
  • Support for Windows Application Firewall (WAF)
  • Compliance with ABB MCSR for products
  • Support for 3 level hierarchical systems
  • ODBC/SQL interface for Intel Linux
  • Enhancements in Modbus master
  • OPC UA Client for Linux
  • OPC UA server compliance with standard
  • OData API for BI and analytics
  • cpmPlus Connector for ABB Ability™ Edge
  • Single line diagrams and other improvements in View UI SDK
  • New Engineering UI

Full details in the separate article.

ABB Ability™ History 5.1

Released in September 2018

  • Certificate based authentication in device integration and History node-to-node connections.
  • Azure ADFS integration.
  • TCP support for HA communication.
  • New historized data types, e.g. blob.
  • EquipmentEvent log for storing equipment related events.
  • OPC UA AE client.
  • NetSync - a rule based configured service to feed equipment data from systems to system.
  • View UI SDK.

Full details in the separate article .

ABB Ability™ History 5.0-1

Released in May 2017

  • Modbus data acquisition interface with Tag based configuration.
  • EquipmentEvent table.
  • Data abstraction interface supports prefetching of class instances to server’s and client’s cache.
  • Documentation changed to wiki.
  • Foreign domain authentication support in Vtrin Netserver.
  • OPC client configuration based on equipment model.
  • Usability improvements in Tag population tool.
  • REST API to data abstraction interface.
  • LDAP authentication support.

ABB Ability™ History 5.0

Released in December 2015

  • .NET remoting replaced by secure websockets.
  • New ODBC/SQL for RTDB core maintenance.
  • New ODBC/SQL interface for data abstraction interface.
  • EqM API - Platform independent equipment API.
  • Remote iterators in data abstraction interface.
  • Blob support.
  • StreamHistory is a new type of history storage structure that provides possibility for optimized disk IO with option for lossless (LZW) compression when storing time series process data.
  • Equipment property history – recording history for property values without Variable definitions.
  • Variable specific raw history – individually selectable history table for a Variable.
  • Improved history recording performance, especially with the StreamHistory.
  • Redundant DCN configuration.
  • Data source drivers for OPC and ODBC/SQL.
  • OPC browser and Tag configuration tool.
  • Server side plugins for data abstraction interface driver.
  • Equipment models as virtual classes in data abstraction interface.
  • Interface definitions for classes and equipment models.
  • Web server and server side port forwarding.
  • New Variable data types.
  • Varying length strings and variant data types applied in predefined tables.

Full details of both 5.0 and 5.0.-1 in separate article Release 5.0 and 5.0-1 .

ABB Ability™ History 4.6

Released in Semptember 2014

  • Varying length columns and variant data types support in the core RTDB.
  • OPC HDA Server with seamless history retrieval support that is combining data from DCN and main histories in DCN.
  • Change in the logic of collecting the unfinished period in an aggregated history to better address application needs.
  • OPCEventLog takes benefit of the variant data type and varying length columns, and based on them supports indexing and retrieval of vendor specific attributes.
  • Data abstraction interface takes benefit of runtime code generation to provide performance improvement.
  • File replication in redundant configuration.

Full details in separate article Release 4.6 .

ABB Ability™ History 4.5

Released in March 2013

  • OPC UA Server that contains node management from History Classes and Equipment model, Data Access (DA) functionality from any class or equipment model properties, and Historical Data Access (HDA) support from variables that collect process history.
  • OPC client for UA Data Access (DA).
  • OPC client enhancements to support HDA as primary data acquisition interface, DA write support for string data types, buffering and asynchronous option for DA write.
  • Equipment model enhancement that enables global properties for equipment, abstract equipment types, equipment definition inheritance, support for some complex data types such as color and array data type, and object type based reference collections that provide functionality such as multiple paths for a tag.
  • Scenario support for history tables has been enhanced.
  • Cyber security include preshared public keys for VtrinLib connects against man-in-the-middle attack, end-to-end security for OPC DA and HDA servers (client impersonation and tag by tag authorization), and user profile based audit logging (disable logging for system interfaces).
  • Performance improvements contain speeding up startup after abrupt system shutdown, Virtual History Interface (VHI) head table optimization by removing unnecessary index updates, RTDB core improvement to support event triggering by any table index, and cleanup to reduce the runtime size of Variable instances.
  • Portability improvements contain Linux and ARM support for the core RTDB.

Full details in separate article Release 4.5.

ABB Ability™ History 4.4

Released in March 2012

  • OPC UA server as a developer preview

Full details in separate article Release 4.4.

ABB Ability™ History 4.3

Released in January 2012

  • High availability with support for redundant main nodes;
  • Application development: equipment model based calculations and displays, new calculation scheduling system + easy access to other database classes, HistoryAnalyzer class over several variables, autorefresh for non-cacheable lists;
  • More performance: non-persistent locks (faster ScanDB, less dirty pages à faster backup), VtrinLib string interning, virtual history table sharing, cache disabling for non used classes, 64 bit ScanDB with more configurability, memory management parameters calculated and set by the installation procedure;
  • Security: diagnostics on users and active connections, new login, code signing certificate for Vtrin visualization, possibility to limit simultaneous connections for single user and number of concurrent operations, improved support for Vtrin gateway setup, ACL security for equipment model, secure management of user names and passwords for systems connections;
  • 800xA Interface: seamless OPC HDA support from DCN/main history to improve performance and availability, ability to collect any available OPC A&E event attribute from 800xA, additional cyclic refresh options for OPC DA client;
  • Improved quality: more diagnostics, better component status information;
  • OSS settlement

Full details in separate article Release 4.3.

ABB Ability™ History 4.2

Released in June 2010

  • Hierarchical system architecture with several data collector nodes (DCN) – main configuration, integration with 800xA, Tag concept to enable easy external configuration, OPC DA and HDA servers, history value representativeness concept for precalculated histories, ACL security, new history table structure to improve performance, high resolution history with lossless compression (option for dedicated applications and system interfaces)

RTDB 1.0 - 3.5

Released 1999 - 2007

  • See the respective release notes documents.

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