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ThingWorx 8.4 What's New?
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We are excited to announce ThingWorx 8.4 is now available for download!
Key functional highlights
ThingWorx 8.4 covers the following areas of the product portfolio: ThingWorx Analytics and ThingWorx Foundation which includes Connection Server and Edge capabilities.
ThingWorx Foundation
- Next Generation Composer:
- File Repository Editor added for application file management
- New entity Config Table Editor to enable application configurability and customization
- Localization support fornew languages: Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Russian, Chinese/Taiwan, Chinese/Simplified
- Mashup Builder:
- Responsive Layout with new Layout Editor
- 13 new and updated widgets (beta)
- Theming Editor (beta)
- New Functions Editor
- New Personalized Workspace
- Platform:
- Added support for AzureSQL, a relational database-as-a-service (DBaaS) as the new persistence provider
- A PaaS database that is always running on the latest stable version of SQL Server Database Engine and patched OS with 99.99% availability.
- Added support for InfluxData, a leading time series storage platform as the new ThingWorx persistence provider
- Supports ingesting large amounts of IoT data and offers high availability with clustering setup
- New extension for Remote Access and Control
- Supports VNC, RDP desktop sharing for any remote device
- HTTP and SSH connectivity supported
- An optional microservice to offload the ThingWorx server by allowing query execution to occur in a separate process on the same or on a different physical machine.
- Installers for Postgres versions of ThingWorx running on Windows or RHEL
- AzureSQL
- InfluxDB
- Thing Presence feature introduced which indicates whether the connection of a thing is “normal” based on the expected behavior of the device.
- Remote Access Extension
- Query Microservice:
- Click and Go Installers for Windows and Linux (RHEL)
- Security:
- Major investments include updating 3rd party libraries, handling of data to address cross-site scripting (XSS) issues and enhancements to the password policy, including a password blacklist.
- A significant number of security issues have been fixed in this release.
- It is recommended that customers upgrade as soon as possible to take advantage of these important improvements.
Docker Support
- Added Dockerfile as a distribution media for ThingWorx Foundation and Analytics
- Allows building Docker container image that unlocks the potential of Dev and Ops
Note: Legacy Composer has been removed and replaced with the New Composer.
Documentation:
- ThingWorx 8.4 Reference Documents
- ThingWorx Platform 8.4 Release Notes
- ThingWorx Platform Help Center
- ThingWorx Analytics Help Center
- ThingWorx Connection Services Help Center
