As of May 24, 2023, ThingWorx 9.4.0 is available for download! Here are some of the highlights from the recent ThingWorx release.
What’s new in ThingWorx 9.4?
Composer and Mashup Builder
- New Combo chart and Pie chart based on modern Web Components architecture along with several other widget enhancements such as Grid toolbar improvements for custom actions, highlighting newly added rows for Grid widget and others
- Ability to style the focus on each widget when they are selected to get specific styling for different components
- Absolute positioning option with a beta flag to use by default is available now
- Several other Mashup improvements, such as Export function support is made available; improved migration dialogue (backported to 9.3 as well) to allow customers to move to new widgets; and legacy widgets language changes
Foundation
- Heavily subscribed events could now be distributed across the ThingWorx HA cluster nodes to be scaled horizontally for better performance and processing of ThingWorx subscriptions.
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flex Server GA support with ThingWorx 9.4.1 for customers deploying ThingWorx Foundation on their own Azure Cloud infrastructure
- Improved ThingWorx APIs for InfluxDB to avoid Data loss at a high scale with additional monitoring metrics in place for guardrails
- Several security fixes and key third-party stack updates
Remote Access and Control (RAC)
- Remote Service Edge Extension (RSEE) for C-SDK, currently under Preview and planned to be Generally Available (GA) by Sept 2023, would allow ThingWorx admins to use Remote Access and Control with the C-SDK based connected devices to use Global Access Server (GAS) for a stable, secure, and large number of remote sessions
- With 9.4, a self-signed certificate or certificate generated by the trusted certificate authority can be used for RAC with the ThingWorx platform
- Ability to use parameter substitution to update Auto Launch commands dynamically based on data from the ThingWorx platform is now available
Software Content Management
- Support for 100k+ assets with redesigned and improved performance on Asset Search
- Better control over package deployment with redesigned package tracking, filtering, and management
- Improved overall SCM stability, performance, and scalability and a more user-friendly and intuitive experience
Analytics
- Improvements to the scalability of property transforms to enable stream processing of the larger number of properties within a ThingWorx installation
- Refactoring of Analytics Builder UI to use updated widgets and align with the PTC design system
- Updates to underlying libraries to enable the creation and scoring of predictive models in the latest version of PMML (v4.4)
- End of Support for Analytics Manager .NET Agent SDK
View release notes here and be sure to upgrade to 9.4!
Cheers,
Ayush Tiwari
Director, Product Management, ThingWorx
