Project archive with design adjustments, plugins and bug fixes

New Features

User Interface & Functionality

• Project archive
• Linked folders
• Archive mode indication on the dashboard (Collaboration/Backup)
• Project list view
• Redesigned project workbench
• Open a new tab containing a panel from an existing project or App
• Toolbar with breadcrumb navigation and fixed features
• Context tabs (e.g. Group Objects, Channels, Parameters, Devices, etc.) moved on top of the window
• New sidebar container 'Groups'
• Panel selector
• Option to make a panel 'Favorite'
• Group by App developer for App panels
• Actions (close, move up/down, as a new tab, as a new window)
• A plug-in information repository is now used to allow user guidance for plug-in related errors

ETS SDK

• N/A

Improvements

• User Interface & Functionality
• User Experience
• Licensing
• Show license comments added in MyKNX when activating a license
• Group licenses by product category (ETS, Apps)
• Diagnostics
• Line Scan - More information scanned and displayed
• Line Scan - When comparing to project, the Additional Addresses and Bus Interfaces are taken into account
• Group monitor - New columns 'Function name', 'Building part'
• Group monitor - New button 'Stop cyclic sending'
• Device info - Possible to copy the content via a button
• Group object icons indicating the operation of the group object
• The 'Park' button has been moved to the device's context menu
• New room types ('Technical room', 'Dressing room', 'Gym', 'Multimedia', 'Home cinema', 'Entrance')
• Panels can be closed by clicking the middle-mouse button on the panel content switcher
• When a 'Current line' has been selected it is shown in the 'Sidebar - Properties'
• The dialog to creating a new group address has now the focus on the name
• A tooltip showing the interface information which has been selected by the 'Automatic'
• When inserting devices with additional individual addresses from the catalog, the additional addresses are assigned in reverse order, i.e. 'last free'
• Project archive
• Archived date is shown when hovering a specific project version
• The dialog to convert ETS5 archived projects has now the option to be scrolled down
• The separator of the Reports panel is now resizable
• KNX Secure
• When making a keyring export there is an option to include the FDSK as well

Bug fixes

• User Interface & Functionality
• KNX Secure
• Initial programming of secure IP Router failed when performing 'Download partial' and the KNX Serial Number is already known from the device certificate
• The programming flags were not cleared, if local factory reset had been detected for devices that had been configured as 'secure devices'
• User Experience
• Re-ordering project tabs was not possible
• Project comparison
• New functions were not shown in the content comparison
• Content comparison between local and archive had the columns swapped
• After selecting multiple elements in the detail view, it was not possible to only select the first one again
• Assigning a datapoint to multiple group addresses gave misleading warning
• Changing a device from one segment to another one with a different domain address the 'Cfg' flag was not cleared
• Changing the configuration flags from the respective column in the detail view did not work
• IP devices were automatically parked, if an IP-Router had been moved to another location in the topology
• Linking - Linking dialog - Custom group address name is not kept when pressing 'Enter'
• Reports - Project statistics report failed if building functions were present
• Manufacturer-signed projects were not importable
• Diagnostics
• Group monitor - Writing a value to a group address with a specific datapoint type worked partially (5.003 and some others)
• Group monitor - Writing a group address value did not work if a datapoint main type has been selected
• Group monitor - Multiple group address reading failed in some rare cases
• Group monitor - Colors didn't work if there was a condition about the 'Telegram Type'
• Group monitor - The tooltip in the monitor for the datapoint type 5.001 was incorrect
• Group monitor - A newly opened panel always reset the 'Currently selected' connection to 'Automatic'
• Group monitor - Information about the current bus recording / session are missing
• Line Scan - The PDF report truncated the device list
• Licensing - When cloud license is used, opening a project via taskbar failed
• The content of the column 'Function' of a linked channel was not shown
• The parameter dialog controls show a wrong value after parameter validation failed
• In some cases the 'Update application program' function did not work
• Using the 'Paste Special' function cleared the 'Grp' flag from the source device
• Extended Copy app
• The preview showed incorrectly multiple middle groups in some cases
• Pasting devices cleared the 'Grp' flag from the source device
• Split & Merge app - In some cases merging was not possible

ETS SDK

• Prevent Knx.Ets.Sdk.Root.IsConnectionAvailable being called recursively

Important Notice

New project schema for all projects (any project that is opened/imported is automatically converted to the new schema and cannot be downgraded)