Updates and Changes for SystemLink Enterprise Extended Support Versions

Browse updates and changes made in SystemLink Enterprise versions on extended support.

Note If you cannot find changes for your version, it might be a more recent version, documented as a new feature. Or, your version might not have included user-facing updates. You can find more information about non-visible changes, such as bug fixes, compatibility updates, and stability adjustments or maintenance adjustments, in the product Release Notes, available on ni.com.

February 2024

  • Use the SystemLink Enterprise Test Plans Module to create, view, and manage work orders and test plans for the products you are testing.
  • Use Specification Management APIs to maintain a central repository of specifications. Use specifications to store test limits and test conditions.
  • Create routines to automate an action when an event occurs.
  • Distribute Helm charts through the Docker registry to simplify your deployment.
  • Added support for Kubernetes 1.28.

January 2024

  • Added support for SystemLink Client 2024 Q1.
  • Activate SystemLink Enterprise offline.
  • You can @ mention other users in comments on test results and data spaces.
  • Trigger test data extraction routines from the Product details page.
  • You can trend step data from the Results details page directly into a data space.
  • Monitor disk utilization for your JupyterHub user data. You can see the utilization in the main status bar at the bottom of the window.
  • Enable dark mode which tracks the settings for your device.

December 2023

  • You can track the location history of your assets.
  • You can manage files associated with your assets.
  • You can enable software installation from ni.com or a remote URL by adding those locations as feeds on your system.
  • You can visualize parametric data in histograms in data spaces.

October 2023

  • You can add comments to test results.
  • You can view the current and historical values of a tag in dashboards.
  • Data tables have improved reliability and scalability and can support thousands of concurrent writers.
  • You can connect to external MongoDB instances.
  • You can view all tracked assets on the Assets page.
  • You can change the version of a package installed on a managed system.

September 2023

  • You can change the version of software installed on a system from the System Details page.
  • You can specify a part number as additional tracked metadata when adding new assets to SystemLink.

August 2023

  • Install software on a system from feeds that are already configured on the device. In the SystemLink web application, select Systems Management » Systems. Double-click a system, open the Software tab, and click Install software.
  • View detailed information about jobs that have executed on a system. In the SystemLink web application, select Systems Management » Systems. Double-click a system, open the Jobs tab, select a job, and click View.

July 2023

  • View detailed test step data under a test result.
  • Results and Products grids display a count of items that match a query.
  • Visualize parametric data with a single click from a test result or from the test results grid.
  • View box, violin, and histogram charts in the margins of a scatter chart in a data space.
  • Color traces in scatter charts by product, result, step, condition, and measurement data.
  • The Systems grid tag column supports autocomplete for tag paths.
  • Added the Tag Historian Service.
  • Copy a tag path using the context menu in the Tags grid on the System Details page.
  • Delete tags in the Tags grid on the System Details page.
  • Notebook dropdowns group notebooks by workspace.

June 2023

  • Track the location and status of assets on the Assets tab for your system.
  • Manually add assets to your system to track third-party devices and devices without drivers.
  • Edit and delete data spaces from the data spaces table and from an individual data space.
  • The PostgreSQL backend for the Test Insights Service is more resilient.

May 2023

  • Added tags. Publish and view the current value of tags from your test systems. Monitor the status of your test fleet with automatically published system health data on the System Details page.

April 2023

  • Create data spaces to view parametric test data on a scatter chart.
  • The DataFrame Service uses streaming data deserialization. This allows you to use larger batch sizes with more rows per write.
  • The Dremio S3 automatically promotes missing data sets on query. You get improved reliability in scenarios where a dataset is deleted at the same time it is queried. To uptake this change, delete all Dremio PVCs and restart all Dremio and DataFrame Service pods.
  • You can show custom properties in the Files grid and create saved views.
  • You can filter the steps grid by step and measurement name.
  • The default pull policy for images in argo-workflows has changed. Instead of always, the new default is IfNotPresent.
  • The executions grid groups by status by default.
  • Schedule routines are enabled by default.
  • The feature flag routineservice.featureToggle.publishScheduleEvent has been removed from the SystemLink Helm chart.
  • The DataFrame Service has new limits intended to ensure availability of the service.

March 2023

  • Export data tables to CSV.
  • Query product, results, and steps tables with the table query builder.
  • Added support for Kubernetes 1.23.
  • Added support for PostgreSQL 13 and 14.
  • Added telemetry metrics for the Test Monitor Service, Data Frame Service, and Kafka service.
  • Replaced oidc/user-info with /oidc/userinfo as the endpoint to view claims for the current logged in user.
  • Enabled Kafka UI for debugging and monitoring.
  • Increased the default memory provided to Kafka topic operator from 256 MB to 512 MB to increase the total number of tables the Data Frame Service can write to.
  • Kafka S3 sink connectors are automatically deleted if a data table is marked endOfData.
  • Deleted Kafka S3 sink connectors are automatically reestablished if connectors are manually deleted.

January 2023

  • Schedule a Jupyter notebook to run at a specific time or on a repeating schedule.
  • View detailed information about individual test steps for a test result. Refer to Viewing Test Steps by Result.
  • Access SystemLink navigation and user account settings when using the Jupyter environment.

December 2022

  • The top level helm chart includes the License Service. Refer to the release notes for details on the required configuration for this service.
  • You can specify data table IDs as variables in dashboards.
  • You can customize, filter, save, and load views in the Products grid.
  • You can upload and view files associated with a product.
  • You can filter the Executions grid by date ranges and workspaces.

November 2022

  • You can upload files up to 10GB through the web interface.