Product Change Notification – PCN 000856       January 25, 2022

These changes will be implemented by January 25, 2022.

Please review the details below to determine how these changes will affect your products and/or operations.

What will change?

The ThingsPro Edge 2.2.1-3369 will now support the UC-8100A-ME-T Series and UC-8200 Series.

New features for ThingsPro Edge 2.2.1 include:

• A restoration function for Azure IoT Edge (AIG Series only).
• Device provisioning with X.509 certificate via Azure IoT Edge (AIG Series only).
• A NAT (Network Address Translation) function for connected devices so that they can access the Internet.
• Supports connecting an Azure IoT Edge device, acting as a transparent gateway, to the Azure IoT Device for communicating with the Azure IoT Hub.
• Adds bulk data upload to Sparkplug in Store and Forward.
• Command-line functions for retrieving status and traffic logs of the Modbus Master. For additional information on the command-line functions, visit https://thingspro-edge.moxa.online/v2.2.0/usermanuals/southbound_services/modbus.html.
• Tag Overview monitors real-time values of tags and writes values into writable tags.
• A firewall to ensure secure connectivity based on pre-defined rules for inbound traffic.
• Certificate Center to present service certificates, including the trusted root CA (Certificate Authority).

Furthermore, the following issues were fixed:

• MQTT TLS version could not be configured as 1.0.
• Incorrect WAN Interface information displayed in the System Overview.
• Conversion of the maximum value of uint64/ int64 in the register was not precise.
• Same topic name could be created for different Modbus interfaces.
• Some memory tags would be missed by MQTT Broker if the Overview page was closed while the pull operation was in progress.
• Selected tags in a message could not be sent out simultaneously within a given send-out-threshold.

Also, note these enhancements to ThingsPro Edge 2.2.1:

• Upgrades Azure IoT Edge runtime environment to v1.1.4.
• Allows manual upgrade/downgrade of Azure IoT Edge runtime environment.
• Allows the update/upgrade of Debian packages.
• Improves the upgrade mechanism to ensure success.
• Adds more options to the time zone selection.

For a complete list of series/models supported, refer to
https://thingspro-edge.moxa.online/v2.2.1/releases/index.html

Which products will be affected?

Product Name	Current Version	New Version
UC-8100A-ME-T Series	ThingsPro Edge 2.2.0-3074	ThingsPro Edge 2.2.1-3369
UC-8200 Series	ThingsPro Edge 2.2.0-3074	ThingsPro Edge 2.2.1-3369

When will the new versions be available?

Product Name	New Version	Available for Order
UC-8100A-ME-T Series	ThingsPro Edge 2.2.1-3369	Available Now
UC-8200 Series	ThingsPro Edge 2.2.1-3369

If you have any questions, please contact alfredfh.li@moxa.com,
or contact your regional sales representative.