4.0.0

Changes (since 3.4.0):

• Large refactor of IOTA Lib code to make it simpler
• Add: payloadType to device and groups model to support NGSI-v2 and NGSI-LD formats in southbound measures (iotagent-json#778)
• Fix: use but not store timestamp and explicitAttrs from group with autoprovisioned devices (#1504, partially)
• Fix: MongoDB connection authentication (user and password were not actually used) (#1510)
• Fix: add static attributes when use explicitAttrs (#1506)
• Fix: ensure service and subservice in context of error handlers using req headers
• Fix: remove attribute of measures with name id or type to avoid collisions (#1485)
• Fix: ensure entity id and type are string (#1476)
• Fix: update ctxt allow nested expressions (#1493)
• Fix: change log level contextAvailable expression exception (from WARN to INFO)
• Fix: null values arithmetics in JEXL expressions (#1440)
• Fix: remove mongo DeprecationWarning: current Server Discovery and Monitoring engine is deprecated by setting useUnifiedTopology = true
• Fix: mongodb.authSource / IOTA_MONGO_AUTH_SOURCE was not correctly supported (#1526)
• Upgrade mongodb dev dep from 4.17.0 to 4.17.1
• Remove: single configuration mode (along with IOTA_SINGLE_MODE env var) (#1469)
• Remove: extractVariables from jexl plugin (no needed anymore since the removal of bidireational plugin)
• Remove: time compression support
• Remove: autocast (including env var IOTA_AUTOCAST) (#1498)

3.4.4

Hotfix version for release 3.4.0.

Changes (since 3.4.3):

• Fix: remove attribute of measures with name id or type to avoid collisions (#1485)

3.4.3

Hotfix version for release 3.4.0.

This version is an improvement of the 3.4.2 hotfix.

3.4.2

Hotfix version for release 3.4.0.

This version is an improvement of the 3.4.1 hotfix.

3.4.1

Hotfix version for release 3.4.0.

Changes (sinces 3.4.0):

• Fix: ensure entity_id is a string when is result of entityNameExp (#1476)

3.4.0

Note this version removes bidirectional and appendMode functionality

Changes (since 3.3.0):

• Fix: for non evaluable expressions which should not be propagated to attrs values (#1440)
• Fix: try to use apikey from measure/group to find, update, remove device in first attempt (#1426, #1435)
• Fix: ensure device apikey in already provisioned device (#1430)
• Upgrade mongodb dev dep from 4.7.0 to 4.17.0
• Upgrade mongoose dep from 5.13.14 to 5.13.20
• Remove: bidirectional plugin (#1413)
• Remove: appendMode and creation of initial entity (#1413)

3.3.0

Changes (since 3.2.0):

• Add: do not create initial entity when a new device is provisioned and appendMode is false or NGSI-LD is used
• Add: evaluate group entityNameExp with a context including measures (#1334)
• Add: allow update timestamp and other config fields of device
• Fix: check array access in extractVariables of jexlPlugin when bidirectionalPlugin is enabled
• Fix: explicitAttrs of device was tainted even if not defined
• Fix: do not include static, lazy and commands from group to device to avoid duplicate them in device (#1377)
• Fix: use 'options=upsert' when update ngsiv2 CB entities and appendMode is enabled (#956)
• Fix: do not propagate group config (timestamp and explicitAttrs) to autoprovisioned devices (at database level) (#1377)
• Fix: appendMode at general level (config.js / env var) changes its default from false to true
• Fix: remove sensitive MongoDB connection parameters from log traces (remove 'option' object from logs)
• Deprecate: bidirectional plugin
• Deprecate: appendMode
• Remove: expressionLanguage field (as it it not longer needed, due to only one expression language is supported, after the removal of legacy expressions in 3.2.0) (#1384)

3.2.0

Changes (since 3.1.0):

• Add: save result of apply expression attribute into current context for futher usages (#1305)
• Add: skipValue for expression to allow skip attribute when match with result of apply expression (#1353)
• Add: add hextostring transformation jexl function (#1367)
• Add: JEXL support to bidirectinal plugin
• Fix: avoid usage of newlines in logs (#1342)
• Fix: explicitAttributes true case: should progress just active attributes which receives measures and all active attributes with expressions
• Fix: add missed active attributes (with expressions) for ctxt for evaluate explicitAttrs expression (#1351)
• Fix: allow use static attributes from group in entityNameExp of group
• Fix: disable device attribute entity_name validation using pattern
• Fix: re-enable invocation of custom plugins on update (#1348)
• Fix: change level of log about not context available for apply expression from warn to info
• Remove: remove legacy expression support (removing IOTA_DEFAULT_EXPRESSION_LANGUAGE env var and associated defaultExpressionLanguage config.js setting) (#1340)

3.1.0

This release removes support from Nodev14. Note that Nodev14 will be deprecated in May 2023 according to the node release schedule. You are highly encouraged to use Nodev16 or newer.

Changes (since 3.0.0):

• Add: support to run tests with node 18
• Fix: propagate TimeInstant to all metadata attributes when TimeInstant is provided as measure
• Set Nodejs 16 as minimum version in packages.json (effectively removing Nodev14 from supported versions)

3.0.0

This is the last version of the library supporting Nodev14. Note that Nodev14 will be deprecated in May 2023, according to the node release schedule. You are highly encouraged to use Nodev16 or newer.

Changes (since 2.26.0):

• Refactor replace alias, multientity, expressions and timestamp plugins by a single processing (#1195, #1314)
• Refactor NGSI-LD processing to align with alias, multientity, expressions and timestamp plugin changes (#1322)
• Fix: simplify cast to native attributes type: use just JSON.parse (#1323)