VOLTTRON 4.1 Release

The official 4.1 release contains the following:

• Platform Upgrades

  • Fixed a bug that created a memory leak in less reliable networks
  • Added aliases for volttron-ctl, volttron-cfg and volttron-pkg (vctl, vcfg, and vpkg respectively)
  • New install-agent script - allows easier scripting of agent installations for larger deployments
  • Made it easier to authorize external agent connections using the following commands
  • Added new commands for exposing auth related information:
    • vctl auth publickey
    • vctl auth serverkey
  • Added volttron-start and volttron-stop scripts for consistent starting and stopping of the platform without having to be in an activated environment.

• VOLTTRON Central

  • Swapped out a memory leaking charting library for a new one
  • Added Device Configuration UI which allows remote BACnet device detection and driver setup
  • Only the connecting platform has the ability to register with VOLTTRON Central .

• Historians

  • Improved performance of the backup cache
  • Improved performance of the MongoDB historian (Used by PNNL with over 2.5 billion datapoints currently)
  • Added Crate historian
  • Updated ForwardHistorian - can now be configured to verify specific agents are running on the remote instance.

• Drivers

  • Improved command line BACnet scan for large scale deployments
  • Better performance on low power devices which do not implement the entire BACnet interface

• New Core Agents

  • AgentWatcher - Sends alerts when configured agent identities are not present on the message bus.
  • ThresholdAgent - Sends alerts when configured topics are out of specified range.
  • EmailerAgent - Emails administrators when alerts happen (has a time delay mechanism so that admins aren't spammed by the same error)

Issues Resolved 4.1 release https://github.com/VOLTTRON/volttron/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22VOLTTRON+4.1%22+is%3Aclosed
Commits since 4.0.1 release releases/4.0.1...releases/4.1