Sixnet® IPm® Firmware Revision History

Note: IPm firmware versions are of the form major.minor.buildnumber. A letter X will be appended in the case of unreleased experimental versions. Other letters may be added in the case of patches or other special versions. As such, releases which are not consecutive are to be expected. Anything in between two releases was an intermediate version on the way to the next release.

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IMPORTANT: Firmware versions 7.0 and later support only the following model:

  • ST-IPM-8460

 


 

7.0.106

2022-01-07

Fixed Issues:

IDSubjectDescription
448

Redundancy - Common IP switch is really slow sometimes

Common IP switchover using Sixnet redundancy was found to be slow, sometimes happening up to 30 seconds after IPM switchover.

 


 

7.0.104

2021-11-17

Fixed Issues:

IDSubjectDescription
442

Reset System COM Port

The Reset System COM Port operation in the Advanced Operations for ST-IPm-8460 is giving error. The COM port is not reset to sixnet UDR.

 


 

7.0.103

2021-11-01

Fixed Issues:

IDSubjectDescription
345Special Features File CreationToolkit not able to create special features file during IPM configuration load basic.

 


 

7.0.102

2021-03-24

New features:

IDSubjectDescription
201IPM RedundancyAdded Straton Redundancy in RedLion Workbench.

Fixed Issues:

IDSubjectDescription
321RedLion WorkbenchChange Red Lion Workbench serial Support from portA to Port B.
320RedLion WorkbenchEnabled Red Lion Workbench Modbus RTU slave functionality on all serial ports.
318MODBUSAdded support for MODBUS Query which has the Slave ID or Unit ID or slave address range from 0 to 247.
316MODBUSModbus TCP/IP slave communications would not recover when port is closed; until port is open and closed again.
302IPM PerformanceMerged changes implemented for fix ID 238.
249MODBUSWhen Modbus address 248 or above is used as a slave the RTU sxMBeth_client goes to 100%.

 


 

7.0.101

2020-11-13

New features:

IDSubjectDescription
 IPMInitial Wide Release
190IPM PerformanceUpgraded Straton runtime to version 9.3.

Fixed Issues:

IDSubjectDescription
180IPM PerformanceSerial interface is supported to download Straton application.


IMPORTANT: Firmware versions 6.0 and later support only the following models:

  • ST-IPM-8460

 


 

6.0.205

2020-11-13

Fixed Issues:

IDSubjectDescription
238Toolkit Comm Frozen due to High CPU LoadUpdated sxetherpeer application to fix high CPU load due to misconfigured or missing ModBus stations. Fixed logic for io update to reduce CPU utilization

6.0.204

2019-08-8

Fixed Issues:

IDSubjectDescription
157Station Status BitUpdated sxetherpeer application to recover TCP/IP transfers to E2 module after network fault.

6.0.203

2019-07-30

Fixed Issues:

IDSubjectDescription
106IPM PerformanceUpdated firmware to deliver accurate scan time as per configuration.
38User OperationsFixed User Operations bug related to add and delete user.

Known issues:

IDSubjectDescription
157Station Status BitSixnet TCP/IP transfers to E2 modules is slow to recover after a network fault.

6.0.202

2015-09-04

Known issues:

IDSubjectDescription
15066PPPThe PPP daemon does not run correctly under all test configurations.

New features:

IDSubjectDescription
14271PlatformInitial firmware release for new MPC8313-based IPm units (CPU-D). Model numbers are: ST-IPM-8460.