# 8.40 Full Release

The first 8.40 Release of Command Centre is vEL8.40.1252

For a complete list of new features refer to the feature summary that can be found on the installation media in Documents, “Gallagher\_Command\_Centre\_v8.40\_Feature\_Summary.pdf”.

 Enhancements or bugs resolved in this version are as follows.

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th width="152"></th><th width="489"></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Category</td><td>Description</td><td>Tech Ref</td></tr><tr><td>Action Plan</td><td>Action Plan changes may not be correctly updated on controllers when multiple event group/type assignments are changed</td><td>81072</td></tr><tr><td>Archives</td><td>Invalid Archive name may create Server exception</td><td>78143</td></tr><tr><td>Backup</td><td>Backup file name created without extension when file name contains a full-stop</td><td>78653</td></tr><tr><td>Car Park</td><td>Free access Car Park will crash Controller or assign the last 'Secure' assigned space </td><td>80987</td></tr><tr><td>Card Encoding</td><td>Support DESFire EV2 32K cards</td><td>77901</td></tr><tr><td>Card Security</td><td>Display MIFARE Site Key creation date and time on Card Security properties page</td><td>77112</td></tr><tr><td>Command Centre</td><td>No feedback provided to the operator when they try terminating sessions that they are not privileged</td><td>44500</td></tr><tr><td>Command Centre</td><td>UI improvements to Command Centre Restore utility</td><td>76893</td></tr><tr><td>Command Centre</td><td>Upgrade partially fails if SA SQL user has been renamed</td><td>77743</td></tr><tr><td>Command Centre Client</td><td>Access Groups tab in Command Centre client does not refresh automatically after changing parent child relationship </td><td>59729</td></tr><tr><td>Command Centre Client</td><td>Ctrl + Double Click on displayed Cardholder on Cardholder Relationship tile crashes Command Centre Client</td><td>71013</td></tr><tr><td>Command Centre Client</td><td>UI behaviour improvement to Configuration Client launch button in Command Centre client</td><td>55534</td></tr><tr><td>Command Centre Client</td><td>Viewing Cardholder history tile may create exception due to loading Cardholder changesets of a deleted Card Type</td><td>74356</td></tr><tr><td>Configuration Client</td><td>Default Calendar Division is not editable</td><td>71233</td></tr><tr><td>Configuration Client</td><td>EOL Resistors in 3 state diagrams appear incorrect</td><td>64225</td></tr><tr><td>Configuration Client</td><td>Exception created when copying an unconfigured HBUS Command Centre item</td><td>70607</td></tr><tr><td>Configuration Client</td><td>Exception may occur when viewing alarm using “View Alarm” context menu</td><td>79474</td></tr><tr><td>Configuration Client</td><td>Improved error message when file permissions are insufficient to load new licence file via Configuration Client</td><td>61694</td></tr><tr><td>Configuration Client</td><td>When keys are exported from Configuration Client with a modified file name, they were saved without file extension</td><td>70020</td></tr><tr><td>Controller</td><td>Card and Access Groups with expiry greater than 19/01/2038 are not working </td><td>78444</td></tr><tr><td>Controller</td><td>Competency expiry incorrectly formatted causing silent access denied in Cardholder Display Utility</td><td>78436</td></tr><tr><td>Controller</td><td>Inverted Input that is not configured for six state may create Input Masked Alarm</td><td>80151</td></tr><tr><td>Find Tool</td><td>Image sequence searches in Find tool never complete</td><td>71712</td></tr><tr><td>Multi-Server</td><td>Controller software is not installed on upgrade if software with the same name exists on Remote server </td><td>80439</td></tr><tr><td>Multi-Server</td><td>Multi-Server replication stops if Cardholder images are purged</td><td>77818</td></tr><tr><td>PDF</td><td>Unique PDF conflict alarms are not raised or cleared correctly when adding and removing Access Groups</td><td>75135</td></tr><tr><td>Performance</td><td>Optimise loading Command Centre items in Hardware MLW</td><td>75011</td></tr><tr><td>Performance</td><td>Optimise Purge Cardholder History stored procedure</td><td>71289</td></tr><tr><td>Performance</td><td>Performance improvements in Command Centre Client Reporting and Cardholder simple search</td><td>48506</td></tr><tr><td>Performance</td><td>Remove unnecessary Cardholder lookups during card deletions</td><td>58966</td></tr><tr><td>Random Selection</td><td>Random Selection Output Schedule was not correctly operating unless there was also an Output with the same schedule configured on the Controller</td><td>80597</td></tr><tr><td>Reports</td><td>Command Centre Client reports may be copied in memory causing memory exception</td><td>77793</td></tr><tr><td>Site Plan</td><td>Site Plan recent items not removed when moved out of an accessible division causing a crash when selected</td><td>76353</td></tr><tr><td>Templates</td><td>When Creating templates and backup, “Validate” overwrites existing data if the file name has not changed</td><td>51003</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>


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