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# What's new

The following information lists the changes that were introduced in each tool release:

## Release 4

Release name: Power Monitoring Expert - Configuration Manager 2.1.0

Release date: April 2017

Note: Archived configurations saved with an earlier version of the Configuration Manager are not compatible with this release of the tool.

### New features:

- You can upgrade a standalone IONE 6.0.1 system to new standalone PME 8.2.
- You can upgrade a distributed IONE 6.0.1 system to new distributed PME 8.2.
- You can upgrade a standalone PME 7.2.2 system to new standalone PME 8.2.
- You can migrate a standalone PME 8.2 system to new standalone PME 8.2 system.
- Upgrades/migrations to PME 8.1 are no longer supported

## Release 3

Release name: Power Monitoring Expert - Configuration Manager 2.0.0

Release date: August 2016

Note: Archived configurations saved with an earlier version of the Configuration Manager are not compatible with this release of the tool.

### New features:

- You can upgrade a standalone IONE 6.0.1 system to new standalone PME 8.1.
- You can upgrade a standalone PME 7.2.2 system to new standalone PME 8.1.
- You can migrate a standalone PME 8.1 system to new standalone PME 8.1.
- Support for migrating historical data.
- Support for more configurable items.

## Release 2

Release name: Power Monitoring Expert - Configuration Manager 1.1.0

Release date: April 2015

Note: Archived configurations saved with an earlier version of the Configuration Manager are not compatible with this release of the tool.

### New features:

- You can Adding Notes to a Configuration.
- You can Adding Attachments to a Configuration.
- Smart Disk Space warns you when free disc space is low.

### Improvements:

General:

- Archive file path and name length can be any length; it is no longer restricted to 256 characters.
- Improved error messaging.
- ETL sources are read, saved, and written as historical sources.
- WebReach Start-up diagrams and Vista start-up diagrams are now supported.
- A hierarchy is always written to the target system, even if it contains broken device references.

User Interface:

- Improved messaging and workflows to indicate when services are stopped and restarted.
- Renamed the 'Diagrams' configuration component to 'Customized Diagrams' to better convey that the tool reads and writes new and edited diagrams only.
- Improved tool workflows when operations are completed or canceled.
- The Configuration Manager now displays the Report Subscription's description field:

- Log pane – Added more detail to log messages and improved log message wording.
- Log pane – Changed the default initial sort to show newest log messages first.

Reports:

- Reports that were deleted from Custom Report Packs are no longer imported into the target system.
- Default report sharing is supported.

## Release 1

Release name: Power Monitoring Expert - Configuration Manager 1.0.0

Release date: November 2014

Initial release.