Description:
On November 29, 2022, Tridium support for Oracle’s version of JAVA on the JACE 8000 will end. Also, Tridium has contracted with a new micro-SD card vendor. Thus, by approximately February 1, 2023, a JACE delivered new from the factory will have a different brand of micro-SD card inserted when compared to the previous configuration. The combination of these changes necessitates an update to the JACE 8000 factory image and sets new limitations on Tridium’s ability to continue to sell licenses for older releases of Niagara Framework.
Effects:
End of Oracle Java Support - With the Niagara 4.8 release, Tridium moved away from Oracle as its JACE 8000 Java provider to Azul. Tridium will no longer be able to sell N4 licenses that will permit running a version below 4.8 for JACE 8000. There will be no impact to existing licenses or hardware running lower versions. Warranty and RMA replacement for already licensed JACE 8000s will not be impacted. Niagara 4 Supervisor licensing and permitted versions will not be impacted by this change.
Change in Micro-SD Card Provider - JACE 8000 currently uses a micro-SD card that is near its end-of-life, so Tridium will be phasing in a replacement. The new micro-SD card will only support Niagara version 4.9u1 and higher. JACE 8000s shipped from Tridium will not run any Niagara versions lower than 4.9u1. These changes do not affect the ability of existing JACE 8000s to run older Niagara versions or to upgrade to the latest version. This change has no impact on licensing or host-id scheme. Note: There will be a stock of the previous version of micro-SD cards reserved for RMAs and replacement.
Factory-Restore Version Update - As a result of these Java and Micro-SD Provider changes, Tridium updated the factory-restore version to Niagara 4.9u1 in Q2 2022. This change was rolled out across all factory-installed images, including OEM-specific and appliance images.