Introduction

the changelog provides a version overview of updates to factry historian and its ecosystem of connectors, collectors, and integrations each release entry includes details about new features that expand product functionality improvements that enhance stability, performance, or usability bug fixes that resolve issues from earlier versions breaking changes that may require adjustments when upgrading use this section to track what has changed between versions, prepare for upgrades, and understand which features are available in your installed release alongside the main historian releases, changelogs are also available for key components such as collectors, the grafana datasource, and connectors this ensures you can follow the evolution of each part of the platform versioning factry historian follows semantic versioning (semver) with the format major introduces breaking changes or significant redesigns minor adds functionality in a backward compatible manner patch contains backward compatible bug fixes or small improvements this convention makes it easier to understand the impact of upgrading to a new version and to plan upgrades accordingly