ThingsBoard IoT Gateway

Major features:

• Added report strategy for all connectors by default - strategy is ON_RECEIVED that keeps gateway data report behaviour not changed, sendDataOnlyOnChange processing removed. By @imbeacon in #1554, by @samson0v #1576
• All converter refactored to return entities - ConvertedData, that contains TelemetryEntry and Attributes inside. Old format of data returning (in dicts is deprecated and no longer supported).
• Statistics improvements - Changed information in statistics, added separated parameters to control statistics report periods: statsSendPeriodInSeconds and customStatsSendPeriodInSeconds
• Added Async Modbus connector (At the moment can be only manually chosen, will be added to UI after ThingsBoard 3.9) by @samson0v in #1567
• Connection stability to platform improved
• Improved data converting and splitting for batch sending to the platform.
• Added ability to configure custom RPC execution by @khalilKian in #1552
• Added TB_GW_SECURITY_TYPE env variable, it allows to set the type of security that you want to use, allowed values: accessToken, usernamePassword and tlsAccessToken

Minor features:

• Added TB_GW_CONFIG env variable - you can set it to configure location of config folder for the gateway.
• Reduced CPU usage
• Refactored sending information about errors and logs
• Improved device management
• MQTT Connector improvements
• Socket connector improvements
• FTP connector improvements
• ODBC connector improvements
• General optimization

Bug fixes:

• Fixed looping reconnect on credentials type changed by @samson0v in #1586
• Fixed arguments order for MQTT Client by @samson0v in #1569

• Fixed processing gateway RPC by @samson0v in #1571, #1572
• Fixed devices removal handling by @samson0v in #1570

New Contributors

• @khalilKian made their first contribution in #1552

Full Changelog: 3.5.3...3.6