FOLSOM, Calf., Sept. 16, 2025 – Inductive Automation has released Ignition 8.3, a comprehensive update to its industrial application platform, Ignition by Inductive Automation. Ignition provides tools for building solutions in SCADA, IIoT, MES, HMI and more.
Ignition is used in virtually every industry in more than 140 countries and has been implemented at 65% of Fortune 100 companies. The new Ignition 8.3 delivers major advancements in data processing efficiency, security, management and development speed in order to elevate operational technology (OT) to modern IT standards and meet the speed and scalability needs of modern enterprises. “Ignition has disrupted the industry and defined a new paradigm in industrial enterprise integration.
With Version 8.3, we have completed our long-standing vision to create the world’s most powerful, most open and most flexible application development platform,” said Colby Clegg, CEO of Inductive Automation and co-creator of Ignition. Key Ignition 8.3 features include:
- The new Industrial Historian Solution Suite, which includes the Historian Core Module, the SQL Historian Module and a new Historian API for custom historian implementations.
- The new Event Streams Module, which enables mapping and directing of event-driven data by creating a communication pipeline between various sources (such as tag changes or Kafka topics) and handlers (like scripts or database tables).
- Perspective Module improvements, including a new Drawing Editor with native vector illustration tools, a form generator and an offline mode for data entry and storage.
- The redesigned Ignition Gateway, featuring a faster, more powerful web interface, integrated search capabilities, enhanced customization and visual organization and consolidated configuration and diagnostic tools.
- Next-level security that aligns with modern IT standards, including a new Secrets Management system and Google Protobuf for faster, more secure communication between clients and gateways.
- Long-Term Support (LTS), receiving regular updates and enhancements through the next five years.
- Ignition 8.3 also features enhanced store-and-forward capabilities, improved enterprise deployment management, built-in REST API, new Gateway deployment mode, version control and collaboration with Git, simplified containerization and much more.