Browse updates and changes made in Measurement Plug-Ins versions on extended support.

Note If you cannot find changes for your version, it might be a more recent version, documented as a new feature. Or, your version might not have included user-facing updates. You can find more information about non-visible changes, such as bug fixes, compatibility updates, and stability adjustments or maintenance adjustments, in the product Release Notes, available on ni.com.

MeasurementLink 2024 Q1

MeasurementLink 2024 Q1 includes the following new features and changes:

  • Additional LabVIEW Vis and Python methods to simplify session management.
  • New Update Pin Map custom step in TestStand. The Update Pin Map step simplifies registering a pin map in TestStand.
  • Support for XYGraph output data type for MeasurementLink UIs.
  • VISA gRPC and session support.

MeasurementLink 2023 Q4

MeasurementLink 2023 Q4 includes the following new features and changes:

  • Support for TestStand 2023.
  • Support for optional annotations in the Service Configuration File for description, collection and tags. These are used for better measurement organization in InstrumentStudio, TestStand and the MeasurementLink UI Editor.
  • Support for ring controls in the measurement UI.
  • Allow running measurements continuously in InstrumentStudio (as a MeasurementLink preview feature).

MeasurementLink 2023 Q3

MeasurementLink 2023 Q3 includes the following new features and changes:

  • Support for gRPC connections in the NI-DAQmx Python API.
  • Support for updating the interactive measurement UI progressively while the measurement runs. This update does not change measurement step behavior in TestStand.
  • Support for enum data type and controls in measurements.

MeasurementLink 2023 Q2

MeasurementLink 2023 Q2 includes the following new features and changes:

  • Support for native gRPC interfaces in LabVIEW for the following drivers:
    • NI-Digital Pattern Driver
    • NI-DMM
    • NI-FGEN
    • NI-SCOPE

MeasurementLink 2023 Q1

Initial release.

The following table indicates the NI driver software (and available interfaces) supported in the first MeasurementLink release. An updated list of supported driver software can be found elsewhere in this manual.

Supported NI driver software Support for native gRPC interface (Python) Support for native gRPC interface (LabVIEW)
NI-DAQmx – –
NI-DCPower ✔ ✔
NI-Digital Pattern Driver ✔ –
NI-DMM ✔ –
NI-FGEN ✔ –
NI-SCOPE ✔ –
NI-SWITCH ✔ –
NI-VISA (GPIB, serial, LXI interfaces) – –

The following list reflects the data types supported in the first MeasurementLink release. An updated list of supported data types can be found elsewhere in this manual.

  • Signed integers
    • Int32
    • Int64
  • Unsigned integers
    • UInt32
    • UInt64
  • Floating-point numbers
    • Float (32-bit floating-point number)
    • Double (64-bit floating-point number)
  • Boolean
  • String
    • Pin (string type specialization)
    • Path (string type specialization)
  • 1D array (supported for all base datatypes and type specializations)