Eaton - Communication with Device has Failed

When do you plan to release the IPM virtual appliance 1.42  ? I'm trying to keep 1.40 working with a Eaton 9130 1500 UPS and lost many hours to try to solve communications problems. Adding "Shutdown module" causing communication errors with the appliance and restarting the Eaton-IPM service or rebooting the appliance is causing communication errors with ESXi 5.5....