The following hotfix is available for Appian 20.3.
If you have an on-premises installation, you can view your current Appian version by logging into your Appian environment as a designer or system administrator and clicking the navigation menu > About Appian.
This is a cumulative hotfix package that includes Hotfix Packages A and B as well as new hotfixes in a single download and a set of instructions. This package is required for any Appian 20.3 installations not currently on Hotfix Package C. After installing, you will be running on Appian 20.3 Hotfix Package C.
See the Installation section at the bottom of this page for instructions on how to install this hotfix package.
Resolved Issues
Security Updates - High
AN-172810 - Critical
Return active users for Docusign Send Envelope integration
AN-171245 - High
Fixed an issue that prevented users from accepting tasks with attachments that had been assigned to them in portal
AN-172533 - High
Fixed an issue that caused the Application Portal to appear blank if it contained a channel that had a process report with an indicator pointing to a non-image document.
AN-168877 - Medium
Process history now properly displays a user whose username was changed. Prior to this fix, process history would display a blank user for users whose username was changed.
AN-170363 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused interfaces to become unresponsive after submitting a record action dialog and then quickly opening another record action dialog.
AN-170791 - Medium
When syncing a record type fails due to a deleted column from the cloud database, the user will receive an error message saying, "Further details indicate that though the record type is marked as synced, its data has not yet been synced or its existing synced data has been invalidated." The error behavior has not changed, however, the previous error message did not have the correct explanation for the error.
AN-170986 - Medium
Fixes delimiters for multi-statement SQL
AN-171219 - Medium
When executing database scripts via compare and deploy, certain scripts will now execute successfully. These are scripts that use a regex character as the custom delimiter, have multiple statements using the custom delimiter, or have DELIMITER declarations commented out.
AN-171274 - Medium
The performance of querying records that have a (default filter)[Record_Type_Object.md#default-filters] configured with an 'in' operator that has many values has been improved.
AN-171665 - Medium
Update RPA Execute Process Integration to fix issue of an empty dropdown parameter value causing error
AN-171833 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused interfaces to become unresponsive after submitting a record action dialog and then quickly opening another record action dialog.
AN-164728 - Low
Users with a null username can no longer be reactivated using the Reactivate User Smart Service. Prior to this fix, it was possible to reactivate a user with a null username causing errors while accessing the user.
AN-165165 - Low
When duplicating objects, developers are no longer added to the security rolemap as an administrator if they already belong to a group with administrator permissions.
AN-166239 - Low
Fixed an issue which could cause spikes in memory usage or log extraneous error messages when editing interface objects.
AN-168586 - Low
When deploying applications to a target environment, developers are no longer added to the application's security rolemap as an administrator if they already belong to a group with administrator permissions.
AN-170066 - Low
Fixed an issue that prevented system administrators from logging in when they are not part of the Designer and Application User groups.
AN-170998 - Low
Fixed an issue where package inspection did not identify some new or updated record fields as missing precedents when using these fields in record field references.
AN-171145 - Low
Duplicating a process model now correctly generates new node UUIDs.
Resolved Issues
Security Updates - Medium
AN-169523 - Critical
Fixed an issue with data server migration that prevented data server from starting up on self-managed windows installation of Appian.
AN-169870 - Critical
Packages containing 2 or more record types which use record type object references to reference each other can now be deployed successfully.
AN-170074 - Critical
Fixed a bug that prevents an Appian Cloud site from upgrading to MariaDB.
AN-169464 - High
Process History details can be safely accessed for processes with process variables of type 'dictionary'. Prior to this fix, accessing history for such processes would cause the process execution engine to rollback in some scenarios.
AN-169501 - High
Fixed an issue that caused the interface designer to error out in certain scenarios when multiple developers open the interface designer at the same time.
AN-170273 - High
Fixed an issue that prevented portal forms from loading on IE11.
AN-170394 - High
Fixed an issue that caused processes using the Send Email Smart Service to fail due to high load on the engines.
AN-170557 - High
In compare and deploy, the inspection timeout has been increased to 5 minutes to account for larger deployment packages.
AN-170569 - High
Fixed an issue that prevented site upgrades when an unsupported locale is used.
AN-170593 - High
Fixed an issue that caused a performance degradation during inspection of application packages.
AN-170688 - High
ElasticSearch version has been upgraded to resolve the issue of high heap usage by Search Server.
AN-170763 - High
Fixed an issue that caused some functions in expressions to be replaced by their previous Appian version.
AN-55085 - Medium
The Render Phase Mean Time metric is now accurately logged in rest_details.csv. Prior to this fix, the metric was logged incorrectly in certain scenarios, causing its value to be larger than the Mean Total Time.
AN-156075 - Medium
The Export Data Store Entity to Excel or CSV smart services will no longer execute indefinitely when exporting a database view that has a null primary key. Instead, these smart services will fail appropriately at run-time and display a corresponding process error message.
AN-160691 - Medium
Fixed an issue that resulted in the mobile user needing to select the intended mobile application during the user authentication process
AN-163412 - Medium
Fixed an issue where invalid field references in record list expressions would not show evaluation errors in record type designer.
AN-166469 - Medium
Fixed an issue which prevented an interface from being exported when it used a rule input of type Map with no default test values.
AN-167152 - Medium
User filters for existing service-backed record types are now properly updated when clicking the update button in record type designer.
AN-167768 - Medium
Resolved an issue where table values were not always being accurately auto-populated in Appian document extraction.
AN-168642 - Medium
Fixed an issue where an empty list of records stored in a local variable could cause an unexpected error when editing an interface.
AN-169290 - Medium
The Infrastructure page in the Administration Console will load successfully even when the user account that is set as the deployer is deactivated.
AN-169427 - Medium
Fixed an issue where the Cards as Choices pattern caused a publish error in Process Modeler.
AN-169607 - Medium
System branding settings now import successfully to environments on version 20.3 when the source environment is on an older version.
AN-169651 - Medium
Fixed an issue which caused unexpected design guidance warnings to appear during deployment inspection.
AN-169790 - Medium
Fixed an issue where chart tooltips did not show in dialog windows. This updates behavior to be consistent with 20.2 and earlier.
AN-169808 - Medium
Fixed an issue which prevented refresh intervals from updating a local variable's value while testing an interface.
AN-170158 - Medium
Fixed an issue where document extraction table auto-prediction functionality was not enabled by default on some cloud sites.
AN-170788 - Medium
Fixed an issue that slowed down the download of large deployment packages in the deployments view.
AN-148898 - Low
Fixed an issue where the French (Canada) translation for the Date & Time component placeholder was incorrect resulting in selected value validation errors.
AN-168338 - Low
Fixed an issue that prevented record syncs from completing successfully when the source contains atypically large rows of data.
AN-168635 - Low
The keyboard focus indicator is now visible for the 'Skip to main content' link on Tempo and Sites.
Resolved Issues
Security Updates - High
AN-166394 - High
Search server indexing process is now more robust to race conditions across nodes on a Highly Available Appian site.
AN-169464 - High
Process History details can be safely accessed for processes with process variables of type 'dictionary'. Prior to this fix, accessing history for such processes would cause the process execution engine to rollback in some scenarios.
AN-169523 - High
Fixed an issue with data server migration that prevented data server from starting up on self-managed windows installation of Appian.
AN-160691 - Medium
Fixed an issue that resulted in the mobile user needing to select the intended mobile application during the user authentication process
AN-164717 - Medium
Improved performance of casting a record data type to other data types
AN-165033 - Medium
Improved performance of casting other data types to a record data type
AN-167283 - Medium
Fixed an issue where navigating quickly between pages on a site could cause an unexpected error.
AN-167570 - Medium
Fixed an issue with user filters on read-only grids where the dropdown would close before users could select multiple options.
AN-167579 - Medium
Renaming a user will no longer cause application users to lose their active form data.
AN-168025 - Medium
Fixed an issue that prevented Search Server settings from getting applied to a site.
AN-168169 - Medium
A system error will no longer occur during Inspection in Compare and Deploy when certain calls to the target environment have timed out.
AN-168174 - Medium
Fixed an issue that prevented saving a value into an empty rule input whose type is a map or record data type.
AN-168251 - Medium
Fixed an issue which caused the server to evaluate some expressions more slowly while under heavy load.
AN-168642 - Medium
Fixed an issue where an empty list of records stored in a local variable could cause an unexpected error when editing an interface.
AN-156075 - Low
The Export Data Store Entity to Excel or CSV smart services will no longer execute indefinitely when exporting a database view that has a null primary key. Instead, these smart services will fail appropriately at run-time and display a corresponding process error message.
AN-165051 - Low
Performance timings for a!queryRecordType are now reported properly in the "Descendant Functions and Query Rules" section of the Performance View.
AN-167152 - Low
User filters for existing service-backed record types are now properly updated when clicking the update button in record type designer.
AN-168003 - Low
Unused configuration files have been removed from the Service Manager conf directory.
AN-168255 - Low
Fixed an issue where clicking the first time on a selectable grid row did not select it.
AN-168280 - Low
Fixed an issue that prevented metrics for checkbox and selection tool extraction from being logged correctly.
AN-168338 - Low
Fixed an issue that prevented record syncs from completing successfully when the source contains atypically large rows of data.
AN-168350 - Low
Objects referencing record types that are backed by a data store now import successfully even if the data store did not publish.
AN-168554 - Low
Fixed an issue with a broken documentation link in the Button Widget validation parameter.
AN-168635 - Low
The keyboard focus indicator is now visible for the 'Skip to main content' link on Tempo and Sites.
Perform the following steps to apply the hotfix:
<APPIAN_HOME> directory.
<APPIAN_HOME> directory.
<APPIAN_HOME> directory.<APPIAN_HOME>/deployment/web.war to the folder where the Web server is getting the static resources. See Copy Static Resources to the Web Server for more information.To determine if Appian 20.3 Hotfix Package C is deployed, open the build.info file located in <APPIAN_HOME>/conf/. The contents of this file should match the following code sample:
build.revision=103b3fc0147bb466ccbc157798b6fba5e0593790 build.version=20.3.275.0
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