This page lists all the recent hotfixes for Appian 21.3.
Appian Cloud customers can refer to MyAppian to see your latest hotfix version.
For self-managed customers, all hotfixes are released as a downloadable package bimonthly, at the beginning and middle of the month. The most recent package is as of 27 Jul 2023.
The following issues have been recently resolved in Appian Cloud 21.3 as of the date indicated. These hotfixes will be available for self-managed customers in the next bi-monthly package.
Security Updates - Medium
AN-240839 - Low
Fixed an issue where Kafka topics would not come online.
Self-managed customers can use the following links to download and install the hotfixes package.
This cumulative hotfix package includes all resolved issues listed below in a single download. This hotfix is required for any Appian 21.3 installations not currently up to date with the latest hotfixes. After installing, you will be running on Appian 21.3.2290.0.
You can view your current self-managed Appian version by logging into your Appian environment as a designer or system administrator and clicking the navigation menu > About Appian.
The package resolves the following issues.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-240255 - High
Updated Guava Library in the Blueprism Connected System
AN-237999 - Medium
Fixed an issue where Kafka topics could not come online.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-237908 - Medium
Updates to bouncycastle in Docusign connected system
AN-223680 - Medium
Fixed an issue that was causing significant delays during the checkpoint storage process.
AN-240883 - Low
Configuring future support of kRaft.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-226846 - Critical
Updated Snakeyaml library
AN-225107 - Critical
Updated Snakeyaml Library
Security Updates - Critical
AN-238140 - Critical
Security Improvement
AN-203023 - Medium
Updated POI Library
AN-234393 - Low
Updated Service Manager start script to support manual transaction replay.
AN-221295 - Low
Updating MirrorMaker support for Appian on Kubernetes customers.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-238044 - High
Secuity update
AN-228346 - High
Updated Google Cloud Translate and Protobuf Libraries
AN-217955 - High
Updated Mozilla Rhino version
AN-237074 - Medium
Updates to CMIS Data Connector
Security Updates - Critical
AN-201242 - Medium
Updated Kafka server.log storage to now store up to 10 server.log files, 10MB in size each.
AN-232723 - Low
Enhanced Kakfka advertised listeners to support MirrorMaker
Security Updates - Critical
AN-223263 - High
Windows and Linux now use independent split installers.
AN-229662 - Low
Fixed a ZooKeeper leadership election bug that can result in write request rejections.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-235114 - High
Fixed an issue that caused existing Client Credentials for Web APIs to expire after a year when new Client Credentials were generated.
AN-233537 - High
Upgrade Atlassian and Jettison Libraries
AN-234223 - Low
Fixes ADS debug logging issue.
Security Updates - High
AN-232634 - High
Upgraded Elasticsearch to version 7.17.9.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-231369 - High
Upgraded Spring library
AN-230001 - High
Updated Clojure library
AN-226471 - High
Upgraded reload4j library
AN-234594 - Low
Upgrading Redisson Client
Security Updates - High
AN-232228 - High
Updated Jackson Databind Library
AN-231242 - High
Upgraded Woodstox library
AN-233855 - Medium
Upgraded Spring library
AN-232037 - Low
Upgraded Liquibase to patch release v4.21.1.
Security Updates - High
AN-232615 - High
Security improvements
AN-233239 - Low
Better handling of exceptions thrown while processing write requests in ADS.
Security Updates - High
AN-222925 - Medium
Updated google-cloud-core-http library
AN-229971 - Low
Reduced service manager shutdown time for customers managing Appian on Kubernetes.
Security Updates - High
AN-223083 - High
Removed xalan library
Security Updates - High
AN-230038 - High
Updates to Woodstox core asl library
AN-229036 - High
Updates to jackson core, jackson databind, and jackson annotation libraries
AN-229685 - Low
Security Improvements
Security Updates - Critical
AN-226331 - High
Update Apache commons-fileupload library
AN-229993 - Medium
For Cloud Database, increased max_input_vars value to 2000 to prevent runtime errors from occurring in phpMyAdmin.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-228562 - High
Security Improvement
AN-227900 - Low
Updated ADS error message to include additional information to help debug the failure.
Security Updates - High
AN-227747 - High
Updated fasterxml.jackson and google.guava
AN-227457 - High
Updated Netty Library
AN-227793 - Medium
Fixed a bug where generating a record action with a data type and data store would fail.
AN-211751 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused processes to auto-archive by default ignoring the AUTOARCHIVE custom.property setting.
AN-221502 - Low
Improved Kafka's logging by suppressing redundant log entries.
Security Updates - Critical
CN-20152 - Critical
Unsupported non-ASCII256 header values are converted to ?
AN-227752 - Critical
Security Improvements
AN-226788 - High
Fixed an issue that could result in HA site failure when a site's primary engine becomes unavailable.
AN-220855 - High
Updated Jackson libraries
Security Updates - Critical
AN-218002 - Medium
Appian Cloud Database now uses version 5.2.1 of phpMyAdmin.
Security Updates - High
AN-223242 - Critical
Updated jave protobuf, google cloud automl, jackson databind, google cloud core, and google cloud storage libraries within Google Connected Systems
AN-226698 - High
Security Improvements
AN-211063 - High
Removed extraneous log entries from the MirrorMaker log file to improve overall legibility.
AN-222300 - Low
Configure Script now includes the ability to validate an installation.
Security Updates - High
AN-226160 - High
Security Improvement
AN-226155 - High
CVE Fixed on Jaeger Agent image
Security Updates - Critical
CN-18110 - Low
Fixed an issue that prevented shutdown of the Internal Messaging Service for some high availability sites.
AN-223401 - Low
Updated the engine startup script to include logging on script invocation time and passed parameters.
AN-222592 - Low
Fixed an issue where process history replication factors were incorrect following a change in site topology from single node to high availability.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-221245 - High
Kafka Upgrade
AN-220449 - High
Upgraded SnakeYAML Library
AN-220693 - Medium
For Appian Cloud customers who have a dedicated database node, the default range of read and write I/O threads is now set to be between 4 and the total number of CPUs on the database node divided by 2. Customers who have dedicated database nodes will experience performance improvement from this update.
Security Updates - Low
AN-221122 - Critical
Removed references to the ConsumerConfig.addDeserializerToConfig and ProducerConfig.addSerializerToConfig methods due to deprecation in Kafka 3.3.1.
AN-218227 - Low
Improved ADS logging when it is run as a service.
Security Updates - Low
AN-218961 - Low
Process models are now able to be saved using "Save As" in all supported languages.
AN-221569 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused an error to occur in the Document Extraction reconciliation task when extracting tables from Fillable PDFs.
AN-218809 - Medium
For the Appian Cloud MariaDB database, ANALYZE TABLE command is now run for all the tables at the site start up.
AN-217357 - Low
For Appian Cloud MariaDB database, transaction isolation level has been set to read-committed for phpMyAdmin connections.
AN-202061 - Low
Fixed an issue with interface data field errors where users were instructed to use an invalid date format.
Security Updates - Low
AN-220626 - Medium
The property conf.monitoring.rdbms.SLOW_QUERY_THRESHOLD_MS in custom.properties can now be set permanently on Appian Cloud environments via an Appian Support case. This property configures the threshold value (in milliseconds) that logs a slow query operation by data store.
AN-220114 - Medium
Process deletion now uses memory more efficiently. Prior to this fix, deleting a large number of processes would cause high heap memory utilization.
AN-219912 - Medium
Appian Cloud now uses the 42.5.1 version of the JDBC Driver for PostgreSQL Database.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-220177 - Medium
Security Improvements
AN-219995 - High
Security Improvement
AN-218784 - Low
MariaDB database in Appian Cloud received a minor version upgrade to 10.6.11
Security Updates - Critical
AN-217700 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused intermittent "Cannot read properties of null (reading 'getIn')" errors during user site interaction.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-218220 - High
Fixed an issue that prevented MariaDB from starting up on a distributed topology Appian Cloud environment with database encryption enabled.
AN-215914 - Low
Security Improvement
Security Updates - Critical
AN-217611 - High
Increases the connection pool for ADS queries
AN-213666 - High
Upgrade SnakeYAML Library
AN-214213 - Medium
Upgraded OpenPDF from version 1.3.26 to 1.3.30 to provide support for additional encryption types.
AN-216864 - Low
Fixed an issue where decimals contained in a Record Type are converted to text when exported to Excel.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-217565 - Critical
Security Improvement
AN-212451 - Critical
Removed the Apache Xalan Java library. If you have developed any plug-ins that depend on Apache Xalan, you will need to update them to remove or replace the use of this library. If you don't update them, they will stop working when plug-in users upgrade.
AN-214120 - Medium
For Appian Cloud database, fixed an issue with slow_log table that prevented sites from starting up.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-215833 - Medium
Security Improvement
AN-212724 - Low
Upgrade Tika Library
Security Updates - High
AN-215834 - Medium
Security Improvement
AN-212567 - Medium
For the Appian Cloud database, the definer of a database event no longer resets to default after a database failover.
Security Updates - High
AN-214461 - Medium
Fixed an issue where Start and Stop script permissions were incorrectly set after applying a hotfix.
AN-212535 - Medium
Fixed an issue where file uploads freeze when a file upload component is embedded in an editable grid.
Security Updates - Medium
AN-213756 - High
MariaDB database in Appian Cloud received a minor version upgrade to 10.6.9
AN-210227 - Medium
Updated the change-paths.bat script logs to include values for notesOldPath and notesNewPath.
AN-212006 - Low
For the Appian Cloud MariaDB database, the default threshold for slow queries logged in AppianProcess.slow_log view has been changed from 2 seconds to 7 seconds in order to reduce noise in the log.
AN-210242 - High
Upgrade Jetty Library
AN-213319 - Medium
Fixed an issue in Kafka topicRecovery script which could lead to topics not having an assigned leader.
AN-212443 - Medium
Fixed an issue where Start and Stop script permissions were incorrectly set after applying a hotfix.
AN-187367 - Low
A bug was identified that caused the recipients email header to be blank in outbound emails, which caused Appian-generated notifications to be routed to spam occasionally. The recipients header is now populated for all outbound emails.
Security Updates - High
AN-210621 - High
Improve ADS connection pool error handling
AN-212086 - Medium
Fixed an issue where embedded Google Maps display an error when "View Larger Map" is clicked.
AN-211829 - Low
The read-only grid now uses the proper decimal separator according to the user's locale when displaying decimal numbers in grid cells.
Security Updates - High
AN-211615 - High
Upgrade OkHttp Library
AN-213051 - Medium
For Appian Cloud database, fixed an issue that prevented Database Administrators from editing and exporting stored procedures from phpMyAdmin.
AN-202701 - Medium
Fixed an issue where exiting out of a file upload component prior to upload completion causes the interface to break due to a null pointer exception.
AN-191159 - Low
Upgraded the Salesforce Connected System component REST API from version 44.0 to 52.0. API version 52.0 is backwards compatible with previous versions.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-212519 - Medium
Fixed an issue that resulted in intermittent "Cannot read properties of null (reading 'getIn')" errors when entering information into an interface textField.
AN-167569 - Low
Fixed an issue that introduced unnecessary log pollution and degraded the collection of Record Response Time metrics.
Security Updates - Medium
AN-212011 - Critical
Fixed an issue that caused a discrepancy between the Process Execution and Process Analytics Engines resulting in intermittent bugs in Process Reports.
AN-206660 - Medium
Viewing dependents of record fields and record relationships now properly include record field and relationship references that are referenced in record type constructors.
AN-203429 - Medium
Fixed an issue which sometimes caused updating security on a newly-created folder to fail due to an error.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-210404 - Medium
Fixed a bug that sporadically prevented Appian Data Service from starting up as a result of a race condition related to Kafka initialization.
AN-181596 - Medium
Fixed an issue which caused old versions of data types to be visible when searching for design objects using the global quick search.
AN-210084 - Low
Security Improvement
AN-209658 - Low
Fixed an issue where, when configuring a data source for a record type and selecting a connected system, the wrong connected system would sometimes display as selected in the dropdown menu.
AN-209649 - Low
Upgraded to latest AL2 base image.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-210640 - High
For the Appian Cloud sites, fixed an issue with mysql.slow_log table that caused MariaDB upgrade failure.
AN-210069 - Medium
Fixed an issue where images and icons sometimes fail to render on a site after plug-in deployment.
Security Updates - High
AN-209161 - High
Improved Service Manager logging during an incomplete shutdown to include a detailed reason and steps to remediate it.
AN-209886 - Medium
For the Appian Cloud sites, fixed an issue related to the change in character set for some tables during upgrade from MariaDB 10.5 to MariaDB 10.6.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-210029 - Medium
Improved data service connection pool utilization for queries against synced records.
AN-209209 - Medium
For the Appian Cloud sites, improved error handling during MariaDB upgrade.
AN-208136 - Medium
Fixed an issue with exporting a read-only grid. A null field value used in a grid column with a rich text component was causing the remaining values on that grid column to not be exported.
AN-200015 - Medium
Fixed an issue with connected system creation where when the developer chooses to create a new integration the connected system would not show as a precedent of the integration until after an initial save.
AN-209419 - Low
The data service now properly retries failed tasks when starting up.
Security Updates - High
AN-209374 - Critical
Fixed an issue that prevented Blue Prism connected systems from being available
AN-204283 - Medium
Fixed a memory management issue when syncing records that may lead to unresponsive sites and full site outages.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-209227 - High
For Appian Cloud environments, fixed an issue that prevented phpMyAdmin from being accessed.
AN-205107 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused an error when viewing the outbound deployment details for deployments which only contained database scripts or plug-ins.
Security Updates - High
AN-202654 - Medium
Fixed a race condition in Admin Console that prevented configuration changes from being saved.
AN-164454 - Medium
Improved error handling and messaging in Appian's cloud installation scripts.
AN-205113 - Low
Added an existence check for a Kafka process so another one cannot be started in parallel.
Security Updates - High
AN-207398 - High
MariaDB has been upgraded to version 10.6.8 for Appian Cloud sites.
AN-208182 - Medium
Fixed an issue that prevented the Document Viewer Component from displaying its contents when opened from certain links.
AN-200249 - Medium
Added a warning and a delayed start to the Appian "Stop Script" to avoid accidental cluster wide shutdown.
AN-207835 - Low
Fixed an issue that prevented the Content-Length response header from being included in some SAIL responses.
AN-206529 - Low
AppianProcess.slow_log view is now available through phpMyAdmin for database administrators to identify slow running queries in the Appian Cloud database when database encryption is not enabled. Queries taking more than 2 seconds are logged.
Security Updates - High
AN-205103 - High
Added JWT Grant authentication to the DocuSign connected system in response to the pending removal of support for Basic authentication by DocuSign on October 5, 2022.
AN-208061 - Medium
Performance Improvement
AN-206002 - Medium
Fixed an issue which could lead to engines not checkpointing.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-205738 - High
Sites using Appian-hosted MySQL database are upgraded to release 5.7.38, which includes security and bug fixes. Details are available on the MySQL website (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-38.html)
AN-204464 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused an unexpected dirty flag to appear in the start form of certain process models when selecting the "Skip to main content" link in the URL bar from the start form.
AN-203594 - Low
Improvements to reduce installation time of phpmyadmin.
Security Updates - High
AN-206501 - High
Fixed an issue where a single Kafka broker could lead to an outage until all the Kafka brokers are online.
AN-204239 - Medium
Made improvements to reduce the likelihood of timeouts when loading the Rule Performance view.
AN-207045 - Low
Fixed an issue that caused a!isUserMemberOfGroup to return an error when executed on an inactive user.
AN-206663 - Low
Fixed issue where "Expected dialog to exist for id" error displayed in the compare and deploy wizard when one of the scripts is modified while viewing the compare and deploy script list.
Security Updates - High
AN-206020 - High
Fixed issue where a system error was displayed when selecting a table during configuration of a synced record type. This error occurred when the data source had multiple database tables with the same name in different schemas.
AN-199194 - Medium
Fixed an issue where the visibility of a record action used in a record grid column did not re-evaluate after the data was updated through a record action.
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 the Appian 21.3 Hotfix 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=165238a167a10d1300a88b0d88508aa98e6a1934 build.version=21.3.2290.0