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Appian Hotfixes

This page lists all the recent hotfixes for Appian 22.4.

Note:  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 at the end of each week.

Hotfix package (31 Oct 2024)

Self-managed customers can use the following links to download and install the hotfixes package. If you are managing Appian on Kubernetes, instead of using the links below, you'll need to upgrade to the latest Appian on Kubernetes images to apply the hotfixes.

This cumulative hotfix package includes all resolved issues listed below in a single download. This hotfix is required for any Appian 22.4 installations not currently up to date with the latest hotfixes. After installing, you will be running on Appian 22.4.2095.0.

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.

22.4.2095.0 (31 Oct 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

22.4.2080.0 (25 Oct 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

22.4.2070.0 (18 Oct 2024)

  • Security Updates - Medium

22.4.2065.0 (04 Oct 2024)

  • Security Updates - Medium

22.4.2060.0 (27 Sep 2024)

  • Security Updates - Medium

  • AN-292191 - Medium
    Fixed an issue that caused embedded Appian to break for Google Chrome users, following a recent upgrade to Google Chrome.

22.4.2035.0 (13 Sep 2024)

  • Security Updates - Medium

22.4.2020.0 (06 Sep 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-290307 - Medium
    Resolved an error with k transactions due to a negative time.

22.4.1980.0 (22 Aug 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-280345 - Low
    Search Server (Elasticsearch) is now upgraded to version 7.17.23.

22.4.1950.0 (09 Aug 2024)

  • Security Updates - Critical

22.4.1930.0 (01 Aug 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-284801 - Medium
    Resolved an issue where component plugin interactions did not properly extend the session

22.4.1900.0 (18 Jul 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

22.4.1890.0 (06 Jul 2024)

  • AN-265640 - Medium
    Upgraded commons-compress,commons-io and commons-lang3

  • AN-277303 - Medium
    Fixes an issue where Zookeeper configurations are missing for self-managed customers.

22.4.1880.0 (28 Jun 2024)

  • AN-279466 - High
    Fixed an issue where the search server consumes half of the available memory of an instance by default after an upgrade. The default maximum size of the total heap space used by the search server is now set at 1 GB.

  • AN-277954 - Low
    Fixed and issue where engine directories were not being created during installation.

22.4.1870.0 (21 Jun 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-242202 - High
    Upgraded Jackson databind in master and maint branches and Disabled jetifier flag in maint branches

22.4.1845.0 (13 Jun 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-271778 - High
    Updates to the Spring library version

22.4.1825.0 (06 Jun 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-278415 - High
    Fixed an issue that caused a subset of columns in the records metrics log files to be reported incorrectly.

22.4.1805.0 (31 May 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-277857 - Critical
    changes the directory permission from root to appian for /usr/local/appian/local-data/rpa-data/tomcat8

22.4.1800.0 (24 May 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-276266 - Low
    Cleaned up the Service Manager logs from redundant messaging regarding the new Java 17 use.

22.4.1785.0 (17 May 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

22.4.1760.0 (09 May 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

22.4.1740.0 (02 May 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

22.4.1720.0 (25 Apr 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

22.4.1700.0 (18 Apr 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-266346 - Medium
    Apache Kafka upgrade to 3.7.0

  • AN-270014 - Medium
    Search Server (Elasticsearch) is now upgraded to version 7.17.19.

22.4.1685.0 (11 Apr 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

22.4.1670.0 (04 Apr 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

22.4.1665.0 (28 Mar 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

22.4.1645.0 (21 Mar 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-265165 - Low
    Fixed an issues where engine process metrics were not properly collected.

22.4.1630.0 (14 Mar 2024)

  • Security Updates - Medium

  • AN-261813 - High
    Resolved an issue to prevent cloud database replication failure in the HA configuration by setting the value of the slave_parallel_mode variable to conservative.

22.4.1615.0 (07 Mar 2024)

  • Security Updates - Medium

  • AN-259725 - High
    Upgraded ion-java library

  • AN-259860 - High
    Updated grpc library

22.4.1590.0 (28 Feb 2024)

  • Security Updates - Medium

  • AN-259435 - High
    Removal of special characters (non alpha numeric) from the exception REST API response

22.4.1570.0 (22 Feb 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-244356 - High
    Upgraded Jackson Core , Databind and Annotations in Dynamics and Sharepoint Connected Systems

  • AN-264450 - High
    Resolved an issue where phpMyAdmin failed to automatically log in users when a special character was set in the company.name site property.

  • AN-260985 - Medium
    Fixed an issue where in rare cases file uploads would fail with a 401 error on embedded forms.

22.4.1550.0 (15 Feb 2024)

  • Security Updates - Critical

  • AN-258702 - Medium
    Fixed an issue that caused embedded Appian to break for 1% of Google Chrome users, following a recent change by Google.

22.4.1535.0 (08 Feb 2024)

  • Security Updates - Critical

  • AN-263504 - High
    Production release of AMP stratus log streaming migration

22.4.1520.0 (02 Feb 2024)

  • Security Updates - Medium

  • AN-261480 - Medium
    Resolved an issue where the phpMyAdmin banner color was not properly displayed based on the configuration.

22.4.1505.0 (26 Jan 2024)

  • Security Updates - Medium

22.4.1480.0 (19 Jan 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-255863 - Medium
    Upgraded jackson databind in blueprism connected system

  • AN-255864 - Medium
    Upgraded jackson libraries in salesforce-multi

  • AN-259099 - Medium
    The ability to store and view attachments on a process was deprecated in the low-code platform version 16.3, and has now been removed from platform versions later than 21.4. This change fixes an issue hampering the opening of Portlet dialogs caused by this removal.

  • AN-256587 - Low
    The ability to store and view attachments on a process was deprecated in the low-code platform version 16.3, and has now been removed from platform versions later than 21.4.

22.4.1440.0 (05 Jan 2024)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-255692 - High
    Updated grpc, google cloud, jackson databind, jackson annotations and jackson core libraries

  • AN-246050 - Medium
    Fixed an issue where product areas supported in IE Mode 11 of Edge were not working

  • AN-245877 - Low
    Set entity expansion limit to 100 for XML for import export functionality

22.4.1420.0 (21 Dec 2023)

  • Security Updates - Critical

  • AN-252629 - Low
    Fixed an issue that caused requests to the data service to timeout during recovery from component failure.

22.4.1405.0 (14 Dec 2023)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-255533 - High
    Search Server (Elasticsearch) is now upgraded to version 7.17.15.

  • AN-255482 - Medium
    Updated xmlsec library to version 2.2.6

22.4.1385.0 (06 Dec 2023)

  • Security Updates - High

22.4.1375.0 (30 Nov 2023)

  • Security Updates - Critical

  • AN-251917 - Critical
    Updated ActiveMq library

  • AN-255270 - High
    Updated Jetty library to version 9.4.53.v20231009.

  • CN-25284 - High
    Fixed and issue with session management for Appian Cloud.

  • AN-252472 - Medium
    Fixed an issue where Health Check would time out for large customers.

22.4.1346.0 (17 Nov 2023)

  • AN-254031 - High
    Resolved an issue with High Availability Appian Cloud sites not being able to deactivate users.

22.4.1345.0 (16 Nov 2023)

  • Security Updates - Critical

  • AN-251762 - High
    Reduces the volume of logs generated by certain long-running evaluations.

  • AN-249920 - Medium
    Fixed an issue that prevented the slow log of the cloud database from being persisted on disk when restarting a site.

22.4.1320.0 (09 Nov 2023)

  • Security Updates - Critical

  • AN-250737 - High
    Updates to google cloud, google cloud storage, jackson-databind, and grpc libraries within the Google Cloud Connected Systems

  • AN-249650 - Medium
    Updated support for checkpoint script to be initiated from any node, not just the primary node.

22.4.1307.0 (03 Nov 2023)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-249578 - Medium
    Fixed an issue that caused a migration in the execution engine to fail due to certain work items, preventing the upgrade to Appian 22.4 and later versions.

22.4.1285.0 (26 Oct 2023)

  • Security Updates - Critical

  • AN-250045 - High
    Fixed display of HTML elements as text in rich text editor for Send-Email body node in Process Model

  • AN-243892 - Low
    Fixed an issue that was causing users to encounter error code 500 when trying to access the cloud database through phpMyAdmin.

22.4.1266.0 (20 Oct 2023)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-247910 - Medium
    Fixed an issue that where a process would return an incorrect response instead of abort.

  • AN-249274 - Medium
    Fixed an issue with defining the maximum checkpoint limit for Service Manager.

22.4.1246.0 (13 Oct 2023)

  • Security Updates - Low

  • AN-248677 - High
    Fixed an issue where the validation for sequence increment values failed when the primary key of an Oracle Data Store was configured to automatically increment a sequence value greater than one. This issue pertains to customers who are upgrading to version 22.4 or later. You have the option to enable conf.data.hibernate.sequence.ignoreIncrement.enabled site property in the custom.properties to bypass this validation.

  • AN-248721 - High
    Fixed issue where process models could not be saved if HTML decoding in the message Body of the Send Email node occurred

  • AN-247518 - Medium
    Fixed issue where process node evaluation could trigger the Memory Circuit Breaker

22.4.1230.0 (05 Oct 2023)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-246311 - High
    Updated third party libraries

  • AN-243743 - Medium
    A maximum statement timeout of 12 hours is applied to all select queries executed through the Enhanced Data Pipeline (EDP) to prevent Appian Cloud database restart issues caused by long innodb_history_list_length.

22.4.1205.0 (28 Sep 2023)

  • Security Updates - Critical

22.4.1185.0 (21 Sep 2023)

  • Security Updates - Critical

  • AN-245502 - Low
    Fixed an issue that caused occasional Kafka errors when restarting the data service.

22.4.1165.0 (14 Sep 2023)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-240370 - Medium
    Updated Bouncy Castle library

  • AN-243030 - Medium
    Fixed an issue where transactions executed in an Execute Stored Procedure Smart Service or function weren't getting rolled back when auto-commit was set to false after encountering an exception.

  • AN-244680 - Medium
    Updated guava library in the salesforce connected system

22.4.1140.0 (07 Sep 2023)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-238159 - High
    Updates to Netty library

  • AN-244149 - Medium
    Fixed an issue to ensure consistent error handling behavior between platform versions when using the @Version annotation in a CDT XSD to prevent lost update anomalies.

  • AN-207776 - Low
    Updating time picker placeholder text for 24hr-based locales.

22.4.1115.0 (31 Aug 2023)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-237829 - High
    Updated the guava, jackson databind, jackson core, and jackson annotations libraries.

  • AN-219753 - Medium
    Fixed an issue that allowed open redirects from being caught by validation.

  • AN-156340 - Low
    Adding additional engine logging for troubleshooting

  • AN-241206 - Low
    Adding additional logging for Kafka transaction writing for troubleshooting.

22.4.1090.0 (24 Aug 2023)

  • Security Updates - High

  • AN-236122 - Medium
    Updated Google Cloud Libraries

  • AN-242736 - Medium
    The data service query request size limit is now set to 5MB.

  • CN-23112 - Medium
    Kakfa performance tuning

  • AN-242915 - Low
    Resolved a Kafka startup issue for Windows users.

22.4.1070.0 (15 Sep 2023)

  • Security Updates - High

22.4.1045.0 (10 Aug 2023)

  • Security Updates - High

22.4.1020.0 (03 Aug 2023)

  • Security Updates - Critical

  • AN-240839 - Low
    Fixed an issue where Kafka topics would not come online.

22.4.995.0 (27 Jul 2023)

  • 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.

22.4.980.0 (20 Jul 2023)

  • Security Updates - Critical

  • AN-237908 - Medium
    Updates to bouncycastle in Docusign connected system

  • AN-240883 - Low
    Configuring future support of kRaft.

22.4.956.0 (14 Jul 2023)

  • Security Updates - Critical

  • AN-225107 - Critical
    Updated Snakeyaml Library

  • AN-226846 - Critical
    Updated Snakeyaml library

  • AN-235128 - High
    Introduced disk safeguards for heap dump creation.

  • AN-235860 - High
    Updating Admin Console Plug-ins page logic for Appian Cloud users to show all AppMarket plug-ins, but block unsupported ones from being deployed.

  • AN-238149 - High
    Fixed an issue to support MirrorMaker for Appian on Kubernetes customers.

  • AN-239359 - High
    Fixed an issue where an incompatible plug-in upgrade could be deployed via the Admin Console.

  • AN-239337 - Medium
    Resolves an issue where under certain conditions variables configured to refresh on an interval stopped refreshing.

22.4.940.0 (06 Jul 2023)

  • Security Updates - Critical

  • AN-203023 - Medium
    Updated POI Library

Installation

Perform the following steps to apply the hotfix:

  1. Stop Appian. See Starting and Stopping Appian for detailed instructions:
    1. Shut down the application server.
    2. Shut down the search server.
    3. Shut down the data server.
    4. Shutdown all Appian Engines, ensuring that the engines are checkpointed upon shutdown.
  2. Back up your existing Appian instance. See Backing Up Your Existing Appian Instance.
  3. Unzip the contents of the Hotfix package 22.4.2095.0 into your <APPIAN_HOME> directory.
  4. Run the deleteFiles script (deleteFiles.bat on Windows, deleteFiles.sh on Linux) that is now located in your <APPIAN_HOME> directory.
    • If the script reports that some files were not deleted, address the reason for the failure (common causes listed below), and run it again until it no longer reports failed deletions.
    • Common causes of failed file deletion include:
    • The file is open in another window or process
    • The file is locked
    • You do not have permission to delete the file
  5. Unzip the contents of the updates.zip archive that is now located your <APPIAN_HOME> directory.
  6. Run the installJdk script (installJdk.bat on Windows, installJdk.sh on Linux).
  7. If you maintain customized or overridden Spring Security .xml files, merge them with the associated base files in the /deployment/web.war/WEB-INF/conf/security/ directory.
  8. Delete the following files:
    Linux
    • deleteFiles.sh
    • installjdk script.sh
    • OpenJDK8U-jdk_x64linux_hotspot.tar.gz
    • updates.zip

    Windows

    • deleteFiles.bat
    • installjdk script.bat
    • OpenJDK8U-jdk_x64windows_hotspot.zip
    • updates.zip
  9. If you are using a Web server, copy the content of <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.
  10. Run the configure script to deploy your environment's configuration and re-configure any node names previously set by the configure script tools.
  11. Start Appian:
    1. Start the Appian Engines.
    2. Start the data server.
    3. Start the search server.
    4. Start the application server.

To determine if the Appian 22.4 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=61dcd71582b23c0bfd4c391e4306925c0071d72f
build.version=22.4.2095.0

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