This page lists all the recent hotfixes for Appian 22.4.
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 10 Mar 2023.
The following issues have been recently resolved in Appian Cloud 22.4 as of the date indicated. These hotfixes will be available for self-managed customers in the next bi-monthly package.
Security Updates - High
AN-227457 - High
Updated Netty Library
AN-227747 - High
Updated fasterxml.jackson and google.guava
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
AN-227752 - Critical
Security Improvements
AN-220855 - High
Updated Jackson libraries
AN-226788 - High
Fixed an issue that could result in HA site failure when a site's primary engine becomes unavailable.
AN-227422 - Low
Updated error message to be more descriptive.
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 22.4.555.0.
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-227794 - High
Addressing an issue which caused some evaluations of rv!record to incorrectly return null when referring to a User Record type.
AN-226988 - Medium
Fixed an issue where grid column widths were not respected when there was no grid header label specified on the column.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-218002 - Medium
Appian Cloud Database now uses version 5.2.1 of phpMyAdmin.
AN-222143 - Medium
Fixed an issue where querying multiple related record type fields was evaluating a single security expression multiple times instead of one time.
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-226222 - High
Security Improvement
AN-226698 - High
Security Improvements
AN-222300 - Low
Configure Script now includes the ability to validate an installation.
AN-225133 - Low
Fixed an issue that occurred when using the "in" operator in a!queryFilter to filter against a real-time custom field.
Security Updates - High
AN-211063 - High
Removed extraneous log entries from the MirrorMaker log file to improve overall legibility.
AN-226850 - High
Resolved an issue introduced by the recent Hibernate ORM 5 upgrade that was causing errors during the verification and publishing of data stores.
AN-223122 - Medium
The performance for searching records-powered grids has been improved by removing fields outside the grid from the search criteria.
Security Updates - High
AN-226155 - High
CVE Fixed on Jaeger Agent image
AN-226160 - High
Security Improvement
AN-225494 - Medium
Fixed an issue that was causing process model failures due to a previous database transaction that was incorrectly marked for rollback.
AN-224718 - Low
Add additional handling to data service delete-kafka-topic script
Security Updates - Critical
AN-223910 - Critical
Resolved a case sensitivity issue with auto-generated column names that that was impacting data store validation for DB2 and Oracle data sources.
AN-225355 - Critical
The appian.feature.ae.record-access-management.set-rdbms-connector-network-timeout feature toggle and conf.recordsSync.syncRdbmsConnectionNetworkTimeoutMs property in custom.properties can now be set permanently on Appian Cloud environments via an Appian Support case. The toggle enables the timeout property to be applied and the property configures the timeout value (in milliseconds) that will be applied whenever establishing a connection to the RDBMS.
AN-225317 - High
The RDBMS networkTimeout has been turned off by default to eliminate disruptions for customers not experiencing network connection problems when communicating with their RDBMS. The default timeout has also been increased to from 30 seconds to 5 minutes when the feature toggle has been turned on.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-224754 - High
Appian Cloud now uses the 2.7.8 version of the MariaDB Connector/J for MariaDB data sources. Sites that connect to an Aurora MySQL database instance and use the MariaDB Connector/J will remain on version 2.7.2 temporarily. See MariaDB Connector/J 2.7.8 Release Notes for changelog and bug fixes
AN-223680 - Medium
Fixed an issue that was causing significant delays during the checkpoint storage process.
AN-223923 - Medium
Fixed an issue where Generate Record Action failed when certain locales were enabled.
AN-223401 - Low
Updated the engine startup script to include logging on script invocation time and passed parameters.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-221245 - High
Kafka Upgrade
AN-223199 - High
Prevent ADS issues due to Network Latency
AN-223684 - High
Fixed an issue which prevented newly-made Google reCAPTCHA projects from working in a reCAPTCHA Connected System.
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.
AN-223646 - Medium
Check if ADS components are up-to-date
AN-198434 - High
Corrected an accessibility issue with dropdowns and pickers to allow correct information about the controls to be conveyed to assistive technologies such as screen readers.
AN-220449 - High
Upgraded SnakeYAML Library
AN-223402 - High
Fixed an issue involving Oracle data stores that was impacting schema validation when a float type CDT field was referencing a numeric column type.
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-219648 - 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-222318 - Medium
Fixed an issue in Portal Forms Designer that prevented Document fields from rendering properly when opened in Microsoft Edge on IE Compatibility Mode.
AN-218227 - Low
Improved ADS logging when it is run as a service.
AN-220685 - Medium
A 30 second timeout has been added to database connections during full record type syncs to enable graceful failures and prevent syncs from becoming 'stuck' indefinitely.
AN-222230 - Medium
Fixed an issue involving Oracle data stores that was impacting schema validation when a text CDT field was referencing an "NCHAR" column type.
AN-218961 - Low
Process models are now able to be saved using "Save As" in all supported languages.
Security Updates - Low
AN-222133 - Critical
Fixed an issue involving Microsoft SQL Server data stores that was impacting schema validation when a boolean CDT field was referencing a "BIT" column type.
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-202061 - Low
Fixed an issue with interface data field errors where users were instructed to use an invalid date format.
AN-217357 - Low
For Appian Cloud MariaDB database, transaction isolation level has been set to read-committed for phpMyAdmin connections.
Security Updates - Low
AN-220838 - Critical
For sites that use an Oracle data source, resolved an issue that was causing Data Store validation to fail when an entity was defined using a synonym.
AN-219912 - Medium
Appian Cloud now uses the 42.5.1 version of the JDBC Driver for PostgreSQL Database.
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-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-221315 - Medium
Resolved an issue with the a!executeStoredProcedureOnSave function that led to failures in which a corresponding error message was not correctly generated.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-220177 - Medium
Security Improvements
AN-219995 - High
Security Improvement
AN-216082 - Medium
Fix an issue that caused file upload failures for files with MIME types containing parameters.
AN-218784 - Low
MariaDB database in Appian Cloud received a minor version upgrade to 10.6.11
Security Updates - Critical
AN-218450 - High
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-217700 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused intermittent "Cannot read properties of null (reading 'getIn')" errors during user site interaction.
AN-218553 - Medium
Add log messages in the application server log for when the record data source configuration is invalid to aid in troubleshooting.
AN-219086 - Medium
Prevents ADS Edge Case
AN-218855 - Low
Prevents ADS Edge Case
AN-218956 - Low
Fixed an issue where outdated gif icons would display. Now if no svgs are detected we will fallback to the default svg icon.
AN-219453 - Low
Interfaces and expression rules generated by record actions wizard now use proper naming convention
AN-219501 - Low
SAIL Debug Logging for Casting Code
AN-219665 - Low
Prevents data server edge case
Security Updates - Critical
AN-213666 - High
Upgrade SnakeYAML Library
AN-217400 - High
Fixed an issue that displayed AppMarket plug-in alerts for self-managed systems.
AN-218220 - High
Fixed an issue that prevented MariaDB from starting up on a distributed topology Appian Cloud environment with database encryption enabled.
AN-219070 - High
Fixed an issue in the Appian 22.3 upgrade that caused certain settings on the Appian Authentication tab in the Admin Console to be reset to their default values in some cases. After upgrading to 22.3, please verify that all Appian Authentication settings are correctly set in the Admin Console.
AN-214213 - Medium
Upgraded OpenPDF from version 1.3.26 to 1.3.30 to provide support for additional encryption types.
AN-215852 - Medium
Request/Response logs are now able to be created on both Windows and Unix OS machines (previously failing for Windows OS machines due to file path issue)
AN-218950 - Medium
Fixed an issue where Salesforce-backed record types were not showing the Salesforce logo in the Record Relationship Diagram.
AN-190586 - Low
Kubernetes customers can change their RTS count based on a property
AN-215914 - Low
Security Improvement
AN-216864 - Low
Fixed an issue where decimals contained in a Record Type are converted to text when exported to Excel.
AN-218847 - Low
Increase process count for the ADS docker container
Security Updates - Critical
AN-217565 - Critical
Security Improvement
AN-217611 - High
Increases the connection pool for ADS queries
AN-214565 - Medium
Fixed an issue where importing a record type that referenced itself generated a duplicate version in the object's version history.
AN-215833 - Medium
Security Improvement
AN-215894 - Medium
Fixed an issue where data returned from a process model was formatted incorrectly when using a record data type as a process model variable, resulting in a system error message.
AN-217004 - Medium
Fixed an issue in the Admin Console where viewing the locations of plug-in dependents caused the "Dependents" dialog to become empty.
AN-218142 - Medium
Fixed an issue where some records ran into errors when being imported to Mining Prep.
AN-212724 - Low
Upgrade Tika Library
AN-217795 - Low
Increase ADS docker memory limits based on site instance sizes
Security Updates - Critical
AN-214528 - High
Fixed an issue where timestamps appear incorrectly in the Applications view when the environment is set to certain locale and calendar configurations.
AN-215827 - High
Fixed an issue caused by the new Jakarta Mail library that resulted in emails sent by processes to drop their attachment extensions.
AN-212535 - Medium
Fixed an issue where file uploads freeze when a file upload component is embedded in an editable grid.
AN-214461 - Medium
Fixed an issue where Start and Stop script permissions were incorrectly set after applying a hotfix.
AN-214491 - Medium
Execute stored procedure smart service and functions now correctly call the referred admin console data source even if a Tomcat data source with the same name exists in the environment. The behavior introduced by this hotfix can be reverted via a Support case if desired.
AN-215834 - Medium
Security Improvement
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 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=d9c8f42fa208c852e56f6fcbb1d3b76130586db1 build.version=22.4.555.0
