This page lists all the recent hotfixes for Appian 23.1.
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.
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 23.1 installations not currently up to date with the latest hotfixes. After installing, you will be running on Appian 23.1.1580.0.
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 - Medium
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.
Security Updates - Medium
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.
Security Updates - High
AN-242202 - High
Upgraded Jackson databind in master and maint branches and Disabled jetifier flag in maint branches
Security Updates - High
AN-271778 - High
Updates to the Spring library version
Security Updates - High
AN-266898 - High
Upgraded Clojure version to 1.12.0-alpha8
AN-278415 - High
Fixed an issue that caused a subset of columns in the records metrics log files to be reported incorrectly.
Security Updates - High
AN-277857 - Critical
changes the directory permission from root to appian for /usr/local/appian/local-data/rpa-data/tomcat8
Security Updates - High
AN-275795 - Medium
Evaluation of a real-time custom record field through a relationship referenced in a security rule may no longer become out of sync due to an update to the custom record field.
AN-276098 - Medium
Improved the query for fetching design objects.
AN-276266 - Low
Cleaned up the Service Manager logs from redundant messaging regarding the new Java 17 use.
Security Updates - High
AN-274920 - Medium
Resolved an issue with Redis that was displaying Redis client 500 errors.
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.
Security Updates - High
AN-265165 - Low
Fixed an issues where engine process metrics were not properly collected.
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.
Security Updates - Medium
AN-259725 - High
Upgraded ion-java library
AN-259860 - High
Updated grpc library
AN-266422 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused syncs from smart services to invalidate a record type while it is still executing its initial sync.
Security Updates - Medium
AN-259435 - High
Removal of special characters (non alpha numeric) from the exception REST API response
Security Updates - High
AN-244356 - High
Upgraded Jackson Core , Databind and Annotations in Dynamics and Sharepoint Connected Systems
AN-262624 - High
Performance optimization for development environments related to type and rule updates.
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.
AN-261897 - Medium
Fixed an issue which caused infrequent synced record type outages due to data service write failures.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-257532 - Medium
Security Improvement
AN-258702 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused embedded Appian to break for 1% of Google Chrome users, following a recent change by Google.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-263504 - High
Production release of AMP stratus log streaming migration
Security Updates - High
AN-261480 - Medium
Resolved an issue where the phpMyAdmin banner color was not properly displayed based on the configuration.
Security Updates - High
AN-255863 - Medium
Upgraded jackson databind in blueprism connected system
AN-255864 - Medium
Upgraded jackson libraries in salesforce-multi
AN-258199 - Medium
Fixed an issue which prevented certain deactivated users from being reactivated on sign in. Before this fix, deactivated users with rule based membership could not be reactivated through SAML automatically.
AN-259083 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused record action submissions to lead to unresponsive user interfaces in rare scenarios.
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-259639 - Medium
Fixed a bug that prevented log in and password reset for SSO users.
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.
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
Security Updates - Critical
AN-253349 - Medium
Improved throttling mechanism for parallel thread creation and associated observability
AN-252629 - Low
Fixed an issue that caused requests to the data service to timeout during recovery from component failure.
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
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.
AN-254029 - Low
Security Improvements
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Security Updates - Medium
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
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
.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-245611 - High
Security Improvement
AN-246001 - Medium
Fixed an issue that prevented upgrading to RHEL 7.x by reverting Holy Build Box version to 2.2.0
AN-242849 - Low
TLS 1.1 has been disabled for Enhanced Data Pipeline due to various security issues. Refer to your tool’s documentation for instructions on connecting to an external database using TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.3. Alternatively, you can try adding the properties enabledSslProtocolSuites=TLSv1.2
and useSsl=true
to your database connection string.
AN-245502 - Low
Fixed an issue that caused occasional Kafka errors when restarting the data service.
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
Security Updates - High
AN-238159 - High
Updates to Netty library
AN-244313 - High
Security Improvement
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.
AN-234229 - Low
Security Improvement
AN-244525 - Low
Security Improvement
Security Updates - High
AN-237829 - High
Updated the guava, jackson databind, jackson core, and jackson annotations libraries.
AN-241110 - High
Updated spring security library
AN-156340 - Low
Adding additional engine logging for troubleshooting
AN-241206 - Low
Adding additional logging for Kafka transaction writing for troubleshooting.
Security Updates - High
AN-243290 - High
Security Improvements
AN-236122 - Medium
Updated Google Cloud Libraries
AN-242736 - Medium
The data service query request size limit is now set to 5MB.
AN-242767 - Medium
Removed support for the Portals Publishing Manager application. All portals must be created and managed using Appian Designer.
CN-23112 - Medium
Kakfa performance tuning
AN-242915 - Low
Resolved a Kafka startup issue for Windows users.
Security Updates - High
AN-240325 - Medium
Security Improvements
Security Updates - Critical
AN-240839 - Low
Fixed an issue where Kafka topics would not come online.
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-240085 - High
Updating or deploying a portal now causes it to reflect the correct subdomain if the environment's subdomain was changed since the portal was first published.
AN-237908 - Medium
Updates to bouncycastle in Docusign connected system
AN-240883 - Low
Configuring future support of kRaft.
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.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-238140 - Critical
Security Improvement
AN-203023 - Medium
Updated POI Library
AN-238520 - Medium
Resolves an issue where under certain conditions variables configured to refresh on an interval stopped refreshing.
AN-221295 - Low
Updating MirrorMaker support for Appian on Kubernetes customers.
AN-234393 - Low
Updated Service Manager start script to support manual transaction replay.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-238270 - Critical
Resolved an issue that was causing intermittent "403 Forbidden" errors when accessing a User Start Page site
AN-217955 - High
Updated Mozilla Rhino version
AN-228346 - High
Updated Google Cloud Translate and Protobuf Libraries
AN-236160 - High
Fixed an issue where saving into record type process variables with complex relationships caused performance degradation that sometimes led to the process modeler being unusable.
AN-238044 - High
Secuity update
AN-235987 - Medium
Reduce data-server memory
AN-237074 - Medium
Updates to CMIS Data Connector
AN-237816 - Medium
Added a removal notice to the Portals Publishing Manager. Support for the Portals Publishing Manager will be removed on all versions on July 31st.
AN-237944 - Medium
Created a new 'logsv2' action in Cleanup Script which will clean up all old log files, including log files created after the inception of the logs action.
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-235986 - Medium
Fixed an issue where the search response content length exceeded the default limit of 100MB. The maximum query response content length on search server client calls is now configurable through conf.ia.QUERY_RESPONSE_LIMIT_IN_BYTES property.
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.
AN-234601 - Low
Fixed an issue with the webapp gracefully stopping.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-231566 - High
Upgraded ICU library to 73.1
AN-236395 - High
Fixed an issue where the Tomcat garbage collection logs were being written to the wrong folder.
AN-234932 - Medium
Fixed an issue which resulted in intermittent "branch with the given id does not exist" errors when attempting to write data to the data service.
AN-235879 - Medium
Added a configuration option to reduce the incidence of failures when syncing changed data in an environment where connection to the data source fails intermittently.
AN-235985 - Medium
Added new debug logging to help troubleshoot an issue where a scheduled full sync failed due to a uniqueness constraint.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-233537 - High
Upgrade Atlassian and Jettison Libraries
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-235533 - High
Fixed a site startup issue.
AN-234671 - Medium
Performance updates for Portals that use a!queryRecordType, a!documentDownloadLink, a!documentViewerField, a!fileUploadField, fn!document,or a!documentViewerField. Performance will improve where there are more than 2 concurrent uses or users of each feature.
AN-219303 - Low
Backporting metrics around design objects. low risk
Security Updates - Critical
AN-226471 - High
Upgraded reload4j library
AN-230001 - High
Updated Clojure library
AN-231369 - High
Upgraded Spring library
AN-232003 - High
Integrations no longer fail when using TLS 1.3
AN-227824 - Medium
Resolved an issue with Generate Record Actions that could occur when users did not have access to related Record Types.
AN-230345 - Medium
Fixed an issue with groups that have an expression defining "Visibility" where group members were being redirected to Tempo when clicking a task link in an email instead of being directed to the URL configured as the group's "User Start Page".
AN-231563 - Medium
Fixed an caching issue that was impacting performance.
AN-234223 - Low
Fixes ADS debug logging issue.
AN-234594 - Low
Upgrading Redisson Client
Security Updates - High
AN-231242 - High
Upgraded Woodstox library
AN-232228 - High
Updated Jackson Databind Library
AN-232615 - High
Security improvements
AN-233855 - Medium
Upgraded Spring library
AN-233982 - Medium
For portals, HTTP integrations that do not use connected systems now function without error.
AN-229296 - Low
Fixed an issue with certificate regeneration in the "Connected Environments" feature where the generated certificate was attributed to "Administrator" instead of the user who initiated the regeneration.
AN-229837 - Low
Fixed an issues where some codeless data modeling issues were not being properly recorded in the codeless-data-modeling.log file.
AN-232037 - Low
Upgraded Liquibase to patch release v4.21.1.
AN-233239 - Low
Better handling of exceptions thrown while processing write requests in ADS.
Security Updates - High
AN-231359 - Critical
Fixed an issue that caused intermittent "Cannot read properties of null (reading 'getIn')" errors during user site interaction.
AN-233312 - High
Fixed a race condition that caused process nodes to intermittently remain in "Not Started" status.
AN-229840 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused Process Variables created from an Interface to be displayed with Type as "[Not Visible]" under Process Model Properties in the Process Modeler.
AN-231979 - Medium
Fixed a bug that caused the "Test Connection" button in the Document Extraction tab of the Administration Console to display an error message for some Google accounts.
AN-225171 - Low
Saving edits in Codeless Data Modeling no longer produces warning messages in tomcat-stdOut.log.
Security Updates - High
AN-222925 - Medium
Updated google-cloud-core-http library
AN-231606 - Medium
Resolved an issue with users not getting logged out during a maintenance window.
AN-229971 - Low
Reduced service manager shutdown time for customers managing Appian on Kubernetes.
Security Updates - High
AN-223083 - High
Removed xalan library
AN-230557 - High
Some environments had access to develop and manage portals when they should not have. We've fixed the issue so that only organizations with a license to use Appian Portals have access.
Security Updates - High
AN-229036 - High
Updates to jackson core, jackson databind, and jackson annotation libraries
AN-230038 - High
Updates to Woodstox core asl library
AN-218781 - Medium
Added a log that aggregates metrics by the data source and procedure name that are input when using the Execute Stored Procedure feature.
AN-226130 - Medium
Fixed an issue that prevented users from using codeless data modeling to create tables that included relationships to a record type with another source.
AN-227726 - Medium
Hibernate ORM was updated to the new maintenance release 5.6.15.Final.
AN-230273 - Low
Fixed an issue where an invalid datetime format displays in the application information pane of Explore view if the locale is set to English (UK).
Security Updates - Critical
AN-229993 - Medium
For Cloud Database, increased max_input_vars value to 2000 to prevent runtime errors from occurring in phpMyAdmin.
AN-230158 - Medium
The time out for syncs triggered by the Write to Data Store Entity or the Write to Multiple Data Store Entities smart services is now configurable via a site property. If a full sync consistently fails on your record type because multiple writes are being performed at the same time as the full sync, you can configure longer sync timeouts for these smart services to prevent the full sync from failing.
AN-227900 - Low
Updated ADS error message to include additional information to help debug the failure.
Perform the following steps to apply the hotfix:
<APPIAN_HOME>
directory.<APPIAN_HOME>
directory.
<APPIAN_HOME>
directory.Windows
<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 23.1 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=9bf8cdd501fc3491c6bd4e26cea01b42fbc0f7fc build.version=23.1.1580.0
Appian Hotfixes