Appian Hotfixes

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.

Hotfix package (21 Nov 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 23.1 installations not currently up to date with the latest hotfixes. After installing, you will be running on Appian 23.1.1870.0.

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.

23.1.1870.0 (21 Nov 2024)

Security Updates - Critical

23.1.1860.0 (14 Nov 2024)

AN-299088 - High
Fixed an issue with Service Manager shutdown.

23.1.1850.0 (07 Nov 2024)

Security Updates - High

23.1.1840.0 (31 Oct 2024)

Security Updates - High

23.1.1830.0 (25 Oct 2024)

Security Updates - High

23.1.1815.0 (18 Oct 2024)

Security Updates - Medium

23.1.1785.0 (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.

23.1.1750.0 (13 Sep 2024)

Security Updates - Medium

23.1.1730.0 (06 Sep 2024)

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

23.1.1710.0 (29 Aug 2024)

AN-271602 - High
Updated the bcprov library

23.1.1700.0 (22 Aug 2024)

Security Updates - High

23.1.1680.0 (15 Aug 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-277986 - High
Updated the Okio JVM library
AN-280345 - Low
Search Server (Elasticsearch) is now upgraded to version 7.17.23.

23.1.1660.0 (09 Aug 2024)

Security Updates - Critical

23.1.1640.0 (01 Aug 2024)

Security Updates - Critical
AN-286157 - Critical
Fixed an issue with phpMyAdmin being unavailable.
AN-284801 - Medium
Resolved an issue where component plugin interactions did not properly extend the session
AN-285720 - Medium
Fixed an issue where log files would get incorrectly moved after a site restart.

23.1.1580.0 (11 Jul 2024)

Security Updates - Critical

23.1.1575.0 (06 Jul 2024)

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.

23.1.1566.0 (28 Jun 2024)

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.

23.1.1555.0 (21 Jun 2024)

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

23.1.1535.0 (13 Jun 2024)

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

23.1.1515.0 (06 Jun 2024)

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.

23.1.1495.0 (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

23.1.1480.0 (24 May 2024)

Security Updates - High
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.

23.1.1465.0 (17 May 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-274920 - Medium
Resolved an issue with Redis that was displaying Redis client 500 errors.

23.1.1440.0 (09 May 2024)

Security Updates - High

23.1.1425.0 (02 May 2024)

Security Updates - High

23.1.1405.0 (25 Apr 2024)

Security Updates - High

23.1.1380.0 (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.

23.1.1365.0 (11 Apr 2024)

Security Updates - High

23.1.1350.0 (04 Apr 2024)

Security Updates - High

23.1.1345.0 (28 Mar 2024)

Security Updates - High

23.1.1325.0 (21 Mar 2024)

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

23.1.1310.0 (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.

23.1.1290.0 (07 Mar 2024)

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.

23.1.1265.0 (28 Feb 2024)

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

23.1.1245.0 (22 Feb 2024)

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.

23.1.1220.0 (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.

23.1.1205.0 (08 Feb 2024)

Security Updates - Critical
AN-263504 - High
Production release of AMP stratus log streaming migration

23.1.1185.0 (02 Feb 2024)

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

23.1.1165.0 (26 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-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.

23.1.1105.0 (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

23.1.1080.0 (21 Dec 2023)

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.

23.1.1065.0 (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

23.1.1045.0 (06 Dec 2023)

Security Updates - High

23.1.1035.0 (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.

23.1.1006.0 (17 Nov 2023)

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

23.1.1005.0 (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.

23.1.980.0 (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.

23.1.967.0 (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.

23.1.945.0 (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.

23.1.926.0 (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.

23.1.906.0 (13 Oct 2023)

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

23.1.890.0 (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.

23.1.870.0 (28 Sep 2023)

Security Updates - Critical

23.1.855.0 (21 Sep 2023)

Security Updates - Critical
AN-246001 - Medium
Fixed an issue that prevented upgrading to RHEL 7.x by reverting Holy Build Box version to 2.2.0
AN-245502 - Low
Fixed an issue that caused occasional Kafka errors when restarting the data service.

23.1.835.0 (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

23.1.810.0 (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.

23.1.785.0 (31 Aug 2023)

Security Updates - High
AN-237829 - High
Updated the guava, jackson databind, jackson core, and jackson annotations libraries.
AN-156340 - Low
Adding additional engine logging for troubleshooting
AN-241206 - Low
Adding additional logging for Kafka transaction writing for troubleshooting.

23.1.760.0 (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.
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.

23.1.740.0 (15 Sep 2023)

Security Updates - High

23.1.715.0 (10 Aug 2023)

Security Updates - High

23.1.690.0 (03 Aug 2023)

Security Updates - High

Installation

Perform the following steps to apply the hotfix:

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.
Back up your existing Appian instance. See Backing Up Your Existing Appian Instance.
Unzip the contents of the Hotfix package 23.1.1870.0 into your <APPIAN_HOME> directory.
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
Unzip the contents of the updates.zip archive that is now located your <APPIAN_HOME> directory.
Run the installJdk script (installJdk.bat on Windows, installJdk.sh on Linux).
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.
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
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.
Run the configure script to deploy your environment's configuration and re-configure any node names previously set by the configure script tools.
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 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=9644811a3ef3ff1312a1f292f28f0820882f4a55
build.version=23.1.1870.0

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