This page lists all the recent hotfixes for Appian 23.1.
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 19 May 2023.
The following issues have been recently resolved in Appian Cloud 23.1 as of the date indicated. These hotfixes will be available for self-managed customers in the next bi-monthly package.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-235533 - High
Fixed a site startup issue.
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-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
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 23.1.475.0.
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-232003 - High
Integrations no longer fail when using TLS 1.3
AN-231369 - High
Upgraded Spring library
AN-230001 - High
Updated Clojure library
AN-226471 - High
Upgraded reload4j library
AN-231563 - Medium
Fixed an caching issue that was impacting performance.
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-227824 - Medium
Resolved an issue with Generate Record Actions that could occur when users did not have access to related Record Types.
AN-234594 - Low
Upgrading Redisson Client
AN-234223 - Low
Fixes ADS debug logging issue.
Security Updates - High
AN-232615 - High
Security improvements
AN-232228 - High
Updated Jackson Databind Library
AN-231242 - High
Upgraded Woodstox library
AN-233982 - Medium
For portals, HTTP integrations that do not use connected systems now function without error.
AN-233855 - Medium
Upgraded Spring library
AN-233239 - Low
Better handling of exceptions thrown while processing write requests in ADS.
AN-232037 - Low
Upgraded Liquibase to patch release v4.21.1.
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-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.
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-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-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-225171 - Low
Saving edits in Codeless Data Modeling no longer produces warning messages in tomcat-stdOut.log.
Security Updates - High
AN-231606 - Medium
Resolved an issue with users not getting logged out during a maintenance window.
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-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.
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-227726 - Medium
Hibernate ORM was updated to the new maintenance release 5.6.15.Final.
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-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-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-226331 - High
Update Apache commons-fileupload library
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-229993 - Medium
For Cloud Database, increased max_input_vars value to 2000 to prevent runtime errors from occurring in phpMyAdmin.
AN-227900 - Low
Updated ADS error message to include additional information to help debug the failure.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-219989 - High
Updated org.json library
AN-228321 - Medium
Error logging for the Execute Stored Procedure Smart Service has been added to the Tomcat logs.
AN-228262 - Medium
This enhancement improves the performance of database changes that are made to the source which are then automatically synced in Appian.
AN-227959 - Medium
Classify Email Smart Service and ClassificationResult CDT now available.
Security Updates - High
AN-228759 - Critical
Fixed an issue where publishing the datastore would fail if the table included a column of type timestamp with timezone.
AN-227747 - High
Updated fasterxml.jackson and google.guava
AN-227457 - High
Updated Netty Library
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-227794 - High
Addressing an issue which caused some evaluations of rv!record to incorrectly return null when referring to a User Record type.
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
AN-228188 - Medium
For sync-enabled record types using Oracle as a data source, table synonyms are included in the list of tables to select as a sync source. In some environments the total number of available objects could result in performance issues in retrieving the list. It is now possible to query only tables if synonyms are not utilized by the application. Current implementations relying on using synonyms for sync-enabled record types should not utilize this option, and Customer Support can assist with an evaluation and implementation.
AN-228110 - Medium
Fixes an issue with publishing portals when using a!queryRecordType() in the portal interface.
AN-226988 - Medium
Fixed an issue where grid column widths were not respected when there was no grid header label specified on the column.
AN-227422 - Low
Updated error message to be more descriptive.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-226222 - High
Security Improvement
AN-218002 - Medium
Appian Cloud Database now uses version 5.2.1 of phpMyAdmin.
CN-18110 - Low
Fixed an issue that prevented shutdown of the Internal Messaging Service for some high availability sites.
AN-227526 - Low
Portal pages url stubs now have a validation against using a single underscore.
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-223242 - Critical
Updated jave protobuf, google cloud automl, jackson databind, google cloud core, and google cloud storage libraries within Google Connected Systems
AN-223122 - Medium
The performance for searching records-powered grids has been improved by removing fields outside the grid from the search criteria.
AN-222300 - Low
Configure Script now includes the ability to validate an installation.
Security Updates - High
AN-226160 - High
Security Improvement
AN-211063 - High
Removed extraneous log entries from the MirrorMaker log file to improve overall legibility.
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-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-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-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-223923 - Medium
Fixed an issue where Generate Record Action failed when certain locales were enabled.
AN-223680 - Medium
Fixed an issue that was causing significant delays during the checkpoint storage process.
Security Updates - Critical
AN-221122 - Critical
Removed references to the ConsumerConfig.addDeserializerToConfig and ProducerConfig.addSerializerToConfig methods due to deprecation in Kafka 3.3.1.
AN-223684 - High
Fixed an issue which prevented newly-made Google reCAPTCHA projects from working in a reCAPTCHA Connected System.
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.
AN-223199 - High
Prevent ADS issues due to Network Latency
AN-221245 - High
Kafka Upgrade
AN-220449 - High
Upgraded SnakeYAML Library
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-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.
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 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=308777037479df3e98859abad543d161e9d3804f build.version=23.1.475.0
