Appian Hotfixes

This page lists all the recent hotfixes for Appian 23.2.

Hotfix package (27 Mar 2025)

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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.

• Hotfix package 23.2.1920.0
• Installation instructions

This cumulative hotfix package includes all resolved issues listed below in a single download. This hotfix is required for any Appian 23.2 installations not currently up to date with the latest hotfixes. After installing, you will be running on Appian 23.2.1920.0.

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.

23.2.1920.0 (27 Mar 2025)

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• Security Updates - Medium

23.2.1905.0 (20 Mar 2025)

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• Security Updates - High

• AN-312314 - Medium
  Upgraded tomcat

23.2.1890.0 (13 Mar 2025)

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• Security Updates - High

23.2.1870.0 (06 Mar 2025)

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• Security Updates - Medium

23.2.1850.0 (27 Feb 2025)

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• Security Updates - Medium

• AN-305780 - High
  Modified the preserve date feature in plugin backup service file.

23.2.1835.0 (20 Feb 2025)

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• Security Updates - High

23.2.1810.0 (06 Feb 2025)

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• Security Updates - Medium

23.2.1800.0 (31 Jan 2025)

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• AN-65772 - Medium
  Prevents querying the Appian primary data source through the Query Database smart service.

23.2.1785.0 (23 Jan 2025)

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• Security Updates - High

23.2.1770.0 (17 Jan 2025)

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• Security Updates - High

23.2.1760.0 (09 Jan 2025)

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• Security Updates - High

23.2.1740.0 (19 Dec 2024)

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• Security Updates - Medium

23.2.1725.0 (05 Dec 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

23.2.1700.0 (21 Nov 2024)

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• Security Updates - Critical

23.2.1685.0 (15 Nov 2024)

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• Security Updates - Medium

• AN-297673 - High
  Updated Google Libraries

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

23.2.1670.0 (07 Nov 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

• AN-295012 - High
  Updated Integration Dynamics Library

23.2.1650.0 (31 Oct 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

23.2.1640.0 (25 Oct 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

• AN-292724 - High
  Fixed an issue that resulted in occasional startup failures when starting the data service off of a filesystem backup.

23.2.1625.0 (18 Oct 2024)

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• Security Updates - Medium

23.2.1615.0 (10 Oct 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

23.2.1605.0 (04 Oct 2024)

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• Security Updates - Medium

23.2.1600.0 (27 Sep 2024)

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

23.2.1585.0 (20 Sep 2024)

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• Security Updates - Medium

• AN-287338 - Critical
  Update oscore library

23.2.1565.0 (13 Sep 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

23.2.1545.0 (06 Sep 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

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

23.2.1525.0 (29 Aug 2024)

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• Security Updates - Medium

• AN-271602 - High
  Updated the bcprov library

23.2.1510.0 (22 Aug 2024)

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• Security Updates - Critical

23.2.1490.0 (15 Aug 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

• AN-277986 - High
  Updated the Okio JVM library

• AN-277983 - Medium
  Updated the Netty Codec HTTP library

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

23.2.1465.0 (09 Aug 2024)

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• Security Updates - Critical

23.2.1445.0 (01 Aug 2024)

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• 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.

23.2.1395.0 (11 Jul 2024)

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• Security Updates - Critical

• AN-282655 - Medium
  JWT expiration and refresh time has been updated properly.

23.2.1385.0 (03 Jul 2024)

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• 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.

23.2.1370.0 (28 Jun 2024)

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• Security Updates - Medium

• AN-278708 - High
  Fixed an issue that caused AI Skill smart services to hang indefinitely, exhausting the thread pool and causing failures in smart service executions.

• 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-266772 - Low
  Removal of special characters (non alpha numeric) from the exception REST API response

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

23.2.1355.0 (21 Jun 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

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

23.2.1330.0 (13 Jun 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

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

23.2.1310.0 (06 Jun 2024)

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• 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.

23.2.1290.0 (31 May 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

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

23.2.1275.0 (24 May 2024)

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• 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.

23.2.1260.0 (17 May 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

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

23.2.1230.0 (09 May 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

23.2.1215.0 (02 May 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

23.2.1195.0 (25 Apr 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

• AN-272222 - High
  Improves the UI performance of the Reconcile Document Extraction task.

23.2.1170.0 (18 Apr 2024)

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• 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.

23.2.1155.0 (11 Apr 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

23.2.1140.0 (04 Apr 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

23.2.1120.0 (28 Mar 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

23.2.1095.0 (21 Mar 2024)

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• Security Updates - High

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

23.2.1080.0 (14 Mar 2024)

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• 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.

23.2.1060.0 (07 Mar 2024)

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• Security Updates - Medium

• AN-259725 - High
  Upgraded ion-java library

• AN-259860 - High
  Updated grpc library

23.2.1035.0 (01 Mar 2024)

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• Security Updates - Medium

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

23.2.1010.0 (22 Feb 2024)

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• 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.

23.2.985.0 (15 Feb 2024)

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• 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.

23.2.970.0 (08 Feb 2024)

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• Security Updates - Critical

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

23.2.955.0 (02 Feb 2024)

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• Security Updates - Medium

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

23.2.935.0 (26 Jan 2024)

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• 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.

23.2.865.0 (05 Jan 2024)

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• 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

23.2.835.0 (21 Dec 2023)

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• 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.

23.2.820.0 (14 Dec 2023)

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• 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

23.2.800.0 (06 Dec 2023)

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• Security Updates - High

23.2.445.0 (10 Aug 2023)

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• AN-241578 - High
  Fixed an issue where an error message was shown to users when loading some UIs due to an incorrect calculation of memory utilization.

Installation

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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 23.2.1920.0 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 23.2 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=0cace500fdceb7c80975409b2d254925fe621f44
build.version=23.2.1920.0

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