Appian Hotfixes

This page lists all the recent hotfixes for Appian 24.1.

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 (19 Dec 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 24.1 installations not currently up to date with the latest hotfixes. After installing, you will be running on Appian 24.1.1045.0.

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.

24.1.1045.0 (19 Dec 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-301070 - High
Placeholder
AN-290054 - Low
Fixed an issue that caused unexpected and incorrect Process Model errors to be reported in the Health Check Report

24.1.1020.0 (12 Dec 2024)

AN-300999 - Critical
Resolved issue which allowed process models with invalid expressions to be imported

24.1.1010.0 (06 Dec 2024)

Security Updates - High

24.1.970.0 (21 Nov 2024)

Security Updates - Critical
AN-295015 - High
Upgraded the antlr4 version to latest 4.13.2.

24.1.955.0 (15 Nov 2024)

Security Updates - Medium
AN-299088 - High
Fixed an issue with Service Manager shutdown.
AN-291712 - Medium
Improved performance of Record Actions submissions in the presence of GridFields.

24.1.930.0 (07 Nov 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-295012 - High
Updated Integration Dynamics Library
AN-296968 - Medium
Fixed proxy valve not setting server port based on custom properties

24.1.905.0 (31 Oct 2024)

Security Updates - High

24.1.885.0 (25 Oct 2024)

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.
AN-294004 - High
Updated Google Libraries

24.1.865.0 (17 Oct 2024)

Security Updates - Medium
AN-290106 - High
Added support for Public Keys with trailing spaces

24.1.845.0 (11 Oct 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-294756 - High
Fixed issue where some records-powered grids queried extra fields when there were multiple interfaces nested together.
AN-289556 - Medium
HotFix
AN-291837 - Medium
Improved performance when viewing interfaces referencing a high-usage analytics report.

24.1.830.0 (04 Oct 2024)

Security Updates - Medium

24.1.825.0 (27 Sep 2024)

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

24.1.810.0 (20 Sep 2024)

Security Updates - Medium
AN-287338 - Critical
Update oscore library
AN-290299 - High
Fixed an issue that in rare cases caused synced records queries to fail with a "type" error when referencing aggregate related record fields through a record relationship.

24.1.786.0 (13 Sep 2024)

Security Updates - High

24.1.765.0 (06 Sep 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-280586 - Medium
Fixed an error with they apply() function.
AN-290307 - Medium
Resolved an error with k transactions due to a negative time.
AN-289091 - Low
No release not needed

24.1.745.0 (29 Aug 2024)

Security Updates - Medium
AN-271602 - High
Updated the bcprov library

24.1.730.0 (22 Aug 2024)

Security Updates - Critical

24.1.705.0 (15 Aug 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-277986 - High
Updated the Okio JVM library
AN-277983 - Medium
Updated the Netty Codec HTTP library
AN-287595 - Medium
Fixed a database connection issue during the daily site backup.
AN-280345 - Low
Search Server (Elasticsearch) is now upgraded to version 7.17.23.
AN-288482 - Low
a!callLanguageModel is no longer autosuggested in expression editors.

24.1.680.0 (09 Aug 2024)

Security Updates - Critical

24.1.660.0 (01 Aug 2024)

Security Updates - Critical
AN-287053 - Medium
Fixed an issue where uploads were failing when using RPA

24.1.645.0 (26 Jul 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-285335 - Medium
Hotfix release to enable vector log streaming in Federal sites
AN-285720 - Medium
Fixed an issue where log files would get incorrectly moved after a site restart.
AN-284131 - Low
Special characters retrieved from the Start Process smart service (a!startProcess) will now properly display in a portal.

24.1.620.0 (18 Jul 2024)

Security Updates - Critical
AN-277201 - High
Fixed an issue where Extract from Document Smart Service and Classify Emails Smart Service would fail due to an error generating unique job keys.
AN-270538 - Low
Improved internal observability.
AN-283365 - Low
Added the new Advance IDP Tool feature to previous versions 24.1 and 24.2

24.1.600.0 (11 Jul 2024)

Security Updates - Critical
AN-282655 - Medium
JWT expiration and refresh time has been updated properly.
AN-283427 - Medium
Increased timeout for smart service syncs to prevent record type invalidation when full syncs occur at the same time.

24.1.590.0 (03 Jul 2024)

Security Updates - Medium
AN-281250 - Critical
Fixed Sharepoint and Dynamics integrations throwing an SLF4J error in some circumstances
AN-282192 - High
Fixed an issue that caused Appian instances to fail to start when the HTTP Proxy credentials can not be decrypted.
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.
AN-279866 - Medium
Fixed an issue where in rare circumstances Export to Excel of a Process Report was not exporting all columns.
AN-282246 - Medium
Fixed an issue where in some cases tasks were incorrectly assigned.

24.1.566.0 (28 Jun 2024)

Security Updates - High
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-277994 - Medium
Fixed an issue where page width was sometimes not respected in embedded interfaces

24.1.545.0 (21 Jun 2024)

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

24.1.520.0 (13 Jun 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-271778 - High
Updates to the Spring library version
AN-278947 - High
Fixed an issue that could cause the process modeler to not load for self-managed customers.
AN-278984 - High
Fixes Java17 warning banner link to documentation

24.1.500.0 (06 Jun 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-266898 - High
Upgraded Clojure version to 1.12.0-alpha8
AN-278245 - High
Resolved an issue that caused syncs to be slower for some database sources.
AN-278415 - High
Fixed an issue that caused a subset of columns in the records metrics log files to be reported incorrectly.
AN-272355 - Low
Fixed an issue where the background color of header content layout on a chained user input task was incorrectly inherited from the previous user input task.

24.1.481.0 (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
AN-261349 - Medium
Now customer can set the expansion limit with max limit of 10000, thereby avoiding memory drain.

24.1.460.0 (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.

24.1.440.0 (17 May 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-274533 - High
Fixed issue where sync failed with error 'specified branch timed out' during sync operations.
AN-272336 - Medium
Fixed an issue in process history where process variables which were not record type variables did not include an expand option to view a large value.
AN-274920 - Medium
Resolved an issue with Redis that was displaying Redis client 500 errors.
AN-275940 - Low
Fixed an issue with directly uploading plug-ins via the Admin Console.

24.1.411.0 (10 May 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-274845 - Medium
Fixes an issue in Write Records where the user doesn't have permissions to a related record and fails as a result, even if the related record is not included in the input parameter. With this fix only records that will be written are included in privilege validation.
AN-275956 - Medium
Updated locale display names in the user settings menu to more accurately describe the options.

24.1.385.0 (02 May 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-263543 - Medium
The AI Skill Save button is disabled for the duration of a save operation.
AN-271359 - Medium
Fixed technical issue in query performance monitor where handling of filter value storage in the database was inconsistent for aggregation filter values.
AN-274238 - Medium
Fixed an issue when trying to force logouts of user sessions.

24.1.365.0 (25 Apr 2024)

Security Updates - High

24.1.346.0 (19 Apr 2024)

AN-272254 - High
Improves the UI performance of the Reconcile Document Extraction task.

24.1.345.0 (18 Apr 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-270962 - High
Resolved a startup failure issue on single-node sites when enabling the Enhanced Data Pipeline - Business Data Replication feature.
AN-266346 - Medium
Apache Kafka upgrade to 3.7.0
AN-268043 - Medium
Updates Execute Prompt Smart Service to accept document and email inputs.
AN-270014 - Medium
Search Server (Elasticsearch) is now upgraded to version 7.17.19.
AN-271620 - Medium
Retry connecting to AI Skills when network disruptions are encountered.
AN-270706 - Low
Changing Locale will now update all translations upon page refresh.
AN-271336 - Low
Fixed an issue where queries would fail due to a timeout. This increases the query timeout.

24.1.325.0 (11 Apr 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-270307 - Medium
Fixed an issue where users were getting errors after logging in using SAML if "Update User Attributes on Sign-In" was enabled.

24.1.305.0 (04 Apr 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-268921 - Medium
Fix for AN-269419 for concurrent usage of AI skills prompt builder
AN-269222 - Medium
Fixed an issue that resulted in discrepancy in sizes of certain Knowledge Centers and Folders. Prior to this fix, certain Knowledge Centers and Folders displayed incorrect sizes after deletion of documents.

24.1.281.0 (28 Mar 2024)

AN-269457 - Medium
Enable cross-region support for Prompt Builder.

24.1.280.0 (28 Mar 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-268360 - Medium
Fixed an issue in the real-time store that caused synced record queries to fail unexpectedly on rare occasions.
AN-268833 - Low
Fixed an issue that caused certain constraint validations to be ignored in full record syncs.

24.1.255.0 (21 Mar 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-267205 - Medium
We now allow customers to specify which region should be used by all private AI features when their environment is located outside of a supported region. Customers can request this change via Appian support.
AN-265165 - Low
Fixed an issues where engine process metrics were not properly collected.

24.1.236.0 (15 Mar 2024)

AN-268402 - Medium
Fixed an issue where the choice values of a dropdown component would get cut off by the containing layout.

24.1.235.0 (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.
AN-267026 - High
Hotfix was added to AE 24.1 and AE 23.4
AN-265737 - Medium
Fixed an issue where document extraction fields were sometimes misaligned in reconciliation tasks.

24.1.210.0 (07 Mar 2024)

Security Updates - Medium
AN-259725 - High
Upgraded ion-java library
AN-259860 - High
Updated grpc library
AN-266891 - High
Appian now behaves properly. Data creation within form builder is created at the proper levels.

24.1.200.0 (01 Mar 2024)

Security Updates - Critical
AN-244356 - High
Upgraded Jackson Core , Databind and Annotations in Dynamics and Sharepoint Connected Systems
AN-259435 - High
Removal of special characters (non alpha numeric) from the exception REST API response
AN-260675 - High
Fixed an issue that prevented loading Data Fabric Analytics when using Microsoft SQL Server 2016 for the Appian data source.
AN-262105 - High
Performance improvements for interfaces that use record references.
AN-262624 - High
Performance optimization for development environments related to type and rule updates.
AN-263504 - High
Production release of AMP stratus log streaming migration
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-248734 - Medium
This fixes the issue for the ability to save a salesforce integration with large payloads over> 200KB using a Salesforce Connected System
AN-255134 - Medium
Update to the "AI Services" translation for multiple locales.
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-258702 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused embedded Appian to break for 1% of Google Chrome users, following a recent change by Google.
AN-259083 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused record action submissions to lead to unresponsive user interfaces in rare scenarios.
AN-259485 - Medium
Fixed an issue that prevented rendering of dropdown and multiple dropdown components with null or empty values.
AN-259639 - Medium
Fixed a bug that prevented log in and password reset for SSO users.
AN-260985 - Medium
Fixed an issue where in rare cases file uploads would fail with a 401 error on embedded forms.
AN-261224 - Medium
Fixed an issue where a!queryRecordType() and a!queryRecordByIdentifer() were sometimes causing slowness in portals.
AN-261480 - Medium
Resolved an issue where the phpMyAdmin banner color was not properly displayed based on the configuration.
AN-261897 - Medium
Fixed an issue which caused infrequent synced record type outages due to data service write failures.
AN-262858 - Medium
Interfaces with component plugins (like the Rich Text Editor plugin) now load faster, especially when there are multiple on the same page.
AN-257760 - Low
Resolved a user interface issue affecting the Execute Stored Procedure Smart Service within the upgrade to version 23.4. Prior to the fix, the newly introduced Auto-commit node input parameter was incorrectly displayed in the Outputs section for any existing nodes created before version 23.4. To use the Auto-commit parameter, you will need to replace the existing nodes with new ones within your process model.

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 24.1.1045.0 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 24.1 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=38ee6038d39da4a89d031843b88dd00622083050
build.version=24.1.1045.0

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