Appian Hotfixes

This page lists all the recent hotfixes for Appian 24.2.

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 (15 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 24.2 installations not currently up to date with the latest hotfixes. After installing, you will be running on Appian 24.2.740.0.

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.

24.2.740.0 (15 Nov 2024)

Security Updates - Medium
AN-297508 - High
Fix for time formatting in fr_ca locale
AN-299088 - High
Fixed an issue with Service Manager shutdown.
AN-291712 - Medium
Improved performance of Record Actions submissions in the presence of GridFields.
AN-292836 - Medium
This fix addresses an issue some customers were experiencing which was preventing them from saving user filters.
AN-294532 - Medium
Fixed an issue with Appian integrations not timing out in cases they should.
AN-296762 - Medium
Fixed an invalid site stub error which occurred when opening a record list action dialog and interacting with an interface by cleaning up the query parameters on the site stub.

24.2.705.0 (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
AN-297936 - Medium
Fixed an issue where sample data could not be generated for date fields of record types.
AN-297934 - Low
Fixed an issue where interfaces in Firefox do not display after changing the read only value to true.

24.2.680.0 (31 Oct 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-292567 - Medium
Improved cross-node caching behavior which reduces load on process-design engine.

24.2.660.0 (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-293434 - High
Fixed an issue where upgrading to v24.2+ of Appian fails when large volumes of queries have been recorded in Monitor.
AN-294004 - High
Updated Google Libraries

24.2.640.0 (17 Oct 2024)

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

24.2.620.0 (10 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-284078 - Medium
Fixed an issue where full syncs were not successful in scenarios where primary key field did not have a uniqueness constraint.
AN-289556 - Medium
HotFix
AN-291837 - Medium
Improved performance when viewing interfaces referencing a high-usage analytics report.

24.2.600.0 (04 Oct 2024)

Security Updates - Medium
AN-267757 - Medium
The warning modal that is displayed when trying to edit a process model that another user is actively editing has been fixed to properly display the username of the user editing the process model.
AN-293203 - Medium
Fixed an issue where queries that timeout did not properly record their query syntax in the Monitor's Query Performance tab in Designer.
AN-293430 - Medium
Fixed a performance issue with refreshing record views after a record action or smart service was executed
AN-294428 - Medium
Fixed issue where some grid exports to Excel failed with the message "Query has failed: Entities with a null value in the primary key."

24.2.586.0 (07 Nov 2024)

AN-297508 - High
Fix for time formatting in fr_ca locale

24.2.585.0 (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.
AN-282362 - Low
Fixed issue where recently issued phone number area codes were mistakenly returned as invalid in a!isPhoneNumber
AN-287249 - Low
Fixes an issue with metrics being logged in Process HQ.
AN-292551 - Low
Fixed an issue that is caused when the name of the Primary key is anything else other than 'Id'.

24.2.565.0 (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.

24.2.541.0 (13 Sep 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-292002 - High
Fixed a change in the Tomcat Access Log behavior where 24.2 and above started documenting the timestamp as the time that the request started, whereas prior, the timestamp was the completed time of the request. This behavior has been reverted to document the timestamp as the time that the request started.
AN-291904 - Low
Fixes error message associated with validations on the activity attribute type.

24.2.515.0 (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.

24.2.495.0 (29 Aug 2024)

Security Updates - Medium
AN-271602 - High
Updated the bcprov library
AN-288680 - Medium
Add retry logic to Document Extraction Reconciliation result retrieval.

24.2.475.0 (22 Aug 2024)

Security Updates - Critical

24.2.450.0 (15 Aug 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-277986 - High
Updated the Okio JVM library
AN-287986 - High
Fixed an issue which allowed multiple sync executions to occur on the same record type at the same time risking a sync error.
AN-288129 - High
Removed an error message that was appearing intermittently in reconciliation tasks and interrupting the usual execution flow. Users will no longer have to dismiss this error and re-open the reconciliation task.
AN-277983 - Medium
Updated the Netty Codec HTTP library
AN-287356 - Medium
Upgraded the Jackson core library default values for Nesting depth, Number length and String length
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.

24.2.425.0 (09 Aug 2024)

Security Updates - Critical
AN-286053 - Low
Fixed an issue that prevented translation variables from being used on Record search placeholder.

24.2.405.0 (01 Aug 2024)

Security Updates - Critical
AN-285946 - High
Fixed an issue with connected systems that resulted in users being unable to use the data governance page.
AN-287053 - Medium
Fixed an issue where uploads were failing when using RPA
AN-287160 - Medium
Manage memory usage more efficiently during Document Reconciliation.

24.2.390.0 (26 Jul 2024)

Security Updates - Critical
AN-286157 - Critical
Fixed an issue with phpMyAdmin being unavailable.
AN-283825 - High
Process parameters with no values provided are now properly set to null, and null or empty process parameters now properly override default values. This fix restores behavior to be consistent with Appian 24.1.
AN-283272 - Medium
Fixed an issue where users could rarely encounter an error when configuring a KPI in non-English languages.
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.

24.2.360.0 (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
AN-286448 - Low
Updated en_GB translations for "AI Test Case" labels

24.2.341.0 (11 Jul 2024)

Security Updates - Critical
AN-282074 - High
Fixed an issue with custom attribute record field pickers in Process Insights
AN-282435 - High
Fixed an issue where naming a custom attribute with "@" results in null attribute values
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.
AN-283430 - Medium
Fixed an issue where completing a record action in an interface showed an error.

24.2.320.0 (03 Jul 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-281250 - Critical
Fixed Sharepoint and Dynamics integrations throwing an SLF4J error in some circumstances
AN-281972 - High
Changed library dependencies to fix Legacy Web Services (SOAP)
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-281322 - Medium
Fixed an issue that in rare occasions caused data on certain nodes within the data service to become out of sync resulting in data missing from query results.
AN-280147 - Low
Fixed an issue that generated a high volume of error log entries in the application server log for some long-lived environments.

24.2.295.0 (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
AN-281264 - Medium
Fixed an issue that prevented Case Management Studio's choice list fields from correctly displaying on Portals.
AN-277954 - Low
Fixed and issue where engine directories were not being created during installation.
AN-281428 - Low
Updated the field composition of the file upload request align with standard request structure.

24.2.270.0 (21 Jun 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-280121 - High
Fixed an issue with "Call Web Service" Smart Service
AN-279487 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused data service memory usage to grow slowly following full record syncs.
AN-279765 - Medium
Fixed an issue where the Error Configuration dialog in Executive Dashboard of Process Insights could not save properly in most cases.

24.2.245.0 (13 Jun 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-271778 - High
Updates to the Spring library version
AN-278984 - High
Fixes Java17 warning banner link to documentation
AN-277827 - Medium
Fixed an issue where portals would incorrectly show design warnings when a page of the portal was configured to use an integration or other certain objects.

24.2.225.0 (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-261349 - Medium
Now customer can set the expansion limit with max limit of 10000, thereby avoiding memory drain.
AN-278408 - Medium
AN-278408 - Lowa!studio_wizardLayout() now displays save draft and custom milestone names
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.

24.2.205.0 (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-271393 - Medium
None

24.2.195.0 (24 May 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-268428 - Medium
Updated "Record List" Type in Site Page creation to a record picker to improve performance.
AN-276098 - Medium
Improved the query for fetching design objects.

24.2.165.0 (15 May 2024)

Security Updates - High
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-275956 - Medium
Updated locale display names in the user settings menu to more accurately describe the options.
AN-275940 - Low
Fixed an issue with directly uploading plug-ins via the Admin Console.

24.2.130.0 (06 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.

24.2.100.0 (26 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-272222 - High
Improves the UI performance of the Reconcile Document Extraction task.
AN-266346 - Medium
Apache Kafka upgrade to 3.7.0
AN-270014 - Medium
Search Server (Elasticsearch) is now upgraded to version 7.17.19.
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.
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-270772 - Low
Fixed typo in the Execute Prompt smart service.
AN-271336 - Low
Fixed an issue where queries would fail due to a timeout. This increases the query timeout.

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 24.2.740.0 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 24.2 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=064d0011d9455d6988a892b634a1a3abc6a98588
build.version=24.2.740.0

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