This page lists all the recent hotfixes for Appian 24.2.

Hotfix package (28 Jun 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.

• Hotfix package 24.2.295.0
• Installation instructions

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 24.2.295.0.

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.

24.2.295.0 (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-281972 - High
  Changed library dependencies to fix Legacy Web Services (SOAP)

• 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

• AN-274124 - Medium
  Process HQ Security

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:

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 24.2.295.0 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 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=8d1f47667e933196578a6e636048dff4a830bfc7
build.version=24.2.295.0