Appian Hotfixes

This page lists all the recent hotfixes for Appian 24.4.

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 24.4 installations not currently up to date with the latest hotfixes. After installing, you will be running on Appian 24.4.291.0.

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.

24.4.291.0 (19 Dec 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-301070 - High
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AN-302289 - High
Manual editing of application plans are now handled via modals in order to improve user experience and performance.
AN-302793 - High
Fixed an issue where log cleanup with not working.
AN-300717 - Medium
Fixed an issue that caused process variable data to display incorrectly in Autoscale if a custom data type used in a process model was updated but the process model was not republished.
AN-302183 - Medium
Performance improvements to make it faster to save manual edits to application plans.
AN-290054 - Low
Fixed an issue that caused unexpected and incorrect Process Model errors to be reported in the Health Check Report
AN-301629 - Low
Fixed an issue where sites metrics csv were not getting populated with logs for Oracle backed environments
AN-302550 - Low
Fixes a bug where panes within a pane layout did not automatically scroll to the top, when the contents of the pane changed.
AN-302550 - Low
Fixes a bug where panes within a pane layout did not automatically scroll to the top, when the contents of the pane changed.

24.4.270.0 (12 Dec 2024)

AN-299967 - Critical
Fixed an issue where Appian pages freeze for users with more than one Appian browser tab open.
AN-300999 - Critical
Resolved issue which allowed process models with invalid expressions to be imported
AN-299675 - Medium
The Search Server (Elasticsearch) has been upgraded from version 8.14 to 8.16.
AN-301133 - Medium
Fixed an issue where the signature component buttons were not visible or scrollable in landscape mode on both iOS and Android mobile browsers.
AN-302183 - Medium
Performance improvements to make it faster to save manual edits to application plans.

24.4.245.0 (05 Dec 2024)

Security Updates - High
AN-239119 - Low
Authenticated the css files in the admin folder

24.4.210.0 (22 Nov 2024)

Security Updates - Critical
AN-290106 - High
Added support for Public Keys with trailing spaces
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
AN-294756 - High
Fixed issue where some records-powered grids queried extra fields when there were multiple interfaces nested together.
AN-295012 - High
Updated Integration Dynamics Library
AN-295015 - High
Upgraded the antlr4 version to latest 4.13.2.
AN-297508 - High
Fix for time formatting in fr_ca locale
AN-298592 - High
Fixed an issue in Process Insights where certain saved Insights could not be opened in the UI.
AN-299088 - High
Fixed an issue with Service Manager shutdown.
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-284078 - Medium
Fixed an issue where full syncs were not successful in scenarios where primary key field did not have a uniqueness constraint.
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.
AN-297936 - Medium
Fixed an issue where sample data could not be generated for date fields of record types.
AN-299262 - Medium
Fixed an issue where deep linking to an Insight could fail opaquely.
AN-300861 - Medium
Improved performance of a!studio_writeStudioRecords when writing multiple records.
AN-243035 - Low
Removed decoded opaque value from error msg
AN-292381 - Low
Adding and Editing of records under the data preview tab will henceforth work when there are multiple data sources.
AN-294034 - Low
Fixed an issue that stopped customer from Upgrading to 24.3 by handling the Error.
AN-295075 - Low
Expanded regional availability of the records chat component to the following regions: Mumbai, Singapore, Sidney, Seoul, Canada, Ireland, London, Paris and Sao Paulo.
AN-295371 - Low
Fixed a Search Server version 8 upgrade issue that caused site startup failures by increasing the index rebuild timeout property to 10 minutes and making it configurable via the site property conf.data.search-server.reindex.clusterHealthRequestTimeoutSeconds.

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 24.4.291.0 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 24.4 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=2ac040bddb3245920a8d6798e86591291ff068c1
build.version=24.4.291.0

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