SR-D46681 · Issue 514433
SnapStart supports SAML2 Authentication
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
When using an HTTP Post to SnapStart into Pega using PRCustom style or PRAuth style SAML authentication, the login was looping back to the login request. Investigation showed that the Pega ACS was posting data properly back to the RelayState URL, however the login activity was not getting the SAMLResponse and simply sent a SAML Login Request again. This has been fixed by updating reqContextURI in case of SAML2 Authentication service so pyActivity=value will be passed.
INC-173162 · Issue 650795
Certificate match will use Subject Distinguished Name
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7
Signature verification was failing due to the system not finding the matching root certificate for the chain. The root certificate was in the trust store, but the system found a different certificate first and that other certificate (an intermediate certificate) was not considered a valid certificate for validating the whole certificate chain. This was traced to filtering on the Issuer Distinguished Name (DN) instead of the Subject DN and was due to intermediate certificates potentially having the same Issuer as a root certificate (e.g. if that root certificate was used to create the intermediate certificate). To resolve this, an update has been made to check the Subject DN instead of Issuer DN.
SR-D38318 · Issue 515960
Data pages explicitly cleared after QP use
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
The Util Node was showing as Offline in the Search Landing Page, and when Jobs were submitted for execution from other Nodes the message "Detected active run with unreachable nodes" was logged. The util node, configured as a backgroundprocessing node, was running QPs, the queue size for custom QPs is 500 messages /queue items per minute, but investigation showed the requestor level and thread level data pages corresponding to the QP activities were not being cleared after use. This led to high heap memory issues that made the node unreachable, and has been resolved by adding code to explicitly remove the data pages when processing has finished.
SR-D51554 · Issue 514061
Local UUID cache will be updated when merge event is detected
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
Cluster-related issues were seen in multiple production clusters. For some nodes in the cluster the Cluster Management screen showed all expected nodes with valid Node IDs displayed, and on other nodes the Cluster Management screen showed the node ID of itself, SERVER@localhost:5701. On an impacted node displaying the wrong ID, the Node Information landing page did not work and displayed the error "Unable to execute job on ." Multiple advanced agents running on nodes in the affected clusters, both with correct and incorrect IDs, also failed with a similar error "Unable to execute job on <node's job id>". This was traced to a merge performed after a split brain. To resolve this, the code has been updated to handle merge events: when the node UUID is changed as part of a split brain recovery, the local UUID cache will be updated when the merge event is detected.
INC-174625 · Issue 655242
Admin Studio will consider cluster protocol when returning listener status
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7
When using a few nodes in standalone mode for BIX extract combined with server nodes using Hazelcast, opening the admin studio pages with service discovery caused an error to be thrown. This was traced to the system writing an entry to pr_sys_statusnodes table as an embedded node whenever a BIX extract was triggered, causing those standalone nodes to be incorrectly considered by the listener landing page. This has been resolved by configuring the system to either return the local member when the cluster protocol is standalone or to return all Hazelcast members if the cluster protocol is Hazelcast.
INC-148154 · Issue 602922
Hot Fix Manager updated to use installation order for schema import
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
Schema changes were not being imported during the hot fix manager DL import process. Investigation showed this was due to hotfixes in the DL being iterated over from newest to oldest, causing older hotfixes to replace the value added to a map by the newer. To resolve this, the system has been updated to use hotfix install order, which considers selected and dependent hotfixes, rather than ordering newest to oldest. This ensures that newer table representations will override older rather than the other way around.
INC-181941 · Issue 664808
Handling added for using virtual network interface for Stream Services startup
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7
After update, the restart of any node failed with the error "Unable to create DSM service DATA-DECISION-SERVICE-STREAMSERVER DEFAULT". This has been resolved by adding support for allowing stream service to start on the virtual network interface in cases where it was explicitly configured via the "cluster/hazelcast/interface".
SR-D37894 · Issue 505975
Query parameters will be cleared after redirection from authentication
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
When using the /PRAuth Servlet, running a snapstart URL generated from a secondary application correctly executed SAML Authentication and Pega processing, but a second URL generated with different parameters ran with the parameters from the first request. The third and subsequent requests processed as expected with the parameters sent in with the request. Investigation showed that the previous parameters were picked due to the query string parameters not being cleared after redirection, and this issue has been resolved by updating the system so it will clear the parameters after issuing a redirect from the authentication policy engine.
SR-D32972 · Issue 513488
HTML entity handling added to URLObfuscation
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
When URLObfuscation was enabled through the configuration settings, clicking on Operator -> Profile page generated an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException. When obfuscation is used the decrypted string is parsed and the request map is populated, but HTML entities were not considered during this process. To resolve this, handling has been added for HTML entities and characters during obfuscation. Please note: URL Obfuscation is a legacy feature with many known limitations and it is no longer recommended that these settings be used.
SR-123717 · Issue 192182
Purging of covered objects improved
Resolved in Pega Version 7.1.8
When purging a Cover item, the history of certain covered objects was not purged. This happened when the Cover and Covered classes belonged to different class groups. This happened because the 'getHistoryKeys' function tries to fetch the history details of a given key by looking into its history table. This was using the class group information from the archive configuration, which was not always the same for covered objects. To resolve this, the classgroup info will be fetched from its key - looking up Class map using the constructed class name will give the actual History Class name.