SR-121825 · Issue 181670
Multiple annotations now allowed for swimlane objects
Resolved in Pega Version 7.1.8
When two annotations were used with swimlanes, the description in the annotation is unexpectedly changed or the annotation itself disappeared due to an ID conflict. There was a workaround of adding the shapes using the right click, but the annotation shape is now correctly added to the work flow using the proper unique ID.
INC-218145 · Issue 715678
DSS introduced to control DSM clipboard page serialization
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7.3
When using a Kafka dataset to consume a message from an external topic that had an attribute name with a special character contained in a page list structure, using a JSON data transform for the mapping in a realtime dataflow resulted in the error "Exception in stage: KafkaDS; LegacyModelAspectInvokableRuleContainer.invoke-Exception encountered a :java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException." To resolve this, a new DSS dataset/CLASS_NAME/DATASET_NAME/JSONDataTransform/deserialization/useDSMPage has been introduced. When the value is set to true, the process will follow the previous behavior of DSM clipboard pages being generated when Kafka records are deserialized using JSON data transform. When the value is set to false, the JSON data transform will generate regular clipboard pages and convert them later to DSM clipboard pages. This would avoid errors when a JSON data transform calls methods from the Clipboard API that are not implemented by DSM pages. This DSS is set per data set instance. CLASS_NAME and DATASET_NAME are placeholders which should be replaced by data set's pyClassName and pyPurpose property values. In addition, a similar DSS, dataset/CLASS_NAME/DATASET_NAME/JSONDataTransform/serialization/useDSMPage, has been introduced for serialization.
SR-131162 · Issue 201045
Corrected inheritance for Data classes
Resolved in Pega Version 7.1.8
After migration, an API used to pull the list of concrete classes from RootClass Work- was pulling an additional class (Data-Portal-Padportal) when work- was supplied as an argument for rootclass. This additional class caused issues with reports due to it pointing to pr_history_data table and looking for non-existent columns. These inheritance issues have now been corrected.
SR-131162 · Issue 201046
Corrected inheritance for Data classes
Resolved in Pega Version 7.1.8
After migration, an API used to pull the list of concrete classes from RootClass Work- was pulling an additional class (Data-Portal-Padportal) when work- was supplied as an argument for rootclass. This additional class caused issues with reports due to it pointing to pr_history_data table and looking for non-existent columns. These inheritance issues have now been corrected.
SR-127035 · Issue 193206
Improved opening custom flow rules with Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
Resolved in Pega Version 7.1.8
Opening up a flow rule with many sub-process references was taking an excessive amount of time when using Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 due to general browser slowness and the system loading all referenced flow rules at that time. This has been resolved by tuning the JavaScript code to improve the performance of the viewer and to disable drilldown functionality from the server.
INC-218172 · Issue 716398
Text analytics character limit set to avoid memory issues
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7.3
Utility nodes were unstable related to searching, and email listener threads became stuck during Rule-based Text Annotation (RUTA) and natural language processing (NLP) work on incoming emails. This happened when the system experienced high memory consumption or exceeded memory usage when using text analytics. This has been resolved by setting the default maximum character limit for NLP analysis to 25,000 characters to avoid RUTA memory issues. If text is provided > 25,000 characters, the system will consider only the top 25,000 characters and a flag will appear on NLPOutcome to indicate text has been limited. This character limit is configurable, but if the configuration is set in excess of 25,000 a warning will be shown prior to saving the change.
INC-223376 · Issue 723575
JMX authentication enabled by default for embedded Kafka and Cassandra
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7.3
For on-premises clients, a potential vulnerability for a Remote Code Execution using the JMX interface on Cassandra and Kafka using exposed network ports has been mitigated by enabling JMX authentication by default for embedded Kafka and Cassandra.
INC-229717 · Issue 730667
Cassandra startup calls reordered to avoid deadlock
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7.3
Nodes received a service request but it became stuck. This was traced to a deadlock related to CassandraSessionCache.getSession, and has been resolved by reordering the method calls used to initialize the Cassandra session to delay adding the session change listener and avoid a deadlock scenario.
SR-122025 · Issue 181153
Dropped rule added to DSM rules for SR properties
Resolved in Pega Version 7.1.8
A set of rules was inserted into the UI of Proposition LP and Strategy rules in DSM (Designer Studio) for use in retrieving a list of SR properties. This set was inadvertently missing the rule 'Activity Embed-Decision-SPContainer . pyRefreshSPList', and this has been added.
SR-123968 · Issue 194580
Added special character handling to Process Modeler
Resolved in Pega Version 7.1.8
After migration, some sites attempting to open flows through Process Modeler saw only the 'loading' message for a long time and then an error was displayed. This was traced to the use of user-input strings containing special characters in the canvas-based rule data, and has been resolved by adding character escaping during the model generation.