SR-D56293 · Issue 536779
Resolved timeout errors related to getIndexInfo
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.1
When attempting to import large files (around 300MB) via Designer Studio a time out error was seen, but the same upload worked as expected from the command line. Investigation showed that the "approximate" argument in getIndexInfo caused wasteful analytic operations to be run on the database, hampering performance. To resolve this, areas where the results of the analysis are not needed have been modified to have aApproximate set to be true so it will not be run.
SR-D66986 · Issue 539415
BIX command line support improved
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.1
Post-upgrade, it was seen that changes to the engine which validate that Data-Admin-DB-Name is not defined multiple times caused the BIX command line extracts to no longer work the same way. In order to improve backwards compatibility, updates have been made to loosen the validation in JdbcConfigurationFactory to always prefer prconfig settings if there are multiple definitions.
SR-D76150 · Issue 539455
Logging updated for EmailListener and Data-Agent queue items
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.1
In order to avoid the pr_sys_queue_ftsindexer table being overwhelmed with Data-Admin-Connect-EmailListener and Data-Agent-Queue instances for queued items, the Data-Admin-Connect-EmailListener and Data-Agent-Queue class definitions have been modified to filter queue items to incremental indexing if updates are from system and instance type is data- .
SR-D46133 · Issue 534651
Colon in folder or file name will be replaced with underscore during unzip
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.1
After creating a product file (zip), attempting to import the same file into an updated system resulted in an exception. Investigation showed that in this case the zip file was a Product rule form which had applications packaged with a colon(:) in the name of the application, a format that was allowed in 6.x versions. Because Windows machines restrict creating creating any folder or file with : in its name, the zip file could not be inflated as part of the import process. To resolve this, the system has been updated so that a colon(:) will be replaced by underscore(_) during inflate operations.
SR-D52604 · Issue 548062
Stream Registration deprecated and replaced
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.1
Previously, Stream Registration, which was added as an extra layer of protection during the display of stream rules, automatically registered any streams being used in the context and checked this registry during reloadSection/reloadHarness calls to prevent Broken Access Control attacks. However, only an alert was thrown and no further action was being taken on it. With platform added support for URL Tampering, Stream Registration is no longer required and has been deprecated. The URL Tampering function has the capabilities to register for auto/non-auto rules and configure whether to display warning or reject the request for all the activities, and not just the stream rules. Note that URL Tampering will do registration/validation only when security/rejectTamperedRequests is explicitly set to true.
SR-D64523 · Issue 545672
Stream Registration deprecated and replaced
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.1
Previously, Stream Registration, which was added as an extra layer of protection during the display of stream rules, automatically registered any streams being used in the context and checked this registry during reloadSection/reloadHarness calls to prevent Broken Access Control attacks. However, only an alert was thrown and no further action was being taken on it. With platform added support for URL Tampering, Stream Registration is no longer required and has been deprecated. The URL Tampering function has the capabilities to register for auto/non-auto rules and configure whether to display warning or reject the request for all the activities, and not just the stream rules. Note that URL Tampering will do registration/validation only when security/rejectTamperedRequests is explicitly set to true.
SR-D66521 · Issue 536140
Logout Redirect updated to handle special characters in IDP parameters
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.1
When using "HTTP Redirect" in Authentication Service, the Logout Redirect service was failing due to the query parameter name containing "_" (underscore). This was traced to IDP sending parameters to assertion consumer service or logout request endpoint with names which contained any special characters, as the system was trying to put those key values on the parameter page for additional processing. To resolve this, the system has been updated to suppress exceptions when the parameters from IDP includes special characters.
SR-D70872 · Issue 545858
Kerberos authentication parameters propagated for deployment
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.1
Attempting to perform a deployment using Kerberos authentication to an Oracle database failed with an authentication error. This was traced to the java system properties (for example, -Dname=value) required by the Oracle JDBC driver for Kerberos authentication intermittently not being set when connections were being made to the database. When they were not being set, the connection would fail due to authentication. This has been resolved by ensuring the java system properties (-D's) that were provided to the 'custom.jvm.properties' property in the collection of deployment related *.properties files are being propagated to every part of the deployment scripts.
SR-D72636 · Issue 536090
Added handling for Authorization Server login loop
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.1
When the Authorization server returned an error, it was redirecting back with error, error_description, and parameters. The system then tried to start the login process again, the same error parameters were returned again, and it continued to loop this way. To resolve this issue, handling has been added for this error scenario from the Authorization Server.
SR-D77004 · Issue 542349
View Full History will not include private edits
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.1
After upgrade, clicking 'View Full History' and then 'History of All Versions', showed the history of discarded private edits of other users. This was an inadvertent side effect of work done to improve the support for rollback and migration, and has been resolved by updating the system to not save the history when in a personal ruleset (checkouts/private edits). The help documentation has also been updated to note there is no history available for checkouts/private edits.