INC-161660 · Issue 633032
Authorization token handling and cleanup improved
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
When using a mobile app configured with default authentication, clicking on the "Trouble logging in?" link opened a new window and displayed the message "please contact your system administrator" along with the error "Only authenticated client may start this activity: RULE-OBJ-ACTIVITY CODE-SECURITY PZGETAUTHORIZATIONCODE". This has been resolved. In addition, the OAuth token generation and handling has been improved, and the purge agent has been updated to accept a DSS setting for the max number of expired records to purge each time it is run. The default value is 5000.
SR-SR-D79737 · Issue 602304
Improvements for Report Definition OperatorID filtering
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
Report Definition filters were not working as expected when data from the OperatorID page was used and authentication was enabled. This was traced to the OperatorID page not being correctly populated. To resolve this, the authentication logic has been modified to always create the OperatorID page at requestor level, and the HTTP API layer has been updated to remove the thread level OperatorID page if exists. In addition, an enhancement has been added for improved debugging on log appenders provided by log4j which allows log filtering based on the requestor and thread for a given appender at a specific log level.
INC-179761 · Issue 684676
Basic Access Control (BAC) now available in production level 2+
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
An enhancement has been added to enable the Basic Access Control (BAC) feature for production levels 2 or greater. This is a change from being available previously only in levels 4 and 5, and will facilitate diagnosing access control issues earlier in the development process.
INC-182530 · Issue 695761
SAML datapages cleared before new authentication
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
If a previous user had not logged out or timed out when using SAML authentication, a second person using the same device/browser would end up in the first user's session after performing their own authentication. Investigation showed the second login D_SAMLAssertionDataPage was not getting refreshed with the current user login details; this has been resolved by explicitly deleting the SAML Datapages before processing a new login if the session has not timed out.
INC-183485 · Issue 685270
Performance improvement for offline mobile app
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
Performance issues on an offline mobile app were traced to an empty browser fingerprint caused by a declared variable which was not assigned a value. This has been resolved by adding a !pega.offline check for fireDeferredAsyncRequests.
INC-185251 · Issue 674907
Locking APIs updated to handle CDK key rotation
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
it was not possible to save cases for several hours following the CDK key rotation. This was traced to an exception that caused the system to attempt to acquire a lock on the CDK key instance, and normal save behavior would resume after the default sys lock time out period expired. This has been resolved by updating the system to use LockManager APIs to perform a database save with locks.
INC-186395 · Issue 677206
Updating handling for for Pega-supplied operators with MFA
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
When a site is blocking prweb and using prweb/PRAuth for login with MFA enabled, admin user id logins failed and MFA showed the error screen for Pega-supplied users. This was due to MFA verification not being configured for Pega-supplied operators, and has been resolved by adding an Adminstrator condition to skip MFA for for Pega-supplied operators.
INC-186395 · Issue 697875
Updating handling for for Pega-supplied operators with MFA
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
When a site is blocking prweb and using prweb/PRAuth for login with MFA enabled, admin user id logins failed and MFA showed the error screen for Pega-supplied users. This was due to MFA verification not being configured for Pega-supplied operators, and has been resolved by adding an Adminstrator condition to skip MFA for for Pega-supplied operators.
INC-186897 · Issue 681031
DSS DisableAutoComplete setting honored
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
Setting DisableAutoComplete DSS was not working as expected. This was traced to the system not being able to read the DSS value due to timing related to database startup, and has been resolved by directing the system to read the setting in PREnvironment.java instead of from the prconfig.
INC-188127 · Issue 678351
Updated cache key generation for ROPC
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
After configuring outbound email functionality using MSGraph with OAuth 2.0, sending the emails failed consistently following passivation. Running "Test connectivity" in the Email Account data instance then seemed to restart the functionality and the automation "Create And Send Email" subsequently worked. This was traced to a missing username in the cache key generation for the Resource Owner Password Credentials (ROPC), which caused the same token to be fetched when attempting to dynamically generate different usernames, and has been resolved.