INC-154042 · Issue 621260
Pega Catalog custom upload control modified
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.3
Attempting to upload a catalog.zip file caused the system to hang and thread dumps were seen in the logs. Investigation traced the issue to the custom control used to upload the catalog, which was posting the entire content in form data rather than sending a multi-part request. The control contained both legacy code which used form.submit() and encoding along with new code that used SafeURL and sent an async request. With this, encoding could not be set to multi-part in case of an AJAX request. To resolve this, the catalog upload control has been modified to use the appropriate legacy code that performs form.submit() and sets the encoding properly.
INC-155592 · Issue 621988
httpclients library upgraded
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.3
Package import/export was not working using prpcserviceutils, and a SSLPeerUnverifiedException" error was seen. This was traced to an issue with the third party library httpclients v4.5.9, and has been resolved by upgrading to httpclients v4.5.13.
INC-155789 · Issue 622546
Third-party libraries upgraded
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.3
The following third-party jar files have been updated to the most recent versions:ant: v1.10.9 httpclient: v4.5.13 xercesImpl: v2.12.1
INC-157196 · Issue 629298
Deprecated service package features now require authentication
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.3
Authentication has been added to deprecated features of the standard service package to improve security. If issues are encountered during product migration, please use the Deployment Manager.
INC-158519 · Issue 625080
Filter considers all instances pages during deployment
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.3
During package deployment, attempting to use Filter to skip some of the instances only displayed the result of the current active page instead of all pages. This was an unintended consequence of previous work, and has been resolved by adding the logic to strip quotes in the value and adding the "Pagination activity manages filtering" checkbox by default.
INC-160288 · Issue 626068
Kerberos handling updated for database remap
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.3
After upgrade from Pega v7.2 to Pega v8.4, using Kerberos authentication was failing during the remap task. Investigation showed that null username and password values were being passed to SchemaAssignmentUtility along with the flags as arguments, causing the utility to misinterpret the arguments. As arguments should be populated only when flags and values are available and not null, an update has been made which will set the username and password flags only if they are not null in the Remap database tables target.
SR-69015 · Issue 619995
Unescaping characters implemented for expressions
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.6, Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4, Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.3, Resolved in Pega Version 8.6
An issue where expression builder statements were evaluated differently at runtime than at testing has been resolved. Pega Platform expressions with String literals(that is, sequences of characters enclosed in quotation marks) now unescape characters in strategy shapes such as Set Property or Filter.
INC-126796 · Issue 561533
Modifications to getFunctionalServiceNodes process
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.7
The count of the Interaction History write related threads was increasing rapidly and a stack trace indicated "waiting on condition" and "java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (parking)" errors. Investigation showed that this was due to getFunctionalServiceNodes using Hazelcast to determine node status by making a service request on an installation with a very large number of nodes, causing thread locking. To resolve this, the implementation has been updated to avoid calling getFunctionalServiceNodes on save of Interaction History, instead using Cassandra and only calling getFunctionalServiceNodes on the master node, not on all nodes.
INC-128385 · Issue 564519
Behavior made consistent between SSA and legacy engines
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.7
There was a behavioral disparity between the legacy execution engine and the SSA engine where the latter was not creating a new page when the index was one above the size of the page list. This has now been corrected in order to make the SSA behavior fully backward compatible with the legacy engine, i.e. a new blank page will be added to the list if the index is one above the size of the list.
INC-128898 · Issue 564690
Updated precondition checks for Tumbling Time data in event strategies
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.7
Tumbling Time data keys in event strategies were not being properly executed when certain window configurations were used. This was has been resolved by turning off the optimalization of Cassandra reads for small windows when window size is not known upfront and set dynamically (set size by property). In addition, an issue with Cassandra timeouts after the dataflow run had been running for several months has been resolved by adding a 'time to live' value for tumbling time windows, and event strategies has been switched to use leveled compaction by default.