INC-159834 · Issue 632248
StackOverFlow logging improved
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.4
Enhanced diagnostic logging information has been added to help find issues when StackOverFlow errors occur.
INC-161984 · Issue 638857
Web Tier busy threads released on timeout
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.4
Tomcat Web Tier Busy Threads were not being correctly released, causing stability and performance problems that included health check pings not receiving a thread to service the request so the node was marked as bad, users were quiesced, and the node replaced. Investigation showed the 'put' on the blocking queue did not time out when the queue was full and waited indefinitely, keeping the thread blocked. To resolve this, the system will use 'offer' on the blocking queue instead of 'put' to force thread release on timeout. In addition, debug logs have been added to understand when the offer (or Put) does not succeed and the state of the queue that is causing this issue; the debug logs for class com.pega.pegarules.session.internal.serverpush.RoboticAutomationImpl should be enabled only if the thread busy issue is observed and for limited time window while actively debugging.
INC-164794 · Issue 637992
Apache Commons libraries updated
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.4
Apache commons-codec has been updated to version 1.15 , and Apache commons-io has been updated to version 2.7.
INC-171587 · Issue 652187
Resolved Push Node Daily Information exception
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.4
The "Push Nodes Info Daily" agent was generating an exception on each of the nodes. This has been resolved by enhancing the PegaAESRemote code to handle the exception and get the node info locally, then push it to the console when it is not able to get it via the cluster management API.
INC-173162 · Issue 650794
Certificate match will use Subject Distinguished Name
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.4
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.
INC-174298 · Issue 650258
Instance count logic updated
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.4
A performance issue was seen during upgrade that resembled an upgrade hang. This was caused by a combination of incorrect logic in DDLGenerator.getInstanceCountForClass() around counting instances of 'core' classes and all of the site history-data- tables being mapped to the same table that had 1.4+ billion rows. This behavior has been addressed with more correct query logic while performing instance counts. In addition, instance count will be supressed during command line invocations (prpcUtils, platform upgrade).
INC-220622 · Issue 711374
Libraries updated
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7.3
The following libraries have been updated to the most recent version: - commons-collections - cxf-rt-rs-security-oauth2 - derby - dom4j - google-oauth-client - groovy - jackson-databind - postgres - snakeyaml - spring-core - xmlsec The following library dependencies have been deprecated, excluded, and/or removed: - ant - bsh - commons-compress - gson - io.netty - jackson-mapper-asl - jdom - jdom2 - jdom-legacy - jetty-http - jetty-io - jetty-server - jetty-util - junrar - netty-handler - plexus - plexus-utils - xercesImpl - xstream
INC-221019 · Issue 725147
Modified timestamp query used by ClusterAndDBCleaner
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7.3
The job pyClusterAndDBCleaner was failing with the error "ORA-01861: literal does not match format string". This was traced to the sub-activity pzClearOldQueueProcessorBrokenMessages which was not able to remove broken items with encryption in an upgraded environment due to an incorrect timestamp format passed to the Oracle database. This has been resolved by modifying the query to use a timestamp built using INativeSqlBuilder which will include only the information necessary for the deletion of the item.
INC-224954 · Issue 727043
Enabled turning off general metrics when queue processing metrics are disabled
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7.3
A memory leak related to QPGeneralMetrics was consuming heap and causing performance issues. Investigation showed queue processor metrics were gathered even when disabled. To resolve this, turning off "General Metrics Handler" while turning off the QPGeneralMetrics has been enabled. Queue processors should now skip the process of collecting general metrics while running activities. This will prevent storing unused (and uncleared) metrics in memory and prevent heap exhaustion.
INC-225519 · Issue 724397
Improved handling for thread resolution issues
Resolved in Pega Version 8.7.3
Queue Processor/Dataflow was moving to STOPPED state due to failed records in its execution. Investigation showed there was a minor logic issue in the queue processor activity which allowed the Page-Remove step to be called even before the pages were actually created, and this has been resolved by improving the recovery from a cleared ThreadContainer which might cause thread resolution issues.