INC-130304 · Issue 567925
Retry logic added for downloading upgraded rules
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.8
A Rules upgrade failed while downloading applications from the maintenance server due to an SFTP server connection failure. This has been resolved by adding logic to retry if the first connection attempt fails.
INC-132218 · Issue 573358
Resolved buffer overflow for Migration loadDatabase
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.8
A Rules upgrade failed in the Migration step at loadDatabase stage, involving the move of all the table records from old schema to new schema. This was traced to the inability of Migration to load blob of sizes more than 100 MB, and has been resolved by updating Migration to use byte[] to read the blob content with the help of metadata that contains blob length.
INC-133202 · Issue 574700
TableRenameUtil hashing improved
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.8
During index name generation, the algorithm that was responsible for index name uniqueness was sometimes insufficient and cerated a loop condition. This has been resolved by using a stronger hash algorithm and refactoring the code that could result in a loop.
SR-D32972 · Issue 513488
HTML entity handling added to URLObfuscation
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
When URLObfuscation was enabled through the configuration settings, clicking on Operator -> Profile page generated an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException. When obfuscation is used the decrypted string is parsed and the request map is populated, but HTML entities were not considered during this process. To resolve this, handling has been added for HTML entities and characters during obfuscation. Please note: URL Obfuscation is a legacy feature with many known limitations and it is no longer recommended that these settings be used.
SR-D37894 · Issue 505975
Query parameters will be cleared after redirection from authentication
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
When using the /PRAuth Servlet, running a snapstart URL generated from a secondary application correctly executed SAML Authentication and Pega processing, but a second URL generated with different parameters ran with the parameters from the first request. The third and subsequent requests processed as expected with the parameters sent in with the request. Investigation showed that the previous parameters were picked due to the query string parameters not being cleared after redirection, and this issue has been resolved by updating the system so it will clear the parameters after issuing a redirect from the authentication policy engine.
SR-D38318 · Issue 515960
Data pages explicitly cleared after QP use
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
The Util Node was showing as Offline in the Search Landing Page, and when Jobs were submitted for execution from other Nodes the message "Detected active run with unreachable nodes" was logged. The util node, configured as a backgroundprocessing node, was running QPs, the queue size for custom QPs is 500 messages /queue items per minute, but investigation showed the requestor level and thread level data pages corresponding to the QP activities were not being cleared after use. This led to high heap memory issues that made the node unreachable, and has been resolved by adding code to explicitly remove the data pages when processing has finished.
SR-D46536 · Issue 515793
Custom agent next run time will be rescheduled if the run failed
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
If a customized agent that was set to run every day encountered an exception and failed to run, restarting the agent did not update it to the next run time, it still returned the passed trigger time as its next execution time. This has been resolved with an update that will reschedule the run if the next run time is in the past.
SR-D46681 · Issue 514433
SnapStart supports SAML2 Authentication
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
When using an HTTP Post to SnapStart into Pega using PRCustom style or PRAuth style SAML authentication, the login was looping back to the login request. Investigation showed that the Pega ACS was posting data properly back to the RelayState URL, however the login activity was not getting the SAMLResponse and simply sent a SAML Login Request again. This has been fixed by updating reqContextURI in case of SAML2 Authentication service so pyActivity=value will be passed.
SR-D47685 · Issue 514646
Cookie logging restored
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
As part of security updates, Cookies were restricted from being logged. However, this caused some business use cases such as a custom function call to obtain the list of cookies that are present in the application to stop working. To resolve this, the cookie logging restriction has been reverted.
SR-D51554 · Issue 514061
Local UUID cache will be updated when merge event is detected
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.5
Cluster-related issues were seen in multiple production clusters. For some nodes in the cluster the Cluster Management screen showed all expected nodes with valid Node IDs displayed, and on other nodes the Cluster Management screen showed the node ID of itself, SERVER@localhost:5701. On an impacted node displaying the wrong ID, the Node Information landing page did not work and displayed the error "Unable to execute job on ." Multiple advanced agents running on nodes in the affected clusters, both with correct and incorrect IDs, also failed with a similar error "Unable to execute job on <node's job id>". This was traced to a merge performed after a split brain. To resolve this, the code has been updated to handle merge events: when the node UUID is changed as part of a split brain recovery, the local UUID cache will be updated when the merge event is detected.