INC-149375 · Issue 607831
Adjusted email listener behavior for authentication failures
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
After upgrade, email listeners were not staying up during connection outages. This was traced to the handling of authentication failures when trying to reconnect, and has been resolved by changing the disconnected listener state to sleeping and raising an alert for authentication failures.
INC-149517 · Issue 609475
Secure access for Activities
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
Authentication requirements have been added to Standard activities.
INC-150038 · Issue 614828
Data Type local data storage snapshot history updated
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
When a History Class Data object was created, two snapshots were made - one with value and another with no value. This was traced to a 'when' condition that evaluated whether to add history when deleting a record from records editor, and this issue has been addressed by removing the condition as the history-add step takes care of checking if there is a dedicated table or not.
INC-150151 · Issue 613412
Stream REST endpoint CORS support added
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
CORS support has been added to the Stream REST endpoint. If a request contains an "Origin" header, the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header with the origin value (*.companyname.com) will be added to the response for Stream tier (/stream/view & /stream/click) calls.
INC-150633 · Issue 614512
Optimizing helper class enhanced to handle external databases
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
Running a BIX extract that included a manifest for a target database was resulting in a null pointer exception for the manifest extraction. Attempting to generate the DDL for the manifest table also failed. This was traced to an issue with the helper class using a hardcoded default database for forming the queries, causing it to ignore the database config/DADN/prconfig for the Oracle database and form a query using the PegaRules' database credentials. This only occurred when trying to do external database operations on a different database platform; Oracle PegaRules worked as expected with an Oracle external database and Postgres Pegarules worked with a Postgres external database, but mixing Postgres PegaRules and an Oracle external database would result in the Null pointer exception. To resolve this, the helper class has been enhanced to work with external databases by passing the database name as a parameter so it will properly calculate the query based on the type of target. An error in the name of the class has also been corrected, and is now available as PerformanceHelper rather than the previous "PerformaneHelper".
INC-150704 · Issue 613439
Azure Repository connection updated
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
Attempting to connect to Azure blob storage using SDK v8.6.4. SDK was not working. Investigation showed that the x-ms-version:2013-08-15 was set by default; the issue has been resolved by setting the x-ms-version to 2018-03-28, and Pega will be working with Microsoft support to understand what has changed at the Azure Storage end that introduced the issue.
INC-150809 · Issue 611855
Loading timing updated for openAPI content
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
Open API content loading was taking too much time and interfering with working on other REST rule configurations. To resolve this, the loading of openAPI contents has been removed from the opening or saving of REST rule and shifted to lazy loading. Clicking on the openAPI tab will load the contents, and any modification in REST rule or service package rule will update the contents of openAPI when "Action->Refresh" is clicked.
INC-150861 · Issue 611864
Optimizing helper class enhanced to handle external databases
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
Running a BIX extract that included a manifest for a target database was resulting in a null pointer exception for the manifest extraction. Attempting to generate the DDL for the manifest table also failed. This was traced to an issue with the helper class using a hardcoded default database for forming the queries, causing it to ignore the database config/DADN/prconfig for the Oracle database and form a query using the PegaRules' database credentials. This only occurred when trying to do external database operations on a different database platform; Oracle PegaRules worked as expected with an Oracle external database and Postgres Pegarules worked with a Postgres external database, but mixing Postgres PegaRules and an Oracle external database would result in the Null pointer exception. To resolve this, the helper class has been enhanced to work with external databases by passing the database name as a parameter so it will properly calculate the query based on the type of target. An error in the name of the class has also been corrected, and is now available as PerformanceHelper rather than the previous "PerformaneHelper".
INC-151228 · Issue 620601
Kafka updated
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
Stream node errors were seen in the log file indicating "Invalid configuration. Undefined stream provider end point." This has been resolved by updating Kafka to v1.1.0.5, which was released to address this issue in WIndows environments.
INC-151418 · Issue 610235
Authentication updated for legacy activities
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4.4
Authentication updates have been made for several legacy activities invoked via URL by custom HTML.