AppPlatform V8 Service Pack 1 Release

• Cloud Management Console

  • Add support for API Management features of Kony Fabric in on-premises version. Users will be able to create Developer Portals and add oAuth servers on the Active Directory and UserStore identity services in their on-premises instances.

  • Add support for testing services with Pre and Post processors from Kony Fabric Console. Users will be able to see detailed logs of steps involved in the service invocation.

  • Provide ability to download documentation of Object Services from Kony Fabric Console.

  • Add support for using HTTP Verbs other than POST to access Kony Fabric APIs. API Management users can define their front-end APIs with required HTTP verbs.

  • Add support for accessing App Factory Testing Console from Kony Fabric Console.

  • Provide ability to republish individual Integration and Object services and application from API Management View.

  • Remove Repeat Users standard report.

• Kony Server

  • Add new interface to define custom Configuration parameters from Admin Console. Users can define a set of key values pairs in admin console which can be accessed from Pre and Post processors.

  • Provide ability to download OpenAPI(Swagger) definition of services from Admin console.

  • Add support for metrics on Objects services. Users can configure reports to track the use of Object services.

  • ⚠️ Any existing Clouds containing Kony Integration server runtime environments will not be affected during the maintenance window. If you wish to upgrade, please open a support ticket, specifying your Cloud(s), desired version (v8.1), and desired maintenance window(s) for when we can apply the upgrade.

• Management services

  • Remove references to Blackberry from Management Console.

  • Add Language Settings to permission set.

  • Provide an option to export data in MS Excel format from event log.

  • Remove SAFE Device Call and SMS Log features (As announced in 7.3.2 release).

  • Add iPhone 10 support for Enterprise Store.

  • Change EMM product version number format.

  • Improve performance of navigation between tabs in Enterprise Store.

  • Change Android - Device Restriction Policy - Default values for some of the SAFE device restrictions.

  • Fix internal bugs.

  • ⚠️ An Enterprise Store upgrade is required.

• Offline Objects

  • Offline Objects API calls now send metrics data for reporting.

  • Error handling has been significantly enhanced and errors from native layers are also percolated to Javascript layer for app developer to handle in client code.

  • Uploading data from client to server using Offline Objects can now be batched based on records being uploaded.

  • Offline Objects now support encryption of the SQLite database used for storing the data offline in device.

  • Offline Objects has added support for cascade delete feature. Child objects will also be deleted on the client when a parent object is deleted to avoid creating orphan records on client.

• Additional details may continue to be provided as we near the release date.

We anticipate that Management services will be unavailable for a portion of the maintenance window. Other affected services listed above will not be affected. The scheduled maintenance is designed for minimal disruption of service availability; however, it is possible for your service(s) to be unavailable for a short period of time during the maintenance window.

[2017-11-17 19:55 UTC] Add Offline Objects summary.

[2017-12-14 17:08 UTC] Engagement services will not be included in the v8 service pack 1 release. Therefore, there will now be no impact to availability or performance of Engagement services during this deployment.

[2017-12-18 12:17 UTC] Add to Cloud Management Console notes that Repeat Users standard report has been removed.