V8 SP3 Release
Maintenance window: September 24, 2018 00:01 to 04:00Impacted Cloud services:
- Fabric Console - Kony Fabric now supports Stubbing Backend service response to allow app development even when backend is unavailable 
- Fabric has added ability for app developer to configure customized REST end points to access Fabric Integration Services 
- Added support for parsing response in JSON Connector using JSON path. This will have significant performance improvement in parsing response 
- Ability to easily create response parameters with parsing paths by clicking on response fields for JSON, XML and SOAP Connectors 
- Ability to add Custom code (Pre/Post processors) for Object services 
- Added support for Validating JavaScript in Connectors. 
- Support for connecting to and browsing meta data to define services for LOB systems behind a VPN 
- Number of web packages allowed in an App has been limited to fix performance issues 
- Enhanced support for hierarchical relationships in Database and Storage adapters 
 
- Server - Improved Caching - Support for Redis 
- Improved Caching - APIs to access the data from Cache in custom code 
- Support for configuring FrontEnd APIs for Fabric Integration Services 
- Support for custom code in Object services 
- Improved Service monitoring showing performance of services in real time 
- Improved trace logs feature and added auto reset after some time to prevent accidentally filling up space 
- ⚠️ Any existing Clouds containing Kony Integration Server runtime environments will not be affected (automatically upgraded) during the maintenance window. If you wish to upgrade, please open a support ticket, specifying your Cloud(s), desired version (v8.3), and desired maintenance window(s) when we can apply the upgrade 
 
- Engagement - Ability to cancel scheduled push messages 
- Ability to archive and purge push message data on predefined schedule (please review to our article in Kony Base Camp for more information) 
- Performance improvements in the engagement console. 
 
- Identity - Ability to reconfigure identity service for different environments 
- Ability to have OAuth Provider on top of Custom Identity service 
 
- Offline Objects - Support for Offline Objects in Web Platforms 
- Support for defining custom conflicts in Offline Objects 
- Added support for Storage objects for Offline Objects 
- Support for granular dropping of offline data in device 
 
- Analytics - Added new out of the box reports for API Management Users. 
- Added new out of the box report to see application events leading to an app crash 
- Added option to download tabular reports in excel format 
- Numerous performance improvements to Standard (out of the box) and custom reports capabilities 
 
- Fabric SDK - Added support for Desktop Web and Mobileweb (SPA) for filesystem adapter 
- Added support for network packet integrity check (HTTP integrity check) feature for Desktop Web and Mobileweb(SPA) 
- Support for latest Cordova versions from Fabric SDK 
 
Impact Level : minor
No downtime is expected for the impacted Cloud services while this maintenance is being performed. The scheduled maintenance is designed to mitigate disruptions to service availability and performance for the impacted Cloud services. However, it is possible for the impacted Cloud services to be unavailable and/or performance degraded for a short period of time during the maintenance window. Note that no changes are being applied for other Cloud services outside of the list of impacted services above and no service availability or performance disruption is expected for other Cloud services.