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.