V8 SP4 Release
Maintenance window: February 4, 2019 00:01 to 04:00Impacted Cloud services:
Fabric Console
Add support for Mock JSON as a new adapter type for integration services
Add support for Audit logs for Fabric User Activity
Add support for SAP JCO adapter as a new adapter for integration services
Add support for pre-processor for Orchestration Services
Add ability to test Orchestration Services
Add Orchestration services support for Concurrent Looping
Add ability to add sample data for Storage Service
Add support for reconfiguring schema name in Relational Database connector
Add ability to pin your favorite Apps for Quick Access
Add ability to export list of users
Server
Add support to configure custom SSL certs for community clouds
Add API support for scheduling Jobs to get details, update, delete, get list
Extended Support for ODATA methods including substringof, tolower, toupper, startswith, and endswith
Enhance Delete Operation in Object and Integration services to include filter based deletions
Add ability to service monitor feature to send alerts via email if performance of a service degrades in terms of percentage of errors, or count of errors, or response time to a custom set of users. Different thresholds can be set for sending warning and critical alert emails and admins can choose the list of users and frequency for sending alerts
Enhance performance of trace logs and add ability to auto delete logs older than certain time and manually delete logs based on time
Enhance Logs UI in admin console
⚠️ Any existing Clouds containing Kony Integration Server runtime environments will not be affected during the maintenance window (i.e., will not be automatically upgraded). If you wish to upgrade, please open a support case, specifying your Cloud(s), desired version (V8 SP4), and desired maintenance window(s) when we can apply the upgrade
Kony Enterprise App Store
With V8SP4 Kony is releasing a new simplified Enterprise App Store (EAS) Service built directly into Kony Fabric runtime server
Native app binary publish from Visualizer into EAS (iOS & Android)
Access EAS via mobile/tablet device web browser
Use built-in user repository or connect to existing enterprise user repository
Identity
Enhance support for identity reconfiguration to allow reusing same identity service with config changes across different clouds
Enhance built-in user store by adding new feature for access levels
Enhance custom identity service by providing a hook that would be invoked after identity session creation
Offline Objects & SDK
Add support for building Windows 10 apps
Enhance support for Web channel
Add support for delete/update by criteria
Add support for application level sync
Add new API to get list of records pending upload
Improve download performance based on criteria
Add new API to track status of binary downloads
Ability to add field level metadata in Objects in object service. The metadata can then be accessed from client app from object model via custom functions registered with generated models to run various custom logic like encryption, conversion
Analytics
Add support for getting performance data of services for component services for orchestration and object services
Add support for import/custom reports and custom dashboards to be able to reuse custom reports across accounts
New out of the box reports built for offline objects
AppFactory
Schedule Kony Fabric builds and migrations from one environment to the next using AppFactory Scheduling
Customize what test you run and the order they are run from AppFactory using the custom testing settings
Control the version of Appium your team uses to test apps
Improve Device Farm efficiency using custom build mode by up to 50%
Build your Apps in the Cloud straight from Visualizer
Engagement
Provide support for PWA notifications
Provide support to stop and re-run existing campaigns
Provide support for on-premises purge and archive scripts
Provide support for the creation of users with French Characters in their names
Provide support for the creation of message template with a title
Provide support for the use of the APNS token to send push messages
Provide support for OS type based segmentation for Push Notifications
Introduce enhancements to support higher throughput of Push messages including support for HTTP/2 of Apple Push Notification Service (APNS)
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.
[2019-01-18] Add release summary for Kony Enterprise App Store.
[2019-02-04] Please note that we extended the maintenance window until 17:00 UTC. We apologize for the inconvenience and any disruptions.