Blue Prism 6.5.1: July 2019

Database:

318

The release requires the Blue Prism database to be this version.

Login Agent:

6.5.1

The version of Login Agent that is provided with this release of Blue Prism has the same functionality as the version provided with Blue Prism 6.5.

Chrome browser extension:

2.1.0

Evaluated against Chrome version 84.0.4147.125 at the time of this release. For the latest compatibility information, see Browser extension compatibility.

Firefox browser extension:

6.5.0.12573

Evaluated against Firefox version 68.0. The latest compatible version is 67. For the latest compatibility information, see Browser extension compatibility.

Data Gateways engine:

1.0

Download the installer from the Blue Prism Portal – select Product > Extras.

Important notices

Firefox version 68, launched in April 2019, has known compatibility issues with all versions of the Blue Prism Firefox browser extension. For further information and help working around the issue, see this Knowledge Base article.

Release notes

This release has been verified as complying with the below standards by Veracode – an independent application security organization.

Static Code Analysis

VL5. Veracode Score: 100/100. Further information

PCI DSS

PCI DSS Version 3.2 compliant in sections 6.1, 6.3.2, 6.5, 6.6, and 11.3.2

PCI PA-DSS

PCI PA-DSS Version 3.2 Sections 5.1.4, 5.2, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, and 7.1.3.

HIPAA

Controls: 01.v, 02.e, 04.a, 06.d, 10.a, 10.b, 10.l, 10.m

OWASP

Further information

SANS Top 25

Further information

CERT Secure Coding

Further information

A compliance highlight summary report is available upon request via Product Support.

The following fixes and minor improvements are introduced with this version.

Description of change

Reference

An issue, introduced in version 6.5, that prevented custom filters being applied to the Tags and Resources columns in the Queue Management pane of Control Room has been addressed.

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The following changes have been introduced to improve performance when opening objects and processes in Studio:

  • The number of database calls has been reduced
  • XML compression has been introduced on the application server

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bg-3393

When changing connections in the interactive client, the permissions cache is now reloaded. This ensures that users transitioning to another existing database on the same version of Blue Prism will no longer experience database-related foreign key constraint errors.

 bg-3308

The management of connections has been enhanced to address a port exhaustion error that occurred due to resource connections not being closed gracefully. This resulted in ports not being made available, which prevented interactive clients and the scheduler from successfully connecting to runtime resources.

bg-3252

If a work queue item is locked at the end of a session, the cleanup process now automatically generates a retry and schedules the item for reprocessing if the retry limit has not been exceeded.

This mirrors the functionality of pre-6.5 versions of Blue Prism. In version 6.5, bg-598 changed this behavior so that such items were marked as an exception but did not generate a retry.

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When adding an action stage to a process, making a selection from the Action drop-down no longer causes Blue Prism to become unresponsive if a stage name has not been entered prior to selecting the action.

This issue affected clients that were connected to an application server where the database contained a large number of objects and only occurred the first time an action stage was opened in an instance of Process Studio.

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Upgrading Blue Prism to version 6.5 could result in a key constraint error if a previous database upgrade failed and the transaction was rolled back. This issue has now been resolved.

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An issue that prevented objects and processes from being opened if they referenced a process that had subsequently been deleted, has been resolved.

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Users can no longer run a process in Control Room if the process references a business object that they do not have permission to execute.

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When importing a release that includes a published process, if a published process with the same name already exists on the database, the status is no longer incorrectly changed to unpublished.

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Browser extension versions

The table below shows when each Blue Prism extension, compatible with this release was introduced. For details of the latest browser versions Blue Prism is tested against, see the Browser extension compatibility matrix.

Browser Blue Prism extension versions

Chrome

2.1.0

Firefox

6.5.1