Blue Prism 6.7.1: April 2020

Database:

360

This release requires the Blue Prism database this version, which was introduced with 6.7.0.

Login Agent:

6.7.1

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 6.7.

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:

6.7.0.20116

Evaluated against Firefox version 73.0.1 at the time of this release. For the latest compatibility information, see Browser extension compatibility.

Data Gateways engine:

1.1

This version of the Data Gateways enginewas introduced for 6.6 and must be installed to use Data Gateways with Blue Prism 6.7.1.

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

Known issues

A list of any prominent issues with this release is maintained in the knowledge base – click here for more information.

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 from Product Support.

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

Description of change

Reference

An issue introduced in 6.7.0 means when upgrading servers running 6.7.0, the configured Windows service settings for the Blue Prism server services will be lost. This issue only affects deployments upgrading from 6.7.0 and does not affect servers running earlier version.

If you are upgrading from Blue Prism 6.7.0 to this release, please ensure you note the existing log on details and other configured properties for the Blue Prism server service so they can be re-applied after upgrade. This only affects the configuration directly applied to the Windows service, and does not affect any of the configuration applied by BPServer.exe.

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When upgrading to Blue Prism 6.7.1, all date functions now return results that adhere to the date formatting set on the local machine. Blue Prism 6.7.0 introduced incorrect behavior which could result in machines that previously returned UK English format dates incorrectly returning US format dates.

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The behavior introduced in 6.7.0 that required all interactive clients and application servers to be in the same UTC time zone for the Run Now option in Control Room to function has been addressed. This behavior has been reverted to that in all previous versions of Blue Prism, so the Run Now option in Control Room now uses the time zone set on the initiating interactive client to trigger schedules. Interactive clients and application servers still need to be in the same time zone for this feature to work as expected.

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Web pages that are launched from the Application Modeller using Internet Explorer now display as expected if the URL contains Japanese characters. Previously, if the URL contained such characters, the associated web page would not display in Internet Explorer.

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Attempting to start a process in Control Room on a runtime resource that is not connected now displays an error message. Previously, this scenario resulted in an unhandled exception.

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The message introduced by us-5492 in 6.7.0, which advises that Unicode logging is not enabled and you risk losing data, has been disabled as the logic used to determine when it should be displayed was incorrect.

It is recommended that if the deployment is used to process Unicode data that the Enable Unicode support for session logs is selected in System Settings.

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The BPA Object - Decipher.xml VBO, which was included with the 6.7 release, has been removed. The VBO is for use with the upcoming Beta edition of Decipher and is not intended for use with any other Blue Prism installations.

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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

6.7.1