Blue Prism 6.1: October 2017
Database: |
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The release requires the Blue Prism database to be this version. |
Login agent: |
5.0.33 |
The login agent has not been updated for this release. |
Important notices
This version requires all Blue Prism devices to be configured with .NET Framework 4.7.
The information and guidance provided under the heading Upgrading from Versions prior to 6.0 must be reviewed as part of the upgrade procedure. This version is built on 6.0.
Release notes
This release has been verified as complying with the below standards by Veracode – an independent application security organization.
Static Code Analysis |
VL4. 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. |
OWASP |
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SANS Top 25 |
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CERT Secure Coding |
A compliance highlight summary report is available upon request via Product Support.
The following new features and enhancements are introduced in this version of Blue Prism.
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This version of Blue Prism has been certified by Veracode as PCI DSS Version 3.2 compliant in sections 6.1, 6.3.2, 6.5, 6.6, and 11.3.2 and PCI PA-DSS Version 3.2 Sections 5.1.4, 5.2, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, and 7.1.3. |
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Runtime resources that secure inbound connections are now configured to use TLS 1.2 by default, this includes instructional and web service connections in addition to outbound HTTPS connections. |
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Session log data for external consumption introduced in 6.0 is now directed to a new event log – BP Analytics. This enables analytics from multiple services on the same machine to be differentiated by using the event source. Event sources are created for each server config in the format BP Analytics Service – {server config name}. |
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A number of updates have been made to the audit codes used by Blue Prism when recording audit events:
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A new MainframeSendKey capability is provided within a Navigate stage of new business objects associated with an Application Model configured to use a HLLAPI or .NET API mainframe connection. This provides a new mechanism for sending ASCII text and control characters such as {enter}. The help has been updated to provide additional information. |
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A new option named Generate Support Information has been added to the BPDiagnostics utility that will allow an elevated user to manually generate a package of diagnostic information within a zip file. The zip file contains information about the configuration of Blue Prism and associated utilities on the local machine such as:
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Release manager now supports the inclusion of the newly introduced Published Dashboards within a release package to allow the porting of these between environments. It is necessary for users who wish to import a Published Dashboard to be granted the Import Published Dashboard permission. Users who have the Import Global Dashboard role at the time the update is applied with be auto-granted this new role. |
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The following of fixes and minor improvements are introduced with this version.
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Several improvements have been made to the UI when using the interactive client with a Japanese locale. Issues which have been addressed include:
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The Collect Utilization and Productivity Statistic setting can now be enabled and disabled without having to restart the application server for the setting to take effect. |
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The default Encryption Scheme method is now set to AES-256 AesCryptoService when configuring a new Encryption Scheme via the Server Configuration utility and the interactive client. |
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The mechanism used to load groups into the Resources-Management and Workflow-Queues tree-views in System Manager has been made more performant when handling large numbers of records. |
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Importing a release now occurs as a background operation to improve performance and provide a progress indication when importing over a WCF connection |
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The background calculation process for determining the next run time of a schedule in the Scheduler has been made more efficient. This primarily affects scenarios where there is a large volume of schedules set to run concurrently. |
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The region mode searching logic has been updated to prevent a memory AccessViolationExeption being presented when using searching for a region that is configured with a position type of relative. The error was presented when the location of the parent region was such that the expected position of the associated child region is outside of the acceptable search area. |
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The 64-bit installer has been updated to address a dependency issue that affected the managedspylib functionality and prevented it from loading. |
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Auto-archiving has been updated to automatically delete orphaned sessions to reduce the likelihood of a Specified Cast is not Valid exception being presented that indicated that users need to manually delete these records (BPASession records where statusid=6) prior to using archiving functionality. |
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Blank lines in the results of the capabilities (caps) command no longer results in an exception being presented. |
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runtime resources which have been configured to be private are now only controllable by the allocated user when using telnet. Additionally, the telnet capabilities (caps) command has been restricted such that it is only available to authenticated users. |
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An issue introduced in 6.0 whereby session logs were not generated by an executing process if that process featured a sub-process has been addressed. The action of the sub-process exiting and returning the parent process caused the session logs to stop being capture. |
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An issue has been addressed whereby Blue Prism would crash when trying to launch or attach to the RUMBA mainframe emulator application. |
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Changing the name of a user in Active Directory no longer results in an unhandled exception when refreshing the user list in Security – Users. |
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An issue has been addressed whereby passwords were being submitted using an incorrect format to Java applications when using a Write Stage to write a password from a data item set as Text. |
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Users signing out of the Blue Prism client when process alerts are configured will no longer receive an error if they select to allow alerts to continue to be received. |
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The logic used to ensure that there is always a system administrator account defined in an environment configured to use Blue Prism native authentication has been updated to address a scenario where the action of deleting a non-system admin user was incorrectly prevented. |
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An update has been made to the designer validation logic so that adding an un-configured Navigate stage no longer results in an error being reported. |
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An error is no longer presented upon disconnection from the AttachMate Extra emulator. |
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The mechanism used to determine the application directory has been updated to be based on a library rather than an executable. |
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A number of Visual Business Objects (VBOs) are provided within the Blue Prism release but changes are only applied when a specific VBO is explicitly imported.
Any use of these VBOs should be re-verified following an import to ensure compatibility with any change of behavior.
Object – MS Excel
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The input parameter used for the workbook name for the Is Read Only action is now set to a Text datatype rather than Number. This avoids the error which occurred previously when using the action. |
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The Save Workbook action has been updated to address an issue which resulted in dates being saved in the format MM/DD/YY. Dates are now saved in the locale specific format of the system being used. |
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The mechanism used when Excel is instructed to exit has been updated to address a scenario where Excel is slow to fully exit. |
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Utility – File Management
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Previously, the Get Files Action retrieved the Created, Last Accessed and Last Written entry of each file in UTC. The entries were then handled as Local datetimes and converted to UTC when outputted as part of a Collection. |
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Utility – Strings
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Redundant columns are no longer added in the output when using the ParseCSV action which improves performance. |
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