K2 Five (5.5) November 2021 Cumulative Update
Important steps before installing the K2 Five (5.5) November 2021 Cumulative Update
Admin consent recommended before upgrading with Nintex K2 Five (5.5) November 2021 Cumulative Update
Microsoft is deprecating Azure AD Graph API in June 2022, and as of June 30th, 2020, stopped adding new features to the API. See these Microsoft articles for more information:
- Migrate Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Graph apps to Microsoft Graph
- Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Graph to Microsoft Graph migration FAQ
Microsoft strongly recommends upgrading to Microsoft Graph API to access Azure AD APIs as well as APIs from other Microsoft services. K2 OAuth resources requiring access to the https://graph.windows.net API (AAD Graph), must be upgraded to use https://graph.microsoft.com (Microsoft Graph) as part of the migration from AAD Graph to Microsoft Graph. Nintex K2 Five (5.5) November 2021 Cumulative Update includes the code fixes necessary for this migration. For more information on migrating apps, see the Microsoft article App migration planning checklist.
After the installation of the Cumulative Update, the OAuth resources that require access to AAD Graph API will be updated to use Microsoft Graph API instead. This will affect the workflows using the Azure Active Directory broker. These workflows can enter a failed state if the workflow executes a step that uses the broker after upgrade, but before a Global administrator in your organization re-consents to the Microsoft Graph permissions. These workflows will have to be manually repaired after upgrade and re-consent.
See the following topics for more information:
- Nintex K2 migration to Microsoft Graph.
- Admin consent recommended before upgrading with Nintex K2 Five (5.5) November 2021 Cumulative Update.
K2 Five (5.5) November 2021 Cumulative Update
The K2 Five (5.5) November 2021 Cumulative Update contains updates and fixes for issues reported in K2 Five (5.5). K2 recommends keeping your K2 environment updated by installing the latest cumulative update, and that you test this update before you deploy to a production environment.
Prerequisites and Dependencies
This cumulative update is only compatible with K2 Five (5.5). Each new cumulative update contains the updates and fixes that were included with the previous cumulative updates. The cumulative update does not require any previous cumulative updates or fixes to be installed, and no additional cumulative update is required to fully update a K2 environment. If you have installed individual code fixes included in this cumulative update, those code fixes are not changed unless a newer version of the code fix is available for the update.
Getting and installing the update
You can download the K2 Five (5.5) November 2021 Cumulative Update on Nintex Customer Central.
To install the cumulative update, run the cumulative update installer on every machine in your environment where a K2 product or component is installed, including desktop machines that have K2 Studio or K2 Designer for Visual Studio installed. The same installer is used to update the specific K2 products and components that are installed on that machine. To determine which cumulative update or fix pack has previously been installed in your environment see https://help.k2.com/kb000426.
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- Backup your K2 database.
- Download the K2 Five (5.5) November 2021 Cumulative Update.zip.
- Extract the .zip file to access the .exe file.
- Double click the .exe file and select a location to extract the installation files.
- The Update window opens. Click Change if you need to change the K2 database. Select the correct information and click Accept. Click Update to start the installation.
- A warning is displayed if a backup of the K2 database is not found. Create a backup before selecting OK. Click OK on the warning window to continue with the update. Click Cancel if you want to create a backup first.
- After creating the backup, you can click Update again on the Install window. If a backup for the K2 database was recently performed, the installer shows you the date and time of the last backup.
- Click OK to continue with the update.
- Wait for the update to complete, and then click Finish.
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- To rollback the K2 Five (5.5) November 2021 Cumulative Update, uninstall K2 from your environment.
- Re-install K2 Five (5.5).
- Re-install the Fix Pack you had installed prior to this rollback.
- Delete the database created when you re-installed.
- Restore the K2 database using the backup made before the update.
You can also restore the K2 database before re-installing K2. When you re-install, you can just point to the restored K2 database.
Considerations for Rollback
If you had K2 4.7 installed before any of the K2 Five versions, and you make use of the client tools that was installed with K2 4.7, you need to start the re-install with K2 4.7 before you can re-install the K2 Five version.
Included in this Update
This cumulative update includes the following fixes:
- Code Fix: The + and – node icons for the tree control data source configuration popup are missing.
- Code Fix: Unable to edit property of advanced SmartObject.
- Code Fix: Upgrading UiPath Orchestrator to version 2020.10.8 an error occurs in UiPath SmartObjects.
- Code Fix: High risk security issue in the general SmartObject framework.
- Code Fix: Worklist item link in a user task notification is missing a custom form parameter.
- Code Fix: The “Close Browser window” smartforms action does not fire.
- Code Fix: Some users are not receiving their email task notifications from a K2 Workflow.
- Code Fix: Executing UIPath SmartObjects via K2 REST Service, an error occurs.
- Code Fix: Duplicate/Undefined values shown in list view quick search dropdown.
- Feature Enhancement: The Security Audit SmartObject will now display any changes made to roles.
- Code Fix: Smartforms environment fields are exposed.
- Code Fix: The generate SmartObjects popup in K2 Management takes 15 plus seconds to load.
- Code Fix: Transferring 195 or more values/items to the Picker control results in an error.
- Code Fix: An error occurs when searching for a SmartObject in Management.
- Code Fix: Unable to interact with Role in K2 Management.
- Code Fix: K2 Workspace does not load.
- Code Fix: During designtime the view does not inherit the form Style Profile.
- Code Fix: List View column headers do not align on an iOS device.
- Code Fix: A scrollbar appears in the PDF content.
- Code Fix: Rating control style issue when using the Lithium them on a form.
- Code Fix: Missing reference error occurs when deploying a workflow.
- Code Fix: K2 Workflow with multiple references creates a phantom 3rd reference.
- Code Fix: SmartForms “Export to Excel” action trims values.
- Code Fix: Form is visible at runtime when property is set to false.
- Code Fix: Controls below the Rich Text control, disappear after clicking on the bold icon.
- Code Fix: During Package and Deployment form conditions are overwritten.
- Code Fix: Duplicate Service Object methods display in the Context Browser.
- Code Fix: An error is displayed in Viewflow on an incorrect activity.
- Code Fix: Multi line text displays as a single line.
- Code Fix: High memory usage for K2HostServer.exe experienced while designing a K2 Workflow.
- Code Fix: Drag and drop in the K2 Workflow designer displays slow performance.
- Code Fix: The list options for SmartObject methods are ignored.
- Code Fix: Shard table will not be created when reconfiguring to a new K2 Database.
- Code Fix: K2 Five (5.5) Fix Pack 04 redirects to “New Workflow” page instead of Viewflow.
- Code Fix: An error occurs when you rebuild/reorganize the IX-SmartBroker_ServiceInstance_Guid.
- Code Fix: Using OOTB identity versus sync legacy identity does not give the exact same FQN.
- Code Fix: Cannot connect to the K2 Workflow server.
- Code Fix: An AngularJS client-side template injection security risk was addressed.
- Code Fix: Installing a Fix Pack with a non-default database name of K2, results in an error.
- Code Fix: Running a reconfigure on an environment with a previous Fix Pack applied, fails.
- Code Fix: Enabling Odata API in K2 Management site, a false message box is shown.
- Code Fix: Starting a K2 Workflow via the REST API slow performance is experienced.
- Code Fix: A PDF Service Security vulnerability has been addressed.
- Code Fix: Day Difference operator in Smartforms returns incorrect results.
- Code Fix: Deactivating a SharePoint Site, the Sync Engine provider remain active.
- Code Fix: Upgrading from K2 blackpearl (4.7) to K2 Five (5.5) breaks OData web service instances.
- Code Fix: Running K2 Fix Pack Installer on Azure SQL fails.
- A SharePoint Online List Lookup column does not work when the Lookup column is used in a Content Type on a Subsite.
- When you have a List view containing a filter and you use the "When the server loads the view rule" event to execute the filter, the data is filtered when you run the view. If you use F5 on your keyboard, the filter is not applied anymore.
- OAuth Authorization Code flow uses incorrect user-agent header.
- With Lightweight Directory Access Protocol domain users are removed.
- The slider control is not visible in a form or a view.
- Unable to create more than one Service Method links.
- Dropdown List control does not align with controls in View toolbar.
- Slider Control value does not populate when a hidden View is loaded on the Form.
- A medium risk security issue was addressed in the SmartObject OData API.
Considerations
Please note the Important steps before installing K2 Five (5.5) November 2021 CU at the top of this article.
K2 Five (5.5) November 2021 Cumulative Update Fix Packs
Click here to get a list of Fix Packs available for K2 Five (5.5) November 2021 Cumulative Update.
