Release 8.3.17

Owned by Tom Gibson (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Jul 07, 2022 by Anthony George
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PhixFlow Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of PhixFlow 8.3.17. This page describes the improvements and fixes in this version. This minor release includes important fixes.

Installing or Upgrading to PhixFlow Version 8.3.17

To install a new PhixFlow instance:

  1. Check System Requirements and Compatibility for details of the PhixFlow system requirements and update any dependencies.   
  2. Follow the instructions in Installing PhixFlow.
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To upgrade an existing PhixFlow instance: 

  1. Check System Requirements and Compatibility for changes to the system requirements or supported database versions. For example, you may need to upgrade your database or Java version.
  2. Ensure you have a backup of the database before upgrading PhixFlow.

  3. Follow the Upgrading PhixFlow steps. It is important to complete Step 8, in which you apply any Special Upgrade Instructions for all the intermediate releases between your current version and the version to which you are upgrading. The following special instructions apply for this release.

Special Upgrade Instructions

Important Information

New Privilege

There is a new privilege Release Exclusion Groups which controls access to the Administration Menu action Release Exclusion Group. This privilege will need to be added to the user(s) and/or groups who require access to the Release Exclusion Group administration menu option. 

Bug Fixes

DEV-11520 - The login screen will now always display the PhixFlow logo. Previously the login screen sometimes showed the most recently used application logo.

DEV-11719 - Stream View Components will now display the applied default filter name when they have a display name set.

DEV-11736 - Unknown fields specified in a template used for PDF generation now error with details of the unknown field and its location within the template. 

DEV-11737 - The "More Detail" button has been added back onto the app mode error messages.

DEV-11796 - You can now prevent specific task plans running concurrently. In the task plan properties set Advanced->Exclusion Group. Only one task plan with that exclusion group can be running at any one time. Attempting to run a second task plan with the same exclusion group will return a warning and the task plan will not run. There is a new privilege Release Exclusion Groups which controls access to the Administration Menu action Release Exclusion Group.