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title: "Version 8.21.x Release Notes"
slug: "version-821x-release-notes"
updated: 2024-09-20T15:06:35Z
published: 2024-09-20T15:06:35Z
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# Version 8.21.x Release Notes

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## 8.21.1 (9/18/2024)

| Feature | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Security enhancements | Customers on v8.21.0 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to v8.21.1. Contact [support@decisions.com](mailto:support@decisions.com) for more assistance. |

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## New Features (7/17/2024)

| Feature | Description | Screenshot |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [DT-041323] Improve Performance Rate For Convert Image To PDF Step Using TIF File | Added a new Step - Convert Tiff Image to PDF. This step allows users to quickly convert TIFF files to PDF. It also has a setting for Black and White images. This step is much faster for TIFF files than using the Convert Image To PDF step. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/new%20convert%20tiff%20to%20pdf%20step%20and%20settings(1).png) |
| [DT-041568] Flow Steps: List of Dynamic Rows to CSV Excel Conversion | Added a new Step - [Convert Dynamic Data Rows to CSV](https://documentation.decisions.com/step-library/docs/convert-dynamic-data-rows-to-csv). This step will take in a list of Dynamic Data Rows and write them to a CSV file without the user needing to set up any data mapping. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/Convert%20Dynamic%20Data%20Rows%20to%20CSV.png) |

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## Enhancements

| Feature | Description | Screenshot |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [DT-041338] Flow Steps \| Excel \| Error importing password protected .xlsx files with "Import Excel or CSV Step" | The Import Excel or CSV Step how has a password property that needs to be set to allow the import of password protected Excel or CSV files. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/image-1721062153907.png) |
| [DT-041172] Feature Request: add "Selected Row" as output data when Data Grid is in InlineEdit Mode | InlineEdit mode on a Data Grid can now output a specific Selected Row. Before it would only output the entire list of items. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/EditedValueInSelectedRow.png) |
| [DT-041444] Account Service - JWT Authentication in Header | Method GetJWTTokenForSession can now work for all authentication methods like any other service endpoint. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/image-1721062323910.png) |

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## Fixes

### Installer

| DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [DT-040998] Postgres startup errors when creating database | Installation will now fail properly if the user is installing to a PostgreSQL system and the username given to the installer does not match with the pgadmin application database. | 8.x |
| [DT-041436] Deprecated module-Decisions.AzureServiceBus installed in v8 should get upgraded to v9 | Users can now upgrade to version 9 even if they have the AzureServiceBus module installed. | 8.x |

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### Modules

| DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [DT-041386] SSO Lockout Feature | Idle lockout is now possible with SSO configured. | 8.21 |
| [DT-041474] Single Log Out (SLO) does not fully log users out of the Decisions/IdP Session upon reaching Decisions/IdP Session Timeout | Fixed an issue that occurred in 8.20 that prevented users from being able to use Okta Single-Sign Out. | 8.20 |
| [DT-041658] Github modules upgrade issue | Fixed an issue that caused GitHub stored modules to not update correctly on the second node of a cluster. | 8.x |
| [DT-041694] Single Logout does not work for OpenID | Single Logout will now work properly when OpenID is configured. | 8.x |

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### Forms

| DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [DT-038316] Form Stays Open After Hitting Back From the Browser | Forms will now close when the users presses their browser's back button. | 8.x |
| [DT-041405] Flow with file download takes 2-3 minutes to load for first time. | Fixed a bug that caused Flows with file downloads to take longer than they should upon first execution. | 8.x |
| [DT-041431] Advanced data grid report and its history folder duplicated a number of times | Advanced Data Grid reports and associated history folders will no longer duplicate several times when a project using one is imported. | 8.x |
| [DT-041438] Form-NumberBox-Numer value '0' coming by default for NumberBox | The Form Control "Number Box" would show '0' even when "Allow Null" was set to true. Number Boxes will now properly display Null instead of 0. | 8.x |
| [DT-041534] Remap values for a repeater with an advanced data grid on it via aff | Fixed a regression in 8.17 that caused Advanced Data Grids to not display data that was populated using an Active Form Flow. | 8.17, 8.18, 8.19, 8.20 |
| [DT-041646] JS Control gives an error if form contains active form flow. | Forms will no longer error and refuse to display if they contain Javascript controls. | 8.x |
| [DT-041705] "Your Form Cannot Be Processed" Error is Thrown on a Page with a Form Tile and a Sub-dialog Form | Fixed an error that would occur when trying to exit a Subdialog Form with the close button from within a Form Tile. | 8.x |

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### Flows

| DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [DT-041223] HTML to PDF Step: Href tags/ links in PDF are not working in v8 | Fixed a bug that prevented links within PDF files created by the HTML to PDF Step from working. | 8.x |
| [DT-041380] Aspose PDF Optimizations | Fixed a memory leak in PDF related steps. | 8.x |
| [DT-041429] Flows - Error is Thrown When Using "Fetch By Process Folder ID" On a Postgres Install | Fixed a bug that caused Flow Execution Extensions to not be searchable when using a step like "Fetch By Process Folder ID". | 8.x |
| [DT-041441] QueryTableWithVectorData Step - Duplicate Fields in Vector Storage Info | Duplicate fields will no longer appear on certain property screens. | 8.x |
| [DT-041288] Refactor the Index Item in List Step | The Index Items for List Step will now perform much faster. | 8.21 |

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### Rules

| DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [DT-041354] "Setup" button for Rule Sets are not showing up for Designer accounts when "CanAdministrate" permissions are disabled. | Designer user accounts can now set up Rule Sets without needing CanAdministrate permissions. | 8.x |

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### Reports

| DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [DT-040372] Continued Selection of Rows in Parent Report Causes Blank Results on Child Report is Chrome=Small or Chrome=Off | Certain Chrome= settings could cause Rich Text child reports to turn blank if it is on the same page as its parent report. This will no longer occur. | 8.x |

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### Data Structures

| DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [DT-041480] Simple Data Structure gives error when Enable Actions checkbox is checked | Data Structures with a Parent and Child class name that was the same that than had Enable Actions checked on it, would fail to compile correctly. This has been fixed. | 8.x |
| [DT-041631] XSD Structure -> Code compilation fails when importing multiple XSD files. | Importing multiple XSD files to create an XSD structure will no longer cause a code compile failure. There is a new setting within the "Create Types From XSD" menu called "Generate Unique Type Names" that needs to be enabled. | 8.21 |

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### System / Portal Administration

| DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [DT-041192] Can be job server environment variable is not respected in containers | Containers would ignore the "Can Be Job Server" setting. This has been fixed so they will respect it properly. | 8.x |
| [DT-041248] End Form Session Step With Open URL not able to download foreign character containing file names | End Form Session Steps will now allow users to download files even if those files' names contain non-ASCII characters. | 8.x |
| [DT-041570] File Storage Reorganization Job is fully running even though there aren't old directories | Enhanced performance of the File Storage Reorganization Job. | 8.21 |
| [DT-040527] GetAccountFolderXRefsForFolder gives error in Postgres | Fixed method GetAccountFolderXRefsForFolder that was causing an error in PostgreSQL installs. | 8.x |

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### Project Deployment

| DT Title | Description | Occurs In |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [DT-039688] decObj's are getting created in the temp folder of the system when we import a zip file | Project files will no longer create unneeded duplicates when being imported via Zip file. | 8.x |
| [DT-041359] Project checkout progress gets stuck on the Commit Checkout progress message. | The Repository server will no longer take a large amount of time to process checkouts when done by an account that does not exist on the Repository server. | 8.x |

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