MobileFirst Foundation iFix 8.0.0.0-IF2016102017 released

A new iFix has been released for MobileFirst Foundation 8.0.

For on-prem installations, download the iFix package (requires login to IBM Fix Central).
Mobile Foundation Bluemix service users, check your service dashboard for an available refresh.

Highlights

• Fix for certificate pinning in native iOS applications
• Fix for Windows 10 application crashes
• Fix for the mfpmigrate tool which previously did not recognize all deprecated APIs
• OpenSSL upgraded
• Added support for Android API Level 23
• Add mfpdev adapter build all and mfpdev adapter deploy all CLI commands

Included changes in this iFix

For a cumulative list of all previous fixes, see the iFix download page on IBM Fix Central.

MobileFirst Server, Operational Analytics and Application Center

To upgrade, download & install the Developer Kit for evaluators / Developer Kit for customers, iFix package for production environment, or refresh your Mobile Foundation service from your service Dashboard.

MobileFirst Server

• PI70564 MONITOR ROLE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO PERFORM CERTAIN OPERTIONS
• PI69736 PUSH CONFIGURATION ERROR IN LOG: FPWSE0003E: MISSING APNS CREDENTIALS
• PI67550 PRODUCT INSTALLATION FAILS ON LIBERTY BASE EDITION
• PI65271 PRODUCTION DB2 TABLES CREATION SCRIPT LIMITED TO 1 MB, WHICH IS TOO LIMITED
• PI64813 OLD MOBILEFIRST ANDROID SDK IN THE CONSOLE’S DOWNLOAD CENTER
• PI65022 MIGRATION ASSISTANT TOOL DOES NOT IDENTIFY ALL DEPRECATED APIS, AND INCLUDES A WRONG RESOLUTION

MobileFirst Operational Analytics

• PI66473 ANALYTICS SDK DOESN’T CAPTURE RUN TIME ERRORS: SIGNALS: SIGSEGV, SIGILL, ETC
• PI65155 ANALYTICS LOGS WILL BE AUTO SENT ON EACH SUCCESSFUL RESOURCE REQUEST CAN TURN AUTO SEND ON/OFF USING SETAUTOSENDLOGS FUNCTION

Application Center

• PI37961 APPLICATION CENTER CANNOT READ CERTAIN APK FILES IF THE AAPT TOOL IS NOT AVAILABLE

Adapters

• PI69380 SSL THREAD INFORMATION NOT CLEARED AFTER ADAPTER CALL, RESULTING IN A CERTIFICATE CHAINING ERROR
• PI65047 A WORKLIGHT ADAPTER CALL FAILS WITH AN ERROR INDICATING THAT THERE WAS A FAILURE TO PARSE THE JSON STRING

Client SDKs

To upgrade, run the upgrade commands for your platform.

• PI70045 OPENSSL UPGRADED TO 1.1.0A/1.0.2I/1.0.1U
• PI69851 CERTIFICATE PINNING FAILS TO FIND THE FILE IN NATIVE IOS
• PI69110 NOT GETTING NOTIFICATION ON 10.0, IF MINAPPOSVERSION IS 9.3
• PI68660 WLRESOURCEREQUEST WITH GATEWAY CHALLENGE DOESN’T TRIGGER CHALLENGE HANDLER WITH RESPONSE WITH 3XX-4XX STATUS CODE
• PI68455 WLNETWORKMANAGER NO LONGER EXISTS IN MOBILE FIRST PLATFORM V8 AND CAUSES ERROR WITH CORDOVA-PLUGIN-NETWORK-INFORMATION
• PI68253 WINDOWS 10 MOBILE APPLICATIONS CRASH WHEN MOBILEFIRST SERVER CANNOT BE REACHED
• PI67574 THE APPLICATION MESSAGES DOES NOT CHANGE ACCORDING TO BROWSER LOCALE ON CHROME FOR WEB APPS
• PI66495 APPLICATION CRASH AFTER UPGRADING ANDROID OS FROM 5.0 TO 6.0
• PI66398 ANDROID HYBRID APP PRINTS AN ERROR ON START-UP, ALL CLIENT REQUESTS CONTAINS AN EMPTY X-WL-DEVICE-ID HEADER
• PI66353 AN APP BUILT WITH RELEASE CONFIGURATION CRASHES ON IOS
• PI66017 THE IBM-MFP-WEB-SDK DOES NOT WORK IN INTERNET EXPLORER BROWSERS
• PI65972 USERS OF MOBILEFIRST FOUNDATION 8.0 CAN’T UPLOAD APPLICATIONS TO THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE
• PI66399 USING A GATEWAY WITH THE WEB SDK LEADS TO UNEXPECTED BEHAVIOR IF THE GATEWAY THROWS A CHALLENGE
• PI65003 XAMARIN SDK METHOD INVOKEPROCEDURE(INVOACATIONDATA, TIMEOUT) ALWAYS RETURNS “0” WHEN SPECIFYING A TIMEOUT VALUE
• PI64863 IOS-OBJECTIVE-C AND IOS-SWIFT APP SAMPLE RUNTIMES FAIL TO RUN
• PI64862 IOS-OBJECTIVE-C SAMPLE APP IN DOWNLOAD CENTER DOESN’T CONTAIN TRANSLATION RESOURCE
• PI64860 MFP CORDOVA TEMPLATE ADDS PACKAGE.JSON AND OTHER NOT RELATED FILES TO NEW APP CREATED
• PI64093 APPS ON ANDROID VERSIONS 4.4.2 AND EARLIER CANNOT CONNECT TO SERVER USING HTTPS IF ONLY TLS 1.2 IS ENABLED
• PI63514 APPLICATION FAILS TO INSTANTIATE MODULE NG AFTER UPGRADING TO ANGULAR JS 1.5
• PI61438 SENSITIVE SSL KEYSTORE INFORMATION MAY BE DISPLAYED IN CLIENT AND SERVER ERROR LOGS
• PI61332 ANDROID API LEVEL 23 IS NOT SUPPORTED BY MOBILEFIRST PLATFORM FOUNDATION

MobileFirst CLI

Included in this iFix is the following recently published CLI build: 8.0.0-2016101416.

To upgrade, run npm upgrade -g mfpdev-cli.

• PI66177 CLI: WLAPPID IS NOT BEING SET IN MFPCLIENT.RESW FILES FORWINDOWS PROJECTS
• PI69118 NPM INSTALL ON THE MFPDEV-CLI FAILS WITH THE LATEST NPMVERSION (3.10.7)
• Fix to allow a different application identifier per platform in a Cordova project
• Add mfpdev adapter build all and mfpdev adapter deploy all commands.