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Fix list for IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale V8.6.1

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IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale provides periodic fixes for release V8.6.1. The complete listing of fixes for V8.6.1 is as follows, starting with the most recent fix.

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Release Date
Total number of APARs
Total number of Security APARs
Fix Pack 8.6.1.6 25 September 2023 9 5
Fix Pack 8.6.1.5 21 May 2021 14 1
Fix Pack 8.6.1.4 11 March 2020 18 5
Fix Pack 8.6.1.3 21 December 2018 36 7
Fix Pack 8.6.1.2 24 March 2017 10 0
Fix Pack 8.6.1.1 18 November 2016 18 1
Refresh Pack 8.6.1.0 16 June 2016 111 3

Fix Pack 8.6.1.6
Fix release date: 25 Sep 2023
Last modified: 25 Sep 2023
Status: Recommended

Download Fix Pack 8.6.1.6

Component Security APAR APAR Description
All ✓ PH55403 There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Runtime Environment Java Version 8 used by WebSphere eXtreme Scale.
✓ PH53340 Multiple vulnerabilities in Dojo toolkit and jQuery version shipped with IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale Liberty Deployment
✓ PH51696 There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 8 used by WebSphere eXtreme Scale.
✓ PH44474 There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 8 used by WebSphere eXtreme Scale.
✓ PH44065 Apache Log4j is used by IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale as part of remote logging functionality (CVE-2022-23307). The fix includes Apache Log4j v2.17.1.
PH47326 Deadlock may occur when new near-cache clients are being subscribed while the slow near-cache clients are being unsubscribed.
PH46846 A large number of Grids in the XSLD environment can lead to a few Grids not starting because of MessageTimeOutException.
PH46847 XSLD GRID APPLICATION FAIL TO START BECAUSE PLUG-IN CLASSES CANNOT BE FOUND.
PH48913 checkStatus.sh returns “XS-Nanny-Watch-Dog service” after stopXSLD.sh.This fix will show the correct status for the XS-Nanny-Watch-Dog service

Fix Pack 8.6.1.5
Fix release date: 21 May 2021
Last modified: 21 May 2021
Status: Recommended

Download Fix Pack 8.6.1.5

Component Security APAR APAR Description
All PH34493 OOM is caused by prober storing probe records for all slow clients.
✓ PH34473
Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM SDK, Java technology edition affect the websphere extreme scale.
PH31055 HTTP Session could be lost with idreuse=false when failover happens.
PH32142 Session Attributes may be orphaned when shareSessionsAcrossWebApps is enabled.
PH27548 Using both webprofile-8.0 and elasticcacheclient-1.0 features causes conflicts.
PH27393 Custom grid template not honoured while creating grids from rest API.
PH27416
SETUPDERBYREPLICATIONTASKCOMMAND fails in non-english locale env.
PH26976 With XM enabled, customers may see elevated CPU usage when subscribing/resubscribing is called after a disconnection.
PH26656 Failure of derby failover when we use XSLD_MEMBER_HOST_ADDRESS.
PH26331 Orphan thread evictor is not working with eXtremeMemory.
PH26090 Rest API is not working correctly for updating the statistics time interval
PH25418 Improvements to automatic derby replication and auto-recovery script.
PH24830 In XSLD orphaned attributes are not removed due to NoClassDefFoundError
PH24235 After upgrading to XSLD 8.6.1.4 objectgrid TTL button is disabled in XSLD UI Console.
Fix Pack 8.6.1.4
Fix release date: 11 March 2020
Last modified: 11 March 2020
Status: Recommended

Download Fix Pack 8.6.1.4

Component Security APAR APAR Description
All ✓ PH21775 Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affect WebSphere eXtreme Scale
PH20616
Post upgrade from 8.6.1002.* to 8.6.1003.* the information of Datacachemembers on UI console is not correct.
PH19398 XS on Docker - doesn't pick up the main IP address.
PH19249 Java heap OOM is caused by a security cache when LDAP is slow to respond or in a hung state.
PH19097 TTL values from custom grid templates are not honoured while creating grids.
PH19040 XIO timeout from server.xml is not honoured.
PH18792
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException for objectgrids with missing domainName.
PH18500 Automatically replicate Derby in a cache member group (AutoDB replication feature).
✓ PH17611 Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affect WebSphere eXtreme Scale.
✓ PH16881 Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale Liberty Deployment could expose sensitive information(CVE-2019-4106, CVE-2019-4109, CVE-2019-4112, CVE-2019-4115).
✓ PH16598 XSLD remediate QID 11827.
PH15549 XSLD Console query fails to run on _services WebSphere Commerce cache maps.
PH13541 OOM in catalog server because of Liberty SSL leak.
PH12258 Client ObjectGrid instances can leak when they are not destroyed.
PH11649 XSLD will fail to enable eXtreme Memory on PPC8.
✓ PH11543 Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affect WebSphere eXtreme Scale.
PH08066 Warning message CWOBJ0061W occurring frequently in the logs.
PH08443 Join member caused NPE when the member name was too long (more than 41 characters).
Fix Pack 8.6.1.3
Fix release date: 21 December 2018
Last modified: 31 December 2018
Status: Superseded

Download Fix Pack 8.6.1.3

Component Security APAR APAR Description
All IT22807 Session orphaned attributes were not cleaned properly and were left behind in the session grid
PH06272 XSLD REST Data Server out of memory error
✓ PH05857 Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affect WebSphere eXtreme Scale
PH00604 ClassNotFoundException for class com.ibm.ws.xs.sessionmanager.httpsessionfilter in Liberty
✓ PH00404 A vulnerability in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affects WebSphere eXtreme Scale
PI99759 Specifying a variable as the HTTP port value results in a NumberFormatException when using xscmd -c showmapsizes
PI98505 The subscription timer should not start until the publisher is ready
PI98420 Share HTTP sessions between multiple J2EE applications
PI97935 KeyNotFoundException in CSOBJ1524I message when replica shard is registering with primary
✓ PI96369 Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affect WebSphere eXtreme Scale
PI93165 The JVM setting was out of sync with the console as well as changed the JVM security setting unexpectedly
PI93137 The CWOBJ1537E message for exceeding the maximum number of reregisters can occur erroneously
PI93135 DuplicateKeyException seen in CSOBJ1524I message when replica shared is registering with primary
PI92350 Write-Behind loader fails with NullPointerException when XDF is configured
PI91380 UpdateContainerAndJVMSizeTaskCommand for XSLD throws IndexOutOfBoundsException when in a collective
PI91106 XSLD user interface does not return the expected error when a faulty custom template is used
PI89813 XSLD fails if restricting restAdminServer
PI89706 NullPointerExceptions while stopping catalog jvm via WAS admin console and xscmd teardown command
PI89685 XSLD created grid set authorization flag incorrectly
PI88403 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException can occur when using eXtreme Scale Dynacache provider
PI88192 Map entries do not expire at the right time after an update operation
PI87836 Incorrect transaction timeout setting in catalog server transactions causes LockTimeoutExceptions
PI86927 An ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException exception can occur when using a global index
PI86607 WXS 8.6.1 install can fail with a bad JAVA version for WAS 8.5.5 starting at 8.5.5.11 even if the JAVA version is supported
PI84936 OutOfMemoryError exception can occur when using eXtremeIO (XIO) transport
PI84448 Entries in a map configured with time to live eviction do not evict at the right time during failover
✓ PI83531 Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affect WebSphere eXtreme Scale
PI82969 Entries not evicted if time to live eviction transactions fail
PI82096 In WXS 861 setting a TTL programmatically of more than 6442450 seconds causes an IllegalArgumentException
PI80152 Manual steps are required when upgrading to eXtreme Scale Liberty Deployment after 8.6.1.2 as a non-root user
PI79994 ObjectQuery throwing NullPointerException
PI79938 NullPointerException occurred in the client when SSL transport is TCP/IP but no SSL configuration exists in server.xml in Liberty
PI79409: eXtreme Scale Liberty Deployment cache members'' statuses will be set to offline if using the ipv6 address
✓ PI78584 Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affect WebSphere eXtreme Scale
✓ PI78572 Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affect WebSphere eXtreme Scale
✓ PI78567 Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affect WebSphere eXtreme Scale
Fix Pack 8.6.1.2
Fix release date: 21 September 2018
Last modified: 21 September 2018
Status: Superseded

Download Fix Pack 8.6.1.2

Component Security APAR APAR Description
All PI69125 WXS ContinuousQueryListener in the client does not get an update from the server after the server restart.
PI72417 Enable XSLD non-root user install functionality.
PI72831 Enabling Derby replication on zLinux using REST API may fail occasionally because of socket permission errors.
PI72832 After SSL mutual authentication is enabled, some administrative operations fail.
PI73012 Unable to enable Websphere Extreme Scale SSL connection on Liberty Profile when using Java 8.
PI73187 The eXtreme Scale Liberty Deployment UI dashboard displays incorrect cache member data after a failed member joins.
PI73554 Derby replication task command may fail on some systems.
PI74091 NPE is thrown when the WXS client is retrieving the latest routing table from catalog during container failover.
PI74503 Unable to retrieve total duration time using Websphere Extreme Scale AgentManagerMBean.
PM94029 Websphere eXtreme scale 8.6 installs sMash product smash0101.Sys2 file.
Fix Pack 8.6.1.1
Fix release date: 29 June 2018
Last modified: 29 June 2018
Status: Superseded

Download Fix Pack 8.6.1.1

Component Security APAR APAR Description
All ✓ PI70239 Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affect WebSphere eXtreme Scale.
PI53891 Transactions fail with ExpiredCredentialException when using extremeIO transport.
PI64273 Error message with prefix CWOBJ0012E is seen when using near cache invalidation.
PI65179 Performing an update for WebSphere eXtreme Scale Liberty Deployment from the installation manager fails on Windows.
PI65346 WebSphere eXtreme Scale Console does not show initialization messages on startup.
PI65755 WebSphere eXtreme Scale server side (container) dynacache statistics reflect higher than expected values
PI66609 On Microsoft Windows Operating Systems, getLogs.bat command fails to launch when the installed location contains space.
PI66651 eXtremeMemory Is Incorrect In New Server Created Using REST API
PI66966 On AIX systems the datastore is not started after installation if no public network interface is configured.
PI67063 The nanny process from the datastore replica member is hung.
PI67936 xscmd failed in WebSphere eXtreme Scale V8.6.1 with WebSphere Application Server V9
PI68271 Webcontainer threads are hung in SessionsLRUOffloader even after PI05917
PI68534 Add support for and default to NO_COPY near cache CopyMode for the eXtreme Scale Dynacache provider
PI68561 NullPointerException happens during routetable recovery
PI68771: The data store is not started on default Windows Docker toolbox VMs.
PI69267 xscmd does not exit with the proper return code
PI70751 A large amount of threads are spawned when attempting to restart the eXtreme Scale server in case of a network partition
PI70955 WebSphere eXtreme Scale JPA plugin does not tolerate network issue
Refresh Pack 8.6.1.0
Fix release date: 21 December 2018
Last modified: 31 December 2018
Status: Superseded

Download Refresh Pack 8.6.1.0

Component Security APAR APAR Description
All IT11003 XC10 Web console Message Center no longer displays messages.
IT11057 With ORB transport disconnecting an appliance from a two-member collective keeps the other box from.
IT11116 Memory cleanup is not done when a grid is deleted.
IT12299 The appliance web console message Center no longer displays messages. It shows empty messages.
IT13029 After the network brownout resolves, XC10 does not complete restart and xsServer00 does not recycle.
IT13437 The start-progress command stays at 4%, xsServer00 repeatedly logs "XSServerStartHandler waitForWorkItems".
IT13440 After recovering from a network disconnect, the appliance does not complete the restart.
IT13578 MessageTimeOutException exceptions may occur in fail-over scenarios with large amounts of data.
IT15714 XDF deserialization errors after failover.
IT15860 XDF EnumSerializer logging errors.
PI23994 Externalize the ObjectGrid.getDomainName() API.
PI38515 The ability to disable replication status to avoid garbage collection pauses from the memory consumption is needed.
PI42180 When you create a remote session grid in WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5.5, the browse function does not return grids.
PI42444 The server fails to start with the transport catalog attribute when using Spring Framework.
PI42537 The trace was insufficient for debug analysis.
PI42795 ObjectQuery fails when using a field of an embedded type as part of the query statement.
PI42955 A NumberFormatException occurs during container reconnect or restart scenarios.
PI43279 An ObjectGridXIOException occurs indicating that a protocol message was too large when very large requests are sent.
PI43426 Catalog servers fail after a network outage when failure recovery is suspended.
PI43439 A WebSphere eXtreme Scale client in the same JVM as the catalog server fails to connect to a remote domain.
PI43649 The eXtreme Scale monitoring console is blank after logging in.
PI43836 eXtremeMemory usage is greater than expected.
PI43972 Java EE 6 features that WebSphere eXtreme Scale uses conflict with Java EE 7 features in the Liberty profile V8.5.5.6.
✓ PI44031 An unspecified vulnerability in WebSphere eXtreme Scale 8.6 can cause a denial of service.
PI44104 The autocomplete parameter in the form tag for the eXtreme Scale console page needs to be turned off.
PI44121 A long timeout can occur when connections to all catalog server endpoints time out on a client connection.
PI44458 Simultaneous writes for the same key can result in a LockTimeoutException when using the write-behind function.
PI44986 You cannot define more than one WebSphere eXtreme Scale session data grid and dynamic cache data grid in Liberty.
PI45073 When restarting individual container servers without placement constraints, extra primary shards can occur.
PI45242 Catalog servers can fail to start when clients are left running and all servers are stopped.
PI45246 AcessControlException exception can occur when starting a server and using a security manager.
PI45445 With two or more synchronous replicas placed, uncommitted transactions are possible after failover.
PI45744 Incorrect routing can occur when using PartitionKey annotation on one or more fields in the key class.
PI45880 After an unexpected timeout, old primary shards do not stop.
PI45881 XIO handshake failures can result in a build-up of XIOConnectionController objects, which can cause OOM errors.
PI46020 After several MessageTimeOutExceptions during promotion, extra primary shards or lost data can occur.
PI46042 The monitoring console fails to load the detail reports and query data grid contents panels.
PI46410 WebSphere eXtremeScale servers running in Liberty 8554+ may encounter "java.io.IOException: unknown protocol: bundleresource".
PI46496 You cannot upload a new keystore or update the administrative password using the WebSphere eXtreme Scale.
PI46833 LockTimeoutException exception can occur when using the write-behind function.
PI47492 A domain of 3 or more catalog servers fails initial start-up.
PI47586 Out-of-memory errors can occur when using objects with HashMap or Hashtable fields.
PI47962 ClassCastException exception can occur in HashIndex when trying to roll back a transaction.
PI48326 Missing messages from the monitoring console message center.
PI49170 TransactionCallbackImpl.begin() method is called while processing replica shards. This should only occur on primary shards.
PI49299 getObjectGridState API does not return a consistently correct result when the grid is in transition.
PI49452 Client requests fail when using null values and the client and server are co-located in the same Java process.
PI49518 Inactive and empty maps appear in xscmd command showMapSizes.
PI50024 WebSphere eXtreme Scale REST gateway used near-side cache by default.
PI50254 Exceptions resolving old primary shard causes the next primary's hard promotion to fail.
PI50255 Missing agent permission causes java.security.accesscontrolexception.
PI50551 Repeated network failures cause primary shard demotions and Targ etNotAvailableExceptions.
PI50624 The WXS restgateway does not allow a catalog service domain beyond the default catalog service in WAS to be used.
PI50772 WebSphere eXtreme Scale Client for .NET authenticode certificate has expired.
PI50921 Primary or replica shard fails to transition from a StateManager setObjectGridState request causing AvailabilityExceptions.
PI51087 Brief network losses during primary shard promotion can cause data loss.
PI51551 ClassNotFoundException for com.ibm.wsspi.runtime.config.ConfigService with WXS on Liberty.
PI51742 IBM WebSphere eXtremeScale allows some sensitive data to linger in memory instead of being overwritten.
PI52221 Extreme Scale transaction identifiers can be duplicates causing transaction errors.
PI52401 NullPointerException when serializing a value from the grid via REST gateway.
✓ PI52487 An Apache Commons Collections vulnerability for handling Java object deserialization.
PI52606 LastUsedBytes is not correctly updated.
PI52838 OptimisticCollisionException fails to deserialize when using EntityManager.
PI52945 Deserialization using eXtreme Data Format (XDF) fails with MissingSerializationInfoException in readObject().
PI53272 wxs-visibility attributes in manifest.mf requires double quotes.
PI53604 Excessive CWOBJ1550 and CWOBJ1551 messages for the same exception.
PI53771 JMXConnectorPort property in server.properties is not processed correctly.
PI54398 Support eXtremeMemory function on PowerPC big-endian platforms for both AIX and Linux.
PI54509 While doing placement under heavy load or network contention, the primary shard can be promoted too early.
PI54796 OutOfMemoryError error can occur when a removed replica attempts to replicate.
PI55408 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException exception can occur when using XsDataOutputStream.writeVarInt(long) with a negative number.
PI56083 NullPointerException from ReplicatedPartition TrackingTempReplica.
PI56154 After a network bronwn out recovers, the routetable contains unreachable entries.
PI56295 BufferUnderflowException and general protection faults(GPF) can occur.
✓ PI56341 Multiple vulnerabilites in IBM WebSphere SDK Java Technology edition affect WebSphere eXtreme Scale(includes SLOTH fix).
PI56572 Time to live eviction can stop running due to an exception occurring.
PI56574 Server stop hangs when there are in-doubt transactions.
PI56769 WKSP0009E with FileNotFoundException may happen when several application servers are started concurrently.
PI57058 WXS Spring provider DuplicateKeyException.
PI57071 Multiple login prompts appear on xscmd mixing localhost and local IP address.
PI57109 Network brownout recovery for embedded catalog servers stops incorrectly.
PI57536 Improved dynacache trace.
PI57551 WXS overwrites failure detection properties on heartbeat.
PI57838 Update the sample server and client properties files' SSL properties.
PI57949 StopConsoleServer.sh script fails with an error finding the script.
PI58417 Authorization fails for users with passwords and usernames that match.
PI58491 No error message for incorrect number of tokens in the URI.
PI58512 Asynchronous replication fails to replicate remove operations when using eXtremeMemory (XM) and not using a KeyDataSerializer.
PI58620 WebSphere eXtreme Scale mapstats and ogstats incorrect when multiple mapsets are defined in a single grid.
PI58859 A java.lang.NullPointerException may occur in the WebSphere eXtreme Scale exception path when the XIO transport is enabled.
PI59054 Agent invocations time out when an exception class is returned that is not found on the client.
PI59667 IllegalArgumentException encountered while setting fields during readObject() in XDF.
PI59904 eXtreme Scale Spring cache plug-in to support Spring Framework 4.2.x.
PI60897 WebSphere eXtreme Scale is subject to HTTP response splitting attacks.
PI60904 WebSphere eXtreme Scale encryption for Dynacache entries was using MD5, which is insecure.
PI60922 The container server fails to start during the concurrent catalog and the container server starts.
PI61047 LogElement.getKey() or SerializedKey.getObject() can return null when using the write-behind function.
PI61076 WebSphere eXtreme Scale .NET client trace enhancements.
PI61198 The eXtreme Scale plug-in for InfoSphere Data Replication (IDR) fails to initialize when using Java 7 or 8.
PI61249 Placement failures after full catalog restart (catalog recycle).
PI61281 Statistics only work with all enabled.
PI61441 EntityManager operations fail when using eXtremeIO (XIO).
PI61641 NullPointerException logged for MBeanService.
PI61704 WXS session removing orphaned attributes will only remove attributes for a single context root.
PI61794 Running xscmd command to show placement with default settings will not show a container which only hosts reserved shards.
PI62238 Container servers recycle when the primary catalog server is lost.
PI62261 Improve ByteBuffer usage and provide statistics information.
PI62469 com.ibm.websphere.objectgrid.ConnectException: "Connection closed from remote client" errors with XIO with SSL.
PI62853 InfoSphere Data Replication plug-in fails with ReadOnlyException.
PI63661 Installed eXtreme Scale libraries cause versionInfo to report the WebSphere install as 32-bit.
PI65519 WXS Http session stat affinityBreakCount doesn't increment when reuseSessionId=false.

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