What's New in Server 2022.3

As of the 2022.3 release, Alteryx Designer, Server, and the R Predictive tools use new installer technology. The updated installer detects your operating system language and installs Alteryx products in that language (if applicable). Go to Download and Install a Product for important upgrade and downgrade considerations and review updated command-line options.

To use the latest and best cryptography throughout Server to protect data at rest and data in flight, you now have a way to get your crypto migrated to the most modern algorithms without taking a lot of downtime and interrupting your business.

To move to more modern crypto (FIPS capable), we at Alteryx prepared a Migration Prep Tool to mitigate the maintenance window downtime that you require to get all your workflows database table migrated to the new crypto standard.

The Migration Prep Tool for Server is a separate command line utility that allows for a pre-migration of a database of workflows and apps to be more quickly migrated to the new AES256 standard.

This tool is optional and only needs to be run once before upgrading any prior Server version to Server 2022.2.x (FIPS build), 2022.3.x (FIPS or general availability builds) or beyond. However, we recommend you run the Migration Prep tool in some cases.

For more information about this tool, visit the Migration Prep Tool help page.

We’ve redesigned these admin pages: Notifications, Settings (previously Configuration and Theme), Jobs, Schedules, Media, Insights, Workflows, Subscriptions, Diagnostics, Data Connections, Districts, Pages, and Links. The functionality of these pages remains the same.

The Global Search user interface has also been updated. Items returned in search results now include more information, such as creation date, author, and type. You can also select which asset types to include in your search. These updates allow you to have more control over what you search for and get more information about your search results right from the search page.

Localization in Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, German, Spanish, and Portuguese has been extended to all Server pages, except the login page and Analytic App page.

We’ve updated our bundled OpenSSL3 cryptographic engine to OpenSSL 3.0.7, which addresses CVE-3602 and CVE-3786, both rated as High Severity.

We’ve bundled the OpenSSL3 Legacy Provider, which supplies older algorithms and ciphers (MD2, MD4, RC4, DES, IDEA, and others) that are no longer packaged as part of the core crypto engine in the 3.x series. Note that the Legacy Provider is not loaded unless it has been manually enabled via backend configuration on a particular Designer or Server host.

We made these updates to Server encryption:

We’ve also made some updates to the Server V3 API for users with Curator (admin) and Artisan rights:

For more information about Server V3 API, visit the Alteryx Server API V3 and Server API V3 Objects help pages.

We've removed reliance on IdentityServer 3 and the AlteryxAuthHost.exe process. The SAML Functionality is now provided as part of the AlteryxServerWebApiHost.exe process. We've also added support for the request signing with this update.

This means that starting with version 2022.3, we are using updated service provider endpoints via the Web API service. Please note that existing configurations using the previous endpoints continue to work, and no action is required at this time to continue using SAML for your existing Alteryx Server.

Alteryx System Settings ACS Base URL:

Identity Provider Audience URI:

Identity Provider Single Sign-on URL:

Designer versions older than 2022.3 will NOT be able to share workflows to Server from Designer. You need to upload those workflows to Server 2022.3 using the Administrator UI or API.

We have removed the configuration for sending usage data in the Server Environment Settings. To read more about our philosophy on usage data, go to Improving Our Products with Usage Data and the Alteryx Privacy Policy.

The Server Usage Report has been available as a separate download alongside the Server product and helps administrators get valuable statistics about their Server environment by running a workflow in Designer that connects to their MongoDB.

Due to ongoing changes to Server DB schemas, the validity and value of the report outputs have diminished over time and new schema additions in the underlying Server product database are not being captured in the Server Usage Report going forward. As such, the Server Usage Report will no longer be published alongside Server as a separate download. Previous versions of the report will continue to be available for download, but ongoing database changes will continue to devalue the outputs of this report over time.

Being a Designer macro, this report can be downloaded and updated by any user for ongoing use based on the information desired from the MongoDB. However, the Alteryx product team will not be updating or maintaining the report from its current state.

If you would like to submit feedback on the Server Usage Report, please complete this survey so that our Server product team can appropriately capture any asks for future inclusion in our product suite.