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Release Notes for Citrix ADC 13.0-90.12 Release

This release notes document describes the enhancements and changes, fixed and known issues that exist for the Citrix ADC release Build 13.0-90.12.

Notes

  • This release notes document does not include security related fixes. For a list of security related fixes and advisories, see the Citrix security bulletin.
  • Build 13.0-90.11 and later builds address the security vulnerabilities described in CTX477714.
  • Build 13.0-90.12 replaces Build 13.0-90.7 and Build 13.0-90.11.
  • Build 13.0-90.11 includes fixes for the following issues that existed in the previous Citrix ADC 13.0 release build along with all enhancements and bug fixes available in Build 13.0-90.7: NSHELP-34187, NSHELP-33683, NSHELP-33644, NSHELP-33400, NSHELP-33243, NSHELP-32335, NSHELP-33975, NSHELP-33459, NSHELP-30631, NSBASE-17802.
  • Build 13.0-90.12 includes the fix for NSBASE-18162 (NSHELP-35288), along with all enhancements and bug fixes available in Build 13.0-90.11.

What’s New

The enhancements and changes that are available in Build 13.0-90.12.

Platform

  • VMware ESXi 7.0 update 3i support on Citrix ADC VPX instance

    The Citrix ADC VPX instance now supports the VMware ESXi version 7.0 update 3i (Build 20842708).

    [ NSPLAT-25160 ]

Fixed Issues

The issues that are addressed in Build 13.0-90.12.

Authentication, authorization, and auditing

  • On some Citrix ADC appliances that have GSLB enabled, redirection from the authentication virtual server to the load balancing virtual server fails due to an invalid URL computation.

    [ NSHELP-33459 ]

  • The Citrix ADC appliance might crash when it is configured as a SAML service provider and the SSL certificates are updated.

    [ NSHELP-33243, NSHELP-32966, NSHELP-33242, NSHELP-34366 ]

  • On the Citrix ADC GUI, the Response Policies section on the Authentication Virtual Server page does not display the responder type cache policies.

    [ NSHELP-33111 ]

  • Kerberos SSO impersonation with advanced encryption types might fail when an incorrect user principal name is used in the SSO credentials.

    [ NSHELP-32890, NSHELP-34087, NSHELP-34753 ]

  • In some cases, “invalid credentials” error message is displayed during the RADIUS authentication process. The error is seen when the Citrix ADC appliance is accessed from a client device using the Google Chrome browser.

    [ NSHELP-27113 ]

Bot Management

  • In the Citrix ADC GUI, the user-defined bot signature displays an incorrect base version.

    [ NSHELP-33546 ]

Citrix Gateway

  • A Citrix Gateway appliance crashes when evaluating a policy for a VPN URL.

    [ NSHELP-33683, CGOP-20369, NSHELP-34002, NSHELP-34030, NSHELP-34052, NSHELP-34076, NSHELP-34077, NSHELP-34100, NSHELP-34151, NSHELP-34180, NSHELP-34209, NSHELP-34243, NSHELP-34276, NSHELP-34327, NSHELP-34402, NSHELP-34443, NSHELP-34472, NSHELP-34513, NSHELP-34576, NSHELP-34586, NSHELP-34620, NSHELP-34690, NSHELP-34778, NSHELP-34844, NSHELP-34947, NSHELP-35178 ]

  • After upgrading a Citrix ADC appliance, the RDP proxy URLs do not work with the X1 portal theme and the message
    “Http/1.1 Object Not Found” appears.

    [ NSHELP-33676, NSHELP-33845, NSHELP-33921, NSHELP-34032 ]

  • After upgrading a Citrix ADC appliance, the RDP proxy URLs become inaccessible and the error message “Http/1.1 Object Not Found” appears. This issue occurs when the custom parameters of the RDP URLs contain spaces.

    [ NSHELP-33333 ]

  • After upgrading a Citrix Gateway appliance, the Configuration > Integrate with Citrix Products section is not displayed in the Citrix ADC GUI.

    [ NSHELP-32335 ]

  • The EPA scan to check the CA certificate of a client device fails on the Citrix ADC appliance when the CA certificates are of different domains.

    [ NSHELP-32118 ]

Citrix Web App Firewall

  • The Citrix Web App Firewall learning engine learns the field format rules only when a violation is observed.

    [ NSWAF-7677 ]

  • When the Web App Firewall policy is updated on the vserver, the following issues are observed:

    • The Citrix ADC GUI and CLI did not respond or took longer than usual.
    • The packet CPU utilization has increased to 100%
    • The number of persistence sessions has been increased.

    [ NSHELP-33975 ]

Load Balancing

  • The secondary node might crash if you use the same GSLB virtual server as the backup for multiple GSLB virtual servers.

    [ NSHELP-33400, NSHELP-34247, NSHELP-34573 ]

Networking

  • The “nstrace” of a few incoming packets of an SSH session might incorrectly display a different receiving interface number and VLAN ID when all of the following conditions are met:

    • ECMP routes for the client of the SSH session are present on the Citrix ADC appliance.
    • SSH session is idle for a few seconds.

    [ NSHELP-32734 ]

Platform

  • In an HA setup of Citrix ADC VPX instance on AWS cloud, the content in the “cloud-ha-daemon.log” file that is stored in the /var/log/ location is printed twice instead of once.

    [ NSPLAT-25687 ]

  • Link redundancy configuration is not supported on a Citrix ADC VPX instance hosted on a Citrix ADC SDX appliance. From Citrix ADC release 13.0 build 90.x and later, link redundancy configuration commands are disabled on Citrix ADC VPX instances hosted on a Citrix ADC SDX appliance.

    [ NSPLAT-25388 ]

  • On the SDX 26000 platform (SDX 26100-100G, 26160-100G, 26200-100G, 26250-100G), the maximum number of CPU cores that can be assigned to a single VPX instance is changed from 26 to 25 CPU cores.

    [ NSPLAT-21233 ]

  • When a Citrix ADC SDX appliance containing Mellanox NICs is upgraded from a build where VLAN filtering is disabled and the Management Service tries to disable VLAN filtering as part of the upgrade, the operation fails. As a result, VLAN filtering is enabled for all the interfaces and channels.

    [ NSHELP-32759 ]

Policies

  • In a Citrix ADC appliance, the content switching policies that are migrated from classic policies to advanced policies using the NSPEPI tool might not work when the following conditions are met:

    • The policies are bound to the content switching vserver.
    • The “caseSensitive” parameter is set to OFF.

    [ NSHELP-31951 ]

SSL

  • After unbinding the DEFAULT cipher, when you disable a protocol version on a virtual server and later try to bind a cipher with this protocol listed in the description, the following error message appears.

    No usable ciphers configured on the SSL vserver/service

    This message is incorrect because the cipher is supported with other protocols that are enabled on the virtual server. For example,

    Cipher Name: TLS1-ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
    Description: SSLv3 Kx=ECC-DHE Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 HexCode=0xc014

    This cipher is supported for all the protocols starting from SSLv3 (SSLv3, TLS1, TLS11, TLS12). When you disable SSLv3 on a virtual server and then try to bind this cipher to that virtual server, the warning appears even though TLS1, TLS11, TLS12 protocols are still enabled on the virtual server.

    With this fix, the warning appears only when a cipher is not supported for the configuration.

    [ NSHELP-32739 ]

  • The Citrix ADC appliance does not allow configuring certificates with a notBefore date older than 1970.

    [ NSHELP-32677 ]

  • The Citrix ADC appliance might crash if the following conditions are met:

    • A client sends TLS1.3 early data in the Client Hello message to an SSL Insight virtual server.
    • ECDHE ciphers are enabled on this virtual server.

    [ NSHELP-31560 ]

System

  • A Citrix ADC appliance might crash when both of the following conditions are met:

    • The content inspection device sends a reset (RST) response to the ADC appliance and one of the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) resources is not cleared properly.
    • The same IPS resource is accessed in further transactions.

    [ NSHELP-33691 ]

  • In some cases, a Citrix ADC appliance might crash while processing a corrective acknowledgment sent by a server connection that is in the TIME_WAIT state.

    [ NSHELP-33469 ]

  • The Citrix ADC appliance might crash if it processes a corrective ACK packet related to a server-side TCP connection.

    [ NSHELP-32290 ]

  • In a Citrix ADC appliance, the default value of the “maxHeaderFieldLen” parameter in the HTTP profile causes the following issue.

    • Traffic failure after upgrading to 13.0 build.

    [ NSHELP-32079 ]

  • A memory leak might occur in the Citrix ADC appliance if both the following conditions are met:

    • HTTP compression feature is enabled.
    • The connection is reset in the middle of the transaction.

    [ NSHELP-30631 ]

  • Some SYSLOG messages are dropped when logging on to an external SYSLOG server using TCP protocol.

    [ NSHELP-24522 ]

  • A Citrix ADC appliance might crash when an HTTP/2 enabled virtual server generates a response for an HTTP/2 request, instead of forwarding the request to the back-end service.

    [ NSBASE-18162, NSHELP-35288 ]

  • The header-only gRPC response from the Citrix ADC appliance to the clients does not contain the gRPC status and gRPC message.

    [ NSBASE-17802 ]

User Interface

  • When you create a Citrix Web App Firewall profile of the JSON type and try to update the Profile Settings, the JSON Error Object displays an empty list.

    [ NSUI-18453 ]

  • When binding the AppFW profile to the log expression, the state parameter is set to enabled by default. However, when the system is upgraded, the parameter is reset to disabled.

    [ NSHELP-34187 ]

  • The link for Citrix bot management profiles incorrectly appears in the Traffic Management > Content Switching page. When you click on that link, it renders a blank page. This issue occurs if you bind a bot policy to the content-switching virtual server.

    [ NSHELP-33697 ]

  • The download of any core files that are present on the “Diagnostic” page (“System > Diagnostic”) of the Citrix ADC GUI might fail with an error.

    [ NSHELP-33644 ]

  • After you create a profile for Citrix Web App Firewall and try to generate the configuration report of the application firewall in System > Reports, the following error appears:

    “Failed to load PDF document.”

    [ NSHELP-32469 ]

  • In the cluster setup, the TFTP option is not displayed in the Protocol list, when creating a virtual server using the Citrix ADC GUI.

    [ NSHELP-32036 ]

  • On the Citrix ADC GUI, the System Log Files page (Configuration > System > Auditing > Syslog messages) and the Logs page (Configuration > Authentication > Logs) fail to load the log files.

    [ NSHELP-30868 ]

  • On the Citrix ADC GUI, the Saved vs Running configuration screen (System > Diagnostics) incorrectly displays HTML tags instead of displaying plain text.

    [ NSHELP-27169 ]

Known Issues

The issues that exist in release 13.0-90.12.

Authentication, authorization, and auditing

  • When Citrix ADC is used as an OpenID provider (OAuth IdP) and GSLB is configured with it, OAuth authentication with the relying party (RP) fails during token validation which might result in an authentication failure at the OAuth Relaying Party (RP).

    [ NSHELP-33455 ]

  • The Citrix ADC appliance might crash when the authentication virtual server is used in a non-default partition.

    [ NSHELP-32054 ]

  • Single sign-on (SSO) fails if SSO is enabled for the traffic that does not have the required bearer token to handle SSO.

    [ NSHELP-31362, NSHELP-33814 ]

  • Non-ASCII characters are recorded in nsvpn.log when LDAP action is configured to an FQDN instead of an IP address.

    [ NSHELP-27281 ]

  • In certain scenarios, the Bind Authentication, authorization, and auditing group command might fail if policy name is longer than intranet application name.

    [ NSHELP-25971 ]

  • The Citrix ADC appliance dumps core when NOAUTH is configured as the first factor and Negotiate as the subsequent factor in the 401 based authentication flow.

    [ NSHELP-25203 ]

  • If the admin password for LDAP, RADIUS or TACACS services contains the double quotes (“) character, the Citrix ADC appliance strips it during the “Test Connectivity” check, resulting in connection failure.

    [ NSHELP-23630 ]

  • Administrators cannot perform custom logging for authentication failures that happen due to invalid credentials. This issue occurs because the Citrix ADC responder policies fail to detect errors for login failures.

    [ NSAUTH-11151 ]

  • ADFS proxy profile can be configured in a cluster deployment. The status for a proxy profile is incorrectly displayed as blank upon issuing the following command.
    show adfsproxyprofile <profile name>

    Workaround: Connect to the primary active Citrix ADC in the cluster and run the show adfsproxyprofile <profile name> command. It would display the proxy profile status.

    [ NSAUTH-5916 ]

Citrix ADC SDX Appliance

  • When you upgrade a Citrix ADC SDX appliance, in rare cases the following incorrect event appears in the Management Service GUI:

    “SVM version and Hypervisor version are not compatible”

    [ NSHELP-32949 ]

  • On a Citrix ADC SDX GUI, displaying the NTP servers can freeze the user interface if the NTP configuration file (ntp.conf) has only spaces in any of the lines.

    [ NSHELP-31530 ]

Citrix Gateway

  • Always-On VPN connection fails intermittently on start up due to Gateway server reachability.

    [ NSHELP-33500 ]

  • If the Citrix Secure Access related registry values are greater than 1500 characters, then the log collector fails to gather the error logs.

    [ NSHELP-33457 ]

  • The Always On profile is unset in a VPN session action when the VPN session action is re-configured.

    [ NSHELP-33396 ]

  • In a Citrix Gateway high availability setup, the primary and the secondary appliances might crash during a failover.

    [ NSHELP-33198, NSHELP-33483 ]

  • After an upgrade, a Citrix ADC appliance might crash during the first HA synchronization.

    [ NSHELP-32957 ]

  • The Citrix Gateway appliance might crash if HDX Insight is enabled and a user logs in to StoreFront immediately after logging out.

    [ NSHELP-32907, NSHELP-33079, NSHELP-33289 ]

  • The Citrix Secure Access client, version 21.7.1.2 and later, fails to upgrade to later versions for users with no administrative privileges. This issue is applicable only if the Citrix Secure Access client upgrade is done from a Citrix ADC appliance.

    [ NSHELP-32793 ]

  • When users click the Home Page tab on the Citrix Secure Access screen for Windows, the page displays the connection refused error.

    [ NSHELP-32510 ]

  • On a Mac device using Chrome, the VPN extension crashes while accessing two FQDNs.

    [ NSHELP-32144 ]

  • Debug logging control for Citrix Secure Access client is now independent of Citrix Gateway and it can be enabled or disabled from the plug-in UI for both machine and user tunnel.

    [ NSHELP-31357, CGOP-21192, NSHELP-34211 ]

  • When Always on is configured, the user tunnel fails because of the incorrect version number (1.1.1.1) in the aoservice.exe file.

    [ NSHELP-30662 ]

  • Users cannot connect to the Citrix Gateway appliance after changing the ‘networkAccessOnVPNFailure’ always on profile parameter from ‘fullAccess’ to ‘onlyToGateway`.

    [ NSHELP-30236 ]

  • The gateway home page is not displayed immediately after the gateway plug-in establishes the VPN tunnel successfully. To fix this issue, the following registry value is introduced.

    HKLMSoftwareCitrixSecure Access ClientSecureChannelResetTimeoutSeconds
    Type: DWORD

    By default, this registry value is not set or added. When the value of “SecureChannelResetTimeoutSeconds” is 0 or not added, the fix to handle the delay does not work, which is the default behavior. Admin has to set this registry on the client to enable the fix (that is to display the home page immediately after the gateway plug-in establishes the VPN tunnel successfully).

    [ NSHELP-30189 ]

  • RDP bookmarks added for specific users are displayed for other users who have not bookmarked these URLs.

    [ NSHELP-29904 ]

  • The Windows VPN client does not honor the ‘SSL close notify’ alert from the server and sends the transfer login request on the same connection.

    [ NSHELP-29675 ]

  • Client certificate authentication fails for Citrix SSO for macOS if there are no client certificates in the macOS Keychain.

    [ NSHELP-28551 ]

  • Sometimes, a user is logged out of Citrix Gateway within a few seconds when the client idle timeout is set.

    [ NSHELP-28404 ]

  • The Citrix Gateway appliance might crash while processing server-initiated UDP traffic.

    [ NSHELP-27611 ]

  • The Citrix Gateway appliance might crash if async is blocked and you modify the content switching policy configuration.

    [ NSHELP-27570 ]

  • The Citrix Gateway appliance might crash if an unknown VPN client option is set in the session policy.

    [ NSHELP-27380 ]

  • While creating an RDP client profile using the Citrix ADC GUI, an error message appears when the following conditions are met:

    • A default pre-shared key (PSK) is configured.
    • You try to modify the RDP cookie validity timer in the RDP Cookie Validity (seconds) field.

    [ NSHELP-25694 ]

  • The “show tunnel global” command output includes advanced policy names. Previously, the output did not display the advanced policy names.

    Example:

    New output:

    show tunnel global
    Policy Name: ns_tunnel_nocmp Priority: 0

    Policy Name: ns_adv_tunnel_nocmp Type: Advanced policy
    Priority: 1
    Global bindpoint: REQ_DEFAULT

    Policy Name: ns_adv_tunnel_msdocs Type: Advanced policy
    Priority: 100
    Global bindpoint: RES_DEFAULT
    Done

    Previous output:

    show tunnel global
    Policy Name: ns_tunnel_nocmp Priority: 0 Disabled

    Advanced Policies:

    Global bindpoint: REQ_DEFAULT
    Number of bound policies: 1

    Done

    [ NSHELP-23496 ]

  • Sometimes while browsing through schemas, the error message “Cannot read property ‘type’ of undefined” appears.

    [ NSHELP-21897 ]

  • In a Citrix ADC cluster setup, HDX Insight and Gateway Insight cannot be enabled simultaneously.

    [ CGOP-23570 ]

  • The Windows OS option is not listed in the Expression Editor drop-down list for pre-authentication policies and authentication actions on the Citrix ADC GUI. However, if you have already configured the Widows OS scan on a previous Citrix ADC build using the GUI or the CLI, the upgrade does not impact the functionality. You can use the CLI to make changes, if required.

    Workaround:

    Use the CLI commands for the configuration.

    • To configure advanced EPA action in nFactor authentication, use the following command.
      add authentication epaAction adv_win_scan -csecexpr “sys.client_expr(“sys_0_WIN-OS_NAME_anyof_WIN-10[COMMENT: Windows OS]”)”
    • To configure a classic pre-authentication action, use the following commands.
      add aaa preauthenticationaction win_scan_action ALLOW
      add aaa preauthenticationpolicy win_scan_policy “CLIENT.SYSTEM(‘WIN-OS_NAME_anyof_WIN-10[COMMENT: Windows OS]’) EXISTS” win_scan_action

    [ CGOP-22966 ]

  • The Gateway Insight report incorrectly displays the value “Local” instead of “SAML” in the Authentication Type field for SAML error failures.

    [ CGOP-13584 ]

  • In a high availability setup, during Citrix ADC failover, SR count increments instead of the failover count in Citrix ADM.

    [ CGOP-13511 ]

  • While accepting local host connections from the browser, the Accept Connection dialog box for macOS displays content in the English language irrespective of the language selected.

    [ CGOP-13050 ]

  • The text “Home Page” in the Citrix SSO app > Home page is truncated for some languages.

    [ CGOP-13049 ]

  • An error message appears when you add or edit a session policy from the Citrix ADC GUI.

    [ CGOP-11830 ]

  • In Outlook Web App (OWA) 2013, clicking Options under the Setting menu displays a Critical error dialog box. Also, the page becomes unresponsive.

    [ CGOP-7269 ]

Citrix Web App Firewall

  • When exporting relaxation rules, the download takes more time and the file is not fully downloaded. This issue occurs if the file size is above 5MB.

    [ NSHELP-34044 ]

Load Balancing

  • In a high-availability setup, subscriber sessions of the primary node might not be synchronized to the secondary node. This is a rare case.

    [ NSLB-7679 ]

  • In an HA setup, the Citrix ADC appliance crashes when the service group that is bound to multiple vservers is removed.

    [ NSHELP-34029 ]

  • In rare cases, nsmap crashes. As a result, some of the Citrix ADC appliances that use geolocation databases might not work as intended.

    [ NSHELP-33840 ]

  • The “show server name” command displays the service status as unknown even though the service is bound to the server.

    [ NSHELP-33668 ]

  • In some cases, a memory leak is observed in a Citrix ADC appliance if the DNS rewrite policy is configured with the DROP action.

    [ NSHELP-33077 ]

  • During connection mirroring, the Citrix ADC appliance crashes when the rewrite policy is greater than 30 bytes.

    [ NSHELP-32902 ]

  • The Citrix ADC appliance triggers an incorrect SNMP alert for a high server connection due to a wrong calculation of the number of servers.

    [ NSHELP-31582 ]

  • In a GSLB setup, the SSL certificate is missing from the subordinate sites. This issue occurs when the auto-sync option is enabled, and the subordinate sites have SSL certificates that are not available on the master site.

    [ NSHELP-29309 ]

  • In certain scenarios, servers bound to a service group display an invalid cookie value. You can see the correct cookie value in the trace logs.

    [ NSHELP-21196 ]

  • In a cluster setup, the GSLB service IP address is not displayed in GUI when accessed through GSLB virtual server bindings. This is only a display issue, and there is no impact on the functionality.

    [ NSHELP-20406 ]

Miscellaneous

  • The Citrix ADC appliance sets the buffer size for the web server logging feature to an incorrect default value of 3MB instead of 16MB.

    [ NSHELP-32429 ]

  • AlwaysOnAllow list registry does not work as expected if the registry value is greater than 2000 bytes.

    [ NSHELP-31836 ]

  • Citrix ADC CPX instance, running on a Linux system with 64-bit architecture and 1 TB of file storage, can load certificate and key files now.

    [ NSHELP-28986 ]

Networking

  • In a Citrix ADC BLX appliance, NSVLAN bound with tagged non-dpdk interfaces might not work as expected. NSVLAN bound with untagged non-dpdk interfaces works fine.

    [ NSNET-18586 ]

  • The following interface operations are not supported for Intel X710 10G (i40e) interfaces on a Citrix ADC BLX appliance with DPDK:

    • Disable
    • Enable
    • Reset

    [ NSNET-16559 ]

  • On a Debian based Linux host (Ubuntu version 18 and later), a Citrix ADC BLX appliance is always deployed in shared mode irrespective of the BLX configuration file (“/etc/blx/blx.conf”) settings. This issue occurs because “mawk”, which is present by default on Debian based Linux systems, does not run some of the awk commands present in the “blx.conf” file.

    Workaround: Install “gawk” before installing a Citrix ADC BLX appliance. You can run the following command in the Linux host CLI to install “gawk”:

    • apt-get install gawk

    [ NSNET-14603 ]

  • Installation of a Citrix ADC BLX appliance might fail on a Debian based Linux host (Ubuntu version 18 and later) with the following dependency error:

    “The following packages have unmet dependencies: blx-core-libs:i386 : PreDepends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.19) but it is not installable”

    Workaround: Run the following commands in the Linux host CLI before installing a Citrix ADC BLX appliance:

    • dpkg –add-architecture i386
    • apt-get update
    • apt-get install libc6:i386

    [ NSNET-14602 ]

  • In a large scale NAT44 setup, the Citrix ADC appliance might crash while receiving SIP traffic because of the following reason:

    • The LSN module does not find the service while decrementing the reference count or deleting the service.

    [ NSHELP-29134 ]

  • In a large scale NAT44 setup, the Citrix ADC appliance might crash while receiving SIP traffic because of the following reason:

    • Because of stale filtering entry.

    [ NSHELP-28895 ]

  • In a Large scale NAT44 deployment, the Citrix ADC appliance might crash while receiving SIP traffic because of the following reason:

    • The LSN module accessed the memory location of an already deleted service.

    [ NSHELP-28815 ]

  • The Citrix ADC appliance might not generate “coldStart” SNMP trap messages after a cold restart.

    [ NSHELP-27917 ]

  • In a high availability setup, dynamic routing enabled SNIP address is not exposed to VTYSH on reboot if the following condition is met:

    • A dynamic routing enabled SNIP address is bound to the shared VLAN in non-default partition.

    As part of the fix, the Citrix ADC appliance now does not allow binding a dynamic routing enabled SNIP address to the shared VLAN in non-default partition

    [ NSHELP-24000 ]

Platform

  • The high availability failover does not work in AWS and GCP clouds. The management CPU might reach its 100% capacity in AWS and GCP clouds, and Citrix ADC VPX on-premises. Both of these issues are caused when the following conditions are met:

    1. During the first boot of the Citrix ADC appliance, you do not save the prompted password.
    2. Subsequently, you reboot the Citrix ADC appliance.

    [ NSPLAT-22013, NSHELP-34441 ]

  • Some python packages are not installed, when you downgrade the Citrix ADC appliance from 13.1-4.x version and higher versions to any of the following versions:

    • Any 11.1 build
    • 12.1-62.21 and earlier
    • 13.0-81.x and earlier

    [ NSPLAT-21691 ]

  • On a Citrix ADC SDX appliance, the VPX instances might operate with the minimum throughput value configured as part of burst mode even though sufficient throughput is available in the SDX appliance to handle bursts in traffic.

    [ NSHELP-33875, NSHELP-34667 ]

  • On the Citrix ADC SDX 8015/8400/8600 platform, you might see increased memory consumption on Xen Server.
    Workaround: Run the following command on Xen Server, and then reboot the appliance.
    /opt/xensource/libexec/xen-cmdline –set-xen “dom0_mem=1024M,max:1024M”

    [ NSHELP-32260 ]

  • You might experience transmit stalls on a Citrix ADC SDX appliance with a 10G interface when heavy traffic is sent on this interface.

    [ NSHELP-31232 ]

  • During the Citrix ADC VPX HA failover, the Elastic IP address movement in the AWS cloud fails if you configure an IPset without binding the IPset to any IP address.

    [ NSHELP-29425 ]

  • The HA failover for Citrix ADC VPX instance on the GCP and AWS cloud fails when the password of an RPC node contains a special character.

    [ NSHELP-28600 ]

  • The NetScaler appliance crashes if VRID is bound to an LA channel that does not have member interfaces configured.

    Workaround: Configure the member interfaces for an LA channel before binding VRID to the LA channel.

    [ NSPLAT-26707 ]

Policies

  • Connections might hang if the size of processing data is more than the configured default TCP buffer size.

    Workaround: Set the TCP buffer size to maximum size of data that needs to be processed.

    [ NSPOLICY-1267 ]

SSL

  • When a virtual server receives a TLS 1.3 record with invalid padding, it sends a fatal “decode_error” alert instead of an “unexpected_message” alert.

    [ NSSSL-11890 ]

  • On a heterogeneous cluster of Citrix ADC SDX 22000 and Citrix ADC SDX 26000 appliances, there is a config loss of SSL entities if the SDX 26000 appliance is restarted.

    Workaround:

    1. On the CLIP, disable SSLv3 on all the existing and new SSL entities, such as virtual server, service, service group, and internal services. For example, set ssl vserver <name> -SSL3 DISABLED.
    2. Save the configuration.

    [ NSSSL-9572 ]

  • You cannot add an Azure Key Vault object if an authentication Azure Key Vault object is already added.

    [ NSSSL-6478 ]

  • You can create multiple Azure Application entities with the same client ID and client secret. The Citrix ADC appliance does not return an error.

    [ NSSSL-6213 ]

  • The following incorrect error message appears when you remove an HSM key without specifying KEYVAULT as the HSM type.
    ERROR: crl refresh disabled

    [ NSSSL-6106 ]

  • Session Key Auto Refresh incorrectly appears as disabled on a cluster IP address. (This option cannot be disabled.)

    [ NSSSL-4427 ]

  • An incorrect warning message, “Warning: No usable ciphers configured on the SSL vserver/service,” appears if you try to change the SSL protocol or cipher in the SSL profile.

    [ NSSSL-4001 ]

System

  • A Citrix ADC appliance might crash on receiving a 1xx HTTP response (for example 100 Continue”) from the back-end servers when the AppQoE configuration has the retryOnTimeout parameter configured.

    [ NSHELP-33438 ]

  • High RTT is observed for a TCP connection if the following condition is met:

    • a high maximum congestion window (>4 MB) is set
    • TCP NILE algorithm is enabled

    For a Citrix ADC appliance to use the NILE algorithm for congestion control, the conditions must exceed the slow start threshold, which is coupled with the maximum congestion window

    So, until the maximum configured congestion window is reached, the Citrix ADC continues to accept data and ends up with high RTT.

    [ NSHELP-31548 ]

  • A Citrix ADC appliance might crash when the following condition is met:

    • Both analytics profile and AppFlow policy are bound, and the profile has the “httpAllHdrs” option enabled.

    [ NSHELP-30628 ]

  • The Citrix ADC appliance reports a false SNMP alarm on the service SYN flood counters.

    [ NSHELP-28710, NSHELP-28713 ]

  • Increased packet retransmissions are seen in public cloud MPTCP cluster deployments if linkset is disabled.

    [ NSHELP-27410 ]

  • A Citrix ADC appliance might send an invalid TCP packet along with TCP options such as SACK blocks, timestamp, and MPTCP Data ACK on MPTCP connections.

    [ NSHELP-27179 ]

  • A mismatch in Logstream records is observed in the Citrix ADC appliance and the dataloader.

    [ NSHELP-25796 ]

  • When you install Citrix ADM on a Kubernetes cluster, it does not work as expected because the required processes might not come up.

    Workaround : Reboot the Management pod.

    [ NSBASE-15556 ]

  • In a cluster configuration, a node with CCO priority gets disconnected from Open vSwitch (OVS) because of network issues. After the node rejoins to the cluster configuration, it does not receive the latest SYN cookie.

    [ NSBASE-14419 ]

User Interface

  • Create/Monitor CloudBridge Connector wizard might become unresponsive or fails to configure a cloudbridge connector.

    Workaround: Configure cloudbridge connectors by adding IPSec profiles, IP tunnels, and PBR rules by using the Citrix ADC GUI or CLI.

    [ NSUI-13024 ]

  • A system user account bound to a set of admin partitions might not be able to access the default partition through the NITRO APIs even if the Allow Default Partition option is enabled as part of the system global settings.

    [ NSHELP-33990 ]

  • The following error appears on the Citrix ADC UI when there is a huge difference between the saved and the running configuration:

    “Error in fetching the configuration”

    [ NSHELP-32752 ]

  • Modifying a static route by using the Citrix ADC GUI (system > network > routes) might incorrectly fail with the following error message:

    • “Required argument missing [gateway]”

    [ NSHELP-32024 ]

  • In an HA / Cluster setup, configuration synchronization fails if you have configured SSH keys other than RSA. For example, ECDSA or DSA keys.

    [ NSHELP-31675 ]

  • In a Citrix ADC appliance, binding the cache policy to override global or default global using the GUI interface fails with the following error:

    • Required argument missing.

    This error is not seen while binding the cache policy using the CLI interface.

    [ NSHELP-30826 ]

  • Due to an incorrect upgrade installation sequence, the following issue occurs in the Citrix ADC appliance.

    • The kernel image is updated first and after a few steps, encryption keys are copied. In between these steps some failure happens and the ADC appliance comes up with a new image. The missing encryption keys in the new image lead to decryption failure and missing configuration.

    [ NSHELP-30755 ]

  • Citrix ADC GUI might incorrectly generate a cluster technical support bundle of only one node instead of all the cluster nodes.

    [ NSHELP-28606 ]

  • Generating a cluster technical support bundle by using Citrix ADC GUI might fail with an error.

    [ NSHELP-28586 ]

  • After upgrading a high availability setup or a cluster setup to release 13.0 build 74.14 or later, config synchronization might fail because of the following reason:

    • Both “ssh_host_rsa_key” private and public keys are an incorrect pair.

    Workaround: Regenerate “ssh_host_rsa_key”. For more information, see https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX322863.

    [ NSHELP-27834 ]

  • You cannot bind a service or a service group to a priority load balancing virtual server using the Citrix ADC GUI.

    [ NSHELP-27252 ]

  • While viewing the policies bound to a content switching policy label in the Citrix ADC GUI, only 25 policies are displayed even though there are more policies bound to that policy label.

    [ NSHELP-23428 ]

  • Sometimes it takes a long time for the Application firewall signatures to sync to non-CCO nodes. As a result, commands using these files might fail.

    [ NSCONFIG-4330 ]

  • If you (system administrator) perform all the following steps on a Citrix ADC appliance, the system users might fail to log in to the downgraded Citrix ADC appliance.

    1. Upgrade the Citrix ADC appliance to one of the builds
      • 13.0 52.24 build
      • 12.1 57.18 build
      • 11.1 65.10 build
    2. Add a system user, or change the password of an existing system user, and save the configuration, and
    3. Downgrade the Citrix ADC appliance to any older build.

    To display the list of these system users by using the CLI:
    At the command prompt, type:

    query ns config -changedpassword [-config <full path of the configuration file (ns.conf)>]

    Workaround: To fix this issue, use one of the following independent options:

    • If the Citrix ADC appliance is not yet downgraded (step 3 in above mentioned steps), downgrade the Citrix ADC appliance using a previously backed up configuration file (ns.conf) of the same release build.
    • Any system administrator whose password was not changed on the upgraded build, can log in to the downgraded build, and update the passwords for other system users.
    • If none of the above options work, a system administrator can reset the system user passwords.

    For more information, see https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-adc/13/system/ns-ag-aa-intro-wrapper-con/ns-ag-aa-reset-default-amin-pass-tsk.html.

    [ NSCONFIG-3188 ]

Release Notes for Citrix ADC 13.0-90.12 Release