Known Issues in ArangoDB 3.11

Important issues affecting the 3.11.x versions of the ArangoDB suite of products

Note that this page does not list all open issues.

ArangoSearch

Issue
Date Added: 2018-12-19
Component: ArangoSearch
Deployment Mode: Single-server
Description: Value of _id attribute indexed by arangosearch View may become inconsistent after renaming a collection
Affected Versions: 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: arangodb/backlog#514  (internal)
Date Added: 2018-12-03
Component: ArangoSearch
Deployment Mode: Cluster
Description: Score values evaluated by corresponding score functions (BM25/TFIDF) may differ in single-server and cluster with a collection having more than 1 shard
Affected Versions: 3.4.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: arangodb/backlog#508  (internal)
Date Added: 2018-12-03
Component: ArangoSearch
Deployment Mode: All
Description: Using a loop variable in expressions within a corresponding SEARCH condition is not supported
Affected Versions: 3.4.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: arangodb/backlog#318  (internal)
Date Added: 2019-06-25
Component: ArangoSearch
Deployment Mode: All
Description: The primarySort attribute in arangosearch View definitions cannot be set via the web interface. The option is immutable, but the web interface does not allow to set any View properties upfront (it creates a View with default parameters before the user has a chance to configure it).
Affected Versions: 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: N/A
Date Added: 2020-03-19
Component: ArangoSearch
Deployment Mode: All
Description: Operators and functions in SEARCH clauses of AQL queries which compare values such as >, >=, <, <=, IN_RANGE() and STARTS_WITH() neither take the server language (--default-language) nor the Analyzer locale into account. The alphabetical order of characters as defined by a language is thus not honored and can lead to unexpected results in range queries.
Affected Versions: 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: arangodb/backlog#679  (internal)

AQL

Issue
Date Added: 2018-09-05
Component: AQL
Deployment Mode: Cluster
Description: In a very uncommon edge case there is an issue with an optimization rule in the cluster. If you are running a cluster and use a custom shard key on a collection (default is _key) and you provide a wrong shard key in a modifying query (UPDATE, REPLACE, DELETE) and the wrong shard key is on a different shard than the correct one, a DOCUMENT NOT FOUND error is returned instead of a modification (example query: UPDATE { _key: "123", shardKey: "wrongKey"} WITH { foo: "bar" } IN mycollection). Note that the modification always happens if the rule is switched off, so the suggested workaround is to deactivate the optimizing rule restrict-to-single-shard.
Affected Versions: 3.4.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: arangodb/arangodb#6399 

Upgrading

Issue
Date Added: 2019-05-16
Component: arangod
Deployment Mode: All
Description: Bugfix release upgrades such as 3.4.4 to 3.4.5 may not create a backup of the database directory even if they should. Please create a copy manually before upgrading.
Affected Versions: 3.4.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x (Windows and Linux)
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: arangodb/planning#3745  (internal)
Date Added: 2019-12-10
Component: Installer
Deployment Mode: All
Description: The NSIS installer for Windows may fail to upgrade an existing installation, e.g. from 3.4.a to 3.4.b (patch release), with the error message: “failed to detect whether we need to Upgrade”
Affected Versions: 3.4.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: arangodb/release-qa#183  (internal)
Date Added: 2020-01-07
Component: Installer
Deployment Mode: All
Description: The NSIS installer for Windows can fail to add the path to the ArangoDB binaries to the PATH environment variable, silently or with an error.
Affected Versions: 3.4.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: arangodb/release-qa#183  (internal)
Date Added: 2023-06-06
Component: arangod
Deployment Mode: Cluster
Description: During a cluster upgrade while the supervision is deactivated (maintenance mode), upgraded DB-Server nodes are incorrectly reported to still have the old server version. The versions are visible in the Agency as well as in the NODES section of the web interface.
Affected Versions: 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: BTS-1409  (internal)

Hot Backup

Issue
Date Added: 2019-10-09
Component: Hot Backup API / arangobackup
Deployment Mode: All
Description: The Hot Backup feature is not supported in the Windows version of ArangoDB at this point in time.
Affected Versions: 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: N/A
Date Added: 2019-10-09
Component: Hot Backup API / arangobackup
Deployment Mode: DC2DC
Description: Hot Backup functionality in Datacenter-to-Datacenter Replication setups is experimental and may not work.
Affected Versions: 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: N/A
Date Added: 2019-10-09
Component: arangobackup
Deployment Mode: All
Description: The startup option --operation works as positional argument only, e.g. arangobackup list. The alternative syntax arangobackup --operation list is not accepted.
Affected Versions: 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: N/A

Other

Issue
Date Added: 2019-05-16
Component: Starter
Deployment Mode: All
Description: The ArangoDB Starter falls back to the IP [::1] under macOS. If there is no entry ::1 localhost in the /etc/hosts file or the option --starter.disable-ipv6 is passed to the starter to use IPv4, then it will hang during startup.
Affected Versions: 0.14.3 (macOS only)
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: N/A
Date Added: 2019-05-24
Component: Web Interface
Deployment Mode: Active Failover
Description: The web interface shows a wrong replication mode in the replication tab in Active Failover deployments sometimes. It may display Leader/Follower mode (the default value) because of timeouts if /_api/cluster/endpoints is requested too frequently.
Affected Versions: 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: N/A
Date Added: 2019-04-03
Component: arangod
Deployment Mode: Cluster
Description: Updating the properties of a collection in the cluster may return before the properties are updated consistently on all shards. This is especially visible when setting a schema for a collection with multiple shards, and then instantly starting to store non-conforming documents into the collection. These may be accepted until the properties change has been fully propagated to all shards.
Affected Versions: 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: N/A
Date Added: 2021-04-07
Component: arangod
Deployment Mode: All
Description: The Batch API (HTTP endpoint /_api/batch) cannot be used in combination with Stream transactions to submit batched requests, because the required header x-arango-trx-id is not forwarded. It only processes Content-Type and Content-Id.
Affected Versions: 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: arangodb/arangodb#13552 
Date Added: 2021-08-06
Component: Installer
Deployment Mode: Single Server
Description: The Windows installer fails during database initialization with the error failed to locate tzdata if there are non-ASCII characters in the destination path.
Affected Versions: 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: BTS-531  (internal)
Date Added: 2022-09-29
Component: ArangoDB Starter
Deployment Mode: All
Description: The ArangoDB Starter may fail to pick a Docker container name from cgroups.
Affected Versions: 3.8.x, 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: GT-207  (internal)
Date Added: 2023-05-25
Component: Web Interface
Deployment Mode: All
Description: When accessing the Web Interface with Chromium-based browsers, the following issue may occur: the Download JSON button in the Collections page and the Download button in the Queries page don’t work.
Affected Versions: 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: 3.11.2
Reference: BTS-1424  (internal)
Date Added: 2023-05-25
Component: arangod
Deployment Mode: Single Server
Description: After an upgrade to 3.11.0 from an older version of ArangoDB with existing data, the following issue may occur: when you start a Pregel run or request its status, the Pregel command fails with ArangoError 1203: _pregel_queries.... As a workaround, you can manually create the collection by running db._create("_pregel_queries", { isSystem: true }); in arangosh.
Affected Versions: 3.11.0
Fixed in Versions: 3.11.1
Reference: arangodb/arangodb#19101 
Date Added: 2023-05-25
Component: arangod
Deployment Mode: All
Description: When starting an async job by sending a request with the x-arango-async: store or x-arango-async: keep HTTP header and additionally sending the accept-encoding: gzip or accept-encoding: deflate HTTP header , the generated response may be compressed twice when fetching the async job’s response later via the /_api/job/<id> REST API.
Affected Versions: 3.11.0
Fixed in Versions: 3.11.1
Reference: arangodb/arangodb#19103 
Date Added: 2023-06-15
Component: arangod
Deployment Mode: Cluster
Description: After an upgrade to 3.11.0 from an older version of ArangoDB with existing data, the following issue may occur after performing a HotBackup: _pregel_queries collections do not exist.
Affected Versions: 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: BTS-1462  (internal)
Date Added: 2023-06-16
Component: arangod
Deployment Mode: Cluster
Description: If more than a certain threshold of queries on the same Coordinator get into the shutdown networking code at the same time, all of them lock up and the Coordinator does not longer process requests.
Affected Versions: 3.9.x. 3.10.x, 3.11.x
Fixed in Versions: 3.9.12, 3.10.8, 3.11.2
Reference: BTS-1486  (internal)
Date Added: 2024-03-21
Component: arangod
Deployment Mode: All
Description: When creating an inverted index with the inBackground option enabled, HTTP API calls like http://localhost:8529/_api/index?collection=<coll>&withHidden=true don’t return the isBuilding and progress attributes and the progress of the index building can thus not be observed.
Affected Versions: 3.10.13, 3.11.7
Fixed in Versions: -
Reference: BTS-1788  (internal)
Date Added: 2024-07-03
Component: arangod
Deployment Mode: All
Description: ArangoDB can crash if run on bare metal and the Linux distribution uses a different glibc version, the libnss-* libraries are installed, and the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file contains settings other than for files and dns in the hosts: line, or the passwd: and group: lines contain something other than files. If you use a fixed version, it can still crash under these circumstances if you enable the --honor-nsswitch startup option.
Affected Versions: 3.11.10 (non-hotfix)
Fixed in Versions: 3.11.10-1
Reference: Incompatibility due to switch to glibc