Release Notes

Robocorp Workforce Agent UI v1.2.54 / Workforce Agent Core v6.20.9

Workforce Agent updated to using RCC v11.30.0 that provides warning around the OpenSSL vulnerability, so that execution logs show if the environment contains vulnerable versions. We will keep updating the guidance page as we get more details and actions.

The Workforce Agent Core version also has multiple improvements and features around the Windows Desktop executions.

A good thing to understand about Workforce Agent is that no matter which execution option you are using; you are always running the Workforce Agent Core behind the scenes, and you can find the detailed changelog for Workforce Agent Core here

• Library RPA.Cloud.AWS (#683): Fix S3 List Files empty list response. Released in rpaframework-aws version 5.2.1.

• Library RPA.HTTP (#685): Add keyword Check Vulnerabilities which will now just check for OpenSSL vulnerable versions. Related article: https://robocorp.com/docs/faq/openssl-cve-2022-11-01

The example output warning message when keyword Check Vulnerabilities from RPA.HTTP library is called.

As always see Github pull requests (links above) for more information on the changes.

• New Intelligent Document Processing library RPA.DocumentAI, which is a convenient wrapper over the existing libraries:
  • RPA.Cloud.Google (needs rpaframework-google installed)
  • RPA.DocumentAI.Base64AI (moved from RPA.Base64AI)
  • RPA.DocumentAI.Nanonets (moved from RPA.Nanonets)

Provides the following generic keywords capable of working with all the engines above:

• Init Engine
• Switch Engine
• Predict
• Get Result

Portal example: GitHub | Portal

Warning

This is a breaking change! Two DocumentAI related libraries have moved, thus the importing location is changed now:

• RPA.Base64AI -> RPA.DocumentAI.Base64AI
• RPA.Nanonets -> RPA.DocumentAI.Nanonets

We have released an update today with improvements to many features, including Workforce, Assistant, and the new Audit Log. The new additions should help with managing operations involving a number of self-hosted environments, and addressing needs around compliance and governance.

Environment management updates

• Environment API is now available and can be accessed through the API helper in the Control Room
• Many new endpoints to manage environments and environment groups
• Opens up use cases around custom infrastructure configurations and monitoring

• Environment pages have been redesigned
• Environment listing and environment views now include a lot more data
• Added CPU, Memory, and Storage usage statistics and graphs
• Added tabs about Step runs, Groups and Processes to give more visibility around where the environments are used

Assistant updates

• Assistants now support configuring Vault access permissions
• The ability to control Assistant's access to read and/or write vault secrets has been added to the UI

Audit Log updates

• Export as CSV feature has been added to the Audit Log
• Administrators can now download Audit Log data as .CSV based on the selected filters
• The file will be generated in the background, and will be available for download afterward

This update to Automation Studio fixes a critical bug that prevented running Robots on certain Windows machines, but also brings some quality of life improvements.

Features

• Variables returned from keywords and assigned in FOR loops can now be auto-completed

Updates

• Invalid environments for Robots are automatically removed and re-downloaded
• Reduced execution time for Robots within Automation Studio

Bugfixes

• Fatal errors when running are correctly shown instead of getting stuck in "Starting Robot" view
• Dragging multiple elements out of the tree correctly deletes all of them

Features

• New user guide for Automation Studio in Robocorp Docs
• Release notes now shown when an update is available
• File and folder picker for keywords that expect paths
• Images in the run results can be shown as full-size

Updates

• Upload to Control Room shows more information when replacing robots
• Improved scroll bars on Windows, and various related layout fixes
• User keyword arguments are now validated in case of invalid values
• Variable blocks supported in conditionals

Bugfixes

• Double spaces in tasks and user keywords behaved unexpectedly
• Errors in conditionals not always shown in run results
• FOR loop values and variables were sometimes mixed up
• IF statements sometimes moved a keyword into the conditional
• String literals sometimes incorrectly shown as Variables
• Double context menus for variables
• Wrong path shown in New Robot dialog when project name already exists
• Literals with hash sign highlighted as comment in code editor

• Library RPA.MSGraph (#669): Fix bugs in listing SharePoint files and in keywords not supporting Drive objects. Replace parameter drive_id with drive throughout library, this is a breaking change for this library.

• Library RPA.Outlook.Application (#666): Add parameter save_as_draft parameter to Send Message / Send Email keywords. Will save the email instead of sending.
• Library RPA.Database (#667): Add SSL support for MySQL modules (pymysql and mysql.connector).
• Library RPA.SAP (#656): Add new keywords.

Some new features for a Friday, because why not?

• Library RPA.Browser.Selenium (#661): Downloads correctly Mac arm64 web drivers. (due to rpaframework-core 10.0.1)
• Library RPA.Cloud.AWS (#663): Add more options for List Files keyword.

• Library RPA.Browser.Selenium (#660): Ensure use_profile parameter is working as expected when set true. Affecting the Open Available Browser and Open Chrome Browser keywords.

• New library RPA.MSGraph (#176, #653): This library wraps the O365 package, giving robots the ability to access the Microsoft Graph API programmatically.

Thanks once again to Vinicius Marques, the winner of our Community Challenge, for contributing this library!!

• Library RPA.Robocorp.WorkItems (#655): Fix behaviour when releasing FAILED items with empty string code or message.
• Library RPA.Salesforce (#570): Added two new keywords: Set Domain and Get Domain. Enhanced documentation around the different ways to set a domain.

The new and improved Audit Log is now live in the Control Room! We at Robocorp want to make it as straightforward as possible for you to set up secure RPA operations and to address all kinds of traceability, compliance, and governance requirements, so we have improved the audit log to cover many types of events in more detail. You can find the audit log under organization and workspace settings.

• Library RPA.Database (#649): Add support for new Psycopg 3 PostgreSQL database adapter

• Library RPA.Cloud.AWS (#648): Add new keyword Generate Presigned URL for S3. Released in rpaframework-aws 5.1.0
• Library RPA.Windows (#647): Add new keywords Drag and Drop and Set Focus. Released in rpaframework-windows 6.1.0

Robot Framework Language Server v1.2.0 & Robocorp Code v0.38.0. Improved log messages, ability to open documentation to a separate panel, Setup & Teardown shown in the Flow Explorer. Gen1 conversion tooling (Blue Prism, UiPath, A360) now available via command palette.

Library RPA.Email.Exchange (#643): Fix access_type parameter usage in keyword Authorize with "delegate" & "impersonation" accepted values.

• Library RPA.Email.Exchange (#641): Add support for OAuth2 auto token refresh in Vault with vault_name and vault_token_key parameters during library import.

Robocorp Assistant v1.7.1 released. Assistant release notes also moving to updates.robocorp.com. Updates dependencies and design system of Assistant as well as RCC v11.26.3.

Robocorp Workforce Agent UI v1.2.48 / Workforce Agent Core v6.17.2. Improvements around connection creation and detecting potential error cases on target machines. RCC updated to v11.26.3.