Release Notes

• Library RPA.JavaAccessBridge (#1087): Fix problem with Select Window By Title keyword, which caused all but full title match to fail to select window successfully.

• Enables system certificate store usage with truststore automatic injection. Minimum versions for this to happen are Python 3.10.12 and pip 23.2.1. (#1083)
• Library RPA.Browser.Selenium (#1084; rpaframework-core 11.1.0):
  • Fixes webdriver caching when attempting previously downloaded executable reuse and latest release version retrieval optimization.
  • Use Robocorp controlled secure sources for querying and downloading webdrivers. Base URL to whitelist: https://downloads.robocorp.com/ext/webdrivers/ – set RPA_EXTERNAL_WEBDRIVERS to any value if you want to default to the previously used external sources (#1080)
  • Ability to take into use a 64bit webdriver version for IE on a 64bit Windows system by setting RPA_ALLOW_64BIT_IE to any value. (by default the 32bit version is used as that’s the recommendation provided by Selenium)

To unify our generative AI-based code assistant experience, we have brought ReMark💬 to the developer Slack community. Join the #ask-remark channel and ask for tips on building bots and operating automations on Robocorp. It knows both Python and Robot Framework.

We are committed to frequently updating ReMark's knowledge and will continue to push the integration deeper into our developer experience. ReMark has only been available through a standalone website. That site will remain as-is, and the Slack ReMark will be an additional way to interact with ReMark.

ReMark will replace the current Kapa app, offering the same user experience. Kapa has been a grand experiment and quickly initiated our journey to the world of generative AI, and we want to thank everyone who has been part of the trial. 🙏

• #ask-kapa channel has been renamed #ask-remark, and Kapa app has been replaced by ReMark app. No actions are needed from users.

• Remember to tag @ReMark in your messages and replies so that it knows to react to them.

• NEW: You can also chat with @ReMark in private. Just find the app from Slack sidebar and start conversing.

• NEW: There is no five message limit in the conversation length with Remark, as there was with Kapa.

Keep on chatting, and give us feedback! The best way to tell us if ReMark's answers are helpful is to use 👍 and 👎 buttons after replies.

P.S. You'll find the invite to join our developer community in Slack from the top right corner of Robocorp Control Room, under Help. :)

This update contains:

• Adding a way to disable the auto-updater by adding - as the autoupdater URL
• Update to use RCC v16.1.1
• Bug fix for RCC not injecting environment variables like HTTP_PROXY properly for micromamba process, supporting complex firewall setups with self-signed certificates

• Library RPA.Cloud.Google (#1082; rpaframework-google 8.0.0):

• Add new keywords for Google Sheets

  • Copy spreadsheet
  • Create spreadsheet
  • Delete sheet
  • Generic spreadsheet batch update
  • Get all sheet values
  • Get spreadsheet basic information
  • Get spreadsheet details
  • Rename sheet
  • To column letter

• Repurposed keywords

  • Copy sheet (now will copy a sheet within a spreadsheet)
  • Create sheet (now will create a sheet within a spreadsheet)

⚠️ Breaking changes in the Sheets keywords. All actions/properties related to a whole spreadsheet will use spreadsheet name and sheet will be used to indicate a single sheet in a spreadsheet. This is to be consistent with Google API naming.

• Main Page has been redesigned for a more clean look & for new things to come

• System Status page now includes everything about the environment

• Gathering Service Helper logs in the Generate Report + Submit Issue

• Remote Desktop Protocol detection is implemented now & a warning will show when adding a new Windows Worker if RDP is not enabled

• Shared Pre-built Environments (Holotree) integration

• Enabling at global level only with Admin permissions

• Enabling/Revoking from Worker Details if state is reachable & enabled at global level

• Fixed issues with worker update available scenarios

• UI/UX improvements all across the board

• OS Detection & presentation in human friendly way

• Show warning for Long Paths in case of Windows Server 2016

• RCC Embedded at version 15.2.0

• Service Helper Embedded at version 1.14.2

Download from here and check our documentation here (updates will come soon).

Have a splendid day! 🚀

Robocorp Assistant 2.1.0

This update contains:

• Support for SSO Assistant-only Users

• Security updates

• Update to use RCC v14.15.4

24 Aug 2023

• Library RPA.Cloud.Gmail (#1057; rpaframework-google 7.1.1):
• Fix mimetype handling in overall and for Excel documents in Send Message keyword. (#994)
• Improve token handling in authentication flow.

We've done major updates on ReMark💬 to serve the growing user base better now and in the future.

First and foremost, ReMark💬 now has a personality! We wanted it to be something familiar based on our much-loved Mark the Monkey. ReMark💬 is an alter ego of Mark, equipped with more tech and tapped into all data sources devs need when working on their Robocorp bots. Meet ReMark💬!

The main updates are in the data ingestion and in the responses ReMark💬 gives:

• We added new data sources to be ingested into ReMark💬 database. The documentation now contains all the contents from Robocorp Docs, including new Python library documents. In addition, we've added the Portal examples.

• The data ingestion is now implemented as a Robocorp bot (!) and runs daily. So, the knowledge will refresh continuously as we improve our documentation and examples.

• We reduced the next-best questions to three in the answers, as the previous five took up too much space in the UI.

• Also, in the answers, ReMark💬 might now point you to the most relevant Portal bots to learn more, not just docs articles.

Under the hood, we've done a complete rehaul of the architecture, gearing up towards integrating ReMark💬 into our other tools and services. For example, we switched the vector database for embeddings from Chroma to pgvector.

You might have noticed a few moments of "Something went wrong" in the past few days, but updates are now done, and things should run much smoother from now on!

26.0.3 - 24 Aug 2023

• Library RPA.Browser.Selenium: Properly show webdriver errors in case the initial default is not found in PATH.

26.0.2 - 24 Aug 2023

• Library RPA.Browser.Selenium (#1069): Use an already existing webdriver found in PATH if present. Only if such a default expected executable isn’t found, a newly cached one will be downloaded and used. (affects all supported browsers)

• General update on all packages (#950):

• All packages will be taking into use the latest robotframework version (6.1.1).

• The minimum Python version is set to 3.8.

• All new package versions are listed below.

• rpaframework-assistant 3.0.0 (additional release note included below)

• rpaframework-aws 5.3.0

• rpaframework-google 7.1.0

• rpaframework-openai 1.3.0

• rpaframework-pdf 7.2.0

• rpaframework-recognition 5.2.0

• rpaframework-windows 7.4.0

• Library RPA.Assistant (#1068; rpaframework-assistant 3.0.0):

• Fix Add Date Input validation and return value as Date object instead of a string.

• Add Python examples for every keyword.

• Library RPA.Browser.Selenium (#1059): Fix webdriver management and automation issues related to Edge in IE mode. Updated Portal example: https://robocorp.com/portal/robot/robocorp/example-ie-mode-edge

• RCC upgraded from v14.6.0 to v14.15.4.

• Information from pypi is shown on hover for pypi packages in conda.yaml.

• Warning if the versions for pypi in conda.yaml have updates.

• Warning if python version is not >= 3.8 in conda.yaml

• Warning if pip version is not >= 22.0 in conda.yaml

• ROBO TASKS OUTPUT updated to latest version (now supports robocorp-log 2.7.0).

The following improvements are now available in Robocorp Log 2.7.0:

• if statements now create a scope in log.html (when the function is not a generator).

• If an exception has a cause or context the context/cause is now shown in the log (i.e.: when an exception is raised from another exception or is raised while handling another exception all exceptions are shown).

• continue and break inside a loop are properly handled.

• continue and break are now shown in the logs.

• It's now possible to expand / collapse recursively in log.html.

• log.html: When navigating using left arrow, if the element is already collapsed the parent is focused.

• Spec version changed from 0.0.3 to 0.0.4.

• re.Pattern is now accepted at add_sensitive_variable_name_pattern.

• Library RPA.Browser.Selenium (#1058):

• Fixed options passing with Firefox. (when a binary location is specified)

• General improvements to RPA.*.Application libraries (#1055):

• All: Better error handling (COM -> runtime), improved generic docs and troubleshooting guiding, fixed document closing (if was closed already) and app open/quit management, improved warnings and logging, file paths are tested for existence when operating on documents and raise errors in their absence.

• Excel:

• Removed deprecated parameter tabname from Add New Sheet. (use sheetname)

• Save Excel As raises when there’s no workbook open. (use Open Workbook first)

• Outlook:

• Removed deprecated keywords: Send Message (use Send Email) and Wait For Message (use Wait For Email).

⚠️ Breaking changes in the Application libraries listed above.

Worker release v6.34.7.

Fixes an issue where extracted RCC executable was sometimes locked for the first API call.

You can find the detailed changelog for Workforce Agent Core here.

• Setup Utility force creates necessary folders in order to operate properly
• Running diagnostics after network config add/remove
• RDP connection available only if worker is running
• Ensuring profile in common path - controlled by Admin account
• Forcefully removing unknown workers
• UI/UX improvements all across the board
• Main Page has now specific guidance for users
• RCC Speed Test implementation & integration
• All dependency vulnerabilities are fixed
• New version of embedded RCC at version 14.15.4
• Service Helper Embedded at version 1.13.2
• Internal Status page updated

Download from here and check our updated documentation here

Have a splendid day! 🎉

We are excited to announce some updates to the pricing plans and to the Work Item UX. The 3-minute step run time limit on the Developer plan has been removed, and the Consumption plan has 1500 free run minutes in addition. The plan updates have been rolled retroactively, so you can enjoy the benefits immediately. On the Work Items, mass actions have been updated for you to be able to process more items at once.

Pricing Plan Changes

We felt that some limitations in the Developer plan were too inconvenient to properly try out the platform and that the Flex plan had some discrepancies in the upgrade path, so we decided to tune them a bit in a way that lets you get more bang for your buck.

On the free Developer plan, we have decided to remove the 3-minute time limit for step runs. The forced timeout caused many problems for users, in some cases even terminating the run before the environment was set up in the Worker. This change should allow you to run longer running automations, up to the fixed 240 minutes included in the plan.

The Flex plan has been renamed to Consumption plan to better reflect that it allows you to fully take advantage of the consumption-based pricing and scaling that our platform offers. It is the first plan that does not limit you to a fixed amount of run minutes per month (as in Developer and Starter plans).

In addition, we have decided to add 1500 free run minutes to the Consumption plan to be in line with the upgrade path, so you will also have a base capacity you can use without extra cost.

Work Item UX Improvements

The Work Item mass actions have been previously limited to the page size. Now you can select all filtered Work Items, and perform actions on them. This will reduce the amount of clicks needed in e.g. cases where you have had a lot of application exceptions and want to retry all Work Items at once.

Worker release v6.34.6.

Minor update that improves logging and updates the RCC to latest version (14.15.4).

You can find the detailed changelog for Workforce Agent Core here.

Workforce Agent Core v6.34.4

• Add more information to the artifact upload end event
• Bundle RCC into the Worker executable and extract it during runtime
• Upgrade RCC to v14.15.3

You can find the detailed changelog for Workforce Agent Core here.