Release Notes

Added

• Allow using Vault from Control Room during development
• Library for reading Vault secrets in Robots
• Editor for creating, modifying, and deleting Suite variables

Changed

• Improved element detection and code generation for Web Recorder
• Invalid Variables hidden from auto-complete
• Errors in Visual editor highlighted more prominently
• Improved discoverability of Reveal in File System functionality
• Report Error renamed to Submit Issue to match other products
• Minor tweaks to Conditional builder
• Minor tweaks to Help menus
• Minor tweaks to Tasks sidebar

Fixed

• Unexpected error when running Robots with certain Windows configurations
• Flow view controls overlapping Run view
• Multi-line errors in in Run view not shown correctly
• Errors with multiple IF/ELSE IF branches not shown correctly
• Sidebar in Run view was not scrollable

Robocorp Workforce Agent UI v1.2.66 / Workforce Agent Core v6.25.7

New in the Workforce Agent Core:

• Upgraded RCC to v13.0.0
• Use RCC to unwrap the downloaded bundle from Control Room
• File downloads use network settings from RCC profile

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.

• Fix docs given the dropped support for extras under library dependencies. (#772)

• Security dependency fix given the bump of cryptography package to version 38. (#773)

• Global package & sub-library updates adding security and documentation fixes. (#767)
• Other affected sub-libraries:
  • rpaframework-aws 5.2.5 (no API change, just dev & docs 3rd-party package upgrades)
  • rpaframework-google 6.1.5 (no API change, just dev & docs 3rd-party package upgrades)
  • rpaframework-pdf 6.0.1 (no API change, but behaviour may be different)
  • rpaframework-windows 7.0.2 (no API change, but locators recording may act differently)

⚠️ Warning

This is a breaking change!

• We don’t support optional packages anymore. Migrate your conda.yaml if needed:

  • rpaframework[aws] -> rpaframework-aws==5.2.4
  • rpaframework[cv] -> rpaframework-recognition==5.0.1
  • rpaframework[playwright] -> robotframework-browser==14.4.1
  • And of course, don’t forget about rpaframework==20.0.0.

• RPA.Desktop keywords related to mouse and keyboard may behave differently due to their pynput dependency recent upgrade.

• Extra dependencies are pinned to the following minimum versions:

  • requests = "^2.28.1"
  • oauthlib = "^3.2.2"
  • requests-oauthlib = "^1.3.1"

• Misleading keyword On Token Refresh was removed from the RPA.Email.Exchange library. (wasn’t meant to be a keyword at all)

Robocorp Workforce Agent UI v1.2.62 / Workforce Agent Core v6.25.0

New in the Workforce Agent Core:

• Upgraded RCC to v11.33.2
• Send runtime log events to Control Room
• Drop the Microsoft RDP client as a backup, use the FreeRDP client only when connecting to a desktop session

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.

To better align with the widely used RPA terminology, we have made some changes to the naming in our product. The goal was to make the stack easier to understand especially when migrating from Gen1 products, and to avoid overloading the term "Environment".

Unattended automation naming has been simplified as follows:

• The term "Workforce" has been dropped in favor of "Unattended"

• The term "Environment" has been replaced with the term "Worker" and applied in all contexts such as Worker Groups and Cloud Worker

• "Workforce Agent" application will be renamed as "Worker" application

To help with managing Assistants in especially large-scale deployments, two features have been added:

• Assistant-only users

  • Added "Assistant-only" users who only need to run assistants, without Control Room registration

  • Workspace Admins are able to mass-create "Assistant-only" users via a CSV import

  • The feature is enabled upon request, get in touch with us if interested

• Assistant failure notifications

  • Users are now able to set failure notifications for Assistant runs, in the same way as with Process runs

  • E-mail and Slack are supported as notification channels

  • The feature is available for all tiers

Process updates:

• Cron scheduler now supports scheduling a process on the last day of the month via the L-notation

• Step runs now have numbering in a Process run scope

• Step run UI has been updated

• Library RPA.Hubspot (#740): Deprecate keyword Auth With API Key in favor of Auth With Token. (read how to generate one with Private Apps)

• Library RPA.Email.Exchange (#736): Fix token auto-refresh for single-tenant Client apps.

• Added native OAuth2 support (#706) with the following keywords:
  • Generate OAuth URL
  • Get OAuth Token
  • Refresh OAuth Token

Available in libraries:

• RPA.Email.Exchange (#604)
• RPA.Email.ImapSmtp (additional keyword Generate OAuth String)
• RPA.MFA (#658)

Check the updated OAuth2 E-mail sending Portal example on: https://robocorp.com/portal/robot/robocorp/example-oauth-email

• Library RPA.Browser.Selenium (#710): Fix bug with auto_close=${False} param when importing the library, which still had the browser closed at the end of the session. (now it’s left open if such parameter is set to False)

• Library RPA.Slack (#711): New keyword Slack Raw Message adds support for blocks message property by allowing user to set message dictionary.
• Library RPA.Excel.Files (#712): Add new keywords for the library. List of new RPA.Excel.Files keywords (supported only on .XLSX format):
  • Auto Size Columns (docs)
  • Clear Cell Range (docs)
  • Copy Cell Values (docs)
  • Delete Columns (docs)
  • Delete Rows (docs)
  • Hide Columns (docs)
  • Insert Columns After (docs)
  • Insert Columns Before (docs)
  • Insert Rows After (docs)
  • Insert Rows Before (docs)
  • Move Range (docs)
  • Set Cell Formula (docs)
  • Set Cell Values (docs)
  • Set Styles (docs)
  • Unhide Columns (docs)

Robocorp Workforce Agent UI v1.2.58 / Workforce Agent Core v6.23.3

The Workforce Agent Core received few minor bug fixes.

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.

Robocorp Workforce Agent UI v1.2.57 / Workforce Agent Core v6.23.0

The Workforce Agent Core version also has multiple improvements and features around the Windows Desktop executions. As well as major performance improvements.

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.Windows (#693):
  • Keyword Get Elements supports now parameter siblings_only which filters for elements found on the same level with the first match. This is ON by default; set it to False for a global search, which retrieves all the found elements matching the criteria instead.
  • Keyword Get Value returns None when there’s no value to retrieve at all.
  • Fix sibling element searching in keyword Get Elements when there’s no comparison strategy identified.

In our continuous effort to make the Control Room UX as good as possible, this round of UX improvements was aimed at the work item handling flows. The core view regarding these is the Work Data Explorer, where we implemented multiple improvements which reduce a lot of clicks and make work item handling flows and technical troubleshooting more streamlined.

• New search, sort, and filtering

  • Stay on top of what is happening with the improved search, sorting and filtering

• The work item side panel now stays open while browsing through work items

  • Reduced amount of clicks and streamlined the flow when browsing through multiple work items

• Work item actions added to the work item side panel

  • Retry, Mark as Done, etc. are now available in the work item panel

• Toggleable advanced settings for technical troubleshooting

  • You can toggle advanced settings to see more data about the work item at a glance

  • Quick access links to the Step, Step log file, Robot and Environment

  • You can click the eye icon next to the log file to automatically render it to the same view, making troubleshooting more straightforward

• Improved single work item view and direct linking

  • Get direct links to single work items, which will open in their own view
  • Pass work items to your teammates to handle in a straightforward way

Robocorp Assistant 1.8.5 released

Fixed the community Assistant install view as the UI elements there were broken

Get started with Assistant quick guide

Robocorp Assistant 1.8.4 released

Fixed the Assistant installation step to speed up the 1st run

Get started with Assistant quick guide

• Library RPA.Outlook.Application (#687): Fix pywintypesXX.dll errors.

Robocorp Assistant 1.8.3 released

Update RCC to v11.30.0. This update will print a warning in case a insecure openssl version is detected in the environment

UI changes in the results view to clear out some of the more developer focused things like logs.