Release Notes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Push Robot updates from Automation Studio direct to Control Room. Linking to Control Room. Support for multiple .robot files within the same project. Allow navigating back when jumping to user keywords. Stop an in-progress run from the UI. Plus various UX and bugfixes.

Two new reference architectures: intelligent document processing using Base64.ai, and conversational AI integration with Ada chatbots triggering digital workers with work items.

New and improved navigation now enabled as default for all users in Control Room. Sign-up flows streamlined. Upcoming UX improvements to work data management, runs, robots, and environments planned for H2.

New Portal example integrating Rasa chatbots with Digital Workers using Custom Action Server to trigger processes over Control Room API based on intent.

New and improved navigation for Control Room, streamlining flows and making navigation more intuitive. New user profile. Changelog moved in-product. Old navigation could be switched back to from user profile settings.

Notification templates reworked to be more user-friendly with more information. Notifications can now be enabled for successful process runs too, containing work item statistics. Supported for both Slack and E-mail notifications.