2023.10.1

Release date: December 19, 2023

Out-of-support RHEL versions

Red Hat no longer supports RHEL 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, and 8.7. As a result, we have removed them from the list of compatible RHEL versions. We currently support RHEL 8.6 and 8.8, but we recommend using the latter.

If you move from an older Automation Suite version, make sure you use a supported RHEL version before starting the upgrade.

For more details, see the Automation Suite hardware and software requirements.

Registry hydration improvements

We have improved the time it takes to hydrate the registry and cut it down from four hours to approximately two hours. In addition to this, you no longer need to use the --bundle-type flag when running the hydrate-registry.sh script when configuring your OCI-compliant registry.

Bug fixes

• Previously, when installing the required RPM packages, if the cluster_config.json file was missing, an error was thrown. Now, if the file does not exist when running ./validateUiPathASReadiness.sh install-packages, we assume that you perform an online installation, and no error prompts you.

• We have fixed an issue causing trigger zombie processes to start after performing a 2023.10.0 offline installation.

Known issues

Issues related to CephMgrIsAbsent alerts

Erattum - added April 19, 2024: False positive CephMgrIsAbsent alerts are displayed even though there are no storage issues. This issue is fixed in Automation Suite 23.10.3.

Error message while uninstalling rook-ceph post migrating to a S3 object-store

Erratum - added April 19, 2024: When uninstalling rook-ceph, an error message related to missing external object storage configuration is displayed. This issue accours even though the migration is succesful. This behavior is fixed in Automation Suite 23.10.3.

Issues affecting Ceph metrics and alerts

Erratum - added April 19, 2024: In certain situations, Ceph metrics and alerts are missing from the monitoring dashboards. To fix the issue, see the Troubleshooting section.

Collation differences between SQL server and SQL database not supported

Erratum - added February 28, 2024: Stored procedures do not support collation differences between the SQL server and SQL database. To avoid any potential problems, you must ensure that the collation settings of both SQL server and SQL database are identical.

Upgrade fails due to MongoDB to SQL Server migration

Erratum - added February 28, 2024: We have identified an issue impacting the side-by-side upgrade of Automation Suite 2022.10 or earlier to 2023.10.0 and 2023.10.1. Due to a faulty migration from MongoDB to SQL Server, the upgrade operation fails if you have Apps enabled and use Kerberos authentication for the SQL Server database.

The recommended solution is to upgrade to Automation Suite 2023.10.2 or later instead.

Installation failure when adding new products to existing Automation Suite

Erratum - added February 28, 2024: Whenever trying to add a new product to an existing Automation Suite installation, the installer wrongly asks you to provide a temporary registry, causing a failure in the installation process.

To solve the problem, use the following workaround:

1. Make sure the temporary registry is up.
2. Change the readinessProbe setting of the docker registry StatefulSet by running the following command:

   kubectl patch statefulset docker-registry -n docker-registry --type json -p '[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/template/spec/containers/0/readinessProbe", "value": {"httpGet":{"scheme":"HTTPS", "path": "/", "port": 5000}}}]'

Deprecation timeline

We recommend that you regularly check the deprecation timeline for any updates regarding features that will be deprecated and removed.

Bundling details

Product versions

To find out what has changed on each Automation Suite product, visit the following links.

If the product is greyed out, this new Automation Suite version does not bring any changes to it.

DISCOVER	BUILD	MANAGE	ENGAGE
Automation Hub 2023.10.1	Automation Ops 2023.10.1	AI Center 2023.10.1	Action Center 2023.10.1
Task Mining 2023.10.1	AI Computer Vision 2023.10.1	Insights 2023.10.1	Apps 2023.10.1
Process Mining 2023.10.1	Document Understanding 2023.10.1	Orchestrator 2023.10.1
		Test Manager 2023.10.1
		Data Service 2023.10.1

Internal third-party component versions

This Automation Suite release bundles the following internal components:

Component	Version
RKE2	1.26.5
ArgoCD	2.7.7
logging-operator	4.1.0
logging-operator-logging	4.1.0
gatekeeper	3.12.0
rook-ceph	1.9.4
prometheus-pushgateway	2.1.6
cert-manager	1.12.3
rancher-istio	102.2.0-up1.17.2
rancher-logging	102.0.1-up3.17.10
rancher-logging-crd	102.0.1-up3.17.10
rancher-monitoring-crd	102.0.1-up40.1.2
rancher-gatekeeper-crd	102.1.0-up3.12.0
rancher-gatekeeper	100.2.0-up3.8.1
rancher-monitoring	102.0.1-up40.1.2
longhorn	1.4.3
longhorn-crd	1.1.100
reloader	0.0.129
csi-driver-smb	1.8.0
velero	3.1.6
redis-operator	7.2.4-7
redis-cluster	7.2.4-64