2023.10.3

Release date: April 19, 2024

Support for Active/Active deployments

We are happy to announce that you can now deploy Automation Suite in Active/Active mode. With the new configuration, you can increase system availability, boost performance by distributing workloads, and provide seamless failover by ensuring that all systems are operational and sharing the load simultaneously.

Currently, only Orchestrator supports the Active/Active setup, but we are working hard to add more products to the list.

To find out more about Active/Active configurations, see Disaster Recovery - Active/Passive and Active/Active.

Support for external High Availability Add-on

The support for Active/Active deployments brings a side benefit: Automation Suite now supports external High Availability Add-on (HAA), in addition to the in-cluster configuration.

While having HAA deployed on external machines is mandatory in the case of Active/Active setups, in all the other scenarios it is optional.

For details on how to configure HAA, both when installed on the same cluster as Automation Suite and externally, see High Availability Add-on configuration and the High Availability Add-on Installation Guide.

Support for migrating standalone Insights to Automation Suite

We are excited to announce that you can now migrate your standalone Insights to Automation Suite. This migration allows you to enjoy all the benefits associated with deploying multiple UiPath on-premises products in a unified, single location. For more details, see Full migration.

Licensing news

We are striving to better support the ever evolving commercial offering of the UiPath® platform, and, as part of that, we are deprecating the option to activate licenses from the host portal. To help ease the transition, we have added a warning banner notifying administrators of the deprecation, and providing best practices for license activation.

Please rest assured that this in no way affects the functionality, and that you can still activate licenses from the host portal until the feature is removed.

Support bundle tool improvements

We have changed the default behaviour of the support bundle tool. The default execution now generates the RKE2 bundle, in addition to the uipath, Redis, and Longhorn bundles.

We have also made the following changes to the support bundle tool arguments:

• We have deprecated the -r argument, which used to enable the RKE2 bundle generation since the operation occurs by default now;
• We have added a new argument, -e, to exclude the RKE2 bundle and only generate the uipath support bundle.

For more details, see Using the Automation Suite Support Bundle Tool.

Improved prerequisite checks

We have added more prerequisite checks to optimize the overall experience of installing and configuring Automation Suite and to catch missing requirements earlier. Here are some highlights:

• We have introduced a new prerequisite check that validates the Redis connectivity. This check is only available if you use an external Redis cluster.
• We have added a new prerequisite check that validates that the upgrade path across Automation Suite versions is correct.
• We improved the error reporting message if the SQL prerequisite validation fails. Now, a detailed failure messages is displayed to give a better understanding of the possible issues, making it easier to troubleshoot.

For more on the prerequisite script, see Validating the prerequisites.

Improved sf-logs cleanup process

We have improved the cleanup process for the logs stored in the sf-logs bucket. A retry logic is added to the s3cmd delete command to ensure the full deletion even in case of initial failure. Additionally, the cleanup script is enhanced to delete all logs older than the specified deletion day when the cleanup cronjob is active for a particular day.

For more on the the cleanup script, see How to clean up old logs stored in the sf-logs bundle.

Custom path for RKE2 logs

You can now opt for a custom log path for your RKE2 logs by updating the infra.pod_log_path parameter in the cluster_config.json file. Previously, you could not change the /var/log/pods default log path.

Note, however, that updating the default path discards the logs in /var/log/pods.

Log-level enhancement for ArgoCD

We have implemented an update to ArgoCD logging. Now, the log-level is set to Info by default. Previously, you had to manually change the log-level.

Bug fixes

• We have fixed an issue causing the installer to miss a prerequisite check validation. The issue caused the inability to access or upgrade Orchestrator.

• An issue was causing excessive alert emails after unexpected node restarts. We have fixed the issue by automatically managing and terminating orphaned jobs.

• We have fixed an issue related to false positive CephMgrIsAbsent storage alerts. The alerts were displayed even though there were no storage issues. The behavior no longer occurs.

• Ceph metrics and alerts were missing from the monitoring dashboard. The behavior no longer occurs.

• We have fixed an issue causing a failure while uninstalling rook-ceph due to missing external object storage configuration. The error message was displayed even though the migration was succesful. The behavior no longer occurs.

• We have fixed an issue causing the credential manager to incorrectly set the uipath-service secrets to blank.

• We have fixed an issue preventing you from updating the TLS certificate when ArgoCD was not yet installed.

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 2023.10.3	Automation Ops 2023.10.3	AI Center 2023.10.3	Action Center 2023.10.3
Task Mining 2023.10.3	AI Computer Vision 2023.10.2	Insights 2023.10.3	Apps 2023.10.3
Process Mining 2023.10.3	Document Understanding 2023.10.3	Orchestrator 2023.10.4
		Test Manager 2023.10.3
		Data Service 2023.10.3

Internal third-party component versions

This Automation Suite release bundles the following internal components:

Component	Version
RKE2	1.26.11
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	1.10.0
velero	3.1.6
redis-operator	7.4.2-54
redis-cluster	7.4.2-2