2024.10.3

Release date: April 28, 2025

Generating the configuration file using a GUI-based wizard

Navigating through the intricacies of a platform configuration, involving multiple flags and parameters, can at times be a challenging experience. To simplify this, we bring you the Automation Suite Installer Wizard, a new method for generating the Automation Suite cluster_config.json configuration file.

This GUI-centric tool guides you through the key configuration steps, prompting you to provide details about your Automation Suite installation. It requires details such as the targeted platform, environment type, storage needs, SQL database specifics, and more, subsequently generating the cluster_config.json file for you.

For details, refer to Generating the configuration file using a wizard.

PostgreSQL for Process Mining Airflow database

For Process Mining on Automation Suite 2024.10.3, you can now choose to use PostgreSQL for the AutomationSuite_Airflow database. If you choose not to use PostgreSQL and keep using Microsoft SQLServer, Process Mining on Automation Suite 2024.10.3 will run with a legacy version of Airflow.

Refer to SQL Requirements for Process Mining for more information on how to set up a PostgreSQL AutomationSuite_Airflow metadatabase.

Important:

You are recommended to move to PostgreSQL for the Airflow database, as PostgreSQL runs with the latest versions of Apache Airflow. Latest versions of Apache Airflow have various functionality, performance, and security fixes that older versions lack.

Removed Dapr dependency for Process Mining

Starting with Automation Suite 2024.10.3, Process Mining will no longer have a dependency on Dapr.

Task-Mining, however, will still continue to have a dependency on Dapr.

If you are installing Automation Suite where Process Mining is enabled and Task Mining is not enabled, then the Dapr application will not be installed.

In case of an Automation Suite upgrade where Process Mining is enabled and Task Mining is not enabled, then the Dapr application will be automatically uninstalled.

Additional custom CA certificate support

You can include any additional custom CA certificate by providing the additonal_ca_certs key with the external CA certificate path in the cluster_config.json file.

Enhanced telemetry

Enhanced Automation Suite with a high-level summarized usage telemetry feature, provided guidance on viewing the generated XML file, and added telemetry sharing with UiPath Support via the Customer Portal.

Istio HSTS enabled by default

To enhance security, Istio HSTS is now enabled by default.

uipathctl improvements

• You can now list all the available options for the included and excluded flags when running the prerequisite checks command. For more details about --list-options, refer to the uipathctl reference guide.
• For better eficiency, the diagnostic checks are no longer executed during the bundle creation process. Previously, a health check was performed by default during the support bundle creation, requiring the explicit use of the --skip-diagnose flag to bypass it. For more details on how to run the diagnostic checks, refer to the uipathctl reference guide.

Bug fixes

• Resolved an issue where proxy and Kerberos-based pipelines were not functioning correctly in Automation Suite 2024.10.0, 2024.10.1, and 2024.10.2. This issue has been fixed, restoring proper support for proxy and Kerberos authentication in pipelines.
• An issue related to Velero migration caused the Automation Suite in-place upgrade to 2024.10.1 and 2024.10.2 to fail when the backup was enabled. We have fixed the issue.
• An issue was causing the node-monitor component, which monitors the node for issues such as checking kube-proxy health or if ip_forward is enabled, and cordons the node if issues arise, to not work for specific nodes such as GPU, task-mining, or as-robot. We have fixed the issue.
• Previously, the configuration of user authentication and SQL authentication for the Automation Suite cluster was interconnected. To use either of them, you had to set both kerberos_auth_config.enabled and kerberos_auth_config.enable_integrated_sql_auth parameters to true. Currently, we allow independent configuration of only user authentication by setting kerberos_auth_config.enabled to true and kerberos_auth_config.enable_integrated_sql_auth to false. Independent SQL authentication is still not supported.
• We have fixed an issue causing the side-by-side and the in-place upgrade of Automation Suite 2022.10 or earlier to Automation Suite 2024.10.0 or later to fail when Apps was enabled and you used Kerberos authentication for the SQL Server database.
• An issue was preventing the registry cleanup command from effectively clearing the unused Docker images from all registry pods. We have fixed the issue.
• We have fixed an issue that blocked the Automation Suite upgrade on a backup-restored cluster.
• We have resolved an issue causing the health check command to fail in offline environments. The issue occurred due to the incorrect parsing of Istio image versions from registries containing two or more semicolons.
• We have fixed an issue that was causing Studio Web to throw a 404 error when using a proxy environment.

Known issues

Service disruptions due to automatic secret rotation

Erratum - added May 14, 2025: An issue causes service disruptions due to the automatic secret rotation, making services temporarily inaccessible.

To address this issue, take the following steps:

1. Restart the affected service to restore its normal functionality.

2. Navigate to the ArgoCD UI and from the platform applicatio, select Details > Parameters. Edit the values to add "secretRotation: enabled: false" underidentity-service. You must take this step after each Automation Suite upgrade or reinstallation.

For AI Center, all skills must be stopped and started from AI Center UI.

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 2024.10.3	Automation Ops 2024.10.3	AI Center 2024.10.3	Action Center 2024.10.3
Task Mining 2024.10.3	AI Computer Vision 2024.10.3	Insights 2024.10.4	Apps 2024.10.3
Process Mining 2024.10.3	Document Understanding AI Center-based projects 2024.10.3 Document Understanding modern projects 2024.10.3	Orchestrator 2024.10.5
		Test Manager 2024.10.3
		Data Service 2024.10.3

Internal third-party component versions

This Automation Suite release bundles the following internal components:

Component	Version
RKE2	1.31.4+rke2r1
ArgoCD	v2.14.4
gatekeeper	3.18.2
rook	1.16.1
ceph	19.2.0
prometheus-pushgateway	v3.0.0
cert-manager	v1.17.1
kube-logging/logging-operator	5.2.0
kube-logging/config-reloader	v0.0.7
istio	1.25.0
velero	1.15.2
reloader	v2.0.0
Prometheus	v3.2.1
Grafana	11.5.2
redis-operator	v7.8.4-9
redis-cluster	v7.8.4-95.focal
oauth2-proxy	v7.8.1

Migration tool version

The migration tool version you need depends on the standalone products you plan to migrate and the targeted Automation Suite version. For more details, see Migration compatibility matrix.

For instructions on migrating a standalone product to the current version of Automation Suite, see Full migration.