- Release notes
Orchestrator Release Notes
April 2024
AcceptedDomainsList and HasConnectionString parameters have been removed from the GET/odata/Tenants endpoint.
A week ago, we announced that the name fields for processes and triggers would be prepopulated with the name of the package and of the process, respectively.
We have since discovered a small hiccup, so we are rolling back this feature while we work on fixing the issue. We'll keep you posted on the reenablement as soon as it happens.
As part of our commitment to empowering organizations with control over their data, we are providing complete data sovereignty for the United Kingdom and India regions. We use replication capabilities to securely store data in multiple availability zones within the region.
To learn more about the available tenant regions and the services offered in each region, explore our resources on Data residency.
Get All - QueueItems endpoint. This means that the SpecificContent/SpecificData, OutputData/Output , and AnalyticsData/Analytics fields are no longer removed. The implementation had been rolled out for Community and Canary tenants, and has now been rolled
back.
GET/odata/QueueItems endpoint to help with just that. These are the data limits that you can expect over the next few months:
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Field |
Limit |
Rollout to Community tenants |
Rollout to Enterprise tenants |
Notes |
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1,048,576 characters |
Today |
May 2024 |
Starting with September 2024, this will be changed to 102,400 characters for Community and Enterprise tenants. |
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10 KB |
June 2024 |
September 2024 |
- |
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100 KB |
June 2024 |
September 2024 |
- |
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500 KB |
June 2024 |
September 2024 |
- |
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102,400 characters |
June 2024 |
September 2024 |
- |
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102,400 characters |
June 2024 |
September 2024 |
- |
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The
$top filter
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> If you do not use the
$top filter, you receive 100 records by default.
> If you use the
$top filter, you receive a maximum of 100 records. Anything exceeding 100 triggers a 400 Bad Request error message.
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June 2024 |
September 2024 |
Prior to applying this change, the behavior was as follows: > If you did not use the
$top filter, you received 1,000 records by default.
> If you used the
$top filter, you received a maximum of 1,000 records. Anything exceeding 1,000 triggered a 400 Bad Request error message.
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As announced in the deprecation timeline, and detailed in Classic folders removal, we are now fully disabling classic folder access.
The API audit monitoring tab has been enhanced with a few pieces of helpful information:
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The tab header now includes a description of what you can expect to find in the graphs, along with a link to our documentation pages, which provide detailed information.
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Each graph contains a View API button taking you to the corresponding endpoint in the Orchestrator Swagger file.
User experience best practices, as guided by your suggestions and use cases, are always top-of-mind for the Orchestrator team. In trying to align our product design to these practices, we are improving the display density of grid information. This means that you will now see tables in a compact mode, which allows for more items to be displayed, ultimately taking better advantage of screen real-estate.
We are confident that the high-density view will provide you with an overall better experience:
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The spacing between table rows is smaller. The information is still perfectly visible, as we have simply removed blank spaces.
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The number of rows that can fit on a single page has significantly increased, thus making more information available at a glance.
You do, however, have the option to go back to a low-density view, by deselecting High density view from the General > Application settings section of your tenant-level settings.
To better manage your objects (i.e. groups, users, robot accounts, external apps) and make use of all available types of identities, we have split the groups, users, robot accounts, and external apps into separate pages. You can find these under dedicated tabs, on the Manage Access page.
As an overview of the tabs, the All tab includes all objects that have been assigned access at the tenant level. The Groups, Users, Robot accounts, and External apps tabs include the local and directory groups, local and directory users, robot accounts, and external apps that have been assigned access at the tenant level.
The API audit monitoring tab has been enhanced with even more information on your API usage: you can now click the spike corresponding to the desired minute to display its details in an expandable side panel.
The selected spike details section in both view modes: collapsed and expanded
To optimize the view for you when working in Orchestrator, we have improved the collapsed filter logic. If there are more than five filters on the page, these are collapsed under an icon, regardless of the grid view that is used.
The configuration of processes and triggers has been improved by prefilling their name fields based on the previously selected package or process.
For processes, the Display Name field displays the name of the selected package in the format <PackageName>.
As far as triggers are concerned, the Name field displays the name of the process, followed by the trigger type in the format <ProcessName>_<TriggerType>. It is also worth mentioning that this change applies to time, queue, and API triggers, and that the Name and Process Name fields have switched positions to follow the logical flow.
In our continual efforts to maintain the highest levels of security and user experience, we have decided to phase out API Keys authentication in March 2025.
We recommend using External Applications and Personal Access Tokens (PATs) as the primary method of authentication.
Expiry of API tokens
Current API Tokens will undergo no immediate changes – they will be supported until March 2025. Please note that after this date, API Keys will be removed from our authentication method offerings.
Migration to new authentication methods
Users currently using API Keys are strongly encouraged to transition to using External Applications or PATs as soon as possible. This shift not only aligns with best practices for OAuth 2.0 but also ensures a much securer and manageable authentication process.
Check out Migrating from API Keys to PATs for step-by-step instructions on the switch.
Any and all name changes made to local groups at the organization level are now propagated to Orchestrator.
Please note, however, that renaming a group several times in a short timeframe means that only the last renaming event is captured in the Orchestrator audit logs. The organization-level audit includes all such events.
You can now benefit from an extra level of detail through the addition of milliseconds to time columns in the following instances:
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Exported reports for all available objects, i.e. audit logs, queue transactions, logs, and jobs (details...)
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Queue items archive output (details...)
BypassBasicAuthRestriction parameter in Users endpoints is now removed, as announced in the deprecation timeline.
During the first iteration of the jobs side panel implementation, the folder tree was automatically collapsed when the panel was expanded to a full-sized window. Now, the folder tree is persisted even while the job details window is in full-sized mode.
As part of our constant effort to provide you with the best user experience, we have decided to remove icons from menus. This means that our user interface is now cleaner, more streamlined, more readable, and more accessible. We are confident that this change will allow you to focus on explicit information without distractions and the need for interpretation.
CreationTime via the API before performing the export.
For any questions regarding supported fields, you can check out the new Fields supported for queue transactions exports page.
The date when a change is first announced in the release notes is the date when it first becomes available.
If you don't see the change yet, you can expect to see it soon, after we roll out changes to all the regions.
We recommend that you regularly check the deprecation timeline for any updates regarding features that will be deprecated and removed.
- April 30, 2024
- Removal of API parameters
- Bug fixes
- April 26, 2024
- Reverting name fields prepopulation
- Storing Orchestrator and Automation Cloud Robots data in new regions: UK and India
- April 24, 2024
- Large data fields usage optimization changes
- April 16, 2024
- Removing classic folders
- API audit enhancements
- Changing information density in Orchestrator grids
- Manage Access split
- Viewing spike details
- Collapsed filter logic change
- Prepopulating name fields for processes and triggers
- April 1, 2024
- Support for API keys ending in March 2025
- Local groups renaming
- Milliseconds in exports and archives
- Removing BypassBasicAuthRestriction
- Folder tree no longer collapsed
- Removing icons from menus
- New columns in queue transactions exports
- When can I see these changes?
- Deprecation timeline
