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Deprecation timeline
This article identifies features, or capabilities that will no longer be supported and will be removed at some point in the future. Please note that this is not a product roadmap and is subject to change.
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Deprecation refers to features or capabilities that are in the process of being replaced by superior alternatives. Deprecating a feature or capability means that UiPath discourages its use, but the feature continues to be available. Deprecated features or capabilities are often targeted for removal in future versions.
Deprecated features or capabilities are fully supported and continue to work until we effectively remove them.
- Removal means a feature or capability is removed and is no longer available for use or supported.
- Out of support means UiPath will stop issuing patches and hotfixes to a certain product version. Out of support dates do not make the subject of this article. For more details on out of support versions, see theout-of-support versions.
Feature or capability |
Deprecation announced on |
Scheduled deprecation date |
Notes |
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UseServerSideOCR |
December 2022 |
We recommend using default behavior. |
Feature or capability |
Deprecation announced on |
Deprecated on |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Intelligent Form Extractor |
2022.4 Release Notes for UiPath.IntelligentOCR.Activities package |
October 2022 |
We recommend using the Form Extractor activity. |
Basic Authentication by Microsoft |
September 2021 |
October 2022 |
Microsoft deprecated Basic Authentication for Exchange online. This impacts some of our activities, such as Microsoft Office365 Scope. We recommend using the OAuth protocol in the activities that support it. |
All part of the DocumentProcessing.Contracts Activity package. |
April 2023 |
We recommend upgrading the DocumentProcessing.Contracts package to its latest version to avoid any errors at runtime. |
Feature or capability |
Removal announced on |
Scheduled removal date |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
UseServerSideOCR |
February 2023 |
We recommend using default behavior. | |
Intelligent Form Extractor |
2022.4 Release Notes for UiPath.IntelligentOCR.Activities package |
2023.4 |
We recommend using the Form Extractor activity. |
All part of the DocumentProcessing.Contracts Activity package. |
April 2023 |
October 2023 |
Feature or capability |
Deprecation announced on |
Deprecated on |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Python36 |
January 2023 |
To avoid any interruptions in your AI Center experience, we have new versions of the models and we strongly encourage you to use them. To avoid any issues, we recommend moving your own packages from Python36 to Python 38. | |
Python37 |
June 2023 |
To avoid any interruptions in your AI Center experience, we have new versions of the models and we strongly encourage you to use them. To avoid any issues, we recommend moving your own packages from Python37 to Python 38. |
Feature or capability | Deprecation announced on | Deprecated on | Notes |
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Automation Suite Apps and standalone Orchestrator compatibility | 2023.4 Release Notes | April 2023 |
If you are using earlier versions of Automation suite and want to upgrade to 2023.4 version, please keep in mind, that Apps having processes connected to a standalone Orchestrator will no longer work. For such scenarios, make sure to migrate all your Orchestrator workloads from the standalone Orchestrator to the Automation Suite Orchestrator! |
Feature or capability |
Deprecation | Scheduled deprecation date | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Internal Docker Registry |
April 2023 |
June 2023 |
We recommend using an external Docker registry. See how to configure an external Docker registry in a single-node or multi-node installation of 2023.4 Automation Suite. |
Legacy user licensing | October 2023 |
October 2024 | This has been replaced with the user license management model. |
Host licensing | October 2023 | April 2024 | This has been replaced with the user license management model.
User licenses are managed centrally, at organization level, allowing the same license to be used across multiple tenants, and giving admins the option to easily manage larger user bases via group allocation. |
Feature or capability |
Deprecation announced in |
Deprecated in |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Orchestrator Configurator Tool |
November 2023 |
November 2023 |
This will soon be replaced by uipathctl. |
The SMB network file sharing protocol |
November 2023 | November 2023 |
We recommend using external storage instead. |
Feature or capability |
Removal announced on |
Scheduled removal date |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Internal Docker Registry |
April 2023 |
April 2024 |
Use an external Docker registry. See how to configure an external Docker registry in a single-node or multi-node installation of 2023.4 Automation Suite. |
Legacy user licensing | October 2023 | October 2025
| This has been replaced with the user license management model. |
Host licensing | October 2023 | October 2024 | This has been replaced with the user license management
model.
User licenses are managed centrally, at organization level, allowing the same license to be used across multiple tenants, and giving admins the option to easily manage larger user bases via group allocation. |
Orchestrator Configurator Tool |
November 2023 |
April 2024 | This will soon be replaced by uipathctl. |
The SMB network file sharing protocol | November 2023 |
April 2024 | We recommend using external storage instead. |
Feature or capability |
Removal announced on |
Removed on |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Support for RHEL 8.2 | September 2022 |
September 2022 | We currently support RHEL 8.6 and 8.8, but recommend using the latter.
|
Old Admin experience |
October 2022 |
April 2023 |
Use the new admin experience. |
Longhorn |
November 2023 |
November 2023 |
We have removed Longhorn from the list of internal components bundled with Automation Suite on Linux to improve the storage stability. |
Deployment Assistant |
November 2023 |
November 2023 |
For details, see the Automation Suite on Linux release notes. |
Automation Suite Diagnostics Tool (
diagnostics-report.sh )
| November 2023 | November 2023 |
Replaced by |
| November 2023 | November 2023 |
Replaced by a new upgrade mechanism. |
Support for RHEL 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, and 8.7 |
December 2023 | December 2023 | We currently support RHEL 8.6 and 8.8, but recommend using the latter. |
Support for Kubernetes 1.25 |
February 2024 |
February 2024 | We currently support Kubernetes 1.28, 1.27, and 1.26 on EKS/AKS. |
Feature or capability |
Deprecation | Scheduled deprecation date | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Legacy user licensing | October 2023 | April 2024 | This has been replaced with the user license management model. |
Feature or capability |
Removal announced in |
Scheduled removal date |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Legacy user licensing | October 2023 | October 2024 | This has been replaced with the user license management model. |
Feature or capability |
Removal announced in |
Removed in |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Old Admin experience | August 2022 | April 2023 | Use the new admin experience. |
Feature or capability | Removal announced on | Removed on | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Manual edits used in the model evaluation | February 2023 | October 2023 | This removal improves ease of use. Training pipelines now produces scores implicitly so Evaluation pipelines and Evaluation sets are no longer needed for most scenarios. |
Invoices Australia - Out-of-the-box Pre-trained ML Package |
October 2023 |
We recommend using the Invoices ML Package. |
Feature or capability |
Deprecation announced in |
Deprecated in |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu 18.04 |
November 2023 |
November 2023 |
The High Availability Add-on still supports this version of the platform, but support will be removed in a future release. |
RHEL and CentOS 7.0-7.9 |
November 2023 | November 2023 |
The High Availability Add-on still supports these versions of the platform, but support will be removed in a future release. |
Feature or capability |
Removal announced on |
Scheduled removal date |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Versions of Insights 2021.4 and prior |
26 January 2023 |
December 2023 |
Versions 2019.10.x, 2020.4.x, 2020.10.x, 2021.4.x will stop working in December 2023. Customers on impacted versions need to upgrade to version 2021.10 or higher to continue to use Insights after that time. |
Feature or capability |
Deprecation announced in |
Scheduled deprecation date |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Insights Data Model - Queues dimensions (Specific Data, Analytics Data, and Output) |
October 2022 |
To configure dashboards that cover these metrics, we recommend using Custom Variables. | |
Insights Data Model - Robot Logs dimensions (Raw Message) |
April 2023 |
Feature or capability |
Deprecation announced in |
Scheduled deprecation date |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Support for SQL Server 2014 |
October 2023 |
October 2024 |
We recommend using SQL Server 2016+. |
Tenant-level SMTP settings |
October 2023 |
January 2024 |
We recommend using organization-level SMTP settings. |
Testing Module in Orchestrator | October 2023 | April 2025 | Starting with October 2024 there will be feature parity between Test Manager and Orchestrator. Therefore, starting with October 2024 (2024.10), we recommend you to migrate your test objects (test cases, test sets, test executions, test schedules, test data queues) from Orchestrator to Test Manager. |
The Alerts - View permission | November 2023 | May 2024 |
This permission has been rendered redundant by the introduction of group alerts. You can read details about them in the Setting alerts preferences per group section of the Configuring alerts page. The deprecation is only planned for cloud environments. |
Feature or capability |
Deprecation announced in |
Deprecated in |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Standard machines |
October 2021 |
We recommend using machine templates. | |
Several API endpoints |
April 2022 |
We recommend using the replacement endpoints specified in the release note. | |
Support for SQL Server 2012 |
April 2022 |
October 2022 |
We recommend SQL Server 2014+. |
Classic folders |
October 2021 |
October 2022 |
We recommend migrating to modern folders within these deadlines: *before the middle of May 2023 if you are using Orchestrator in Automation Cloud *before upgrading to 2023.4 if you are using standalone or Automation Suite Orchestrator |
Machine key |
April 2022 |
October 2022 |
We recommend using client credentials or interactive authentication. |
Role name in API requests |
April 2022 |
October 2022 |
We recommend using the role id instead of the role name. |
Changing a transaction final state via API (for Automation Cloud users)
| January 2023
|
January 2023 (for Community users) | Output and Analytics data of a transaction can be set regardless of the transaction final status
(both Successful and Failed). |
Changing a transaction final state via API
(for Orchestrator on-prem users) | May 2023 | October 2023 | |
The
MachineId parameter of the GET/odata/RobotLogs endpoint
|
June 2023 |
June 2023 |
We recommend using the
MachineKey parameter instead.
|
Reports endpoints used on audit logs, robot logs, and queue definitions requests |
June 2023 |
June 2023 |
We recommend using the steps sequence described in the initial release note. |
Support for Windows Server 2012 and IIS 8.5 | April 2023 |
May 2023 | We recommend upgrading to a newer version of Windows Server. |
The
AcceptedDomainsList and HasConnectionString parameters of the GET/odata/Tenants endpoint
|
September 2023 | September 2023 |
Both these parameters are employed by features that are no longer in use. |
Support for SMB storage in Automation Suite |
October 2023 |
October 2023 |
This type of setup can cause configuration issues. Consequently, it will soon be removed. As such, we advise against using it. |
The BypassBasicAuthRestriction parameter in Users endpoints
|
October 2023 |
October 2023 |
This setting has been moved to Identity, and can be configured via the following endpoints:
|
Orchestrator Configurator Tool |
November 2023 | November 2023 | This will soon be replaced by uipathctl. |
Large data fields from jobs and queue items
GetAll endpoints:
GET/odata/Jobs :
|
February 2024 | February 2024 |
We recommend that you read through Adapting to the changes for advice. |
Feature or capability |
Removal announced in |
Scheduled removal date |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
The MachineId parameter in the GET/odata/RobotLogs endpoint
|
June 2023 |
April 2024 | We recommend using the MachineKey parameter instead.
|
Reports endpoints used on audit logs, robot logs, and queue definitions requests |
June 2023 |
December 2023 (for cloud environments) April 2024 (for on-premises environments) | We recommend using the steps sequence described in the initial release note. |
The
AcceptedDomainsList and HasConnectionString parameters of the GET/odata/Tenants endpoint
|
September 2023 |
February 2024 | Both these parameters are employed by features that are no longer in use. |
Support for SMB storage in Automation Suite |
October 2023 |
April 2024 | This type of setup can cause configuration issues. |
Tenant-level SMTP settings |
October 2023 |
January - March 2024 | We recommend using organization-level SMTP settings. |
The
BypassBasicAuthRestriction parameter in Users endpoints
|
October 2023 |
April 2024 |
This setting has been moved to Identity, and can be configured via the following endpoints:
|
Orchestrator Configurator Tool |
November 2023 |
April 2024 | This will soon be replaced by uipathctl. |
The Alerts - View permission | November 2023 | May 2024 | This permission has been rendered redundant by the introduction of group alerts. |
Large data fields from jobs and queue items
GetAll endpoints:
GET/odata/Jobs :
|
February 2024 |
July 2024 | We recommend that you read through Adapting to the changes for advice and alternatives. |
Feature or capability |
Removal announced in |
Removed in |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Classic folders | April 2022 | October 2023 | We recommend migrating to modern folders. |
Standard machines | April 2022 | October 2023 |
We recommend using machine templates. |
Support for Windows Server 2012 and IIS 8.5 |
April 2023 |
October 2023 |
We recommend using Windows Server 2016+. |
My Profile menu and page |
May 2023 |
October 2023 |
The information included in the My Profile page can be accessed from the following places:
|
Login attempts API endpoint:
|
May 2023 |
October 2023 | If you need historical data, we recommend that you retrieve it before upgrading to 2023.10. |
MessageTemplate Orchestrator API endpoints:
|
May 2023 |
October 2023 | We recommend using the Identity Server MessageTemplate API endpoints instead. |
Support for SQL Server 2012 | October 2022 | April 2023 | We recommend SQL Server 2014+. |
Old Admin experience | November 2022 | April 2023 | Use the new admin experience. |
Automatic robot enrollment with standard machines |
July 2021 |
We recommend using machine templates and connecting your machines via the command line. | |
NTLM authentication |
July 2021 |
We recommend using OAuth instead. |
Feature or capability |
Deprecation announced in |
Scheduled removal date |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Old data uploading settings |
(Automation Suite 2024.4) | AddRawTablePostfix StripSpecialCharacters
|
Feature or capability | Removal announced on | Removed on | Notes |
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Old data uploading settings | Process Mining Cloud Release Notes - March 2023 |
October 2023 (Cloud) | AddRawTablePostfix StripSpecialCharacters |
Marker files marker.csv | Process Mining Cloud Release Notes - May 2023 |
November 2023 (Cloud) (Automation Suite n/a) |
Use the end of upload API. |
Process graph layout | Process Mining Cloud Release Notes - February 2023 | October 2023 (Cloud), Process Mining 2023.10 (Automation Suite) | With the introduction of TRACY, all process apps will use TRACY for the process graph layout. Existing process apps using the previous process graph layout will no longer work in Process Mining (Cloud) and Process Mining 2023.10 (Automation Suite). Recreate or migrate your process apps before installing Process Mining 2023.10, to make sure the process apps are still accessible. See Migrating apps for the new process graph layout. |
Feature or capability |
Deprecation announced in |
Scheduled deprecation |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
TightVNC deprecation. | 2023.10 Release Notes |
Robot 2024.4 |
Starting with the 2024.4 Enterprise release, TightVNC will no longer be supported. |
RobotJS and Robot API deprecation. | 2023.10 Release Notes |
Robot 2024.4 |
Starting with the 2024.4 Enterprise release, TightVNC will be deprecated. |
Feature or capability |
Removal announced in |
Removed in |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
32-bit version of the Studio installer (UiPathStudio-x86.msi) | 2022.10 Release Notes | Robot 2023.4 | You can install Studio and Robot only on 64-bit operating systems. |
Feature or capability |
Deprecation announced in |
Scheduled deprecation |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
The classic design experience | Studio 2023.10 Release Notes | Studio 2024.4 | The modern design experience will be the only design experience available for new projects. UI Automation and Excel classic activities will still be available under the Classic category in the Activities panel or the Add activity search bar. |
Windows - Legacy compatibility for new projects | Initially announced for Studio 2022.10, the end of support for creating Windows - Legacy projects is currently scheduled for 2024.4. |
In future Studio releases, you will still be able to open, edit, and run Windows - Legacy projects created in previous versions of Studio, but you will only be able to create Windows and cross-platform projects. Organizations will still be able to use governance policies to restore the option of creating Windows – Legacy projects. A migration tool is available to allow you to convert Windows - Legacy projects to the Windows compatibility. For more information, see About the Windows - Legacy Compatibility. | |
Chrome and Edge MV2 extensions | Studio 2022.4.4 Release Notes | June 2024 |
Chrome will begin disabling Manifest V2 extensions in pre-stable versions of Chrome as early as June 2024, in Chrome 127 and later. Enterprises using the ExtensionManifestV2Availability policy to ensure the continued functioning of Manifest V2 extensions in their organization will have one additional year – until June 2025 – to migrate the Manifest V2 extensions in their organization. Browsers with the policy enabled will not be impacted by the rollout of the deprecation until that time. |
Support for .NET Framework 4.6.1 Runtime | Studio 2023.4.2 Release Notes | Initially announced for 2023.10, the end of support for .NET Framework 4.6.1 has been postponed. | We recommend upgrading to .NET Framework 4.7.2 or higher. |
Feature or capability |
Removal announced in |
Removed in |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
32-bit version of the Studio installer (UiPathStudio-x86.msi) | 2022.10 Release Notes | Studio 2023.4 | You can install Studio and Robot only on 64-bit operating systems. |
Updated deprecation timeline for Unassisted Task Mining legacy projects
This updated deprecation timeline was announced in the November 2023 release notes.
The deprecation timeline is applicable to regions where the Unassisted Task Mining new architecture is supported (the United States, Europe, Japan, and Singapore) as well as to regions where the new architecture is not yet available (Australia and Canada).
Deprecation of Unassisted Task Mining legacy projects will occur on December 1, 2023. All legacy projects will be deleted on this day.
Below is the updated deprecation timeline for Unassisted Task Mining legacy projects.
Scheduled removal date |
Notes |
November 30, 2023 (United States, Europe, Japan, and Singapore regions) |
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December 1, 2023 (United States, Europe, Japan, and Singapore regions) |
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December 1, 2023 (Australia region) |
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December 1, 2023 (Canada region) |
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Feature or capability | Removal announced on | Removed on | Notes |
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Unassisted Task Mining legacy projects |
1 December 2023 | Legacy projects are Unassisted Task Mining projects that were created with the previous back-end architecture for Unassisted Task Mining. |
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