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Last updated Mar 14, 2024

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.

Terminology

  • 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.

Activities

Upcoming Deprecations

Feature or capability

Deprecation announced on

Scheduled deprecation date

Notes

UseServerSideOCR

December 2022

We recommend using default behavior.

Deprecated Features or Capabilities

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.

  • ResultsValue.Components property

  • ResultsValue constructors which have ResultsDataPoint[] as parameters

  • ResultsValue.CreateTableValue methods

  • ExtractionResult.FlattenFields method

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.

Upcoming Removals

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.

  • ResultsValue.Components property

  • ResultsValue constructors which have ResultsDataPoint[] as parameters

  • ResultsValue.CreateTableValue methods

  • ExtractionResult.FlattenFields method

All part of the DocumentProcessing.Contracts Activity package.

April 2023

October 2023

 

AI Center™

Upcoming Deprecations

There are no upcoming deprecations for the moment.

Deprecated Features or Capabilities

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.

Apps

Deprecated Features or Capabilities

Feature or capabilityDeprecation announced onDeprecated onNotes
Automation Suite Apps and standalone Orchestrator compatibility2023.4 Release NotesApril 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!

Automation Suite

Upcoming Deprecations

Feature or capability

Deprecation

announced on
Scheduled deprecation dateNotes

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 licensingOctober 2023

October 2024

This has been replaced with the user license management model.
Host licensingOctober 2023April 2024This 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.

Deprecated Features or Capabilities

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.

Upcoming Removals

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 licensingOctober 2023October 2025

This has been replaced with the user license management model.
Host licensingOctober 2023October 2024This 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 protocolNovember 2023

April 2024

We recommend using external storage instead.

Removed Features or Capabilities

Feature or capability

Removal announced on

Removed on

Notes

Support for RHEL 8.2September 2022

September 2022

We currently support RHEL 8.6 and 8.8, but recommend using the latter.

Old Admin experience

October 2022

April 2023

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

Automation Suite Diagnostics Tool (diagnostics-report.sh)
November 2023November 2023

uipathctl.sh

November 2023November 2023

Replaced by a new upgrade mechanism.

Support for RHEL 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, and 8.7

December 2023

December 2023We 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.

Automation Cloud

Upcoming deprecations

Feature or capability

Deprecation

announced on
Scheduled deprecation dateNotes
Legacy user licensingOctober 2023April 2024This has been replaced with the user license management model.

Upcoming Removals

Feature or capability

Removal announced in

Scheduled removal date

Notes

Legacy user licensingOctober 2023October 2024This has been replaced with the user license management model.

Removed Features or Capabilities

Feature or capability

Removal announced in

Removed in

Notes

Old Admin experience August 2022April 2023Use the new admin experience.

Document Understanding

Removed Features or Capabilities

Feature or capabilityRemoval announced onRemoved onNotes
Manual edits used in the model evaluationFebruary 2023October 2023This 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.

High Availability Add-On

Deprecated Features or Capabilities

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.

Insights

Upcoming Removals

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.

Upcoming Deprecations

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

 

Orchestrator

Upcoming Deprecations

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

Testing Module in OrchestratorOctober 2023April 2025Starting 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 2023May 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.

Deprecated Features or Capabilities

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)

May 2023 (for Enterprise 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 2023October 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 8.5April 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:

  • POST/api/User - Creates a new user.
  • PUT/api/User/{userId} - Updates the specified user.

Orchestrator Configurator Tool

November 2023

November 2023This will soon be replaced by uipathctl.
Large data fields from jobs and queue items GetAll endpoints:
GET/odata/Jobs:
  • InputArguments

  • OutputArguments

GET/odata/QueueItems

  • SpecificContent/SpecificData

  • OutputData/Output

  • AnalyticsData/Analytics

February 2024

February 2024

We recommend that you read through Adapting to the changes for advice.

Upcoming Removals

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:

  • POST/api/User - Creates a new user.
  • PUT/api/User/{userId} - Updates the specified user.

Orchestrator Configurator Tool

November 2023

April 2024

This will soon be replaced by uipathctl.
The Alerts - View permission November 2023May 2024This permission has been rendered redundant by the introduction of group alerts.
Large data fields from jobs and queue items GetAll endpoints:
GET/odata/Jobs:
  • InputArguments

  • OutputArguments

GET/odata/QueueItems

  • SpecificContent/SpecificData

  • OutputData/Output

  • AnalyticsData/Analytics

February 2024

July 2024

We recommend that you read through Adapting to the changes for advice and alternatives.

Removed Features or Capabilities

Feature or capability

Removal announced in

Removed in

Notes

Classic foldersApril 2022October 2023We recommend migrating to modern folders.
Standard machinesApril 2022October 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:

  • Alerts preferences > the Alerts menu in the top application toolbar

  • Name and email address > your user menu, in the top right of the application toolbar.

  • Licensing information > the License page at the tenant level.

Login attempts API endpoint:

GET/odata​/UserLoginAttempts({key})

May 2023

October 2023

If you need historical data, we recommend that you retrieve it before upgrading to 2023.10.
MessageTemplate Orchestrator API endpoints:
  • GET /odata/MessageTemplates

  • PUT /odata/MessageTemplates('{key}')

May 2023

October 2023

We recommend using the Identity Server MessageTemplate API endpoints instead.
Support for SQL Server 2012October 2022April 2023We recommend SQL Server 2014+.
Old Admin experience November 2022April 2023Use 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.

Process Mining

Upcoming Deprecations

Feature or capability

Deprecation announced in

Scheduled removal date

Notes

Old data uploading settings

(Automation Suite 2024.4)

AddRawTablePostfixStripSpecialCharacters

Removed features or capabilities

Feature or capabilityRemoval announced onRemoved onNotes
Old data uploading settingsProcess Mining Cloud Release Notes - March 2023

October 2023

(Cloud)

AddRawTablePostfixStripSpecialCharacters
Marker files marker.csvProcess Mining Cloud Release Notes - May 2023

November 2023

(Cloud)

(Automation Suite n/a)

Use the end of upload API.

Process graph layoutProcess Mining Cloud Release Notes - February 2023October 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.

Robot

Upcoming Removals

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.

Removed Features or Capabilities

Feature or capability

Removal announced in

Removed in

Notes

32-bit version of the Studio installer (UiPathStudio-x86.msi)2022.10 Release NotesRobot 2023.4You can install Studio and Robot only on 64-bit operating systems.

Studio

Upcoming Deprecations

Feature or capability

Deprecation announced in

Scheduled deprecation

Notes

The classic design experienceStudio 2023.10 Release NotesStudio 2024.4The 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 extensionsStudio 2022.4.4 Release NotesJune 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 RuntimeStudio 2023.4.2 Release NotesInitially 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.

Removed Features or Capabilities

Feature or capability

Removal announced in

Removed in

Notes

32-bit version of the Studio installer (UiPathStudio-x86.msi)2022.10 Release NotesStudio 2023.4You can install Studio and Robot only on 64-bit operating systems.

Task Mining

Upcoming Deprecations

Updated deprecation timeline for Unassisted Task Mining legacy projects

This updated deprecation timeline was announced in the November 2023 release notes.

Note:

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)

  • All legacy projects must be converted by November 30, 2023 as the conversion tool will no longer be available after this day.
  • All Unassisted Task Mining projects will leverage the new architecture only.
December 1, 2023 (United States, Europe, Japan, and Singapore regions)
  • All legacy projects will be deleted.
December 1, 2023 (Australia region)
  • All legacy projects will be deleted.
  • The Task Mining service will not be available for this region from December 1, 2023 until the new architecture is released on January 1, 2024.
  • No conversion tool will be available.
December 1, 2023 (Canada region)
  • All legacy projects will be deleted.
  • The Task Mining service will not be available for this region from December 1, 2023 until the new architecture is released in Q1 2024.
  • No conversion tool will be available.

Removed features or capabilities

Feature or capabilityRemoval announced onRemoved onNotes

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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