2023.4.0

Release Date: 27 April 2023

What's New

The Running tab

When you start running an automation, the Running tab becomes visible in the details panel, displaying the progress through status messages. The status messages have time stamps that indicate when a specific action is complete, helping you see the progress and the total time your automation takes to run. These messages are configured via the Report Status activity by the automation creator.

Automation Hub URL

If an automation was created based on an Automation Hub idea, you can access that corresponding idea in Automation Hub by clicking on the More details link from the details window.

Coming Soon - The UiPath Assistant for Excel Add-in

Starting with the 2023.4 release, you can access the UiPath Assistant from Microsoft Excel. Use the UiPath Assistant for Excel Add-in to engage with your automations directly from Excel, without shifting between applications.

A new section for Favorites

Starting with the 2023.4 release, in the Assistant Launchpad, below the UiPath Products section, a new group called Favorites is available. When you use Assistant in single column view, this group will be visible in the Home tab, in the Automations List. You can still create other groups in the Launchpad, and they will also be available from the Home tab.

Accessibility

We have made several accessibility improvements.

Linux Robots for UIA

Starting with the 2023.4 Enterprise release, the default Linux robot image will be discontinued and replaced with the image used to run Chrome Automations on Linux.

Pre loaded Executor

Performance improvements were made for the start-up of a process. Whenever you start the Robot, by default, an additional executor is automatically launched. Read more in the Robot executor documentation.

Live streaming and remote control

You are now able to watch an unattended execution while it is happening, and, if problems arise and debug is needed, to take remote control of the execution and try to fix it. All this with the help of the Live Streaming and Remote Control feature.

Improvements

Input arguments

Starting with the 2023.4 release, you can see from Assistant which arguments have default values defined at design time. If a variable has a default value and is not modified, the automation will run with that default value. You can also update the respective fields with your preferred values.

Share automations

You can now share automations with others by clicking the Share icon next to the automation name, provided that the automation is installed in a shared folder. You can enable this feature from Automation Ops.

Control the Marketplace widget without Automation Ops

Starting with the 2023.4 release, you have a new way of disabling the Marketplace widget without using Automation Ops.

Control the EDR protection status display

Starting with the 2023.4 release, the Crowdstrike EDR (Endpoint Detection Response) protection status of your robot is no longer displayed by default. You can control the visibility of this message from the Automation Ops policies.

Skip the robot customization

The Choose your robot page no longer shows the first time you open Assistant. You can choose a picture and a name at any time by clicking on the Robot next to the search bar.

Log Message improvements

The “Execution Started” log message now provides more accurate timestamp information.

Package Folder Sharing

Multiple user-mode robots can now share the package files on the same machine. This is configurable using the NUGET_SCRATCH machine environment variable, with the value being a temporary folder. Read more about this in our documentation.

Redesigned Assistant Help section

Starting with the 2023.4 release, we redesigned the Assistant Help section for better readability.

Breaking Changes

Starting with this release, the input arguments from Orchestrator overwrite the ones set in Studio.

Bug Fixes

• An issue causing an error when running Diagnostic Tool from Assistant has been solved.
• Starting with the 2023.4 release, the Automation Store widget is only available if you are connected and signed in to an Orchestrator server URL.
• An issue that caused an Event Log error after upgrading Orchestrator and running an automation as an Attended Robot has been solved.
• When you delete a personal automation, the Assistant no longer tries to install it first, and the deletion process run as expected.
• An issue causing an error when you installed a process containing an activity that could be used without Integration Service has been solved.