2024.10.1

Release date: 1 July 2024

What's New

Unleash your productivity with Autopilot™

Autopilot™ offers a set of AI-powered capabilities designed to help you create and test automations faster and easier. To see what Autopilot offers across the UiPath® Business Automation Platform, check out the Autopilot guide.

To enhance productivity and streamline the automation development process, Studio now allows you to generate complex expressions using natural language. An integral part of the new Autopilot™ developer capabilities, AI-generated expressions enable you to describe the desired outcome for a particular activity input, while an AI-based model will generate a valid expression based on the request. For more information, see Designing Automations in the Studio guide.

With Autopilot, you can use natural language to describe the structure and outcome of a workflow. Autopilot will then process your instructions and create a preview of the resulting workflow. If you are not satisfied with the structure created by Autopilot, you can further refine your instructions and generate a new workflow. You can also generate a workflow from annotations added to Sequence activities. For more information, see The User Interface in the Studio guide.

With its summarization capabilities, Autopilot can also describe the inner workings of activities and sequences by creating meaningful names that take into account the elements that define the activity or sequence. To learn more, see The User Interface in the Studio guide.

Autopilot is enabled by default for all users. However, organizations can use governance policies to control Autopilot capabilities.

New project navigation shortcuts

You can now go back or forward inside project files and between project files using new shortcuts. You can also use the new Navigate forward and Navigate backward buttons and keyboard shortcuts in the Command Palette.

Windows projects saved to the cloud

To facilitate access to automations and improve collaboration between developers without the need to share project files or to set up a source control environment in advance, Windows projects can now be saved as cloud projects.

Cross-platform cloud projects are integrated seamlessly with Studio Web, giving you the flexibility to start working on a project in StudioX and continue in your browser, while Windows projects can be stored in the cloud but not edited in Studio Web. For more information, see Designing Cross-platform Projects in the Studio guide.

Organizations can use governance policies to determine if projects are saved locally or to the cloud by default.

Other new features

• StudioX now supports C# 11.

Improvements

Simplified ribbon layout

A simplified ribbon layout is now available, allowing you to increase the size of the Designer panel. For information on how to enable the new layout, see The User Interface.

Streamlined Designer panel context menu

The context menu when right-clicking inside the Designer panel now has a slimmer design. Some changes include:

• The Disable Activity and Enable Activity options are now dynamically displayed.
• The Run to this Activity and Run from this Activity options have been consolidated under a single Debug option.

For an updated list of available context menu options, see The User Interface.

Copy error messages directly from the Properties panel

You can now use the new clipboard icon in the Properties panel to copy error messages that appear in activities prior to execution or debugging.

Improved workflow readability and navigation

To improve workflow visibility and usability, you can now see all activity properties in the Properties panel when collapsing an activity, including advanced properties, even if the Show activity properties inline design setting is selected.

You can now also rename and annotate activity containers in activities such as If, Else If, While, Do While, or For Each.

Open recent projects from the taskbar

To quickly navigate between multiple projects, you can now open recently accessed projects directly from the taskbar by right-clicking the Studio icon. You can also pin recent projects in the same way as from Backstage view.

Improved source control authentication options

We have consolidated the options to authenticate in projects managed through GIT. For more information, see Managing Projects with GIT.

Improved control over prerelease versions of activities packages

Organizations now have more control over prerelease (beta) versions of activities packages. Using new governance policies that restrict access to prerelease packages, the Include Prerelease filter options in the Manage Packages window can now be hidden, which means that users can have access only to stable versions of an activity package.

If access is not restricted via governance, a new Activities panel filter option, Preview, is now available. Selecting this filter option displays installable activities that are marked as preview in the Activities panel and in the Add activity search bar.

Other improvements

• StudioX now uses less RAM resources.
• Opening workflows containing many activities is now faster.
• Variables automatically generated from activity outputs now have more readable names. If a variable with the same name already exists, the output variable’s name is incremented by 1.

Bug Fixes

A There is more than one Workspace variable defined error occurred when reopening some projects migrated from Windows - Legacy to the Windows compatibility.

Removed Features

Starting with this StudioX release, you can only create new projects using the Windows and cross-platform compatibilities. This includes new processes, libraries, test automations, and templates. We continue to support editing existing Windows - Legacy projects and organizations are still able to use governance policies to restore the option of creating Windows - Legacy projects. For more information, see About the Windows-Legacy compatibility.