2021.10.3

Ever thought how great it would be to always have your robots up to date? We have some great news then! You are now able to update Robot, Studio, and UiPath Assistant clients to newer versions from Orchestrator. This provides an easy way to deliver a version update to a large base of machines from a centralized location, helping remove user friction and streamlining the update process.

The time to take full advantage of technology is here! Using Robots in Linux environments allows you to run unattended automations in Docker containers and provides a faster experience and an easier way of scaling up your deployment.

UiPath and CrowdStrike have partnered to deliver a unique solution that delivers seamless enhancements to Endpoint Protection for the robot workforce to our joint customers. As robots take on more and more tasks that humans give them, they can encounter similar risks of attack. For example, downloading a compromised file from a normally safe website or being compromised by an insider.

The integration is available starting with the upcoming CrowdStrike v6.32 release.

With this release we introduced a new way to govern what applications, URLs or emails your Robot can use. Choose which internal applications can be accessed by your automations, block URLs that should not be automated or deny or allow specific email addresses that you don’t want your Robots to send emails to. All of this is done from UiPath Automation Ops by setting robot governance policies, just like you would do for UiPath Studio or UiPath Assistant.

The UiPath Marketplace Widget provides an easy way for business users to access ready-to-go RPA content that is published in the UiPath Marketplace. Here you can find numerous processes specifically created to run with your UiPath Assistant (including native UiPath integrations) covering numerous industries and use cases, there is no longer a need for building everything from scratch over and over again.

All of this is available in the UiPath Assistant through the Marketplace Widget.

The Marketplace Widget is enabled by default for all users, and appears in the UiPath Assistant as a new tab in the header.

Read more about this in the official Marketplace Widget Documentation.

You can now launch the Task Capture desktop application directly from the UiPath Assistant.

Getting access to internal, ready-to-go automations from the Automation Store is now easier than ever. With the Automation Store and Hub Widget, users can install or update automations and submit automation ideas directly from the UiPath Assistant.

Users are now able to take advantage of our new Integrations from the comfort of the UiPath Assistant!

If a process already has connections set up in Orchestrator, the user can select it from the list. Otherwise, they can create a new one from the same menu.

Read more here.

The place where you can see the version of the UiPath Assistant has been moved in the same location as the one of the Windows Version. Right above the two versions, you can also see the currently applied governance policy. This has been thought to provide an easier way for the user to copy the information needed in troubleshooting.

For better visibility, when a process is selected in the UiPath Assistant, it stays highlighted in the list.

A message has been added to the UiPath Assistant that notifies the user when changing log levels about sensitive information that can be included in the logs.

To improve performance and to take advantage of the memory available on 64-bit operating systems, starting with 2021.10 release, the Robot Executor runs Windows — Legacy projects on 32-bit by default, while Windows and cross-platform projects on 64-bit.

Starting with the 2021.10 release, packages are compiled from Studio in .dll files instead of .xaml. This provides a more secure way of running and storing automation projects on the user machine as their contents are no longer available to users.

For more control, starting with the v2021.10 release, attended jobs can be stopped from Orchestrator.

Starting with this release, when running a process, the UiPath Assistant can use the default entry point set in Orchestrator.

Whenever an RPA developer is troubleshooting a process on an Unattended Robot, and Assistant is connected to Orchestrator with a machine key using an unattended robot, the status shown in the user interface has been changed from: “Connected, Unlicensed” to “Connected, waiting for jobs”.