Automation 360 v.35 Release Notes
- Updated: 2025/02/17
Release date: 26 November 2024
Review the top features in this release and view other new features and exciting enhancements for Automation 360 v.35 release.
- Build 29094: Automation 360 (On-Premises) and IQ Bot (On-Premises)
- Build 29082: Automation 360 (Cloud)
- Build 29082: Automation 360 (Cloud-Sandbox)
We have released the updated Cloud Build 29082 (previously Build 29077), Cloud-Sandbox Build 29082 (previously Build 29077), and On-Premises Build 29094 (previously Build 29058). For information about the updates, see Release updates.
Highlights of this release
Here are the top features in the v.35 release:
- Connect to any generative AI model
- New generative AI models are rapidly being released from model vendors, and
customers are creating their own custom models. In this release, we enable
you to harness the full potential of AI, by making it easy to connect to
these models and use them within your AI Skills and agents.
This enables you to take advantage of the latest generative AI innovations
and produce the most effective agentic process automations.Note: This feature requires the Enterprise Platform license. For more information, see Enterprise Platform.
- Build AI Agents faster with AI Skill templates
- AI Skills can now be saved as templates enabling you to share
and reuse AI Skills across your organization. Pre-built,
customizable AI Skill templates give you a head start on
building robust and scalable AI Agents and accelerate your
time to value with agentic process automation. Note: This feature requires the Enterprise Platform license. For more information, see Enterprise Platform.
- Use AAI Enterprise Knowledge RAG in AI Agent Studio for grounded automations
- AAI Enterprise Knowledge is our best-in-class solution to provide
retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities to our customers. RAG
helps generative AI models create more meaningful outputs and mitigate
hallucinations by using your company data to augment LLMs. With this
release, you can now use this RAG functionality in AI Agent Studio
to build AI Skills that are grounded in your data, enabling
you to automate complex business use cases, with the governance you require
utilizing AAI Enterprise Knowledge.Note: This feature requires the Enterprise Platform license and the AAI Enterprise Knowledge license. For more information, see Enterprise Platform.
See Support for RAG capability via Grounded by Enterprise Knowledge.
- Improve data extraction accuracy with vision-powered GenAI extraction
- Text-based generative AI models fall short when they are used to extract
data from complex tables with nested elements or merged columns. In this
release, Document Automation integration with vision-based GenAI
models unlocks the power of vision-based AI extraction to automate complex
document processing tasks. This feature enhances accuracy and reduces the
need for manual intervention, allowing you to focus on more strategic
initiatives.Note: This feature requires the Document Automation license. For more information, see Document Automation licenses.
- Scale and adapt your process automations with agentic orchestration
- The following new features in this release enable you to enhance process
automation performance, scalability, and ease of use. Note: These features require the Enterprise Platform license. For more information, see Enterprise Platform.
- Web triggers:
Instantly trigger automations when SaaS events occur in your
enterprise, ensuring timely and efficient process execution.
See Web triggers.
- Connector Builder for
On-Premises
Control Room instances: Build and distribute
packages, using this no-code tool, and seamlessly integrate diverse
systems and applications, in an easier, faster, and simpler
way.
See Connector Builder.
- Real-time proactive view: The Monitoring dashboard provides
real-time observability and enables you to gain a comprehensive view
across all your production automations, allowing you to scale and
operate thousands of processes with ease.
See Monitoring.
- Web triggers:
Instantly trigger automations when SaaS events occur in your
enterprise, ensuring timely and efficient process execution.
- Track real-time value gains from Document Automation and process automations
- New in this release is the ability to track, in real-time, the return on
investment (ROI) value of different automation types, including task
automation, API automation, Document Automation, and queue
automation through CoE Manager. With this capability, you can
now track the ROI for document automation processes, providing insights into
cost savings and efficiency gains. Furthermore, this release stitches
real-time reports for all the automation types into a single view providing
an end-to-end holistic view of the financial performance of entire process
automations. Finally, you can measure the impact of process automations on
your bottom line, helping you make informed decisions and optimize
operations.Note: This feature requires the CoE Manager or CoE Manager Plus license. For more information, see Automation 360 components by license and deployment.
See ROI tracking.
- Reliably automate desktop applications that use the Chromium Embedded Framework
- For developers, this release supports object-based automation of desktop
applications that use Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). This expands
automation coverage as developers can now automate CEF applications with the
same reliability and performance as that of traditional web apps. Developers
can also leverage JavaScript in desktop CEF applications to improve the
reliability of the automations, for example, by automatically closing
unexpected pop-ups.Note: This feature is available in Recorder package version 3.5.0-20241129-105732 and later. See Recorder package updates.
- Optimize automation execution with new deployment queue enhancements
- With automatic queueing, automations are instantly added to the deployment
queue if a targeted device becomes unavailable, ensuring that the automation
can be executed when the device becomes available. This makes the overall
deployment process more efficient as users do not have to manually redeploy
the automations upon device recovery. This newly introduced queue cleanup
automatically moves unprocessed items to the historical activity list,
reducing delays and enhancing deployment efficiency.
See Deployment.
- Efficiently manage automation execution recordings
- In the v.32 release, we announced the record execution feature, providing
you the ability to record automation executions and upload these to the Control Room, so this critical information can help you debug
automation failures. In this release, we’ve made this feature more robust
with the ability to effectively manage these recordings in case of an upload
failure. In the case of a device restart, pending recordings that were not
successfully uploaded are automatically retried, ensuring that important
execution data is not lost. The system also automatically deletes older
recordings that failed to upload after 3 days, freeing up local storage and
maintaining an efficient local file system.Note: This feature requires the Enterprise Platform license. For more information, see Enterprise Platform.
- Expand security through integration with new key vault vendor (ARCON)
- Automation 360 already provides support for several external
key vault providers such as AWS, CyberArk, Azure, and HashiCorp. With this
release, we are adding support for ARCON as a key vault provider for On-Premises deployments, specifically for auto-login use
cases.
Release updates
Date | Update |
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17 February 2025 | Build 29094 (On-Premises) includes the
following:
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6 February 2025 | Build 29082 (Cloud) includes the
following:
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4 February 2025 | Build 29082 (Cloud-Sandbox) includes a fix for an issue where users were not able to create Standard Forms models using the Create model option (Service Cloud Case ID: 02183308, 02183117, 02183140, 02183600, 0218359, 02181980, 02184271). |
20 January 2025 | Build 29077 (Cloud-Sandbox) includes the
following:
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13 January 2025 | Build 29077 (Cloud) includes a fix for an issue to avoid build up of messages on ActiveMQ topics that are no longer required. |
8 January 2025 | Cloud release |
6 January 2025 | Build 29073 (Cloud-Sandbox) includes the
following:
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23 December 2024 | On-Premises release |
26 November 2024 | Cloud-Sandbox release |
What's new and changed in each product
Navigate to the following pages for details on all the updates (what's new, changed, fixed, and limitations) in each product: