Updating packages in Control Room
- Updated: 2023/04/05
Updating packages in Control Room
The delivery of packages is developed to be separate from the main platform updates. This will help us respond quickly to changes and fixes required and provide the flexibility to deliver updates in packages, going forward.
- Cloud users cannot turn off this automatic installation of a new package and new package version, but the package administrator can control the status of the new package version.
- For On-Premises users, the automatic package download capability is disabled by default, but package administrators can enable it.
This capability is enabled differently for Cloud and On-Premises Control Room instances, as listed in the following table:
| Seamless package update capability | Cloud Control Room | On-Premises Control Room |
|---|---|---|
| Download packages from Automation Anywhere Cloud | Enabled by default and cannot be disabled. | Disabled by default and can be enabled. Note: From Automation 360 v.27, it is enabled for new
installation and can be disabled.
|
| Set downloaded package to default version | Enabled by default and can be disabled. | Enabled by default and can be disabled. |
- Cloud users: Automatic package updates for Cloud Control Room
- On-Premises users: Automatic package updates for On-Premises Control Room
We recommend bot developers always use the latest version of the packages because that version provides the latest innovations and all the code and security fixes from previous versions. Note that this capability does not impact existing bots, which continue to run unchanged. Bots developed with a particular package version will continue to do so unless explicitly changed by the bot developer. However, if you want to modify existing bots to use the default version of a package, you can use the Update bots to default package version feature. For more information, see Update bots to default package version.