Automation Suite release notes

Last updated Feb 27, 2025

2023.10.7

Release date: December 18, 2024

New flags for enhanced Kerberos authentication

We have introduced new configuration flags to give you more control over the Kerberos authentication. You can now use the following flags to customize the Kerberos authentication settings:

kerberos_auth_config.enable_integrated_sql_auth: This flag allows you to decouple the Kerberos authentication from the SQL authentication login, and to enable or disable Kerberos authentication for SQL across all your products.
<serviceGroupName>.kerberos_auth_config.enabled: This flag allows you to control the use of Kerberos authentication for SQL authentication at product level. You must replace <serviceGroupName> with the name of your product.

These new flags bring changes to the priority order for SQL Kerberos authentication, as follows:

Kerberos authentication for SQL is enabled by default when Kerberos authentication is enabled.
If you set kerberos_auth_config.enable_integrated_sql_auth to false, Kerberos authentication for SQL is disabled across all your products.
If you set <serviceGroupName>.kerberos_auth_config.enabled to false, Kerberos SQL authentication is disabled for the specified product.

For more details on Kerberos authentication, see Setting up Kerberos authentication.

New prerequisite checks

We have introduced more prerequisite checks to optimize the overall experience of installing and configuring Automation Suite and to catch missing requirements earlier. Here are some highlights:

A new validation check ensures that the READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT option is enabled in the SQL Server database. We have implemented this check validation for Orchestrator, Apps, and Process Mining.
We have introduced a prerequisite check in the mirror-registry.sh and hydrate-registry.sh scripts to validate the OCI compliance of the external registry before uploading images.

Changes to the logs forwarding method

We have changed the logs forwarding method to external tools, such as Splunk, due to the switch to kube-logging. Now, you can forward logs to Splunk using the OpenTelemetry Collector.

For details, see Forwarding logs to external tools.

Support bundle enhancements

We made the following improvements to the Automation Suite support bundle:

The support bundle now collects logs for the uipath-auth and velero namespaces.
The support bundle now captures custom resources.

Logging enhancement

Helm logs are now visible in the terminal output.

Security enhancements

We continue to provide security updates and patches to address Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs).

Bug fixes

We have fixed an issue causing a side-by-side upgrade to fail in an offline environment when Apps was enabled.
We have fixed an issue that caused Insights data loss when you reinstalled or upgraded Insights following an Automation Suite upgrade from version 2023.4 or older.
We have fixed an Insights annotation issue that would block the Automation Suite installer.
We have fixed an issue that caused log collection for RKE2 system commands to run indefinitely.
We have fixed an issue causing the aicenter skill sync and aicenter skill status commands to fail during a side-by-side upgrade. This issue occurred due to a syntax error.
An issue was preventing exclude=rke2-* from being automatically added to the /etc/yum.conf file on all nodes. This issue occurred particularly in online environments and caused an unintentional upgrade of the RKE2 service on nodes other than the first server. Previously, you had to manually add the exception to the /etc/yum.conf on all nodes. We have fixed the issue.
We have fixed an issue causing unnecessary DNS resolution validation for redis.<primary-fqdn> and redis-db.<primary-fqdn> during Active/Passive prerequisite checks. This behavior no longer occurs.
We have fixed an issue that occurred in non-HA Redis scenarios, where the redis-cluster-0 pod could get stuck in a terminating state during node drain operations. This behavior no longer occurs.
When using style attributes in the HTML tags while customizing your Login page, they reflected accurately in the preview. However, upon saving the changes, the style attributes were deleted automatically. Now, all style attributes used within tags persist after saving your changes.
An issue was causing installation or upgrade failures when enabling Connaisseur during the configuration of an external OCI-compliant registry. This issue occurred when the registries.trust.enabled parameter was set to true in the cluster_config.json file. We have fixed the issue.
We have fixed an issue causing the upgrade to fail due to the overriding of existing Insights PVC sizes.
We fixed a bug that was breaking SAML2 when basic authentication was disabled, along with various other bugs.

Known issues

AI Center storage migration failure

Erratum - added February 13, 2025: An issue prevents uipathctl from correctly setting executeMigration to true during the migration process from Ceph in-cluster storage to external object storage in AI Center.

To fix this issue, you must manually set executeMigration to true in ArgoCD for AI Center and then proceed with a resync, ensuring to prune. This issue is fixed in Automation Suite 2023.10.8.

Email alerts configuration failure post upgrade

Erratum - added February 13, 2025: An issue affects the functionality of email alerts configuration and the setup of multiple receivers after upgrading from Automation Suite 2022.10. To address this issue, see Troubleshooting.

This issue is fixed in Automation Suite 2023.10.8.

FQDN update failure

Erratum - added February 13, 2025: An issue causes the FQDN update to fail due to the update_fqdn parameter to not being properly set in the service-cluster-configurations secret.

To address this issue, you must manually remove the update_fqdn and update_fqdn_state parameters and update the service-cluster-configurations secret using the following command:

kubectl patch secret service-cluster-configurations -n uipath-infra --type=json -p='[
  {"op": "remove", "path": "/data/UPDATE_FQDN"},
  {"op": "remove", "path": "/data/UPDATE_FQDN_STATE"}
]'kubectl patch secret service-cluster-configurations -n uipath-infra --type=json -p='[
  {"op": "remove", "path": "/data/UPDATE_FQDN"},
  {"op": "remove", "path": "/data/UPDATE_FQDN_STATE"}
]'

This issue is fixed in Automation Suite 2023.10.8.

Deprecation timeline

We recommend that you regularly check the deprecation timeline for any updates regarding features that will be deprecated and removed.

Bundling details

Product versions

To find out what has changed on each Automation Suite product, visit the following links.

If the product is greyed out, this new Automation Suite version does not bring any changes to it.

DISCOVER	BUILD	MANAGE	ENGAGE
Automation Hub 2023.10.7	Automation Ops 2023.10.7	AI Center 2023.10.7	Action Center 2023.10.7
Task Mining 2023.10.7	AI Computer Vision 2023.10.7	Insights 2023.10.7	Apps 2023.10.7
Process Mining 2023.10.7	Document Understanding 2023.10.7	Orchestrator 2023.10.8
		Test Manager 2023.10.7
		Data Service 2023.10.7

Internal third-party component versions

This Automation Suite release bundles the following internal components:

Component	Version
RKE2	1.30.5+rke2r1
ArgoCD	2.12.6
ceph	17.2.6
rook-ceph	1.14.6
prometheus-pushgateway	1.10.0
cert-manager	1.16.1
rancher-istio	105.4.0-up1.23.2
rancher-monitoring-crd	105.1.0-up61.3.2
rancher-gatekeeper	104.0.1-up3.13.0
rancher-monitoring	105.1.0-up61.3.2
longhorn	1.6.3
longhorn-crd	1.1.100
reloader	1.0.95
csi-driver-smb	1.16.0
velero	1.14.1
redis-operator	7.4.6-2
redis-cluster	7.4.6-102
oauth2-proxy	7.7.1
kube-logging/logging-operator	4.9.1
config-reloader	v0.0.5

Migration tool version

The migration tool version you need depends on the standalone products you plan to migrate and the targeted Automation Suite version. For more details, see Migration compatibility matrix.

For instructions on migrating a standalone product to the current version of Automation Suite, see Full migration.

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