Studio release notes
June 17, 2026
Build number: 2026.0.195
Extensions panel
Studio now supports extensions, letting you add file viewers, editor tools, and other capabilities to support how you actually work on automations.
Building an automation means juggling more than just workflows — there's the Process Design Document (PDD) to reference, the input spreadsheet to check, the API to test before you wire it up, or coding agents to help with development.
All of it lived outside Studio, and getting to it meant leaving what you were doing. The goal: bring the tools and files you're already working with into the same environment as your automations, without asking you to change how you work.
The panel gives you four ways to find and install extensions:
- Recommended — a curated set designed around RPA workflows
- Installed — see and manage the extensions you have active
- Open VSX — full access to the Open VSX catalog beyond the Recommended set
- Custom — install any extension directly from a local
.vsixfile
Some examples of what you can do:
- Install Claude Code or any other coding assistant and get help building, editing, and reviewing automations without leaving Studio.
- Install Postman and test your endpoints from inside Studio — response schema, authentication, payload structure — before a single activity is placed on the canvas.
- Install Office Viewer and PDF for VS Code to read the PDD, check the sample invoice, or review the input spreadsheet inline — without opening another app.
- Keep your process map inside the project. Install Markdown Preview Mermaid Support and it renders right there in the Markdown preview.
- Keep your installation tidy. Search the catalog, install in one click, remove just as easily. Only what you actually use.
- Shape your workspace. Show or hide panels introduced by Extensions — and other panels — to keep focus on what you're working on.
Bug fixes
- Drilling down to a Multiple Assign variable using Find References navigated deeper than the referenced activity.
- Arguments of a package published from StudioX were not displayed on the Orchestrator process registration page.
- The bundled .NET runtime has been updated from 8.0.15 to 8.0.27 to address known security vulnerabilities.
- When activity assemblies failed to load on project open, Studio could persist UnresolvedActivity placeholders in XAML files, causing errors on subsequent opens.
- Clicking Refresh Arguments in the Invoke Workflow File activity dialog deleted all previously configured argument values in the calling workflow.
June 2, 2026
Build number: 2026.0.194
Configure Switch, Try Catch, and Else If branches with pills
Branch properties in Switch (case values), Try Catch (exception filters), and Else If (conditions) now appear as pills directly on the activity in Compact Mode instead of plain text labels. This matches how other editable properties are surfaced in Compact Mode. Selecting a pill opens the Properties panel pre-focused on the matching field so you can edit it without leaving the canvas.
Bug fixes
- In a localized Studio, creating a Task project now localizes the Project Notebook to match the Studio language. Previously the Project Notebook was always created in English.
- Studio could stop responding because of an unhandled error when switching focus between open files.
- Copying a solution to Git from Studio Desktop could create infinite folder nesting.
- Not all dependency nodes were loaded in the project tree when opening some projects with several custom libraries with nested dependencies.
- ReadOnly variables appeared as constants in Data Manager, and their default values could not be edited.
- The Publish dialog was missing Tenant and Personal Workspace options until Studio was restarted.
- When you started development in Studio from an Automation Hub idea and changed the language or target framework in the New Project wizard, the Automation Hub URL was dropped and left empty in Project Settings.