What's new in IBM Robotic Process Automation on Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform 23.0.13

Release date: 12 December 2023

IBM Robotic Process Automation version 23.0.13 is now available. This version introduces enhancements and fixes to the product's client and server.

To upgrade to the new version, check out the following documentation:

For previous release notes on the 23.0.x mainstream, see Previous releases.

Enhancements

Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14

IBM RPA now supports Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14. To upgrade your Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform version, see Preparing to update to OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 🡥.

See the supported versions for each version of the operator in Supported OpenShift versions.

FIPS compliance

You can now configure your server to comply with the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2, if you have a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster with FIPS enabled.

See the following documentation for more information about how to install a cluster with FIPS enabled and how to enable FIPS in the IBM RPA operator:

Support for more variable types in the Bots API

The Bots API now supports more variable types. Along with this change, Bots can now run from the control center with partially supported variable types.

For a full list of supported and partially supported variable types, see Supported data types for input and output parameters.

New cursorKeysState parameter in Terminal commands

The cursorKeysState parameter was added to the Connect to Terminal via SSH (terminalSshConnect) and Connect to Terminal via Telnet (terminalTelnetConnect) commands. This parameter defines the behavior of cursor keys, with which you can choose between Normal and Application mode.

Fixed issues

This version fixes previous known issues that are found by users. Customer issues are reported as authorized program analysis reports (APAR), which is how IBM documents, tracks, and fixes problems.

  • [APAR DT246344] IBM RPA Control Center: Resolved an issue where the Instances page from a process would display "undefined" instead of the name of the instance.
  • [APAR DT246496] Send Key to Terminal (terminalSendKey): Improved the validation of keys on the command.
  • [APAR DT246637] IBM RPA Control Center: The Processes page no longer shows an incorrect amount of valid computer runtimes.
  • [APAR DT246936] HTTP Request (httpRequest): Resolved an issue where the command would fail to send cookies even if the Cookie Container (cookieContainer) parameter was specified.
  • [APAR DT247277] IBM RPA Control Center: Resolved an issue where, upon logging in with SSO, the list of tenants would diplay tenants where the user has been deactivated.
  • [APAR DT247338] Save Excel As (excelSaveAs): Saving an Excel file with the command now applies the right extension to the file.
  • [APAR DT247358] Download Email Attachments (emailGetAttachment): The Accept Inline Attachments (acceptinlineattachments) parameter is no longer obsolete.
  • [APAR DT248066] Set Value (setValue): Resolved an issue where Java applications would fail to clean previous values on the selected field.
  • IBM RPA Control Center: Resolved an issue where the user could return to the login page even after a successful login.
  • IBM RPA API: Resolved an issue where the deletion of tenants was not working.
  • IBM RPA API: Resolved an issue where the API would generate log errors while trying to parse date and time values.
  • IBM RPA Control Center: Improved performance of the Teams page.

Documentation updates