UiPath 26.0.186 February Community Release

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

UiPath 26.0.186 February Community Release

Studio

This release brings several updates focused on small UI improvements and fixes for customer-reported issues. The goal was to improve overall usability and address minor visual inconsistencies.

Activities

System Activities 25.12.2

Official release notes:

Activities - Release notes

Improvements

• Several activities were updated to ensure a consistent look and improved user experience:

  • Workflow Placeholder
  • Beep
  • Change Type
  • Get Environment Variable
  • Set Environment Variable
  • Get Environment Folder
  • Get Processes
  • Kill Process
  • Read List Item
  • Update List Item

• The following activities are now available in cross-platform projects and Studio Web:

  • Change Type
  • Get Environment Variable
  • Set Environment Variable
  • Get Environment Folder
  • Get Processes
  • Kill Process

• The Get Queue Items activity received multiple improvements:
  

  • Introduced the Filter builder property, consolidating all existing options and adding two new filters: StartProcessing and EndProcessing.
  • Introduced the Filter query preview property, which displays the currently configured OData query string for reference.
  • Added support for dynamic filtering across all properties via the Use an expression toggle, allowing users to override the filter configuration with a custom OData filter string.

• Two new Workflow Analyzer Rules were added for the Invoke Workflow File activity to help identify argument misconfigurations:

  

  • SY-USG-015 – Invoke Workflow Misconfiguration Warnings
  • SY-USG-016 – Invoke Workflow Misconfiguration Errors

• The Get Current Job Info, Manual Trigger, and Time Trigger activities now expose the Created By as part of its output (with a full name and email), returning the details of the Cloud Orchestrator user who started the job.

  

• The Invoke Workflow File and Invoke Process activities now support persistence in invoked workflows.

  Note: This functionality requires the latest Studio/Robot 20.0.186 STS release.

• The Start Job activity is now marked as deprecated in favor of the more versatile Run Job activity. This is a recommendation only, with no plans to remove the activity in the foreseeable future.

  

• The Message Box activity is now supported on macOS. Linux environments are not supported yet and will log the message to the console instead.

• Added the Allow Misaligned Columns toggle to the Generate Data Table From Text activity to better handle space-separated data with misaligned columns.

• In the Run Job activity, refreshing the Data Mapper no longer resets configured arguments.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Trigger Scope activity argument name could lose its value when out of focus.
• Fixed an issue where remote debugging failed when using System Activities versions newer than 24.10.8.
• Resource conversion is now registered only for Orchestrator jobs, preventing 404 errors when returning job attachments for local jobs.
• Fixed an issue where Read Text File activity produced an incorrect expression when browsing for a local file.
• Fixed an issue where Multiple Assign activity colors could remain stuck in certain situations.
• In the Run Job activity, when configuring the target runtime machine, a machine can now be specified without also requiring an account.

Previous release notes

• UiPath 26.0.185 January Community Release
• UiPath 26.0.182 December Community Release
• UiPath 26.0.181 November Community Release
• UiPath 26.0.180 November Community Release
• UiPath 26.0.179 October Community Release

Please tell us what you think

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[edevries (Peter Griffin)]

• The Invoke Workflow File and Invoke Process activities now support persistence in invoked workflows.

This is huge. This was always the worst part of Document Understanding. With this changed, we will be able to make proper testable workflows.

[Zain_Ahmad]

Will the new Get Current Job Info activity let you see the details of bots who start and run jobs automatically? Does this work for On-Prem Orchestrator?

[ashokkarale]

@loginerror

The Get Queue Items activity received multiple improvements:

https://global.discourse-cdn.com/uipath/original/4X/7/5/4/75487fef7b1a6a6efe737b95253c70b221e25fa4.mp4

• Introduced the Filter builder

This one is really helpful. Thanks a lot

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

Could you please explain your use case a bit more?

[Zain_Ahmad]

I have about 40~ bots on my on-prem Orchestrator. I want to be able to know what bot ran a job automatically without the need for using the export feature on Orchestrator daily. I was hoping that with a new version, we’d be able to put this pulled data into Excel and then make graphs and such without manually doing it like before.

[David_Hernandez2 (David Hernandez)]

@edevries

The Invoke Workflow File and Invoke Process activities now support persistence in invoked workflows.

Does this mean I can use the “Wait and resume” activities inside of an invoked workflow, and not be required to use them in main now? @loginerror

[edevries (Peter Griffin)]

That is my understanding. Which would be friggin’ sweet ehehehehehe

[David_Hernandez2 (David Hernandez)]

I updated package and tried invoking a “Wait and Resume” activity, failure

[Sorin_Constantin]

Hello David!
Did you enable the persistence support on your project?
Right Click on your project name in the project explorer panel → Project settings →

[David_Hernandez2 (David Hernandez)]

Hey Sorin, yes I have that enabled.

Also, these are the dependencies I have downloaded:

[Sorin_Constantin]

Can you also provide the Studio version you are using?

[David_Hernandez2 (David Hernandez)]

I am using version 2025.0.176 STS

[Sorin_Constantin]

Would you be able to run the Secondary workflow from this project and tell me if you get the same exception?
ValidationOfPersistence.zip (142.4 KB)

[David_Hernandez2 (David Hernandez)]

Unable to run nor find this 3.0.0 beta dependency:

I downgraded the dependency to a version I could find and had the same error as before.

[Sorin_Constantin]

I’m sorry for that dependency…
But the test you did confirmed that the Studio version you’re using doesn’t have the persistence support for secondary workflows implemented. I think using a newer version should be the fix here.

[Taylor_Brooks]

Thanks for sharing these release notes! The cross-platform project improvements and the new Filter builder for Get Queue Items activity are particularly exciting. I’ve been waiting for the Change Type and environment variable activities to be available in Studio Web - this will make cross-platform development much smoother. The new Workflow Analyzer rules for Invoke Workflow File are also a great addition for maintaining code quality. Looking forward to testing these updates!

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

@Sorin_Constantin

Studio version you’re using doesn’t have the persistence support for secondary workflows implemented. I think using a newer version should be the fix here.

Thanks @Sorin_Constantin!

@David_Hernandez2, I updated the above release notes with the following note on that improvement:

Note: This functionality requires the latest Studio/Robot 20.0.186 STS release.

To make it work, Robot changes were unavoidable.