UiPath.Python.Activities 1.9.0 now supports the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime

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UiPath.Python.Activities 1.9.0 now supports the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime

The new Python activities package version includes a small but important improvement around the required .NET Desktop Runtime dependency.

Previously, the Python scope activity would freeze if no .NET 6 Desktop Runtime was present in the environment.

Now it will accept any version higher or equal to 6 (for example: .NET 6, .NET 8, and so on), and the activity will throw a better exception if the required dependency is not found at all.

You can find the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime over here:

This is documented in our release notes over here, and you can already grab the new version from the UiPath Official feed.

If you struggle to configure the activity, please refer to this working example that uses Python 3.12 and the default Python installation path under:
%localappdata%\Programs\Python\Python312

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This was much needed. Thank you for sharing this @loginerror :v:

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Thanks!

One strange problem I’m getting - code that ran fine with the previous python alpha package 1.9.0-alpha.5252821 refuses to run with this updated package, always giving me: Python Scope: Error initializing Python engine

All arguments are the same and downgrading back to the alpha version reliably fixes it. I have tried explicitly installing both the .net 6 and 8 frameworks, any idea what might be going wrong?