Release notes

Upcoming release

• Library RPA.Robocorp.WorkItems:

  • Keyword Release Input Work Item allows exception passing with type, code and name (#256)

  • Automatic API call retrying under Control Room for failed requests (#252)

  • Default input item during local dev, docs and cloud requests hotfixes (#253)

11.4.0

• Library RPA.Robocorp.WorkItems support on iterating work items for both local development and in the cloud:

  • Add keyword For Each Input Work Item for applying a keyword over all input work items (#241)

  • Add keywords Get Current Work Item and Release Input Work Item for releasing and setting the state of the currently processed input work item (#245)

11.3.0

• Library RPA.Robocorp.Vault: Supports both .yaml/.json local vault secrets file formats (#225)

• Library RPA.PDF: Add possibility to preserve whitespacing in PDF textboxes - #235

• Library RPA.Robocorp.WorkItems: New environment variables for work items I/O during local dev (“RPA_INPUT_WORKITEM_PATH”, “RPA_OUTPUT_WORKITEM_PATH” - #234)

• Library RPA.Email.ImapSmtp:

  • Fix Move Messages issue (#237)

  • Add keyword Move Messages By IDs

  • Fix boolean return values for keywords doing definite actions (like Mark As Read, Delete Messages..)

• Library RPA.Email.Exchange: Update exchangelib dependency to 4.5.1 and pin tzlocal dependency to 2.1

11.2.1

• Library RPA.Robocorp.WorkItems: Handle payloads with non-ascii characters

• Library RPA.Dialogs: Date ISO format for Add Date Input keyword

• Library RPA.Desktop: Always write unicode with Type text

11.2.0

• Library RPA.Dialogs: Add Date Input keyword

• New library RPA.Robocorp.Process: Library support for Control Room Process API

11.1.3

• Library RPA.Salesforce:

  • Fix Salesforce Query result being limited to 250 objects

  • Add parameter to Salesforce Query to return result as Table

11.1.2

• Library RPA.Email.ImapSmtp:

  • Remove newline and carriage return chars from attachment filenames

  • Fix problem with saving attachments which do not have payload

11.1.1

• Library RPA.Robocorp.WorkItems: Ensure file-based database has at least one item

• Library RPA.Tables: Fix reversed sort ordering

• Library RPA.Windows: Fix internal argument for Screenshot keyword

• Library RPA.JSON: Fix docstring examples

11.1.0

• Library RPA.Email.ImapSmtp:

  • Add support for IMAP literal search

  • Add support for Gmail advanced search

11.0.0

• Terminology fixes for Robocorp Control Room

• Renamed library RPA.Robocloud.Items to RPA.Robocorp.WorkItems:

  • Previous import works as before, with deprecation warning

  • Removed keywords Load work item and Load work item from environment

  • Added keywords Get input work item and Create output work item

  • Added support for variables and home directory in local database path

  • Changed local work items format

• Renamed library RPA.Robocloud.Secrets to RPA.Robocorp.Vault:

  • Previous import works as before, with deprecation warning

  • Added support for variables and home directory in local vault path

• Library RPA.Email.ImapSmtp:

  • Add uid into email dictionary

  • Fix email body decoding

  • Fix folder list problem when requesting non-existing folder

• Library RPA.PDF:

  • Handle missing document information

  • Always create output directory when writing to disk

• Library RPA.Windows: Fix exception from empty parent attribute

• Library RPA.Images:

  • Deprecate screenshot keywords, use rpaframework-recognition for template matching

  • Use the library RPA.Desktop for image-based automation going forward

10.9.3

• Library RPA.Excel.Files:

  • Return empty list when reading empty worksheet (#203)

  • Correctly handle header names with non-string values

10.9.2

• Library RPA.Email.ImapSmtp:

  • Fix List Messages error not returning matching emails

  • Fix marking emails as SEEN when using List Messages or Wait For Message

  • Add encoding library initialization parameter (default is utf-8 as it used to be)

  • Add readonly parameter to keywords List Messages (True), Wait For Message (True) and Select Folder (False). Default values are in the parenthesis.

10.9.0

• Library RPA.Desktop.Windows: Add COMError protection to keyword Open From Search

• Library RPA.Email.ImapSmtp: Fix possible None error when reading email body

• Library RPA.Database: Fix typo in ibm_db connection

• Library RPA.JavaAccessBridge:

  • Add new library init parameters: ignore_callbacks and access_bridge_path

  • Bump java-access-bridge-wrapper version to 0.7.4

10.8.0

• Library RPA.HTTP:

  • Fix downloading of big files

  • Bump robotframework-requests version to 0.9.1

10.7.1

• Bump robotframework-pythonlibcore version to 3.0.0

10.6.0

• Library RPA.Email.Exchange: Add keyword Save Message to save message in EML format

10.5.0

• Library RPA.JavaAccessBridge: Bump java-access-bridge-wrapper to latest version

• Library RPA.Database: Add parameter autocommit to connect_to_database keyword (now only used with pymssql module)

• Library RPA.Email.Exchange: Fix List Messages when received_by is missing from the email

10.4.0

• New experimental library RPA.JavaAccessBridge

Library requirements:

• Windows only

• Java Access Bridge is enabled

• Environment variable pointing to the Access Bridge DLL file is set

See more details in library documentation.

Feedback is highly appreciated via Slack or Github issues!

• Library RPA.Email.ImapSmtp: Allow sending message with empty account and password

10.3.0

• Library RPA.Database: Return rows for SHOW and EXPLAIN statements

• Library RPA.Desktop.Windows: Add parent as possible locator

10.2.0

• Library RPA.Excel.Application:

  • Add keyword Export As PDF

  • Add automatic document and application closing to prevent file being locked

• Library RPA.FTP: Add keyword parameters to support FTP over TLS/SSL (FTPS)

• Library RPA.Desktop.Windows: Add point of origin parameter to Drag and Drop

rpaframework-google: 0.2.3

• Fix authentication issue when using Robocorp Vault

• Fix keyword Synthesize Speech

10.1.0

• Library RPA.Excel.Files:

  • Add keyword Set cell format for adjusting cell number formatting

  • Add new keyword aliases Get cell value and Set cell value

  • Improve keyword documentation

• Library RPA.Excel.Application: Add option to save in legacy formats

• Library RPA.Desktop: Fix issues with Press keys on Windows

10.0.7

• Library RPA.Dialogs: Print full traceback from errors when opening dialog

• Update optional numpy and opencv dependencies

10.0.6

• Library RPA.Dialogs:

  • Add unique name and icon for dialog window

  • Fix MacOS keyboard focus and dock icon issues

10.0.5

• Bump PyObjC versions from 6.x to 7.x, to fix possible API version errors with MacOS

10.0.4

• Library RPA.Dialogs:

  • Fix automatic height calculation on Windows

  • Fix element clearing if dialog throws exception

  • Fix errors in keyword examples

10.0.3

• Updated rpaframework-pdf dependency

10.0.2

• Fix use-robocorp-vault script error when creating devdata/env.json file

10.0.1

• Fix TypeError errors when creating Tables inside Robocorp Lab

10.0.0

• Library RPA.Cloud.Google:

  • Available now as rpaframework-google package instead of rpaframework extra

  • Added basic support for Gmail API

  • Added keyword tags to identify keywords by service in the documentation

  • Fix regression bug with Sheets keyword Insert Values

• Library RPA.Dialogs:

  • Open dialogs as native OS windows instead of new browser instances

  • Renamed multiple keywords and arguments, added type hints for all arguments

  • Visual upgrade to all components

  • Available separately as rpaframework-dialogs package, but still part of main release

• Library RPA.Tables:

  • Removed support for named rows, which caused confusion and had several shortcomings

  • Added automatic argument conversion for all keywords

  • Added examples for all keywords

9.6.0

• Library RPA.Email.ImapSmtp:

  • Return file paths of saved attachments

  • Fix problem with non-ASCII attachment filenames

• Library RPA.FileSystem: Fix default argument handling (#170)

• Library RPA.Word.Application: Add option to control opening documents in ReadOnly mode (#171)

9.5.0

• Library RPA.Tables:

  • Add encoding option for CSV reading and writing

  • Add not contains and not in operators for filtering

• Library RPA.JSON: Add indent option to Save JSON To File

• Library RPA.Excel.Files: Add keyword Get worksheet value

• Library RPA.HTTP: Allow string as verify parameter to give path to CA_BUNDLE

9.4.0

• Library RPA.PDF: Add Set Convert Settings keyword to adjust document analysis settings from default values

9.3.4

• Library RPA.PDF: Add orientation, rotate and format image properties for Add Files To PDF

• Library RPA.Cloud.Google: Fix bug in create file properties and set initial mimetype correctly

9.3.3

• Library RPA.Cloud.Google: Fix mimetype error with Drive Upload File

9.3.2

• Library RPA.Email.Exchange: Fix Empty Folder keyword

9.3.1

• Library RPA.Cloud.Google: Add missing service account support for Drive and Apps Script

9.3.0

• Library RPA.PDF:

  • Add keywords Save Figure As Image and Save Figures As Images to save PDF Figure objects

  • Add keyword Add Files To PDF to combine images and/or a PDFs (or pages from PDF) to new PDF

  • Improved performance by setting pdfminer log level to INFO

• Library RPA.Dialogs:

  • Add new keyword Add Password Input, see (#161)

  • Logging from keyword Request Response is now suppressed in Robot Framework logs

Thank you https://github.com/antusystem for submitting the pull request!

9.2.1

• Library Email.ImapSmtp: Fix issue with saving attachments

9.2.0

• Add new script use-robocorp-vault, which helps to setup local development run to use Robocorp Vault

9.1.0

• Library RPA.PDF:

  • Restore path create feature for keyword HTML To PDF

  • Fix keyword annotation of Save PDF, which caused unavailability of the keyword

  • Update changes to this library in release notes of 8.0.0

  • Known issue about viewing PDF with form checkbox fields, see (#156)

• Library RPA.Cloud.Google:

  • Add Sheets keyword Update Values

  • Add Sheets keyword Copy Sheet

  • Return responses from all Sheets keywords

9.0.0

Update to Robot Framework 4.0.

Feature highlights:

• Native IF/ELSE syntax

• Ability to skip tasks dynamically

• Argument auto-conversion improvements

• Documentation generation improvements

• Removal of task criticality

To see the full list of changes see the official release notes.

8.2.0

• Library RPA.Robocloud.Secrets:

  • Add keyword Set Secret for updating stored secrets

8.1.0

• Library RPA.Email.Exchange:

  • Add keyword List Unread Messages

  • Add keyword Move Message

8.0.1

• Library RPA.Browser.Selenium: Fix webdriver creation on Windows

8.0.0

• Library RPA.Browser.Selenium:

  • Keyword Open Available Browser has the default option ‘AUTO’ for arguments headless and download. See keyword documentation for details.

  • Webdrivers for Chrome/Chromium and Firefox are automatically matched to the currently installed browser version.

  • Webdrivers which are still running on Python process exit are closed automatically to prevent hanging subprocesses. (#94)

  • Webdrivers are stored in the user’s home folder, to speed up browser start-up times between reboots.

• Library RPA.PDF:

  • Refactor library into a separate package. (#97)

  • Rename keyword Add Image to PDF to Add Watermark Image to PDF.

  • Rename Get Value From Anchor to Find Text.

  • Rename Page Rotate to Rotate Page.

  • Rename PDF Decrypt to Decrypt PDF.

  • Rename PDF Encrypt to Encrypt PDF.

  • Rename Update Field Values to Save Field Values.

  • Rename Open PDF Document to Open PDF.

  • Rename Close PDF Document to Close PDF.

  • Unify keyword signatures, now keywords can be given an input and output paths. If no input path given, the library assumes a PDF is already opened by some other keyword. If no output path given, the library will output the file to output/output.pdf.

• Library RPA.Desktop.Windows:

  • Keyword Open File return type changed from boolean to integer, to indicate the opened application ID

  • Add object key into Get Window List return data (allows advanced usage)

  • Change how field is emptied with Type Into parameter empty_field=True

• Library RPA.Tables:

  • Add option to define column name for unknown CSV fields, and warn about header and data mismatch

  • Correctly handle source data with NoneType columns

• Library RPA.Word.Application: Fix saving with Office 2007 and older (#146)

• Library RPA.Cloud.AWS:

  • Add keyword Convert Textract Response To Model

  • Add model parameter to Keyword Analyze Document for getting modeled response object

• Library RPA.Email.ImapSmtp: Set attachment header correctly (#148)

7.6.0

• Library RPA.Outlook.Application: Fix ActiveDocument bug when closing Outlook

• Library RPA.Email.ImapSmtp: Convert non-literal values in List Messages response to strings

• Library RPA.Desktop.Windows: Add keyword Set Automation Speed

7.5.0

• Library RPA.Email.Exchange:

  • Fix sub folder bug with Move Messages

  • Add keyword Save Attachments

  • Add criterion parameter to List Messages for filtering

  • Add save_dir parameter to List Messages for saving attachments

  • Add more details into returned messages

• Library RPA.Database:

  • Fix bug with Call Stored Procedure

  • Hide details of Connect To Database from Robot Framework logs

7.4.2

• Library RPA.Email.ImapSmtp: Fix errors in server folder handling

• Library RPA.Desktop: Use correct default application when opening files on Windows

• Fix integer handling in Notebook Print core keyword

7.4.1

• Library RPA.Outlook.Application: Fix HTML email body issue

7.4.0

• Library RPA.Browser.Selenium:

  • Add parameter user_agent for keywords Open Available Browser and Open Chrome Browser

  • Add keyword Execute CDP to execute Chrome DevTools Protocol commands

• Fix issues with Windows library imports on Python 3.9

7.3.0

• Library RPA.Desktop.Windows:

  • Open File performs the Open Dialog call only if windowtitle is given

  • Expose timeout parameter for Open File keyword

• Library RPA.Browser.Selenium:

  • Keyword Open Available Browser now prints table of attempts to Notebooks on error

• Library RPA.JSON: Add optional default for fetching values

7.2.0

• Library RPA.Desktop.Windows:

  • Add keyword Refresh Window to support element re-evaluation when UI changes

  • Improve Restore Dialog keyword

  • Add experimental support for combined locators like name:element1 and type:Button

  • Add window title wildcard support for keywords starting applications and Open Dialog

  • Fix Quit Application error when using process id to quit

  • Add focus parameter to Mouse Click keyword

  • Add legacy and object attributes to element dictionary

  • Fix Wait For Element error when asserting number of elements to wait

  • Fix Open File by adding parameters to control window it opens

  • Fix Connect By Handle parameter type to int

• Library RPA.Desktop.OperatingSystem: Add keyword Process ID Exists

• Library RPA.Browser.Selenium:

  • Add keyword Print to PDF

  • Increase headless Chrome window size

• Library RPA.PDF:

  • Add possibility to get textboxes (text and its coordinates) with keyword Get Text From PDF

  • Add possibility to set anchor to point or area for keyword Get Value From Anchor

7.1.1

• Library Desktop.Windows:

  • Fix Open Executable error not taking control of the window

  • Address window resizing issue with Open Dialog

7.1.0

• New library Crypto for common hashing and encryption operations

• Library Cloud.Google: Improve help and error messages for rpa-google-oauth tool

• Library Desktop: Handle locators with whitespace, allow using return values as arguments

• Library Dialogs: Throw error if user closes browser, add timeout to response

• Library Excel.Application:

  • Expose header argument in Create Worksheet

  • Fix issues with worksheet access in keywords

  • Deprecate argument tabname in keyword Add new sheet

  • Add more helpful error messages

• Library FileSystem: Add keyword for reading file owner

• Constrain version of comtypes dependency to fix issue with Windows DLLs

7.0.5

• Fix issue with pip resolving incompatible chardet version

7.0.4

• Library Desktop.Windows: Remove library destructor actions

7.0.3

• Library Desktop.Windows: Fix possible COM exception when gathering elements from a window

7.0.2

• Library Cloud.Google: Remove unnecessary log message

7.0.1

• Library Cloud.Google: Fix how authentication scopes are initialized

7.0.0

• Library Desktop:

  • Add initial version of OCR support

  • Add syntax for locator chaining

  • Add built-in buffer time between keyboard/mouse inputs

  • Add built-in wait period for all locators, instead of failing immediately

  • Add preview images for matched locators in Robot Framework log

• Library Cloud.Google:

  • Add support for Apps Script service

  • Add support for Drive service

• Library Desktop.Windows: Add more properties into dictionary returned by Get Window List

• Library Email.ImapSmtp:

  • Add keyword Move Messages

  • Add source folder parameter to List Messages

  • Add limit to Delete Messages

  • Add keywords to add/remove labels from GMail messages

  • Add keyword Do Message Actions for performing custom set of actions on selected messages

• RPA.Browser libraries

  • RPA.Browser.Playwright has been added, enabling use of playwright based robotframework-browser library

  • RPA.Browser was moved to RPA.Browser.Selenium, and the old import RPA.Browser is kept as deprecated alias for now

• Library Tables: Correctly handle empty fields when filtering

6.7.3

• Fix issue with pip resolving incompatible chardet version

6.7.2

• Add docutils as dependency to fix robotframework-lsp support

6.7.1

• Library Desktop: Fix moving mouse to image template

6.7.0

• Library Excel.Files:

  • Add keyword for inserting images to worksheets

  • Fix off-by-one issue with Find Empty Row return value

• Library Desktop:

  • Store screenshots in unique path by default, embed preview in logs

  • Resolve image templates correctly with different working directories

• Library Excel.Application:

  • Add keyword Find First Available Cell to return free cell

  • Keyword Open Workbook will set first worksheet active by default

• Library PDF: Fix error when parsing figures in the document

• Library Database: Add support for pymssql database module

6.6.0

• Library Tables: Add various helper keywords:

  • Merge Tables for merging tables, with an optional shared key

  • Find Table Rows for finding rows with a specific column value

  • Set Row As Column Names for setting an existing row as header

• Library Browser: Add keyword Highlight Elements for highlighting elements that match a selector

• Library RPA.Desktop: Fix macOS coordinate scaling when using image template locators

• Remove dependency to python-evdev on Linux

6.5.0

• Library Excel.Application: Fix for finding first available row.

• Add missing variables for Robot Framework library scope and documentation format

• Add more verbose library docstrings in general

6.4.0

• Library Browser: Add Set Download Directory keyword

• Library Cloud.AWS: Add keywords for Textract asynchronous operations regarding document analysis and text detection

• Library Dialogs: Default value support for input text element (pull request #70)

• Library Desktop.Windows: Mouse Click keyword supports now also element dictionary as target locator

6.3.1

• Library Desktop.Windows: Add parameter to Get Element to prevent opening dialog

6.3.0

• Library Desktop: Image template confidence changed to logarithmic scale

• Library HTTP: Directory support for download target

• Reduce logging in keyboard emulation keywords, e.g. Send Keys, to prevent accidentally logging sensitive information

6.2.0

• Library Desktop.Windows: Add timeout parameter for keywords Open From Search and Open Using Run Dialog

6.1.0

• New library JSON for manipulating JSON objects

6.0.2

• Library Desktop:

  • Library scope changed to global

  • Obey default image locator confidence

6.0.1

• Library Desktop: Fix case handling with default locator

6.0.0

• Library FileSystem: Replace force arguments with missing_ok to match python API

• Library Desktop: Initial release of new cross-platform desktop automation library

• Library Dialogs: Add library initialization arguments to change server port and form stylesheet

• Library Robocloud.Items: Remove invalid assert on file overwrite

• Library Browser:

  • Add new option to allow missing elements with status keywords such as Is Element Visible

  • Set Chrome argument disable-dev-shm-usage by default in all environments

5.3.3

• Library Images: Fix duplicate region matches, timeout option

• Library Robocloud.Items: Allow saving files with FileAdapter

5.3.2

• Library Robocloud.Items: Fix relative path inputs, always return absolute paths.

5.3.1

• Library Robocloud.Items: Fix accessing unsaved files from items

• Library Tables: Fix creating empty table with predefined columns

• Library Database: Fix Query keyword bug when SELECT result is empty

5.3.0

• Library Robocloud.Items: Support for files in work items

• Library Dialogs: Type hinting and documentation updates

• Library Images: Raise error when timeout has been reached

5.2.0

• New library Dialogs which allows getting input from the user via HTML forms

5.1.0

• Library Browser: Add keyword Get Browser Capabilities

• Library Cloud.Google: Add Google Sheets service support

5.0.0

• Library Database:

  • Drop dependency robotframework-databaselibrary

  • Some of the old keywords do not exist anymore and some new keywords have been added (NOTE. backwards compatibility breaking change)

• Library PDF: Keywords Template HTML To PDF and HTML To PDF will now create directory structure and overwrite existing file by default.

• Library Images: Remove Save Format option from Take Screenshot and Crop Image keywords. Change screenshotting library from pyscreenshot to mss.

4.2.0

• Library Browser:

  • Add keywords Does Alert Contain and Does Alert Not Contain

  • Fix Screenshot to explicitly call Notebook Image to insert images into notebook when that is available

• Library Robocloud.Items: Allow NoneType as default for variables

4.1.0

• Library Browser: Add keyword Open User Browser which opens URL with user’s default browser. Allows using browser’s existing cache. To control this browser see keyword Attach Chrome Browser or use Desktop.Windows library to control the browser

4.0.0

• Library Browser: Change keyword Screenshot to embed Base64 image string into log and save same Base 64 string to a file as png image (NOTE. backwards compatibility breaking change)

• Library Desktop.Windows:

  • Fix Windows backend handling to be consistent within a library

  • New keyword Set Windows Backend

3.0.0

• Upgrade Robot Framework to 3.2.2

• Upgrade pyscreenshot to 2.2

• Library Email.ImapSmtp:

  • Add keyword examples (documentation)

  • Change List Messages to return list of dictionaries containing message attributes. In addition there is attribute Has-Attachments for each message (NOTE. backwards compatibility breaking change)

  • Add keyword Save Attachment which can be used save attachments from a message. Can be used when looping through messages received by List Messages

• Library Desktop.Windows:

  • Add keyword examples (documentation)

  • Add keyword Get Text. Returns dictionary of possible values due to many implementation methods

  • Add parameter empty_field to keyword Type Into which will empty field before typing into a field

  • Add keyword Wait For Element which will search for element with timeout

  • Add more information about started app instances into application list

• Library Desktop.OperatingSystem:

  • Add keyword examples (documentation)

  • Add keyword Kill Process By PID to terminate process using its identifier

• Library Browser:

  • Add keyword examples (documentation)

  • Add proxy parameter for keywords Open Available Browser and Open Chrome Browser. Works only for Chrome at the moment

2.7.0

• Desktop.Windows: Fix window dialog handling in Open Executable keyword

• New Archive library for ZIP and TAR operations

• core.notebook: Add parameter count to control row output from keyword Notebook Table

2.6.0

• Browser: Do not EMBED screenshots when in notebook run mode

• Excel.Application: Add keyword Read From Cells

• RobotLogListener: Add keyword Mute Run On Failure to mute SeleniumLibrary’s run_on_failure behaviour

• Email.ImapSmtp: Fix filetype issue when adding attachments to emails

• Tables and Excel.Files: Move table trimming actions from Excel.Files library to Tables library. Added parameter trim to Tables keyword Create Table which is by default False

• PDF: Fix input field setting and saving to PDF

2.5.1

• Browser: Fix missing default argument

2.5.0

• Browser:

  • Attempt fallback browser if webdriver unpacking fails

  • Attempt to use webdriver from PATH

  • Add option to define Chrome profile path and name

  • Add option to define Chrome profile preferences

  • Add keyword to attach to existing Chrome instance

  • Add keyword for waiting and clicking elements

  • Disable Chrome’s password manager prompts

• Robocloud.Items: Allow empty list (or otherwise falsy value) as raw payload

• Desktop.Windows:

  • Add keyword Type Into

  • Remove confusing placeholder keyword(s)

• Excel/Word/Outlook.Application: Use early binding to ensure constants exist

• Tables: Fix issues with invalid internal method calls

• Email.ImapSmtp:

  • Use given IMAP port

  • Fix confusing error message if TLS not supported

2.4.0

• Browser: Add alias support for Open Available Browser

• Browser: Fix indexing issues with multiple chromedriver instances

• Browser: Reduce superfluous logging from keywords

• Robocloud.Items: Add keywords for reading and writing full payloads

2.3.0

• New FTP library, which interacts with FTP servers

• Use RPA.core.notebook* library to output data into Jupyter Notebook (in Robocode Lab especially). Support added to keywords in the following libraries: **Browser, FTP, HTTP, Images, PDF, Twitter, Tables and Robocloud.Items

• Browser sets default screenshot directory to EMBED which means that when using keywords Capture Page Screenshot or Capture Element Screenshot without filename argument the image is embedded into log.html as Base64 image

2.2.0

• Robocloud.Secrets: Add support for Robocloud end-to-end encryption

• FileSystem: Add exist_ok argument for Create directory keyword

• Tasks: Fix support for FAIL status in schema actions

• Tasks: Allow inlining execution graph in log (enabled by default)

• Excel.Files: Always fallback to legacy mode on error

• Tables: Fix manual override for CSV dialect, document arguments

• Desktop.Windows: Attach to windows more reliably, and show helpful message on error

2.1.0

• FileSystem: Fix keyword Normalize Path to match built-in library, and add new keyword Absolute Path for previous functionality.

• PDF: Fix keyword Template HTML To PDF to handle HTML content from non-English Chrome browser.

• PDF: Add keyword HTML To PDF which takes HTML content as string parameter.

• Email.Exchange: Fix Authorize when autodiscover is set to False. Add missing parameters to keyword.

• New Notifier library, which allows using notification services like Slack, Gmail, Pushover etc.

2.0.1

• Browser: Fix for regression in Chrome’s Webdriver version handling

• Email.ImapSmtp: Fix how IMAP server is initialized

• Fix for issue with missing files when upgrading from version 1.x

2.0.0

NOTE: Changes to Email.ImapSmtp and Email.Exchange are backwards compatibility breaking changes.

• Browser: Added support for locator aliases

• Browser: Upgrade SeleniumTestability plugin to 1.1.0 version

• Browser: Remove “..controlled by automated..” infobar by default when using Chrome

• Email.ImapSmtp library initialization parameter port split to smtp_port and imap_port (breaks backwards compatibility)

• Email.ImapSmtp: Add keywords for folder management and marking messages as read/unread and flag/unflag

• Email.Exchange library keyword list_messages parameter order changed - new order folder_name, count (breaks backwards compatibility)

• Email.Exchange: Add keywords for folder management

• Email.Exchange: Add keywords Wait For Message and Move Messages

• Core functionality separated into rpaframework-core package

1.4.0

• Robocloud.Items: Add keywords for listing and deleting variables

• Windows: Add keyword Get Window List

• Windows: Fix keywords Connect By PID and Connect By Handle

1.3.0

• New features for Browser library

  • Set headless mode with environment variable RPA_HEADLESS_MODE=1

  • New boolean returning keywords like Is Element Visible and Does Page Contain

  • New keyword Get Element Status to get 4 different element states in a dictionary

  • Added plugin SeleniumTestability which can be enabled with Library  RPA.Browser  use_testability

  • In total 40 new keywords

• OperatingSystem: Improve error messages on keywords restricted to specific operating systems

1.2.1

• Cloud libraries: Fix use_robocloud_vault to support also FileSecrets

1.2.0

• Add support for Robocloud Vault for the following libraries:

  • Cloud.AWS

  • Cloud.Azure

  • Cloud.Google

• Images: Automatically convert points/regions from strings

• Outlook.Application: Add keyword Wait For Message

1.1.0

• New Tasks library, which allows using flow control between tasks

• New Cloud.Azure library, which supports following Azure APIs:

  • Text Analytics

  • Face

  • Computer Vision

  • Speech

• Cloud.AWS: Fix parameters and return options for keywords Detect Document Text and Analyze Document

1.0.4

• Excel.Files: Add keyword for setting cell values

• Excel.Files: Mitigate compatibility issues with file extensions

1.0.3

• Excel.Files: Fixed double close issue with workbooks

• Excel.Files: Ignoring columns with empty header

• Tables: Improved handling of non-string columns

1.0.2

• msoffice: Fix. Call close document only on Word documents

• Browser: Fix Geckodriver downloading version based on Chrome version

Thank you https://github.com/mdp for providing fix for the msoffice

1.0.1

• Tables: Added keywords Get table slice and Rename table columns

• Excel.Files: Fixed various issues with appending data to empty worksheet

• Outlook: Fix attachment handling

1.0.0

• MAJOR change. Package has been renamed to rpaframework. The old PyPI package will continue to work for a while (not receiving updates anymore), but it will be removed before official GA launch in the beginning of July.

0.11.0

• Cloud.Google: Added as optional package, needs to be installed with pip install rpa-framework[google]

  Support for services:

  • Google Cloud Natural Language

  • Google Cloud Speech to Text

  • Google Cloud Storage

  • Google Cloud Text to Speech

  • Google Cloud Translation

  • Google Cloud Video Intelligence

  • Google Cloud Vision

• Excel.Files: Minor documentation update

0.10.1

• Email.Exchange: Fix parameter handling for kw send_message

0.10.0

• Email.Exchange: Add support for HTML content, attachments, and inline images

• Email.ImapSmtp: Allow sending inline images - parameter images for kw Send Message

• HTTP: Return response of Download keyword (including content)

• Cloud.AWS: Due to boto3 dependency size, library requires pip install rpa-framework[aws] to use

0.9.3

• New library: Cloud.AWS, supporting following services:

  • Comprehend

  • S3

  • SQS

  • Textract

• Tables: Add keyword Get table dimensions, allow setting arbitrary cell value

• New library: Twitter

0.9.2

• Updated Robot Framework to 3.2.1

0.9.1

• Email.ImapStmp: Fix attachment handling for kw Send Message

• Excel.Application: Add keyword Run Macro

• PDF: Add keywords:

  • Parse PDF

  • Get input fields

  • Update field values

  • Set field value

  • Set anchor to element

  • Get value from anchor

  • Add image to PDF

  • Save PDF

  • Dump PDF as XML

0.9.0

• Tables:

  • Note: This change is backwards incompatible

  • Removed limitation of column names being valid Python identifiers

  • Default iteration method changed to dictionaries instead of namedtuples

  • Keywords that return rows or columns now harmonized to return them in dictionary format by default, with option to use lists

  • Table head/tail keywords changed to return new Table instance

  • Added keyword for trimming extra whitespace from column names

• Excel.Files: Trim column names in addition to rows

0.8.7

• OperatingSystem: psutils dependency marked as Windows only because it has wheel files only for Windows

0.8.6

• HTTP:

  • Add keyword Download

  • Add overwrite option to HTTP Get

• FileSystem:

  • Fix string interpolation in error messages

  • Add force option for file removal keywords

  • Add overwrite option for file create keywords

• Tables: Add keyword Trim empty rows

• Excel.Files:

  • Add keyword Read worksheet as table

  • Auto-convert integer values in .xls worksheets

0.8.5

• PDF: Add Encrypt PDF and Add Pages To Source PDF keywords.

• Windows: Add aliases for element locators, for better Robocode Lab compatibility

• HTTP: Add keyword HTTP Get

• Tables: Fix missing cell values for sanitized columns

0.8.4

• Fix: PDF Template HTML to PDF keyword

0.8.3

• Fix: Windows drag_and_drop keyword

• New library: Netsuite

• PDF: add new keywords

0.8.2

• Windows: Add keyword for clicking image templates

• Windows: Add keyword for drag and drop

0.8.1

• Browser: Fix Open Available Browser kw parameter bug

0.8.0

• New library: Salesforce

• New library: Database

0.7.5

• Email.ImapSmtp: Separate how IMAP and SMTP are handled in the library

• Windows: Improve documentation for keys

• Browser: Manage webdrivermanager download error

0.7.4

• Browser: Restructure how driver downloads and logging are handled

0.7.3

• Browser: Detect Chrome and chromedriver versions. Download driver if they differ

• Images: Don’t template match same region multiple times

• Tables:

  • Added new keywords: Set table row, Set table column, Set table cell

  • Renamed keyword Get cell value to Get table cell

0.7.2

• Browser: Store webdrivers in temporary directory

0.7.1

First public release of RPA Framework