Automation Workshop 9.0.0 by Febooti

New

• API Keys & Credentials Manager:
  • Supports OAuth 2.0 for Gmail, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Outlook, and other providers that utilize OAuth authentication.
  • Enables effortless management of multiple credentials for the Send Email Action and notification configurations.
  • Real-time usage summary and comprehensive credential overview (success, failed attempts, etc.).
• New Action—Control Loop:
  • Enhances capabilities of For Each and Loop Actions by supporting standard and multi-level nested loops.
  • Continue—immediately skips to the next iteration of the loop.
  • Break—terminates the loop instantly, proceeding with subsequent workflow Actions.
• New Action—Set Execution Result:
  • Allows defining custom return values accessible from the calling Task, enhancing Task chaining and modular workflow designs.
  • Expanded integration within the Start Task Action’s Variable Wizard to facilitate seamless retrieval of return results from finished Tasks.
• Email and Notifications:
  • Standardized OAuth 2.0 implementation (along with new log Events) for seamless integration with email providers supporting OAuth.
  • Full support for TLS 1.3 in SMTP operations, ensuring secure and modern email communication.
  • Supports SMTPUTF8 extension, allowing the use of internationalized email addresses.
  • Expanded support for international email standards—including Punycode, IDN (Internationalized Domain Names), EAI (Email Address Internationalization), and Unicode (UTF-8).
• Backup and Restore:
  • One-click automatic restoration from backups, streamlining recovery processes.
  • Faster, more efficient backups with reduced CPU usage. Prepared for enhanced logging and diagnostics of backup processes.
  • Improved integration through Variable Wizard allowing dynamic retrieval for backup folder location.

Fixed

• Emailing:
  • Enhanced reliability of email delivery by correctly handling TLS connection renegotiation, preventing potential interruptions.
  • Resolved an issue where temporary files were occasionally left undeleted after sending emails, improving system cleanliness and stability.
• Triggering:
  • Resolved an issue causing potential crashes in the SFTP Watcher, specifically when monitoring extremely deep directory structures.
  • Significantly improved simultaneous disabling of large batches of 1000+ Triggers, reducing operation time from several minutes to few seconds, preventing temporary system slowdowns.
• Service and Core engine functionality:
  • Fixed a rare deadlock condition when restarting the Automation Workshop Agent, greatly enhancing stability in scenarios involving forced Agent restarts.
  • Addressed a rare stability issue related to Queue management when Tasks complete simultaneously, eliminating unexpected system behavior.
  • Improved reliability when pushing (uploading) considerably large Tasks remotely, ensuring robust Task deployments across different systems.
  • Fixed an issue affecting Task names starting with special characters (e.g., square brackets) when stored in the root folder, ensuring consistent Task behavior and management.

Improved

• Service:
  • Enhanced startup logging clearly indicating the status of automatic Task triggering.
  • Added advanced logging options (configurable via registry overrides), providing deeper diagnostics if necessary.
• Networking engine:
  • Comprehensive TLS/SSL enhancements for increased security.
  • Broader support for additional AWS regions.
  • Improved compatibility and reliability with OneDrive WebDAV.
  • Additional minor improvements for general networking robustness.
• File & Folder Watcher:
  • Optimized polling intervals for reduced system load based on historical polling performance.
  • Significantly reduced CPU usage with large-scale Trigger setups, achieving near-zero CPU usage for 1000+ active Triggers.
• File Actions:
  • Read from File Action now includes the option to manually override the auto-detected file encoding (US-ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16, etc.).
  • Enhanced logging clarity in Copy, Move, and Rename File Actions, particularly when no operation occurs due to combination of existing files and overwrite settings.
• FTP & Cloud Actions:
  • Introduced safeguards against exceeding maximum exclude limits, preventing potential file list overflow errors.
  • Extended support for various forms of empty passwords (null, blank, etc.) across FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV Actions.
• Global Variable enhancements:
  • Modify Global Variable Action introduces a new option to create variables dynamically if absent, streamlining Task portability over remote Automation Workshop instances.
  • Added two new custom variable groups (Network and Library) within Global Variables Manager.
  • Introduced global variables folder location in Variable Wizard.
• Wait Action:
  • Improved accuracy of waiting periods, particularly beneficial on slower or heavily-loaded systems, ensuring consistent timing.
  • Time values now appear in a more natural format that is easier to read at a glance.
• Workflow view/editing enhancements:
  • Smart copying of Actions and Triggers preserves variable linkages (when possible), enabling seamless multi-Task editing experience.
  • Enhanced visual indicators clearly highlight valid and invalid Go To Action targets.
  • Additional highlighting for missing or incorrectly referenced FTP & Cloud connections.
• Task settings and management:
  • New capability to download Tasks directly from remote Automation Workshop instances.
  • Introduced Prime performance profile option (improved responsiveness without full resource commitment), adding flexibility alongside existing profiles (Conservative, Optimized, and Supreme).
  • Enhanced concurrency policy management, allowing a customizable maximum parallel execution limit per Task instance.
  • Added an option to restrict manual Task execution, preventing accidental runs of automation-only Tasks.
  • New visuals for deactivated Triggers to enhance workflow awareness.
• Variable Wizard:
  • Expanded Variable Wizard quick adjustments options with Ensure–Starts with, Does not start with, Ends with, Does not end with–intelligently trims, adds, keeps suffixes and prefixes as needed.
  • Use Web Contents feature now supports TLS 1.3 for secure web operations.
  • Improved date/time displaying within Variable Wizard, clearly indicating positive and negative offsets.
• User Interface adjustments:
  • Unified and optimized menu widths for a clean, modern appearance.
  • Minor refinements to Help and Search menus.
  • Streamlined Task Import experience with intelligent paste functionality and immediate folder selection.
• Update engine now fully supports TLS 1.3 connections.
• Full Windows Server 2025 platform support.
• Numerous minor user interface and performance improvements.

Changed

• Discontinued SSL 3.0 support. Legacy support retained for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in isolated LAN environments, with full availability of modern TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 protocols for enhanced security.