The 2024.10 release: Moving UiPath toward agentic automation while enhancing our core

At our recent UiPath FORWARD conference, UiPath CEO Daniel Dines presented the vision for “Act Two” of UiPath: advancing from our position as a leader in robotic process automation (RPA) to become the world’s preferred enterprise platform for agentic automation. The 2024.10 release is an important stepping stone on the path to that vision, with a range of new agentic features and the general availability of UiPath Autopilot™ for everyone. This release also includes dozens of other new capabilities and features that enhance the core platform’s ability to automate end-to-end processes, with full enterprise governance, openness, and delivery flexibility.

This blog covers the highlights of the release organized by theme. To learn more, please attend the virtual launch event, where you can see more details about these new capabilities.

1. UiPath Autopilot takes flight—for everyone

This release marks the general availability of UiPath Autopilot for Everyone. This new Autopilot experience enables employees throughout a company—Mac and Windows users, non-technical workers, employees at every level and in every department—to reap major agentic productivity benefits.

Autopilot for Everyone includes a number of features that make it uniquely valuable to every enterprise employee. It works with and across virtually all enterprise systems and apps. For example, it can fly through tasks that involve Outlook, Salesforce, and Workday, or any other enterprise app supported by the UiPath Platform™. Autopilot also works harmoniously with other digital assistants and agents such as Microsoft Copilot to make it easy to complete tasks wherever work needs to be done.

Another powerful addition to Autopilot for Everyone is access to UiPath Clipboard AI™, our award-winning capability for automating digital paperwork. So now, users can take manual copy-and-paste out of their workdays.

Autopilot for Everyone is secure, governed, and customizable for organizations and specific teams. And you can try and prove how valuable it is to your organization because UiPath is launching it with a “free-to-get-started” offer.

For a deeper dive into Autopilot for Everyone—and to learn how to take advantage of our free-to-get-started offer—check out this blog.

2. Supercharging developer productivity

The 2024.10 release demonstrates our ongoing commitment to improving developers’ experiences and boosting their productivity, with new developer tools that make it even easier to design, build, test, and launch high-performing automations. This enhances the core capabilities that allow developers to integrate and orchestrate their complex ecosystem of applications, systems, and data sources through API automation.

This experience now includes the ability to build enterprise agents you can trust with Agent Builder—sign up for the preview. You can build your own agents or choose from several out-of-the-box options in the Agent Catalog for commonly used use cases. Agents have prompts, tools (including other agents and robot automations), context, and the ability to escalate to people with human in the loop capabilities.

A new data mapping and transformation capability in UiPath Studio Web brings new opportunities for developers. Inside an improved Connector Builder, you can now trigger custom connectors when events happen. And once you build them, this release also makes it easy to share those connectors on the UiPath Marketplace.

UiPath also added some great new capabilities in the testing area to boost testing speed, efficiency, and accuracy. New features in Autopilot for Testers include AI-accelerated search and importing, robust low-code test automation, and AI-enabled test data generation. UiPath also enhanced reporting capabilities for large test portfolios, with new in-tool dashboards that provide instant insights into important KPIs and an embedded designer for building out custom-tailored test reports. For more details on testing, check out this blog.

UiPath also continued to make it easier for developers to bring GenAI and specialized AI models into their automations. With UiPath DocPath LLM now available for fine-tuning in UiPath Document Understanding™ modern projects, it’s easy to leverage active learning to customize the model for your own document types, including receipts, passports, health insurance cards, bank statements, insurance forms, and more.

When it comes to more complex unstructured documents, such as contracts, loan applications, lease agreements, and brokerage statements, the new generative extraction experience in Document Understanding has it handled. Launched in private preview in October, it offers enhanced support for complex data like tables and long (more than 100 pages) documents. The experience also includes flexible prompt and model configuration, improved model performance evaluation, and production-grade model governance.

To make AI prompts as relevant as possible to your company’s business environment, we are adding context grounding, a component of the UiPath AI Trust Layer, enabling customers to bring their own business data to improve the accuracy and reliability of GenAI predictions, in GenAI Activities and in UiPath Autopilot. This will make your data LLM-ready and manage it in a governed manner, under the umbrella of the UiPath AI Trust Layer.

Finally, UiPath improved developer and business user experience for human validation. When it comes to AI-based automations, it’s crucial to deliver a holistic human in the loop experience, so we’re introducing more powerful integrated human validation for end-to-end intelligent document processing (IDP) and agentic task automations with UiPath Apps. Now developers can customize user experience and display business context within one screen—making human validation much more efficient. We invite you to sign up for the private preview.

3. Foundation for true process intelligence

To truly automate end-to-end processes, it's essential to first understand them in full. These processes often contain complexities and dependencies that aren't immediately visible. UiPath now brings process visibility across diverse sources, such as human activities, system logs, and communication channels, to provide understanding and actionable insights into how work actually gets done.

With the new capabilities included in the 2024.10 release, UiPath is advancing toward a unified view of processes, transforming fragmented data into a single, actionable perspective and empowering true, end-to-end process intelligence. This unified view integrates process mining and task mining and eliminates guesswork, offering a clear, data-backed path forward. This further allows users to access both system- and task-level insights in one place, providing granular visibility into processes and tasks for comprehensive process improvement and transformation.

Also debuting in 2024.10 is the ability to continuously monitor process compliance through conformance checking, ensuring alignment with KPIs and business requirements. Use the animation feature to visually identify bottlenecks and hot spots within the process graph, making it easier to pinpoint areas needing improvement. Set up automated triggers to generate alerts or initiate automations when specific events occur, enabling a proactive approach to process optimization.

Another exciting development is process simulation, currently in private preview. This feature will allow you to compare a modeled process with how your process actually performs in the real world. By evaluating the impact of potential changes before implementing them, you can reduce the risk of unexpected issues arising further down the process. Sign up for the preview.

Last but certainly not least, we're thrilled to announce the private preview of process diagramming and optimization, a key element of agentic orchestration. With these capabilities, you'll be able to design end-to-end automated processes in a BPMN-like canvas, gaining a unified view of automations across end-to-end processes. Join the preview waitlist!

4. Flexible, cost-effective platform delivery

This release continues our delivery of new capabilities in a cloud-first model, with an available self-host option following whenever possible, for customers who need the highest level of control. Automation Cloud™, our most comprehensive delivery option, is updated every two weeks and contains all the capabilities mentioned above. With this release, we deliver Automation Suite 2024.10, bringing many of those features to self-hosting for the first time.  

Both Automation Cloud and Automation Suite are also designed to offer easy, reliable enterprise delivery and governance. We want to focus specifically on some new features in these areas in this blog.

Automation Cloud Dedicated enters private preview, providing a tailored SaaS solution that delivers the advantages of Automation Cloud while supporting isolated computing and data storage. Aimed at larger customers who seek the flexibility of SaaS, but also need additional control, it features flexible upgrade options, customer-managed keys (CMK) for all services, and additional connectivity options over Automation Cloud.

United States (U.S.) public sector customers benefit from new capabilities in Automation Cloud Public Sector. VM Automation Cloud Robots are now available, along with the addition of GenAI features such as Document Understanding enhancements and Autopilot for Testers.

UiPath adds a range of new features to UiPath Automation Cloud through our releases every two weeks. One of the newest is that we’re working to empower all users with personalized, consistent experiences. UiPath added features like tenant and service trimming so administrators can control tenant and service visibility, and unified admin screens that give administrators a clear view of all user permissions and roles.

To simplify secure enterprise management, this release also adds the Tenant Administrator role, which enables organization administrators to securely delegate responsibilities to specific tenant administrators, making it easier to scale appropriate management across the largest organizations.

The 2024.10 release makes many of the capabilities in this blog available for enterprise self-hosting in Automation Suite. Also new in Automation Suite 2024.10 is a new delivery option: support for Red Hat OpenShift, complementing existing options for AKS, EKS, and Linux. UiPath also added the ability to deploy on a shared cluster for AKS, EKS, and OpenShift, and a new Automation Suite lite mode which offers a lower infrastructure entry point on Linux, AKS, and EKS. Finally, AKS and EKS implementations now add support for Studio Web and Integration Service.

All of these features, and many more, are now available in Automation Cloud and Automation Suite. If you’re a new user, you can get a 60-day free trial of Automation Cloud.

This is only the surface of all that’s new in the latest release! If you’d like to go a little deeper, we invite you to attend our virtual launch event.