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This article describes the new features, improvements and fixes to existing functionality that are included in this build.
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Installer version 2.56.232.25124 - Microsoft Store version 11.2505.234.0 updates
New Features
Static analysis has now been introduced to Power Automate for desktop in preview, enhancing governance and quality assurance through the definition of rules for naming conventions, flow structure, security, and performance, thus ensuring compliance and optimizing efficiency.
Using natural language to generate Power Fx expressions is a new Copilot capability in preview, available in Power Fx enabled desktop flows.
Your preferred or most frequently used actions can now be marked as favorite in the actions pane, individually showing up in the respective Favorites panel for quicker and easier access.
Terminal session variables are now supported as input/output variables in desktop flows, accommodating the respective variable types when passing information from one desktop flow to another.
Enhancements & Improvements
A new Proxy settings diagnostic has now been added to the connectivity issues category of the Power Automate Troubleshooter app.
Repairing flow errors with Copilot is now also supported for parent screen elements, in addition to child UI elements.
The ‘Use machine locale’ property has now been added to the ‘Launch Excel’ action, to have the option to respect local settings when Excel is launched and show the format in the correct locale.
The option to select a capturing mode (UIA or MSAA) for UI elements has now been introduced to both the UI element picker and UI element inspector windows.
.NET 8 runtime is now installed in remote machines, along with the Power Automate agent for virtual desktops.
Remediation steps in connectivity related error messages have now been improved.
Timeout can now be displayed as the test result of a test case with a failed status.
A disk space check has been implemented in the console to prevent unexpected errors due to insufficient disk space.
Legacy cipher algorithms are now deprecated in Secure FTP (SFTP) actions and are no longer supported, enhancing security by removing outdated cryptographic methods.
Version compatibility errors, which may be related to syntax changes or parsing errors, have now been improved to become more explanatory and actionable.
Caching is now used for package validation information to further improve performance in reused child flow runs.
Repaired Functionality
The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:
The issue of missing dynamic parameters, when connector operations with dynamic input schema were copied and pasted to another flow, is now mitigated.
Saving or copying desktop flows with duplicate core binaries is now disabled, displaying the appropriate messages.
The link to launch the Power Automate Troubleshooter from the console upon a connectivity error now works as expected.
An issue causing an exception on console flow runs, which involved the dialog to bring your own connection, has now been resolved.
An issue with double clicking on the Edit icon of desktop flow, resulting in opening multiple designers for that flow, has now been resolved.
The flow context option ‘Create test case’ is no longer displayed to free Microsoft accounts, as expected.
An issue where switching tenants was throwing an exception has now been addressed.
An exception occurring in the console, when trying to edit a flow through the portal from an environment that is different than the one used in the console, has now been resolved.
Empty result errors in Copilot are now properly handled, displaying the appropriate messages as well.
An issue with internal server error exceptions occurring during connector calls has now been addressed.
An exception error that occurs, when trying to save a flow after switching to another environment in the console, has now been resolved.
Trying to run a flow with a missing dependency (custom module or UI elements collection) from the console now throws the proper message, instead of an error exception.
An issue with test cases hiding from the console, after selecting any column to sort the test cases grid, while a tags filter was already in place in the flows tab, has now been resolved.
Some issues observed when renaming a column header of a data table with many columns have now been resolved.
An issue with the ‘Remove unused UI elements’ functionality, removing used elements under screens with different letter casing, has now been resolved.
An issue with the ‘Zip files’ action, where files were not appended to an existing zip file, has now been resolved.
An argument null exception occurring during an environment retrieving operation, causing the designer to fail in evaluating DLP violations, has now been resolved.
The issue of the Firefox highlighter having an offset, when the browser is maximized while capturing UI elements, has now been resolved.
The issue of duplicate UI element IDs in the designer, which can cause exceptions during invocation, has now been addressed.
When launching the ‘Attach to running Word’ action, the error dialog that indicates that Word document names can’t be retrieved is no longer thrown inadvertently.
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