Elsa 2.3 ✨

[sfmskywalker]

Here's what's new!

• Extensible Workflow Execution Log: activities can now include custom data that becomes visible in the Workflow Journal.
• File Activities: activities that deal with reading & writing files from the local disk.
• Send HTTP Request activity improvements: you can now select what content parser to use to parse the response of the request. Also, the set of parsers is extensible, which means you can write your own.
• RPA Web activities: a set of activities to automate UI testing in the browser.
• Significantly reduced number of DB commits during workflow execution: before this improvement, activity executing log entries were persisted as they were created. This was changed such that workflow execution log entries are collected and flushed to the database when the workflow instance is saved as well.
• Fixed that the workflow designer would sometimes not render properly and a full refresh was required.
• Infinite Loop detection & handling: To prevent server CPUs from melting down when you (accidentally) implement a workflow with an infinite "tight" loop (a loop with no suspension points), the workflow engine will introduce a "cool down" of a configurable amount of time for a configurable amount of loop detection events.
• Workflow instances can now be cancelled from the dashboard.
• You can now publish/unpublish workflow definitions from the Workflow Definitions overview page. Before, you had to go into a workflow definiton and handle publish/unpublish from there.
• Many issues, ranging from small to large, have been fixed.

A Big Thank You to everyone who contributed to this new release candidate!

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This discussion was created from the release Elsa 2.3 ✨.