Power Automate for desktop - Build 2511$$$This article describes the new features; improvements and fixes to existing functionality that are included in this build.$$$$$$Installer version 2.62.161.25297 - Microsoft Store version 11.2511.161.0 updates$$$New Features$$$Local scope for variables and local subflows have now been introduced in Power Automate for desktop; allowing for more granularity and control in desktop flow authoring.$$$$$$Version control has now been introduced in preview as out-of-the-box functionality for desktop flows; allowing you to create and manage multiple versions of a flow.$$$$$$This embedded tool will gradually become available to all regions during the following three months.$$$$$$A new Application setting is now available in the General tab of the console settings; allowing you to preload the flow designer and improve its responsiveness when creating or editing a desktop flow.$$$$$$Enhancements & Improvements$$$The functionalities to run attended flows in picture-in-picture mode; as well as trigger flows via desktop shortcut or URL; are no longer premium and can now be used by all users.$$$$$$Endpoint filtering has now been added and is supported for HTTP actions.$$$$$$The Power Automate troubleshooter application can now be launched from the Windows Start menu.$$$$$$The default delay between actions during debugging in the flow designer has now been changed to 50ms from the previous 100ms.$$$$$$Some icons have now been updated with more modern fonts.$$$$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$RDP permissions are now validated before throwing a session retrieval error in cloud unattended runs.$$$$$$A null reference exception occurring when opening the assets library has now been resolved.$$$$$$An unexpected variable length error; occurring in Flow checker after adding a UI elements collection to a flow; has now been resolved.$$$$$$A console freezing issue occurring when selecting to create or edit a desktop flow repeatedly has now been resolved.$$$$$$The proper error dialog is now shown when a flow fails to load due to version incompatibility.$$$$$$After getting an error due to network issues when trying to edit a flow; the ‘Preparing to edit’ state no longer persists; and the flow can now be edited again.$$$$$$An issue in sign-in environment loading operations; which occurs during the initialization phase after user authentication; has now been resolved.$$$$$$The ‘New flow’ button in the home screen of the console is no longer enabled when flow creation is not possible.$$$$$$A connector internal error occurring in cloud initiated runs of desktop flows has now been resolved.$$$$$$A cache issue causing long startup times for machine sessions has now been resolved.$$$$$$Errors from parallel child flows are now ignored by the parent flow upon the latter’s completion.$$$$$$A more appropriate error message is now thrown in connector actions that do not support dynamic inputs.$$$$$$The Web Browser Process Exited exception message for non picture-in-picture sessions has now been improved.$$$$$$Other Announcements$$$Web automation using WebDriver is now generally available; enabling web automation actions to run without relying on Power Automate’s browser extensions. Remediation steps with a WebDriver option have also been added to address browser launch failures.

Installer version 2.60.154.25253 - Microsoft Store version 11.2509.83.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$This fix addresses an issue related to installer telemetry loss.

Installer version 2.60.154.25253 - Microsoft Store version 11.2509.83.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$This fix addresses an issue related to installer telemetry loss.

Installer version 2.59.154.25213$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$Improved error handling and logging in the CUA component to ensure accurate correlation of action logs and robust communication with the Power Automate for desktop browser extension.

Installer version 2.59.154.25213$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$Improved error handling and logging in the CUA component to ensure accurate correlation of action logs and robust communication with the Power Automate for desktop browser extension.

Power Automate for desktop - Build 2507-update$$$Installer version 2.58.163.25188 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$This fix addresses an issue with NullReferenceExceptions on connector 400 responses.

Power Automate for desktop - Build 2507-update$$$Installer version 2.58.163.25188 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$This fix addresses an issue with NullReferenceExceptions on connector 400 responses.

Installer version 2.57.184.25154 - Microsoft Store version 11.2506.143.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$This fix resolves an issue with localization on NO and NL locales.

Installer version 2.57.184.25154 - Microsoft Store version 11.2506.143.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$This fix resolves an issue with localization on NO and NL locales.

Installer version 2.56.239.25132 - Microsoft Store version 11.2505.235.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$This fix addresses runtime repair issues in UI Automation actions; to prevent null reference exceptions during UI element evaluation.

Installer version 2.56.239.25132 - Microsoft Store version 11.2505.235.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$This fix addresses runtime repair issues in UI Automation actions; to prevent null reference exceptions during UI element evaluation.

Installer version 2.54.188.25066 - Microsoft Store version 11.2503.293.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$This fix addresses an issue with high latency and SQL timeouts; when retrieving schema v1 desktop flows in the console.

Installer version 2.53.180.25037$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$An issue affecting users with free Microsoft accounts; blocking them from running flows through the console; has now been resolved.

Installer version 2.51.344.24350 - Microsoft Store version 11.2412.241.0 - NET8 Store version 11.2412.242.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$Fixed the issue of previous Firefox extension versions not being used.$$$

Installer version 2.50.125.24304 - Microsoft Store version 11.2411.200.0 updates$$$New Features$$$Cloud connectors in Power Automate for desktop are now generally available through the Connectors tab in the Assets library. Premium users can now add and use all non-custom Power Automate connectors and their operations in desktop flows; enjoying direct integration with multiple Microsoft and third-party services.$$$$$$The action ‘Get credential’ has now been introduced under the new module ‘Power Automate secret variables’ in preview; offering direct integration with CyberArk credentials; which can be retrieved and used in desktop flow actions out of the box.$$$$$$Enhancements & Improvements$$$Cross-domain iframe elements are now also supported in Internet Explorer mode of the Edge browser.$$$$$$In the action ‘Update work queue item’; a new ‘Input’ parameter is now available to change or edit the payload of the work queue item; as well as a new ‘[Unchanged]’ status that does not change the status of the item.$$$$$$An improvement has taken place on the action ‘Extract data from table’; to become more reliable when scrolling is involved to extract all the rows. The action has also been updated to extract tables from SAP GUI more efficiently.$$$$$$The ‘Help > About’ window now includes more information for troubleshooting purposes.$$$$$$When using Record with Copilot; an option to send feedback is now available; if the post processing of the Copilot recording fails.$$$$$$The environment loading and execution logs shipping times have been reduced to improve performance.$$$$$$Caching has been introduced for retrieving environments in the console to improve performance and reliability.$$$$$$In Power Fx flows; the ‘Loop condition’ action has now been updated; so that a single Power Fx expression is used; and its Boolean result is used as an output.$$$$$$In Power Fx flows; certain action parameter tooltips have now been updated to indicate 0-based indexing where applicable; as exceptions to the general 1-based indexing rule that applies to Power Fx.

Installer version 2.48.153.24261 - Microsoft Store version 11.2409.203.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$This update fixes the access to the path denied during PAD.Robot process start from the flow designer or the console.$$$$$$This update also fixes the recorder crashes on startup for Windows N editions.

Installer version 2.48.153.24261 - Microsoft Store version 11.2409.203.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$This update fixes the access to the path denied during PAD.Robot process start from the flow designer or the console.$$$$$$This update also fixes the recorder crashes on startup for Windows N editions.

$$$Installer version 2.47.115.24240 - Microsoft Store version 11.2408.175.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$Fixed some errors in localized resources that caused Power Automate to fail for specific locales.

Installer version 2.46.163.24194 - Microsoft Store version 11.2407.242.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$An issue with an error being thrown unexpectedly; when a ‘Go to’ action references a Label name that exists twice – in an enabled and a disabled ‘Label’ action – has now been resolved.$$$$$$A telemetry issue on the recorder has now been resolved.$$$$$$

Installer version 2.45.393.24179 - Microsoft Store version 11.2406.410.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$Fixes null reference in control repository when opening flows migrated from WinAutomation v8.0.3.$$$

Installer version 2.43.217.24141 - Microsoft Store version 11.2404.251.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$Some issues with cloud connector actions not loading properly in desktop flows have now been resolved. These issues included:$$$$$$Connector actions missing from the designer’s action panel.$$$Connector actions that were used in desktop flows appearing as ‘Unknown actions’.$$$Console initiated runs failing due to connector related errors.

Installer version 2.39.306.23341 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$An issue associated with the installer’s telemetry has now been resolved.

Installer version 2.38.182.23307 - Microsoft Store version 10.0.8109.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$Some issues that occurred while running UI automation actions with SAP elements that dont exist have now been resolved.

Installer version 2.37.123.23280 - Microsoft Store version 10.0.7829.0 updates$$$New Features$$$ Excel Online for Business; Word Online for Business; OneNote for Business (in preview) and Microsoft Teams are the latest connectors that come down to Power Automate for desktop; with multiple operations now being available out of the box as native actions for desktop flows.$$$$$$Enhancements & Improvements$$$ In the variable value viewers of datatable and datarow variables; multiline cells can now be properly inspected through selecting the ‘More’ option on the corresponding cell.$$$

Installer version 2.34.181.23193 - Microsoft Store version 10.0.7204.0 updates$$$Repaired Functionality$$$The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:$$$$$$Flows that were created in older versions (v2.23 or earlier) containing scripting actions can now be properly updated and run in the latest version without issues.$$$