Changelog

Recipe Lifecycle Management exports involving Workato Event streams will now include retention period configurations in exports. This will help ensure consistent behavior when migrating topics.

Workato Pub/Sub has been rebranded to Event Streams to reflect the product capability more accurately. Here's how the rebranding will affect users:

1. Workato PubSub is now Workato Event Streams
2. PubSub topics are now referred to as Event topics
3. In Workato’s documentation, Event Streams have been moved from the connectors section to a dedicated Event Streams section.

First, the new batch publish action allows you to send a batch of up to 100 events to a PubSub topic within one action. It's a valuable addition the Workato PubSub connector to go alongside the existing batch trigger.

Second, the PubSub API was moved to a totally new microservice resulting in increased throughput and up to a 50% latency decrease. The new API is now available on a new domain, event-streams.workato.com. Note that the old API version is still in operation and that both versions share the same auth tokens, data format, and endpoints to make it simple to migrate to the new API.

We are excited to introduce a new action in the HTTP connector - "Send request and wait for response" - which can now handle requests requiring us to hold connections for up to 1 hour. This update removes the pain of dealing with timeouts when working with legacy APIs which require long timeouts, or when requests that worked with small loads in DEV and TEST start to timeout in PROD with larger loads.

This feature is currently in beta and access can be requested through your customer success representative.

Improved Connectors:

• SuccessFactors: Added multiple major enhancements including: support for 3rd party offline SAML assertion generation, ability to bring your own Application Interface Key, x-csrf token in all our requests for better session management, and fromDate and toDate fields to support filtering based on effective dates.
• XML Tools: Implemented sample output in XSLT action to specify output structure in same step.
• BIM360: Migrated issues API actions to V2 due to API deprecation.
• Marketo: Revamped functionality and UX including: support for Smart Campaigns, streamlined several actions, pagination support, new bulk actions, and more.

Other connectors, including Google Calendar, BigQuery, Box, Salesforce, OpenAI, etc., have also received updates, enhancements, and fixes, optimizing performance and user experience across various domains.

Embedded Admins can now grant varying access rights to different features of the Embedded Admin Console, including granular permissions to view, manage or delete Customer Accounts, Customer Managers, and Shared Connectors, as well as view or manage permissions to Usage Metrics and other settings. These permissions can be found when creating a custom Collaborator Role within the Admin workspace.

New Connectors - September 2023:

• Azure OpenAI: Enhance your services with seamless AI integration within the Microsoft ecosystem.
• AI by Workato: Effortlessly integrate AI into your workflows to execute common business actions.

Improved Connectors:

• NetSuite: Enhanced with synchronous bulk actions and improved error handling.
• SAP SuccessFactors: Updated to support $select for various actions and triggers, with enhanced security features.
• Workday: Refined user interaction with fixed trigger filters and multiselect picklist for transaction types.
• Shopify: Upgraded to API version 2023-07 for the latest features and improvements.
• Google Workspace: Improved with service account authorization and added actions for Google Groups.
• Marketo: Overhauled for a better user experience, with standardized access to objects and a new bulk trigger for ETL/ELT workflows.
• OpenAI: Updated for enhanced security and usability.
• Microsoft Excel: Fixed connection issues for seamless integration with SharePoint.
• AWS SNS: Refined subscription filters for improved control.
• Zendesk: Now supports custom OAuth profiles.

Other connectors, including Sage Intacct, Coupa, Workfront, Salesforce, Microsoft SharePoint, BigQuery, Box, etc., have also received updates, enhancements, and fixes, optimizing performance and user experience across various domains.

Our platform connector team has been hard at work making sure our connectors remain updated and secure.

Highlights of recent changes include:

• Airtable: Now supports OAuth2 as API key authentication is being deprecated.
• Quickbooks: Token exchange prevents connection from going stale due to expireing refresh tokens.
• Jira: Added support for obtaining the schema of objects dynamically allowing you to easily leverage it in your data replication flows.
• Wrike: Updated search endpoint and triggers to support new Wrike's new Tasks endpoint.

We've introduced a new versioning scheme, major and minor version numbers only (21.0).

Key updates:

• MS SQL: Added support for RFC 4180 specification in CSV bulk load.
• Secrets: Enhanced support for Workato cloud secrets manager and clear secrets cache mechanism. Note: Manual reconnection required for certain connectors after secret rotation.
• Linux: Added SHA-256 signature support for RPM packages for Red Hat Linux.
• Usability: Improved agent behavior with the same key connections. First connected agent remains active, others shut down.
• Windows: Dependency on vcruntime binary removed; installer streamlined.
• Logging: Reduced log events in debug mode.
• Extensions: Fixed auto-injection issue with jakarta.inject.Inject annotation.
• Security: Libraries updated per OWASP recommendations.
• Monitoring: Telemetry added for asynchronous operations.
• SAP: Enhanced reliability of metadata load process.

See OPA Release Notes in docs.

Always looking for innovative ways to use ChatGPT in our work, we're thrilled to introduce OpenAI as one of our connectors!

This means you can now power all kinds of workflows with OpenAI’s AI models. We’re starting off with 5 new actions that you can use right away—and we’ll be adding more soon—including the ability to use the same model that powers the conversational ChatGPT.