Changelog
Keep up with the latest updates we’ve made in Workato.
On-prem Agent (OPA) 24.1 Release
OPA has been updated with new SAP and security capabilities:
- SAP: Aligned order of fields in RFC_READ_TABLE requests for compatibility with legacy SAP systems.
- Security: Updated libraries according to the OWASP scanner recommendations.
See the OPA release notes for this and previous updates to OPA.
On-prem Agent (OPA) 24.1 Release
- SAP: Improved
Call BAPI
action, allowing easier navigation in the catalog of available BAPI methods. - SAP: Fixed loading of IDoc segments. Added support for segment nesting levels up to 128
See the OPA release notes for this and previous updates to OPA.
On-prem Agent (OPA) 24.0 Release
- SFTP: Added support for on-premise SFTP.
- SAP: Removed the metadata cache for IDoc types. All required data is now retrieved on-demand from the SAP server. This change saves agent memory and improves operational consistency.
- SAP: Added support for SAP JCo version
3.1.9 (2024-03-19)
, including thesapjco3.jar
and corresponding native binary libraries. While Workato recommends using the latest version of SAP JCo with OPA, we still support older JCo versions with the major release3.0.0
in partial compatibility mode. - SAP: Added support for more precise identification of the Distribution Model for Inbound IDocs.
- Security: Updated libraries according to the OWASP scanner recommendations.
- Cloud logging: Fixed a bug that caused log spamming when debugging was enabled.
See the OPA release notes for this and previous updates to OPA.
On-prem Agent (OPA) 23.2 Release
- Security: updated Java runtime and libraries according to OWASP scanner recommendations.
- Database: fixed bug when agent becomes unresponsive when database request is canceled.
- Cloud logging: improved data transfer algorithm to reduce losses when a lot of messages appear.
- Linux: fixed bug where logs were not produced after package upgrade.
See the OPA release notes for this and previous updates to OPA.
On-prem Agent (OPA) 23.1 Release
- Kafka: improved trigger stability in case of network failures.
- Kafka: updated
Avro
to 1.11.3,kafka-avro-serializer
andkafka-protobuf-serializer
to 7.6.0. - SAP: optimized memory usage of metadata for RFM and BAPI.
- SAP: fixed bug when RFM name contains unsafe URL characters.
- Database: added support for synchronous actions cancellation.
See the OPA release notes for this and previous updates to OPA.
On-prem Agent (OPA) 23.0 Release
- Kafka: added support for Protobuf schema format.
- HTTP: the agent now correctly handles cases where the remote server responds before the request completes.
- HTTP: requests can now pass through a configured proxy server.
- Hardening: fixed bug where agent failed to reconnect when using a proxy server.
- JMS: fixed message parsing when sending from non-JMS applications.
- TLS: added support for ECC private keys and certificates.
- MS SQL: fixed connection problem when using ActiveDirectory authentication method.
- SAP: implemented sending IDoc batches to Workato webhook.
- SAP: support for receiving outbound IDocs from SAP for all partner types.
- SAP: keep NUMC data types as strings instead of integers.
- Security: updated Java to version 21.0.2+13.
- Security: updated Spring Framework to version 6.1.2, Spring Boot to 3.2.2, AWS SQS messaging library to 2.1.1
See the OPA release notes for this and previous updates to OPA.
On-prem Agent (OPA) logs now available in Logging Service
Users can now view OPA logs in Workato Logging Service. This addition makes it even easier to to search, audit, and troubleshoot specific automations utilizing OPA.
By default, this feature is disabled, but it can be enabled in workspaces with OPA and Logging Service via the on-prem group level settings.
On-prem Agent (OPA) 22.1 Release
- Security: upgraded several libraries following OWASP recommendations.
- Linux: fixed RPM OPA upgrade process.
- Linux: fixed graceful shutdown script.
- JMS: fixed resolution of
mqcsp
property in IBM MQ configuration. - Files: performance improvements for List files action.
- Logging: reduced amount of logs with debugging enabled.
- MS SQL: added SSL configuration support.
- Docker: starting and activating OPA can be done with a single command.
- Kafka: fixed support for SSL configuration. Added the option to provide a password for the client key file.
See the OPA release notes for this and previous updates to OPA.
On-prem Agent (OPA) 22.0 Release
- Security: updated Java runtime to version 17.0.9+9.
- MySQL: updated JDBC driver to version 8.2.0.
- Monitoring: fixed initialization error when starting agent with monitoring feature enabled.
- Hardening: fixed rare reconnection bug when using a proxy.
- Hardening: fixed memory consumption for long-running agents.
- Configuration: reduced default graceful shutdown timeout to 30 seconds.
See the OPA release notes for this and previous updates to OPA.
On-prem Agent (OPA) 21.0 release
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.