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This article describes the new features, improvements and fixes to existing functionality that are included in this build.
Installer version 2.69.213.26156 - Microsoft Store version 11.2606.213.0 updates
New features
The 'Invoke Local LLM' action has now been introduced under a new 'Local LLM' module, enabling desktop flows to send prompts to large language model servers that are compatible with the OpenAI chat completions API, specifically locally hosted models such as those served by Ollama. The action exposes the endpoint URL, model configuration, user prompt, and optional file attachments as primary inputs, with system prompt, temperature, maximum tokens, response format, timeout, and API key available as advanced options.
The actions ‘Get UI control’ and ‘Get web control’ have now been introduced in the respective UI and Browser automation modules, enabling you to create dynamic UI element and web element variables. These can be used in UI and web automation actions, allowing you to parameterize selectors so that the same action can target different UI elements or web elements based on values calculated at runtime.
Default values for variables have now been introduced in the flow designer, allowing users to assign a fallback value to a variable that is used when no other value is set.
Enhancements & Improvements
Several enhancements have taken place for version control and version comparison, including the ability to save a previous version as a copy, organization-level opt-out, contextual tooltips on disabled save actions, and additional 'Compare with latest version' and 'Compare with latest published' options in the version comparison context menu.
The version comparison view now displays the name of the called subflow when a 'Run subflow' action is added or changed between versions, so that users can immediately see which subflow is involved in the change.
The filter and search experience of the variables pane has now been improved in the flow designer, introducing sorting and value filtering options, supporting multi-criteria filtering with logical AND semantics across the filter and the search box, and removing the pinned variables toggle, helping users locate variables more quickly in flows with many variables.
Static analysis is now available in Pay-as-you-go environments, allowing users of those environments to run the desktop flow checker as long as premium features are enabled and the appropriate permissions are granted.
The Power Automate troubleshooter now reports DNS resolution failures as warnings instead of errors in environments where DNS resolution is delegated to a proxy, and continues to validate endpoint reachability through the configured proxy rather than short-circuiting the diagnostic. This provides accurate results for proxy-only enterprise networks.
The default appearance option in Power Automate for desktop has now been changed from 'Light' to 'System default', so that the application automatically follows the operating system's light, dark, or high contrast setting on first launch. Users can still override the appearance from the application settings at any time.
The 'Run Power App' action now persists the dependencies declared on the integrated Power App, so that connections and other resources required by the app are cached between flow editing sessions and used consistently when the flow runs.
The debugging experience for the 'Run Power App' action has now been improved, surfacing clearer diagnostics and logs when a Power App fails to initialize or run from a desktop flow.
A new administrator setting is now available to preserve a custom service account configured for the Power Automate machine runtime service across product upgrades. When the setting is enabled through the corresponding registry value, subsequent upgrades retain the custom account, enabling auto-update on machines where the machine runtime is not running under the default service account.
Repaired functionality
The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:
An issue where machine details in the machine runtime application were not automatically refreshed after changing the service account through the Troubleshoot tab has now been resolved, so that registration states, machine groups, and environments now reflect the new account without requiring a manual refresh.
An issue where uninstalling and reinstalling Power Automate for desktop could fail on certain Azure-hosted Windows Server 2019 and 2022 virtual machines due to a crash monitor service uninstall failure has now been resolved.
An issue where the proxy configuration file written by the Power Automate troubleshooter could not be read by the machine runtime service, due to additional XML namespace attributes being emitted during serialization, has now been resolved.
An issue where local variables from a previously active subflow were shown in the variables pane after rapidly switching between subflows during a run has now been resolved.
An issue where the flow designer could deadlock when the debugger was paused on a 'Run subflow' statement has now been resolved.
The issue where pressing the Delete key while editing a column name in the data table action editor caused the flow designer to freeze has now been resolved.
An issue where the version history empty state could overlap the unsaved version entry when opening the version history panel for a newly created flow has now been resolved.
An issue where long-running, local attended console runs of desktop flows could appear as cancelled in the cloud portal after approximately 60 to 90 minutes, while the flow continued running locally and cloud connector calls began to time out, has now been resolved.
An issue where saving a desktop flow could fail with a SQL transaction deadlock error instead of being retried automatically has now been resolved.
An issue where the avatars shown by the co-presence indicator in the flow designer used the same fallback color for all participants and did not refresh when the application theme or High Contrast setting changed has now been resolved. The first item in the overflow menu is also no longer shown as permanently selected.
The issue where the inputs and outputs of the 'Test a subflow of a desktop flow' action editor were not correctly aligned has now been resolved.
An issue where the colors used by filter popups in the variables pane and the variable picker were not adapted to the dark theme of the flow designer has now been resolved.
An issue where Power Automate Copilot documentation answers and citation links were returned in English regardless of the user's locale has now been resolved, so that documentation responses are now returned in the locale used by Power Automate for desktop.
The 'Go to flow' option in the context menu of 'Run desktop flow' actions is now displayed with the correct separator style, matching the rest of the menu.
An issue where the tooltip on the comparison badge icon of a previously published version in the version history panel was not displayed on hover has now been resolved.
An issue where 'Save as' was incorrectly disabled in the flow designer for flows containing duplicate core binaries has now been resolved, allowing users to save a clean copy of such flows under a new name.
An issue where the order of column values shown in the data table preview could become misaligned when scrolling horizontally or vertically has now been resolved.
An issue where a serialization error was reported when the columns of a returned data table or the properties of a returned custom object contained backslash characters has now been resolved.
The actual dimensions of a Power App opened by the 'Run Power App' action now match the width and height declared by the app, correctly accounting for the display's DPI scaling and the window chrome.
An issue where the 'Retrieve email messages from Outlook' action failed during account lookup when one of the user's stores or accounts had a missing display name, even when the targeted account was valid, has now been resolved.
An issue where consecutive invocations of a local subflow returned an incorrect output value on the second invocation, due to cached validation state, has now been resolved.
An issue where the global variable preview in the variables pane was not refreshed when the global variable's value was assigned from within a local subflow has now been resolved.
An issue where the dependency injection container did not register all required modules when a parent desktop flow ran two child desktop flows in sequence that used different action categories, causing a runtime error on the second child flow, has now been resolved.
An issue where the 'Test a subflow of a desktop flow' action returned an empty value for a subflow output variable, when the corresponding output was not bound by the caller of the subflow, has now been resolved.
An issue where validation errors were reported for desktop flows that contained certain connector references on non-premium accounts has now been resolved.
An issue where the 'Close dialog' advanced option in web automation actions stopped closing native browser dialogs on Chromium-based browsers from version 140 onward has now been resolved.
An issue where orphaned embedded connection references could remain associated with a desktop flow after they were deleted from the Power Automate portal, causing invalid connection references to appear when loading or running the flow, has now been resolved.
An issue where the cloud run log index column was not populated for desktop flow operations has now been resolved.
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