Deluge Updates & Release Notes

The throw statement has been introduced in Deluge, giving you explicit control over error handling in your scripts. When a condition fails, such as an API returning an error, a validation check not passing, or a business rule being violated, you can use throw to immediately stop script execution and raise a custom exception with a message and an optional data payload of any Deluge type. Control is then passed to the nearest matching catch block for handling.

If no catch block is available, the script terminates and the execution is marked as failed, ensuring failures are never silently swallowed.

For more information, refer to the Throw statement help doc.

We've introduced the Enable Custom Credentials option while creating a service under Custom Services. When enabled during service creation, the client ID and client secret are no longer set at the service level. Instead, each user is prompted to enter their own client ID and client secret while creating a connection for that service, which are then used to generate the authentication tokens. This lets each user in your organization work with their own unique credentials and ensures that the service creator's credentials cannot be accessed or reused by others.

This option is supported for services using OAuth 1.0 and OAuth 2.0 authentication.

For more information, visit the Connections help doc.

We've introduced a new Advanced Configuration section while creating a service in Custom Services. It offers two options:

• Client Authentication: Specifies how the client_id and client_secret are sent to the OAuth token endpoint. You can choose to send them in the request body or in the Basic Auth header.
• Dynamic Parameters: Lets you use dynamic parameters ({ParamLinkName}) as placeholders in Deluge webhook task URLs and connection authentication URLs.

For more information, visit the Connections help doc.

We've introduced new integration tasks for Zoho Learn in Deluge which enable you to automate and perform a diverse range of actions. The four available tasks are:

• Get Course: Fetches the details of a course from your Zoho Learn portal using its URL.
• Add Members to a Course: Adds one or more members to a specified course in Zoho Learn.
• Update Learner Status: Updates the completion status of a learner in a specified course.
• Course Report: Retrieves the completion and progress report for all learners in a specified course.

For more information, visit the Zoho Learn Integration Tasks help doc.

The setFilePassword task has been introduced in Deluge, allowing you to encrypt and password-protect PDF and ZIP file objects. Once applied, the file can only be accessed by entering the specified password. Please be aware that this task does not return a value, instead the password is applied directly to the file object.

For PDF files, the password supports a maximum of 32 characters. If a longer password is provided, only the first 32 characters will be used. Additionally, this task can only be used on files that are not already password-protected. Please note that existing passwords cannot be modified, replaced, or removed.

For more information, visit the setFilePassword help doc.

character_set Parameter for base64Encode and base64Decode

The base64Encode and base64Decode tasks have been enhanced with a new character_set parameter that specifies the character set to be used during encoding and decoding. If this parameter is not specified, UTF-8 is applied by default.

Supported values:

• UTF-8 (Default)
• UTF-16LE
• UTF-16BE

For more information, visit the base64Encode and base64Decode help docs.

New Encryption Tasks: base32Encode and base32Decode

Two new encryption tasks, base32Encode and base32Decode, have been introduced in Deluge. These tasks allow you to encode and decode data using the Base32 encoding scheme.

For more information, visit the base32Encode and base32Decode help docs.

We’ve introduced a new set of integration tasks for Zoho CRM, built on the latest V8 APIs. These tasks enable you to perform a wide range of CRM operations directly from Deluge.

The available tasks include:

• Create Record
• Bulk Create Records
• Get Records
• Get Related Records
• Fetch Record using Record ID
• Update Record
• Bulk Update Records
• Update Related Record
• Search Records
• Attach File
• Convert Lead
• Get Fields
• Upsert Record

For more information, visit Zoho CRM Integration Tasks V8 help doc.

The Zia task in Deluge is an AI-powered function that allows you to harness the power of generative AI. It helps automate content-heavy or repetitive tasks such as generating text, extracting information from documents, summarising content, and more.

The Zia task functions like any other generative AI workflow; you simply provide a prompt, and it uses large language models (LLMs) to produce natural language output.

Additionally, you also have the flexibility to choose your preferred AI vendor. Zia can be powered by Zoho's own LLM or external vendors such as OpenAI, Google Gemini, and more.

For more information, visit the Zia task help doc.

We've rolled out backend enhancements for Zoho Map integration tasks (Geocode, Reverse Geocode, and Distance Between) to improve performance and scalability. You'll notice quicker results when calling map-related tasks. The primary aim of this update is to provide more structured and detailed responses in a JSON-like format. Additionally, the update brings improved distance calculation accuracy and faster response times. Going forward, any new Map tasks would be in the new format. To help with migration, existing Map task scripts will be automatically tagged with v1 (e.g., zoho.map.v1.geoCode). Please update your Deluge scripts to handle the new response structure and test thoroughly to ensure compatibility. The old format will be deprecated on January 16, 2026.

For more information, visit the Deluge community post .