Upgrading your instance allows your organization to get the latest
features, increase productivity, and avoid known issues and bugs. In
short, regular upgrades reduce risk while increasing productivit...
The Helsinki End of Life (EOL) notifications sent in December 2017
triggered questions from our customers regarding what "unsupported"
really means. There was concern that "unsupported" meant we no lo...
The Quarterly Patching Program (QPP) schedules patches to make sure
customer instances are up-to-date with the latest in security and
performance fixes. In Q1-2018, ServiceNow will patch customer inst...
IT and Support Teams are constantly changing and evolving and who was
once in charge of patching and upgrading instances, may be on a
different project, team, or even no longer with the company. So to...
With October being National CyberSecurity Month, the Patching and
Upgrades team is highlighting the series of security patches ServiceNow
is deploying in Q4.These patches bring the latest in security
...
In order to help you better manage quarterly patching and upgrades,
we've provided the ability to modify the target version of an existing
upgrade change request. This new feature applies to quarterly...
As part of our ongoing effort to keep your instances on the latest patch
versions for security, vulnerability and performance, ServiceNow has
deemed it necessary to change the Q4 2016 Geneva and Helsi...
As part of the Quarterly Patching Program in Q4, ServiceNow will patch
instances to the specified patch targets below. We encourage you to
patch earlier than the dates specified in your COM record to ...
The Helsinki release includes the Upgrade History module that tracks
every upgrade that has been made to an instance. You can use it to
resolve conflicts and, thanks to a prefiltered list, review skip...
Geneva — is now available!A new ServiceNow release - Geneva - is now
available. Learn more about it here
https://community.servicenow.com/docs/DOC-4562 . Customers who upgrade
to Geneva will be patche...
The Quarterly Patching program schedules patches in intervals throughout
the year to make sure that your instance is up-to-date with the latest
security, performance, and availability hot fixes and pa...
The new "Customer Self-Service Portal: Manage Upgrades" video provides a
demonstration of the new streamlined process for requesting version
entitlement for an instance. Before this update, entitlemen...
If you are upgrading your instance from a version prior to Eureka, you
may have noticed that when you navigate to Personalize > Form Design,
the form designer is missing from your context menu. The re...
Upgrading a Production instance to Fuji may take unexpectedly long when
you use a sub-production upgrade time as a guideline. The reason it is
taking such a long time is because in clones to sub-produ...