--- sourceDocument: Store Version History Release Notes sourceDocumentLink: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/store-release-notes Release : - store ft:locale : - en-US ft:publication_title : - Store Version History Release Notes ft:clusterId : - rnst bundleId : - rnst --- # Talent Development Core release notes # Talent Development Core release notes {#ariaid-title1} Release version: Store Updated September 10, 2026 ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 3 minutes to read Summarize ![AI sparkle icon](https://servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ai-sparkle-icon) Summarized using AI This content was generated using new OpenAI-powered functionality. Results are provided on an as is basis and are not guaranteed to be accurate or complete. ## Summary of Talent Development Core release notes The Talent Development Core application on the ServiceNow Store supports comprehensive career growth and development management for employees and managers. It is embedded within Employee Center, providing a unified platform to capture aspirations, create personalized growth plans, track progress, and manage career development activities. The application leverages a skills intelligence engine to identify gaps and recommend development opportunities, helping organizations proactively engage employees in their career journeys. Show full answer Show less ## Key Features and Enhancements * **Growth Plans:** Introduced in version 5.0.3 (February 2025), allowing employees to input goals and generate personalized growth plans. Features evolved to include activity resequencing, auto-start configuration by admins, mentoring support, enhanced conversation scheduling with Outlook integration, and flexible date management. * **Aspirations and Career Hub:** Enables capturing employee aspirations, viewing featured aspirations promoted by the organization, and accessing internal job opportunities via the Opportunity Marketplace. Skills are dynamically updated with resume uploads, and UI improvements enhance accessibility and user experience. * **Security and Usability Improvements:** Continuous enhancements to security (e.g., GlideRecordSecure), licensing, accessibility, internationalization, and UI responsiveness across releases ensure a robust and user-friendly experience. * **Admin Controls:** Expanded administrative capabilities including granular admin directives, access to core properties, and management of activity templates. * **Demo Data and Bug Fixes:** Regular fixes addressing UI issues, career hub tabbing, RCA issues, and demonstration data support for testing and onboarding. * **Application Renaming:** The application was renamed from EGD Core to Talent Development Core in July 2024 to better reflect its purpose. ## Practical Impact for ServiceNow Customers * Enables organizations to empower employees with personalized, actionable career development plans that are easy to create and manage within ServiceNow. * Improves engagement by integrating mentoring, goal tracking, and opportunity discovery directly into the employee experience. * Enhances administrative control and security for smoother governance of talent development processes. * Delivers ongoing usability and accessibility improvements to support diverse employee needs and ensure a consistent user experience. * Ensures compatibility and readiness through minor updates focused on performance, licensing, and UI refinements. Version history for the Talent Development Core on the ServiceNow Store. Important: For details on system requirements and family compatibility, view the application listing on the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home) website. ## Version history Version 5.7.1 - September 2026 : Minor release. Version 5.6.4 - August 2026 : Minor release. Focus on Otto rename UI changes and other defects Version 5.5.0 - June 2026 : Minor release. Green light code changes but no major functionality Version 5.4.1 - March 2026 : * Changed: Enhanced GlideRecordSecure security. * Fixed: Few bugs. Version 5.3.0 - December 2025 : Changed: Granular admin directive changes. Version 5.2.1 - August 2025 : Minor licensing changes. Version 5.1.4 - June 2025 : Minor bug fixes.{#store-rn-hr-egd-core__latest-store-rn-hr-egd-core} {#store-rn-hr-egd-core__latest-store-rn-hr-egd-core} Version 5.1.3 - May 2025 : * Minor performance updates * Theming changes Version 5.0.3 - February 2025 : New Feature: Growth Plan Generation - This feature allows employees to input their goals and interests in text form and then generate a personalized growth plan for them to get started on their growth journey. Version 4.3.2 - November 2024 : * New: * Growth Plan Activity Insights for Skill Validation * Aspirations Activity Insights for Skill Validation * Updated: * Security improvements for aspirations * Security improvements for growth plans * Demo Data for aspirations and growth plans * Fixed: * UI issues in Skill approvals flyout * UI issues in edit link for aspirations * RCA issues with Career Hub, Aspirations * Tabbing issue in Growth Plans Version 4.2.2 - August 2024 : Fixed: Various accessibility and usability defects. Version 4.1.9 - July 2024 : Application renamed from EGD Core to Talent Development Core. Version 4.1.7 - May 2024 : * New: * Growth plans * Employee goals can be used to create a growth plan * Fixed: * Aspirations, Career Hub, and Growth plans * Various accessibility and internationalization issues * Various issues to improve user experience Version 4.0.4 - February 2024 : * New Growth Plans: Support for Mentoring Employees can enroll in mentoring and find mentors as a part of their growth plans * Growth Plans: Support for Enhanced Conversations * If Outlook Integration is supported in Conversations, employees can leverage that capability when scheduling within growth plans {#store-rn-hr-egd-core__ul_zxm_wfl_d1c} * Career Hub: Support for Opportunity Marketplace Employees can view top-matching internal job opportunities and their recent job application status * Aspirations: Featured Aspirations by Company Employees can view up to 9 role or skill aspirations promoted by their organization from a new widget * Featured by your company: * Changed Growth Plans: To support enhanced Conversation scheduling, date is no longer a required field when creating a growth plan; it can be added later. * Career Hub: Enabled auto-updating completed steps and retrieving skipped steps in Get started widget {#store-rn-hr-egd-core__ul_ozs_2gl_d1c} {#store-rn-hr-egd-core__ul_yp4_5fl_d1c} Version 3.0.5 - January 2024 : Fixed: Misconfiguration of ACLs for EGD Core. Version 3.0.4 - November 2023 : * New: * Growth Plans: * Users can now resequence activities in their growth plans * Admins can configure whether and how to automatically start activities * Various usability and accessibility improvements * Fixed: * Aspirations: * Users can now add links to Aspiration descriptions using the HTML editor button * Only a single confirmation is now displayed after completing an aspiration * Various accessibility fixes * Career Hub: * Skills are now displayed without reloading after uploading a resume and importing skills to your profile * Various accessibility and visual experience fixes * Growth Plans: * Users can now open Growth Plans in a new tab from the Growth Plan home page * Auto-completed learning tasks are displayed as complete in the Growth Plan activity flyout * Demo data fixes * EGD Admins can now access the EGD Core properties page * Activity templates can be deleted * Various responsive, accessibility, and visual experience fixes * Removed: * Growth Plans: * The following activity categories are no longer available for Growth Plan templates * Validation * Development * Other Version 2.0.0 - September 2023 : * The ServiceNow Employee Growth and Development core application supports an end-to-end process for employees and managers to identify, track, and take control of their career growth and development journey. Embedded within Employee Center, employees have a centralized and unified place to design their personalized roadmap for career growth in an intuitive and comprehensive application. * Key highlights: * Helps capture an employee's aspirations and turn them into actionable growth plans. * Aids in creation, update and tracking of career growth and development plans. * A personalized overview for an employee that captures key information of all their activities under career growth and development in the form of Career Hub. * Built on skills intelligence engine to identify areas to help identify gaps and provide recommendations to advance and grow careers. * Provide proactive prompts to keep growth and development at the forefront of employees thoughts. {#store-rn-hr-egd-core__ul_kyk_lb2_5yb} Version 1.0.6 - August 2023 : * New: Initial release of Employee Growth \& Development functionality. * Changed: A new navigation link to Your career will be added to the Mega Menu in Employee Center.