--- sourceDocument: australia Combined Product Files sourceDocumentLink: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/delta-yokohama-australia Release : - australia ft:locale : - en-US ft:publication_title : - australia Combined Product Files ft:clusterId : - delta3ay bundleId : - delta3ay --- # Combined Data Privacy release notes for upgrades from Yokohama to Australia # Combined Data Privacy release notes for upgrades from Yokohama to Australia {#ariaid-title1} Release version: Australia Updated October 8, 2026 ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 7 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 Combined Data Privacy Release Notes for Upgrades from Yokohama to Australia This consolidated guide assists ServiceNow customers in preparing for Data Privacy upgrades from the Yokohama release to the Australia release. It highlights important pre- and post-upgrade tasks, new features, changes, deprecations, and activation details across the releases from Yokohama through Zurich to Australia. This information enables customers to understand enhancements and maintain compliance with data privacy regulations throughout their upgrade process. Show full answer Show less ## Key Features * **Yokohama Release:** * AI/ML-based Data Discovery using Named Entity Recognition (NER) models enables detection of sensitive data without fixed patterns and supports real-time anonymization. * Sanitization of sensitive data in Now Assist prompts to prevent data leakage. * Discovery and reporting of sensitive data in attachments. * Licensing changes allow installation of key Data Privacy components without entitlement, though entitlement is required to run jobs. * **Zurich Release:** * Introduction of a new Data Discovery experience with a streamlined interface and guided setup for easier PII discovery and anonymization. * Column-level discovery allows granular scanning of specific table columns. * Anonymization capability extended to encrypted fields to support compliance and security. * Support added for scanning Microsoft Excel (.XLS) and CSV file attachments. * Text-to-regex pattern creation using Now Assist with support for approved large language models (LLMs). * Implementation of full and incremental scans in Data Discovery jobs. * **Australia Release:** * Real-time alerting and blocking of sensitive data entry at the field level to prevent unauthorized data input. * Logging of real-time sensitive data events to provide insights on user data entry behavior. * Attachment scanning during upload with quarantine functionality restricting access until administrative review. * New NER model data patterns (e.g., Address, City, State, Country, Job Position, Salary) enhance detection and anonymization. * Anonymization support extended to catalog variables, including record producers, during production and cloning. * New base system regular expression patterns aligned with global compliance standards. * Enhanced anonymization reporting dashboard provides detailed metrics and insights for regulatory compliance and internal audits. * Optional condition filters for anonymization jobs to fine-tune data scope. * Configuration of specific anonymization policies for catalog variables. ## Changes and Considerations * Keyword matching in regex-based sensitive data discovery has been refined for more precise full-string matching, which may require customers to update keyword variants to maintain discovery accuracy. * Improved anonymization dashboards and real-time protection modules introduced in Australia enhance visibility and control over data privacy operations. * Licensing changes from Yokohama onward clarify installation versus job execution entitlements for Data Privacy components. * No features or functionalities were removed or deprecated between Yokohama and Australia releases. ## Activation and Requirements * Data Privacy capabilities require activation of the **Data Privacy plugin (sndpstoreapp)** in all releases from Yokohama to Australia. * Data Privacy is available through the ServiceNow Store, with activation instructions detailed within the plugin documentation. * No additional browser, localization, accessibility, or other special requirements were introduced or changed during these releases. ## Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers * Enhanced detection and protection of sensitive data through AI/ML models and expanded data pattern recognition improve compliance with global privacy regulations. * Real-time alerting, blocking, and logging of sensitive data inputs empower organizations to prevent data leaks proactively. * Granular controls, such as column-level discovery and condition filters for anonymization jobs, enable tailored data privacy management aligned with business needs. * Improved user experience with guided setups and enhanced dashboards facilitate easier management and reporting of data privacy activities. * Attachment scanning and quarantine safeguard sensitive information in uploaded files, ensuring controlled access and review processes. Consolidated page of all release notes for Data Privacy from Yokohama to Australia. ## How to use this page To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Data Privacy release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Yokohama to Australia. Tip: If there were no updates for a release notes section in a certain family release, we included a short note for your reference. For example, if a product did not have any updates in Tokyo, the row says "No updates for this release." ## Important information for upgrading Data Privacy to Australia Before you upgrade to Australia, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__2} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | Upgrade information : Licensing changes enable you to install Data Discovery, Data Discovery APIs, Data Anonymization, and Data Privacy APIs without an entitlement, but you must have an entitlement to run a job. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## New features Between your current release family and Australia, new features were introduced for Data Privacy. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__10} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | [AL/ML Based Data Discovery for Real Time Anonymization](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=now-assist-for-data-privacy-landing&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) : Use AI/ML data discovery using Named Entity Recognition (NER) models to discover sensitive data that does not follow a pattern like name, address, organizations, and more; and run real-time anonymization. [Configuring Data Privacy for Now Assist](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=configure-now-assist-data-privacy&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) : Sanitize sensitive data entered in Now Assist prompts to prevent data leakage without impacting the response. [Discover sensitive data from attachments.](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=configure-data-discovery-jobs&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) : Discover and report on sensitive data from attachments. | | Zurich | [New Data Discovery experience](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=data-discovery-landing&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Use the new Data Discovery experience, which simplifies the experience of discovering and anonymizing PII. [Column-level discovery](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=granular-configuration&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Select a specific column of a table for granular scanning during data discovery jobs. [Anonymization of encrypted field](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-data-anonymization&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Anonymize encrypted columns to help you achieve compliance with data privacy regulations and defense-in-depth data protection. | | Australia | [Real-time alerting and blocking of sensitive data](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=real-time-protection&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Analyze user input in real time at the field level to identify sensitive data and alert users about potential sensitive data entry. You can also choose to block users from saving this information. [Data logs for real-time sensitive data](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-data-privacy-overview&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Leverage real-time alerting and blocking capabilities to obtain insights into where sensitive data is being entered into the instance and by which users. [Real-time sensitive data-scanning for attachments](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=attachment-quarantine-policies&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Scan attachments for sensitive data during user uploads into fields. If sensitive data is detected, the attachment is quarantined. This restricts the access and download of the file to the original document owner and authorized users until the admin reviews the files. [New Named Entity Recognition (NER) model data patterns](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=default-data-patterns&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Employ new AI/ML-based model data patterns (Address, City, State, Country, Job Position, and Salary) to detect and anonymize sensitive data. [Anonymization support for catalog variables](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-create-anonymization-policies&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Anonymize sensitive data in catalog items (including record producers) using anonymization jobs (in production and during cloning). [New base system Regular Expression (RegEx) data patterns](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dds-review-discovery-findings&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Employ new base system regular expression data patterns to detect and anonymize sensitive data in line with global compliance requirements. [Enhanced anonymization reporting](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-create-anonymization-job&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Demonstrate defensible compliance to regulators, auditors and internal teams using the new anonymization dashboard to provide quantitative insights into anonymization and data protection operations. | [ ] ## Changes Between your current release family and Australia, some changes were made to existing Data Privacy features. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__18} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | [Text to Regex from a LLM](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=configure-data-discovery-patterns&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Create a regex data pattern with the help of Now Assist, which supports all third-party LLMs approved by ServiceNow. [Full scan support added](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=configure-data-discovery-jobs&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Data Discovery jobs support full type scans, which scan for sensitive data patterns in all the records. You can also use an incremental scan, which acts as a delta scan from the point of the last full scan. [XLS and CSV support added](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=data-discovery-attachment-scanning&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Data Discovery attachment scan type jobs now support XLS and CSV files. Attachment scans are incremental scans by default. Key word matching : As part of key word matching when discovering sensitive data using regex, more precise data pattern matching has been implemented, using full strings of text. This may require customers to add more specific variants of keywords to achieve the same level of discovery precision as prior platform releases | | Australia | * Use the [improved anonymization dashboard](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-data-privacy-overview&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) to get more details about anonymization. For example, what data was anonymized and how (real-time or through anonymization jobs). * Use the new [real-time protection module](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=real-time-protection&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) to configure real-time alerting and your blocking policies. You can also view real-time sensitive data logs. New experience : * [Optional condition filter](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-create-anonymization-job&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) when running anonymization jobs to fine tune the scope of data to be anonymized. * [Specific anonymization policy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-create-anonymization-policies&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) for catalog variables to anonymize sensitive data in catalog requests. Key word matching : As part of key word matching when discovering sensitive data using regex, more precise data pattern matching has been implemented, using full strings of text. This may require customers to add more specific variants of keywords to achieve the same level of discovery precision as prior platform releases | [ ] ## Removed Between your current release family and Australia, some Data Privacy features or functionality were removed. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__26} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Deprecations Between your current release family and Australia, some Data Privacy features or functionality were deprecated. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__34} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Activation information Review information on how to activate Data Privacy. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__42} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | Activation information : Data Privacy is available with activation of the Data Privacy Plugin (sn_dp_store_app). For details, see [Activate data privacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-activate-data-privacy&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US). Important: Data Privacy is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes. | | Zurich | Activation information : Data Privacy is available with activation of the Data Privacy plugin (sn_dp_store_app). For details, see [Activate data privacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-activate-data-privacy&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US). Important: Data Privacy is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes. | | Australia | Activation information : Data Privacy is available with activation of the Data Privacy plugin (`sn_dp_store_app`). For details, see [Activate data privacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-activate-data-privacy&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US). Important: Data Privacy is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes. | [ ] ## Additional requirements If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Data Privacy we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__50} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Browser requirements If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Data Privacy we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__58} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Accessibility information Review details on accessibility information for Data Privacy, such as specific requirements or compliance levels. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__66} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Localization information If there are specific localization considerations for Data Privacy we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__74} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Highlight information If there are specific highlight considerations for Data Privacy we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__82} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | * Leverage Data Privacy in Now Assist to discover sensitive data in Now Assist prompts and data send to models. * Sanitize sensitive data from Now Assist prompts without impacting response. * Discover sensitive data from attachments using enhanced Data Discovery jobs. See [Platform Privacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=privacy-landing-page&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) for more information. | | Zurich | * Use a revamped Data Discovery interface, enhancing your Data Discovery experience with intuitive widgets, a streamlined user experience, and a guided setup for first-time users. * Target scans on specific table columns for discovery using column-level discovery and expanded support for Field Encryption. * Discover PII in Microsoft Excel and CSV files with expanded file support. * Generate regex patterns using prompts with the text-to-regex feature, which leverages Now Assist and supports all large language models (LLMs) approved by ServiceNow. See [Platform Privacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=privacy-landing-page&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) for more information. | | Australia | * Discover and block sensitive data from user inputs to prevent it from entering the platform, alert users when sensitive data is entered to raise awareness, and leverage sensitive data logs to understand where and who is entering sensitive data. * Scan and quarantine attachments that contain sensitive data to restrict their access and downloading. * Define conditions for the anonymization of sensitive data to meet business specific requirements. Use the enhanced data anonymization dashboard to obtain insights and metrics about data protection and anonymization for executive reporting. See [Data Privacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=data-privacy-landing&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) for more information. | [ ]