--- sourceDocument: brazil Combined Product Files sourceDocumentLink: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/delta-australia-brazil Release : - brazil ft:locale : - en-US ft:publication_title : - brazil Combined Product Files ft:clusterId : - delta3ba bundleId : - delta3ba --- # Combined Asset Audit Response release notes for upgrades from Australia to Brazil # Combined Asset Audit Response release notes for upgrades from Australia to Brazil {#ariaid-title1} Release version: Brazil Updated October 8, 2026 ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 6 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 Asset Audit Response release notes for upgrades from Australia to Brazil This consolidated guide provides ServiceNow customers with essential release notes for upgrading Asset Audit Response from the Australia release family to Brazil. It combines key new features, changes, and upgrade tasks to facilitate a smooth transition and enhance your financial regulatory audit processes using ServiceNow's Asset Audit Response. Show full answer Show less ## Important Upgrade Information * **Australia Release:** Introduces enhanced read-only field protections on the ServiceNow AI Platform® with granular control options, improving instance security without sacrificing flexibility. Customers should refer to technical documentation (KB2718122) for identifying and adjusting affected fields. * **Brazil Release:** No additional upgrade-specific changes were introduced. ## New Features * **Australia:** * Automate summarization of evidence requests using generative AI to gain insights on audit engagements, financial regulations, submitted evidence, remediation rules, and tasks---helping improve operational efficiency. * Track impacted asset and configuration item (CI) records within remediation tasks generated from remediation rules to facilitate necessary actions. * View detailed citation information related to evidence requests for better understanding of compliance requirements. * Align evidence requests with financial regulatory requirements from the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), enabling clearer compliance context for asset managers. * ServiceNow AI Platform now offers three licensing tiers (Foundation, Advanced, Prime) granting varying levels of AI capabilities and automation based on customer subscription. * **Brazil:** Enables viewing detailed reports associated with evidence records, especially those classified as Data Visualization or Report, to gain comprehensive insight into supporting audit data. ## Key Changes * **Australia:** The conversational AI platform formerly known as ServiceNow Otto® has been rebranded as ServiceNow Otto®, reflecting its evolution and expanded agentic and multimodal capabilities integrated into workflows. * **Brazil:** No changes to existing features were made. ## Removed and Deprecated Features No features or functionality were removed or deprecated between Australia and Brazil releases. ## Activation and Installation Asset Audit Response is available for installation via the ServiceNow Store. Customers should request the application through the Store and refer to the Store's version history for cumulative release notes. This process applies equally to both Australia and Brazil releases. ## Additional Considerations * No new additional system requirements, browser requirements, accessibility updates, or localization considerations were introduced in either Australia or Brazil releases. ## Highlights to Note * **Australia Patch 5:** Rebranding of ServiceNow Otto® as the new AI experience brand, with no change to product entitlements but an update to naming conventions. * **Australia Patch 1:** Introduction of AI-driven audit summarization, impacted record tracking in remediation tasks, and citation insights to enhance audit management. * **Brazil:** Focus on improving audit readiness through workspace enhancements, guided evidence request fulfillment, access to predefined reports, and proactive remediation via rules and tasks. Consolidated page of all release notes for Asset Audit Response from Australia to Brazil. ## How to use this page To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Asset Audit Response release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Australia to Brazil. 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 Asset Audit Response to Brazil Before you upgrade to Brazil, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed. {#dfrn3-assetauditresponse-summary__entry__2} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | Upgrade information : The Australia release introduces enhanced protections for read‑only fields across the ServiceNow AI Platform®. These changes include a new "read_only_option" field with granular control levels, including "strict_read_only" and "client_script_modifiable". The changes occur in the back end and maintain backward‑compatible behavior. This update helps strengthen your instance security while preserving the flexibility you need. Refer to [KB2718122](https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB2718122) for additional technical details on how to identify affected fields and adjust their settings. For more information about granular read-only security options, see [Configuring read-only security options](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=read-only-option&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US). | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## New features Between your current release family and Brazil, new features were introduced for Asset Audit Response. {#dfrn3-assetauditresponse-summary__entry__8} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | [Automate the summarization of evidence requests](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=fulfill-evidence-requests-guided-experience&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Use generative AI to summarize completed and in-progress evidence requests for your financial regulatory audits. Gain insight into the corresponding audit engagements, the associated financial regulations, and the evidence that was submitted for each request. In addition, view details about the remediation rules that were created for each request and the corresponding remediation tasks that were generated based on those rules. Use this information to help plan for and complete other in-progress evidence requests so that you can improve your operational efficiency. [Track impacted records that require remediation](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=fulfill-evidence-requests-guided-experience&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Use the Impacted Records related list in your remediation tasks to track and take any necessary actions on the impacted records, including asset and configuration item (CI) records, that are associated with each task. These remediation tasks are automatically generated based on the remediation rules that you define during evidence request fulfillment. [View citations for your evidence requests](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=fulfill-evidence-requests-guided-experience&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Gain insight into the citations that are associated with your evidence requests by using the Citation details fields in the Asset Response Guided Experience. Use these fields to identify the name, description, and supplemental guidance for any citation that is associated with a request. [Streamline the fulfillment of evidence requests by using financial regulatory context from the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=audit-workspace&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Associate your evidence requests with financial regulatory requirements and guidelines from the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). By aligning the relevant requests with these requirements and guidelines, you can help your asset managers better understand the compliance obligations that are associated with each request. They can then use this information to fulfill each request more accurately and efficiently. [ServiceNow product tiers](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=ai-native-sku-overview&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : The ServiceNow AI Platform now brings you a new AI experience with three licensing tiers available: * Foundation: AI basics to deliver insights * Advanced: AI to boost productivity across relevant use cases * Prime: Act autonomously with all AI assets, and create your own Depending on your license, you will have access to certain application features, generative AI skills, agentic workflows, and AI agents. | | Brazil | [View reports that are associated with your evidence records](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=fulfill-evidence-requests-guided-experience&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) : View the complete detailed reports associated with evidence records that have an Evidence type of Data Visualization or Report. Use each report to gain comprehensive insight into the supporting information or data that you want to collect and submit for an evidence request. | [ ] ## Changes Between your current release family and Brazil, some changes were made to existing Asset Audit Response features. {#dfrn3-assetauditresponse-summary__entry__14} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | [Now Assist to ServiceNow Otto® name change](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=ai-products&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : ServiceNow Otto introduced AI on the platform. As that experience has evolved, there's a new name for the experience. ServiceNow Otto® is the conversational AI platform integrated into ServiceNow workflows. It provides agentic capabilities, supports multimodal interactions across web, mobile, and messaging channels, and enables autonomous orchestration for cross-system workflows. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Removed Between your current release family and Brazil, some Asset Audit Response features or functionality were removed. {#dfrn3-assetauditresponse-summary__entry__20} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | No updates for this release. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Deprecations Between your current release family and Brazil, some Asset Audit Response features or functionality were deprecated. {#dfrn3-assetauditresponse-summary__entry__26} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | No updates for this release. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Activation information Review information on how to activate Asset Audit Response. {#dfrn3-assetauditresponse-summary__entry__32} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | Activation information : Install Asset Audit Response by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home) to view all the available apps, and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the [ServiceNow Store version history release notes](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sn-store-release-notes&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US). Important: Asset Audit Response is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes. | | Brazil | Activation information : Install Asset Audit Response by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home) to view all the available apps, and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the [ServiceNow Store version history release notes](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sn-store-release-notes&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US). | [ ] ## Additional requirements If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Asset Audit Response we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-assetauditresponse-summary__entry__38} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | No updates for this release. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Browser requirements If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Asset Audit Response we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-assetauditresponse-summary__entry__44} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | No updates for this release. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Accessibility information Review details on accessibility information for Asset Audit Response, such as specific requirements or compliance levels. {#dfrn3-assetauditresponse-summary__entry__50} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | No updates for this release. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Localization information If there are specific localization considerations for Asset Audit Response we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-assetauditresponse-summary__entry__56} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | No updates for this release. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Highlight information If there are specific highlight considerations for Asset Audit Response we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-assetauditresponse-summary__entry__62} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | [Australia Patch 5](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=australia-patch-5&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) * ServiceNow Otto® is the new AI experience brand. This change is reflected in the name of ServiceNow products. Your product entitlements remain unchanged. Check your entitlements to determine your access to specific features. [Australia Patch 1](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=australia-patch-1&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) * Automatically generate summaries of completed and in-progress evidence requests for your financial regulatory audits. * Track and manage impacted records that are associated with your remediation tasks. * Gain insight into the citations associated with your evidence requests. See [Asset Audit Response](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=asset-audit-response&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) for more information. | | Brazil | * Stay on top of your financial regulatory audits by creating audit engagements and corresponding evidence requests in the Audit Workspace. Track and manage the responses to those evidence requests in the Asset Governance Workspace. * Save time and effort on your audits by fulfilling and responding to evidence requests through the streamlined Asset Response Guided Experience. Get step-by-step guidance on generating, reviewing, and submitting the required evidence for each request. Access predefined reports and regulatory content to respond to each request more accurately and efficiently. * Improve your audit readiness by proactively identifying data gaps through remediation rules and tasks. See [Asset Audit Response](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=asset-audit-response&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) for more information. | [ ]