Combined Document Intelligence release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Australia

How to use this page

To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Document Intelligence release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Xanadu to Australia.

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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 Document Intelligence to Australia

Before you upgrade to Australia, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.
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 Document Intelligence.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	Xanadu Patch 10 Improved security for the document and visual insights AI agent Enable access control lists (ACLs) to improve the security for the document and visual insights AI agent. ACLs provide you with the capability to run AI agents and agentic workflow executions either as a dynamic user or an AI user. The document and visual insights AI agent and its skills are classified as a worker or helper agent. A worker can act as an AI user with different privileges than the human user. A helper only has the privileges of a human user. Xanadu Patch 9 Document and visual insights AI agent Use an AI agent to help process tasks that analyze and extract data from documents and images. Full automation for document data extraction Automatically extract document data and process the document task without agent review. Document chat in Virtual Agent Integrate Now Assist for Virtual Agent with Now Assist in Document Intelligence to enable chat responses based on document content. Attachment summarization in ITSM View the summaries of attachments with the record summary in ITSM. Xanadu Patch 3 Now Assist in Document Intelligence Use Now Assist in Document Intelligence to extract information from contract documents with generative AI. Early availability Draw tool enhancements Extract the data from single fields by using the draw tool to select a document area and extract the information. Data normalization Standardize the data extracted from documents with the following improvements: Determine a default interpretation of the ambiguous values for the date and number fields. Create a Reference field type to match the extracted field values with the fields in a referenced table record. Dashboards in the Admin experience Monitor the overall performance of Document Intelligence in the Document Intelligence monitoring dashboard. You can monitor the performance at the use case level in the use case performance dashboard. Document classification integration workflow Integrate document classification use cases with a custom application or workflow.
Yokohama	Yokohama Patch 6 New third-party AI model provider options available for all Now Assist applications Google Gemini and AWS Claude are available for Now Assist skills and AI agents in addition to Now LLM Service and Azure OpenAI. Yokohama Patch 3 Document and visual insights AI agent Use an AI agent to help process tasks that analyze and extract data from documents and images. Early Availability Now Assist in Document Intelligence Use Now Assist in Document Intelligence to extract information from documents and provide answers to defined questions using generative AI.
Zurich	New third-party AI model provider options available for all Now Assist applications Google Gemini and AWS Claude are available for Now Assist skills and AI agents in addition to Now LLM Service and Azure OpenAI.
Australia	Starting with the Zurich release, Document Intelligence is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be hidden and no longer activated on new instances but will continue to be supported. For details, see the Deprecation Process article [KB0867184] in the Now Support Knowledge Base. Instead, you can extract information from documents using the Now Assist in Document Intelligence application. For more information, see Now Assist in Document Intelligence.

Changes

Between your current release family and Australia, some changes were made to existing Document Intelligence features.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	Yokohama Patch 6 Document and visual insights AI agent enhancements Generate a summary of document and image attachments with the document and visual insights AI agent.
Zurich	No updates for this release.
Australia	No updates for this release.

Removed

Between your current release family and Australia, some Document Intelligence features or functionality were removed.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	Starting in the Xanadu release, the Platform Document Intelligence Usage dashboard is no longer supported or available through the Document Intelligence application. Performance metrics are available in the Document Intelligence Admin experience. For more information, see Document Intelligence monitoring dashboard.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.
Zurich	The Document Intelligence application has been removed from the application navigator.
Australia	No updates for this release.

Deprecations

Between your current release family and Australia, some Document Intelligence features or functionality were deprecated.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.
Zurich	Starting with Zurich release, the document extraction feature in Document Intelligence is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be hidden and no longer activated on new instances but will continue to be supported. For details, see the Deprecation Process [KB0867184] article in the Now Support Knowledge Base. Instead, you can extract information from documents using the Now Assist in Document Intelligence application. For more information, see [Placeholder link text to key docintel-nowassist-landing]. The Document Intelligence Admin (sn_docintel_admin) plugin is planned for deprecation in the B release.
Australia	No updates for this release.

Activation information

Review information on how to activate Document Intelligence.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	Install Document Intelligence by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store website 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. The Document Intelligence application (sn_docintel) depends on the Document Intelligence plugin (com.glide.platform_ml_di), the Predictive Intelligence plugin (com.glide.platform_ml), and the Document Intelligence UIB component (com.sn_docintel_iframe). For more details, see Install Document Intelligence.
Yokohama	Install Document Intelligence by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store website 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. The Document Intelligence application (sn_docintel) depends on the Document Intelligence plugin (com.glide.platform_ml_di), the Predictive Intelligence plugin (com.glide.platform_ml), and the Document Intelligence UIB component (com.sn_docintel_iframe). For more details, see Install Document Intelligence.
Zurich	Install Document Intelligence by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. The Document Intelligence application (sn_docintel) depends on the Document Intelligence plugin (com.glide.platform_ml_di), the Predictive Intelligence plugin (com.glide.platform_ml), and the Document Intelligence UIB component (com.sn_docintel_iframe). For more details, see Install Document Intelligence.
Australia	No updates for this release.

Additional requirements

If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Document Intelligence we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
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 Document Intelligence we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
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 Document Intelligence, such as specific requirements or compliance levels.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	Support for reflow The sn-docintel-iframe component was updated to support reflow, which enables pages and content to be zoomed up to 400% through your browser settings without loss of content or functionality. Additionally, content can be enlarged without scrolling in two dimensions at a width equivalent to 320 CSS pixels or a height equivalent to 256 CSS pixels. This enhancement helps users with low vision or who have trouble seeing web content in a browser due to monitor size, device type, poor lighting, or other situations. Reflow can be turned off with a system property for instances, experiences, and pages. See Reflow for Configurable Workspace for details.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.
Zurich
Australia	No updates for this release.

Localization information

If there are specific localization considerations for Document Intelligence we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	Chinese and Japanese language support Process documents in additional languages with added support for Simplified Chinese and Japanese.
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 Document Intelligence we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	Xanadu Patch 9 Boost productivity by using the document and visual insights AI agent in Now Assist to autonomously analyze and extract data from documents and images. Streamline document data extraction by automating document tasks. Use Virtual Agent to ask questions about the document content. Xanadu Patch 3 Extract information from contract documents by using Now Assist in Document Intelligence. Early Availability Extract the data from single fields by using the Draw tool to select a document area and extract the information. Standardize the extracted data by determining how to interpret ambiguous field values and by matching extracted values with data in a referenced table. Process documents that are written in Simplified Chinese or Japanese. Monitor your Document Intelligence implementation with improved dashboard charts. See Document Intelligence for more information.
Yokohama	Yokohama Patch 6 Summarize content in document and image attachments with the document and visual insights AI agent. Use Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude on AWS as AI model providers for Now Assist skills and AI agents in addition to Now LLM Service and Azure OpenAI. Yokohama Patch 3 Boost productivity by using the document and visual insights AI agent in Now Assist to autonomously analyze and extract data from documents and images. Early Availability Speed up your document processing workflows and quickly extract the text and tables from your documents by using Now Assist. Save time looking for the information that you need in a document and quickly find the answers to predefined questions by using Now Assist. See Document Intelligence for more information.
Zurich	Use Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude on AWS as AI model providers for Now Assist skills and AI agents in addition to Now LLM Service and Azure OpenAI. See Document Intelligence for more information.
Australia	No updates for this release.