Combined Employee Center Pro release notes for upgrades from Yokohama to Australia

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated May 4, 2026
  • 4 minutes to read
  • Consolidated page of all release notes for Employee Center Pro from Yokohama to Australia.

    How to use this page

    To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Employee Center Pro 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 Employee Center Pro to Australia

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

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    No updates for this release.

    Zurich

    No updates for this release.

    Australia

    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 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.

    New features

    Between your current release family and Australia, new features were introduced for Employee Center Pro.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    No updates for this release.

    Zurich

    Portal performance optimization
    Communicate information about heavy usage and slower network conditions during high usage scenarios, such as live events and major announcements.
    Notifications for Employee Center enhancements
    Get the Notifications for Employee Center feature in Content engagement. Add reactions and comments to published news articles to help improve user involvement.
    Integrated experience and service feedback
    Configure features flexibly as an admin and submit detailed experience feedback as an employee with the Integrated experience and Service feedback enhancements. With the enhancements, you can do the following:
    • Use new themes for experience feedback.
    • Add comments in addition to a rating when submitting experience feedback.
    • Review submitted feedback on the Feedback Analytics Dashboard.
    Quick start tests for Employee Center Pro
    After upgrades and deployments of new applications or integrations, run quick start tests to verify that Employee Center Pro works as expected. If you customized Employee Center Pro, copy the quick start tests and configure them for your customizations.

    Australia

    Integrated experience and service feedback
    Add granular admin roles to the Integrated experience and service feedback functionality to decentralize administrative task management.
    Moveworks for Employee Center

    Empower employees with Moveworks for Employee Center and its AI-powered conversational support. Using the Moveworks embedded AI assistant plugin, your employees can ask questions, get instant answers, and complete tasks end-to-end from Employee Center and Employee Center Pro.

    Quick start tests for Employee Center Pro

    After upgrades and deployments of new applications or integrations, run quick start tests to verify that Employee Center Pro works as expected. If you customized Employee Center Pro, copy the quick start tests and configure them for your customizations.

    Changes

    Between your current release family and Australia, some changes were made to existing Employee Center Pro features.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    No updates for this release.

    Zurich

    No updates for this release.

    Australia

    No updates for this release.

    Removed

    Between your current release family and Australia, some Employee Center Pro features or functionality were removed.

    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 Employee Center Pro features or functionality were deprecated.

    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 Employee Center Pro.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    No updates for this release.

    Zurich

    Install Employee Center Pro by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store.

    Australia

    Install Employee Center Pro by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store 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.

    Additional requirements

    If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Employee Center Pro we have noted them here.

    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 Employee Center Pro we have noted them here.

    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 Employee Center Pro, such as specific requirements or compliance levels.

    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 Employee Center Pro we have noted them here.

    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 Employee Center Pro we have noted them here.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    No updates for this release.

    Zurich

    • Configure features flexibly and submit detailed feedback using enhancements for the Integrated experience and Service feedback.
    • Get the Notifications in Employee Center feature in Content engagement for improved employee involvement while engaging with news content.
    • Experience an enhanced performance with improvements to calender widgets, news and events, and publishing communications to browser websites.

    See Employee Center Pro for more information.

    Australia

    Add granular admin roles to the Integrated experience and service feedback functionality to decentralize administrative task management.

    See Employee Center Pro for more information.