Combined Project Workspace release notes for upgrades from Yokohama to Australia

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated May 4, 2026
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  • Consolidated page of all release notes for Project Workspace from Yokohama to Australia.

    How to use this page

    To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Project Workspace 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 Project Workspace 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

    No updates for this release.

    New features

    Between your current release family and Australia, new features were introduced for Project Workspace.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    Analyze the status report in Project Workspace
    • You can't edit the status report, but you can change the system property to enable editing.
    • Import your old status reports to a new status report tool for a consistent and organized reporting system.
    Duplicate a status report in Project Workspace
    Reduce effort by duplicating a status report to transfer all project information without manual copying.
    Configuring security for a project in Project Workspace
    • Apply confidentiality settings to safeguard sensitive projects and make sure that only authorized users can access confidential data and sub-projects.
    • When a project is marked confidential in one workspace, such as Project Management or Strategic Portfolio Workspace, these settings automatically extend across all associated workspaces, maintaining consistent protection.
    • To promote security, at least one user must be assigned access to any confidential project.
    Project task checklists
    • Create a checklist for your project tasks and manage a list of activities or steps to be completed for a task.
    • As an Administrator, you can add or remove checklists as needed.
    View the roll-up financial values for project tasks at parent project level
    View and manage the cost plans and expense lines recorded on a project task level on the parent project.
    Resource allocation and heatmap enhancements
    • Use the allocation heatmap modal to view resource status, remaining capacity, and utilization and enable resource managers to assess task efforts.
    • Use inline editing to update one or multiple cells in child resource assignments.
    • Added new fields for resource assignment:
      • Name
      • Ready for review
      • Notes
    • Extend a resource assignment for a project or project task using the Extend row context menu action.

    Zurich

    Use Playbooks in Project Workspace
    • Playbooks provide structured stages and activities to keep projects on track.
    • Added two playbooks for Project Workspace: Project Default and Stage-gate Default.
    • Use one of the two out-of-box playbooks or create your own to match your project process.
    Monitor and update project report status
    • Track the status of project reports using the Status drop down, and change the status from Draft to Published once updates are complete.
    • Status changes are restricted to the Project Manager role.
    Copy and edit status report enhancements
    • Simplified workflow for copying and editing status reports. Duplicate a status report directly without opening a form modal.
    • The duplicated report automatically refreshes with the latest project updates (for example, overall status, milestones, or metrics).
    • Any static or manually added data from the original report is retained in the duplicated version.
    • When editing is disabled, all fields in the status report are read-only. When editing is enabled, only dynamic fields remain read-only. You can edit the status report in both the scenarios using the Edit Status Report action in the context menu.
    Resource assignment updates
    • Access and modify resource details directly from the Resource page without having to navigate to Resource Management Workspace.
    • End resource assignments when a project ends. View the resource assignments and synchronize the resource assignment dates with the project dates.
    • Move resource assignments to a new start and end date to align with task dependencies or resource availability.
    Status report properties
    • Updates made on the status report form are reflected in the Status Report document when the sn_pw.status_report_doc_read_only property is set to true.
    • Updates made on the status report form are not reflected in the document content when the property is set to false.
    Project financials
    • View only planned costs of your planning items to track the total cost of your projects.
    • Use Display mode to switch between focused views to better plan and track the financials of your projects.
    • Manage the planned and actual monetary benefit plans for your projects to identify the financial performance of your project using the Cost and benefits screen.
    • Use multicurrency to view and manage financial records of the project in Investment currency, which can be different from your functional currency. Manage multiple financial records such as planned and actual expenses, planned and actual benefits, and so on.
    • Generate labor cost for sub-projects based on the resource assignments of your sub-projects.

    Australia

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    Project plan generation
    Use natural language, uploaded files (word, pdf, excel, powerpoint), or both to automatically generate a project plan with tasks, dates, and a business case.
    Task generation
    • Use natural language, uploaded files (word, pdf, excel, power point), or both to automatically populate an empty project with tasks, hierarchy, and dates.
    • Generate and preview AI-created tasks for any task less project, including demand-sourced projects, and make edits before the tasks are added.
    Risk generation
    • Analyze project data and suggests potential risks using generative AI to accept or reject from the AI identified risks page.
    • Accept risks to move them to the RIDAC list. Reject risks to remove them from risk list. Regenerate risks to get suggestions based on current project data.
    Assign a resource using AI resource finder

    Use AI to identify and assign the best-fit resources to unassigned task assignments.

    • AI analyzes resource data and generates a fit score and rationale for each available resource, based on skills and availability for the task time period.
    • Compare fit scores, AI rationale, and availability for each resource, then confirm the assignment when ready.
    Expanded project insights topics
    New AI insight topics are now available across portfolio insights, project insights, and status reports.
    • Project delays: AI identifies delay patterns across your project timeline and reports them in project insights.
    • Task dependency: AI evaluates task relationships to highlight dependency risks and impacts.
    • Budget fluctuations: AI monitors budget changes and highlights significant variances for review.
    AI status report enhancements
    • Generate status reports from a template: Create AI status reports from an existing template using Generate from template. Add dynamic tokens to your template to display AI-generated field data in the report document.
    • Track project health visually: Overall status and individual health sections display as color-coded bullet points with highlighted key values. Sections include scope, schedule, and other health areas.
    Australia Patch 1
    ServiceNow product tiers
    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.

    AI-generated project status reporting
    Generate AI-powered project status reports for quick visibility into project health and executive summaries.
    AI insights for a project
    • Use the AI insights page to view consolidated information about project tasks, milestones, resources, financials, and RIDACs.
    • Configure the insights to monitor critical project elements, such as financials and RIDACs, for a project.
    • Send AI‑generated project insights via email, including financials, RIDACs, milestones, resources, and project tasks.
    • Track key project indicators, such as budget overruns, cost variance, high‑risk items, issues, decisions, overdue actions, and change requests.
    Additional admin configuration for project insights generation skill
    Configure additional settings as an admin for the project insights generation skill. Choose inputs, display and review the changes.
    Admin role enhancements
    Project properties can be edited only by users with the pps_admin role.
    Create an Asset Project Request from Project Workspace
    • Create and track the number of requests with project reference or requests which are created as part of an SPM project.
    • Provide portfolio and project managers with visibility into the status of associated hardware requests.
    • Enable project-based tracking of hardware requests, improving traceability across project plans.
    • Help portfolio or project managers quickly understand which asset requests are tied to the project and track their current status.
    Manage resources directly in Project Workspace using interoperability
    • View assigned and unassigned work from the embedded resource board.
    • Assign unassigned work using automatic or manual effort distribution.
    • Preview real-time effort allocations before assigning work.
    • Identify resource availability and overutilization using visual indicators.
    • Approve, unapprove, or reprioritize assignments by updating the resource status directly from the resource board.
    • Extend or update assignments, including assignments for unassigned tasks, without leaving Project Workspace.

    Changes

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

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    Heatmap enhancements
    The resource allocation heatmap displays the resource status, capacity, and utilization, enabling efficient planning and allocation based on availability and workload.

    Zurich

    No updates for this release.

    Australia

    No updates for this release.

    Removed

    Between your current release family and Australia, some Project Workspace 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 Project Workspace 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 Project Workspace.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    Install Project Workspace 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.

    Zurich

    Install Project Workspace by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store.

    Australia

    Install Project Workspace by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store.

    Now Assist features are available with activation of the Now Assist for Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) plugin. For more information, see Install Now Assist plugins.

    Additional requirements

    If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Project Workspace 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 Project Workspace 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 Project Workspace, 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 Project Workspace 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 Project Workspace we have noted them here.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    • Import your old status reports to a new status report tool and optimize your reporting process.
    • Create a checklist in a project task to track items that must be completed in the task.
    • Inline edit one or more cells in child resource assignments.
    • Explore the heatmap modal to monitor resource status, available capacity, and utilization efforts.

    See Project Workspace for more information.

    Zurich

    • Guide teams through predefined stages and actions for each process using Playbooks.
    • Track, modify, and synchronize all resources assignment for a project from the resource assignment list page, which displays all assignments associated with that specific project.
    • Create and manage monetary benefit plans to capture and track projected and actual benefits.
    • Manage and run projects in various global currencies besides the functional currency using multicurrency.
    • Generate labor cost on sub-projects based on the resource assignments.

    See Project Workspace for more information.

    Australia

    Australia Patch 1
    • Integrate Hardware Asset Management (HAM) requests and refresh with Project Workspace, enabling hardware requests and refreshes to be planned and managed as part of strategic initiatives.
    • Enable tracking of the hardware requests that are part of a Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) project.
    • View, assign, and approve resources directly from Resources page in Project Workspace without navigating to the Resource Management Workspace.
    • Deliver clear, executive‑ready project status reports using AI.
    • Use the AI insights page to view task, milestone, resource, financial, and RIDAC insights for a project.

    See Project Workspace for more information.