Legal Digital Forensics release notes

Version history for the Legal Digital Forensics on the ServiceNow Store.

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Version history

Version 3.12.4 - July 2026

Security issues

Version 3.12.1 - June 2026

Changed: Security enhancements.

Version 3.11.0 - December 2025

Changed: Security enhancements.

Version 3.10.1 - May 2025

• Changed:
  • Improved Legal Digital Forensics icon for improved space utilization in the intake form.
  • The "Create new" button has been changed to "Create new action"
• Fixed: The approvers are not displayed in Approvers tab when the Digital Forensics request is assigned. This has been fixed.

Version 3.9.0 - February 2025

Fixed: Security issues.

Version 3.7.0 - November 2024

Fixed: In the Legal Counsel Center, for a Digital Forensics related request, the Remove button incorrectly appeared twice under the Legal Matters related list. This is now fixed.

Version 3.6.2 - August 2024

• Fixed:
  • Security fixes
  • Fixed RCA issues observed in Legal Counsel Center, that now allows fulfiller to add information for Associated Allegations, Non Custodial Data and Data Source Details on digital forensic request.

Version 3.5.4 - May 2024

• Fixed:
  • Requesters of the Digital Forensics request were displayed approval records belonging to other reqeuests.
  • When cancelling a Digital Forensics related request, the application cancels any open approval requests as well. However, approval requests belonging to other requests were also incorrectly cancelled. This is now fixed.
  • Security fixes.

Version 3.5.0 - November 2023

Fixed: The root cause analysis issues for ethics and Digital Forensics while creating an allegation and saving the involved party, saving the custodian, or the search source.

Version 3.4.2 - August 2023

Fixed: Couple of issues on bulk upload of custodians.

Version 3.3.1 - February 2023

• Changed: Added Legal Practice Apps core dependency.
• Fixed: Fixed an issue of not displaying a pop-up message in the platform while closing the matter but a prompt is displayed while closing the matter from workspace in DFT.

Version 3.2.1 - November 2022

New: Added Task Configurations based on the new Approval Hub in the Employee Center to include approvals for custodial and non-custodial data associated with legal digital forensics requests.

Version 3.1.0 - August 2022

Fixed: Performance improvements with minor fixes.

Version 2.7.3 - May 2022

• New: New list "Existing matter" added to the Digital Forensics Request intake form that lists existing legal matters with which the digital forensics request can be associated.
• Changed:
  • Digital Forensics Request intake form label changes:
    • "Matter" renamed to "Add this request to" and options changed from "New" to "New matter" and "Existing" to "Existing matter"
    • "New matter" field renamed to "Name of new matter"

Version 2.6.3 - December 2021

• New:
  • Added new email notifications for various Digital Forensics requests actions
  • Added the Short description column in the Details tab list of Data source.
• Removed: New and Edit buttons have been removed from the Approvers list in a Digital Forensics matter.
• Fixed: Fixed the error message that showed up when the legal fulfiller tried to open a DFT matter.

Version 2.5.3 - October 2021

Fixes.

Version 2.5.2 - September 2021

New: Request legal services related to digital forensics from Employee Center portal.

Version 2.4.2 - June 2021

• New:
  • Reduce spreadsheet tracking for eDiscovery related requests with predefined digital forensic tasks templates
  • Streamline process for tracking additional queries against custodians​
  • Simplify process to mark enterprise systems as forensics search sources​