Combined Talent Development Core release notes for upgrades from Vancouver to Yokohama

How to use this page

To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Talent Development Core release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Vancouver to Yokohama.

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 Talent Development Core to Yokohama

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


Release	Release notes
Vancouver	No updates for this release.
Washington DC	No updates for this release.
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

New features

Between your current release family and Yokohama, new features were introduced for Talent Development Core.


Release	Release notes
Vancouver	Pulls together the complexity of career growth and development for managers and employees in an intuitive and comprehensive application while using a suite of related ServiceNow® applications. Helps to capture an employee's aspirations and turn them into an actionable growth plan. Proactively prompts and reminds both manager and employee about related plans and learning. Manager dashboard Talent has an integrated manager dashboard, Manager Hub, where managers can initiate conversations, create growth plans, and track employee progress. Career dashboard Employees use Career Hub to capture and track aspirations, goals, learning, and skills. Proactive reminders and messages Provides Proactive Prompts to keep growth and development at the forefront of an employee's thoughts and aspirations. Capture skills and learning Talent uses Skills Intelligence to help managers and employees identify areas of growth and development in their careers.
Washington DC	Opportunity Marketplace Help employees discover new opportunities that support their career and organizational growth. Conversations Use Microsoft Outlook with Talent Development activities to schedule and manage conversations. Mentoring Build meaningful mentor relationships that drives employee development and promotes continuous career conversations and engagement. Growth Plans Help employees manage career activities, educational learning, team building, and work-life balance. Aspirations Use new application widgets to help promote aspirations that link with your skills and career development.
Xanadu	Xanadu Patch 9 Create a growth conversation with the help of an agent in Now Assist As a manager using Talent Development, start a growth conversation with your reportees with the help of Conversation management AI agent in Now Assist. Generate talking points for a growth conversation with the help of an agent in Now Assist As a manager using Career Conversations in Talent Development, generate talking points for a growth conversation with the help of Employee data summarization AI agent in Now Assist. Note: For the Growth Conversations AI agents to work, you need to be on 3.5.2 version Career Conversations and have the Now Assist for HR Service Delivery (HRSD) plugin which will install Now Assist for Talent and HR Talent AI Agent Collection. Name update from Employee Growth and Development Core to Talent Development Core. The name changed to provide better alignment with your organization's talent, growth, and development initiatives.
Yokohama	Credly integration As an employee, Credly integration now empowers you to display your digital credentials better demonstrating your skills in a tangible way. View user credentials As an administrator, Achievements and Credentials now enables you to view user credentials and use achievement credential templates to sync credentials from third-party credential providers, for example: Credly Import latest badges and related skills with the Refresh credentials option. Credential badges are displayed in the skill activity insights. Skills related to Credentials (badge template) are synced to the user profile. New skills identified are added to the harmonisation queue. Once imported, dynamic skills are associated with the respective user profile. Note: Credential Core has a soft dependency on Skills Foundation (8.0). Create a growth plan with the help of Now Assist As a Talent Development user, manage your career growth by creating a growth plan with the help of Now Assist. With Now Assist, you can provide details to craft a prompt that describes your career goals. Note: This feature is available when you have both Talent Development Core and Now Assist for HRSD installed.

Changes

Between your current release family and Yokohama, some changes were made to existing Talent Development Core features.


Release	Release notes
Vancouver	No updates for this release.
Washington DC	No updates for this release.
Xanadu	New Talent Development Core name The Talent Development Core name change enables easier alignment of growth and development goals across the enterprise. For information about the name change, see Talent Development Core.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

Removed

Between your current release family and Yokohama, some Talent Development Core features or functionality were removed.


Release	Release notes
Vancouver	No updates for this release.
Washington DC	No updates for this release.
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

Deprecations

Between your current release family and Yokohama, some Talent Development Core features or functionality were deprecated.


Release	Release notes
Vancouver	No updates for this release.
Washington DC	No updates for this release.
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

Activation information

Review information on how to activate Talent Development Core.


Release	Release notes
Vancouver	Install the Talent Development Core application 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.
Washington DC	Install Talent Development 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 ServiceNow Store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	Install Talent Development Core 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.

Additional requirements

If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Talent Development Core we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Vancouver	No updates for this release.
Washington DC	No updates for this release.
Xanadu	Talent Development includes a suite of products the work and interact to create a better user experience. Talent Development SKU Manager Hub Proactive Prompts Skills Intelligence Employee Profiles Talent Development Core
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

Browser requirements

If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Talent Development Core we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Vancouver	No updates for this release.
Washington DC	No updates for this release.
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

Accessibility information

Review details on accessibility information for Talent Development Core, such as specific requirements or compliance levels.


Release	Release notes
Vancouver	No updates for this release.
Washington DC	No updates for this release.
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

Localization information

If there are specific localization considerations for Talent Development Core we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Vancouver	No updates for this release.
Washington DC	No updates for this release.
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

Highlight information

If there are specific highlight considerations for Talent Development Core we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Vancouver	Make it easier for managers and employees to collaborate on career growth and development. Capture aspirations and turn them into actionable growth plans. Create, update, and track career growth and development plans. Use the ServiceNow® Skills Intelligence application to identify areas to help advance and grow careers. Provide Proactive Prompts to keep growth and development at the forefront of employees thoughts and aspirations. Initiate conversations, create growth plans, and track employee progress using ServiceNow® Manager Hub, the Talent integrated manager dashboard. Capture and track aspirations, goals, learning, and skills with the employee-based Career Hub. See Talent Development Core for more information.
Washington DC	Use Opportunity Marketplace as a single, unified place where organizations can share opportunities that are discoverable by employees. Leverage AI search to provide more sophisticated search results when employees and opportunity owners perform searches in the Opportunity Marketplace. Use the Career Conversations application with Microsoft Outlook to conveniently schedule conversations with employees or managers using the Conversations module. Use a streamlined process that simplifies the steps to create and schedule a conversation, which promotes adoption of the Conversations module across the organization. Use Growth Plans to develop opportunities for mentoring, coaching, leadership development, team building, and education benefits. Use Mentoring to create meaningful relationships within the organization and also foster a culture of knowledge, sharing, and collaboration. See Talent Development Core for more information.
Xanadu	Xanadu Patch 9 Use the new Growth & Performance AI agents to streamline your employee growth discussions in Career Conversations. The Employee Growth and Development Core application has been renamed to Talent Development Core. See Talent Development Core for more information.
Yokohama	Yokohama Patch 3 Use the new Growth & Performance AI agents to streamline your employee growth discussions in Career Conversations. As an employee, Credly integration now enables you to display your digital credentials better demonstrating your skills in a tangible way. As an administrator, use Achievements and Credentials, to view various forms of digital credentials such as badges, awards, certifications. As an employee that meets the Talent Development user criteria, you can add custom opportunities with help from ServiceNow® Now Assist. Provide an AI prompt so that Now Assist can help you build a growth plan that matches your career goals and aspirations. See Talent Development Core for more information.