Combined Core ServiceNow AI Platform release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Yokohama
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Summary of Combined Core ServiceNow AI Platform Release Notes for Upgrades from Xanadu to Yokohama
This consolidated release notes document provides ServiceNow customers with a comprehensive view of the Core ServiceNow AI Platform updates from the Xanadu release through to the Yokohama release. It highlights new features, important changes, deprecations, and accessibility improvements to help you prepare for and manage your upgrade effectively. Notably, the Yokohama release contains no new updates or changes, focusing the enhancements primarily in the Xanadu release.
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New Features Introduced in Xanadu
- Dynamic Schema for Attributes: Enables creation and storage of structured groups of attributes and their values in a dynamic attribute store field, simplifying data management.
- ECMAScript 2021 (ES12) Support: Use the latest JavaScript features in server-side scripts by enabling ES12 mode on individual script records, even within applications using older standards.
- Automated Job Scheduling and Manual Scaling: Offers automated scheduling of jobs via queue registration and allows admins to manually scale the number of jobs running per queue, enhancing control over job processing.
- Migration to Message Processing Framework: Facilitates migrating sys event queues to the new framework with rollback capabilities for safer transitions.
- Geo Point Functions: Convert longitude and latitude columns to geo point fields and vice versa, improving geographic data handling.
- System Events and Scheduled Jobs Enhancements: Introduction of Active Jobs, Stuck Jobs, and Permanent Error Jobs tiles in dashboards for improved monitoring and management of job queues.
Key Changes in Xanadu
- TinyMCE Editor Upgrade: The HTML editor was upgraded from TinyMCE v4 to v6.8.2, providing enhanced formatting, better table functions, support for custom styles, and improved accessibility. Configuration options for plugins and toolbar are available via system properties.
- Business Calendar Enhancements: New capabilities include creating business calendar spans, adding a Calendar type field, and better differentiation between similar calendar names.
- REST and SOAP API Analytics Migration: Dashboards moved to the Platform Analytics experience for improved usability while retaining access to legacy Core UI dashboards.
- Security and Access Controls: Added support for mutual authentication in REST inbound test steps, ACL application to specific GraphQL API paths, and enhanced control over CORS request headers and rule activation.
- JavaScript Engine Update: The Rhino engine was updated to improve JavaScript engine performance on the platform.
- Integration User Login Tracking: Web requests from integration users now update the Last login and Last login time fields by default, with system properties available to disable this if desired.
Deprecations
- System Performance Dashboard: Deprecated starting in Xanadu. Customers are encouraged to use the Impact Instance Observer solution for enhanced system performance insights.
- Application Insights: Preparing for future deprecation; it will be hidden from the ServiceNow Store but remain supported. Impact Instance Observer is recommended as an alternative.
Accessibility Improvements
- The TinyMCE upgrade includes significant accessibility enhancements such as keyboard navigation improvements, better screen reader support, and dark theme compatibility for low vision users.
- Admin Center and Adoption Blueprints have addressed accessibility issues for a range of personas, including those with low vision, no vision, color blindness, auditory, speech, cognitive, and physical disabilities.
Activation and Requirements
- The Core ServiceNow AI Platform is activated by default and requires no additional activation steps.
- No new browser or localization requirements were introduced between Xanadu and Yokohama releases.
Practical Application for ServiceNow Customers
By upgrading from Xanadu to Yokohama, customers gain advanced scripting capabilities, improved job scheduling and monitoring, enhanced data management with dynamic schemas and geo point functions, and better UI experiences through editor upgrades and accessibility enhancements. The deprecation notices guide customers to transition towards more modern performance monitoring tools. The absence of updates in Yokohama means customers can focus on stabilizing and leveraging Xanadu improvements during their upgrade process.
Consolidated page of all release notes for Core ServiceNow AI Platform from Xanadu to Yokohama.
How to use this page
To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Core ServiceNow AI Platform release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Xanadu to Yokohama.
Important information for upgrading Core ServiceNow AI Platform to Yokohama
Before you upgrade to Yokohama, 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. |
New features
Between your current release family and Yokohama, new features were introduced for Core ServiceNow AI Platform.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
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Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Changes
Between your current release family and Yokohama, some changes were made to existing Core ServiceNow AI Platform features.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
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Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Removed
Between your current release family and Yokohama, some Core ServiceNow AI Platform features or functionality were removed.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Deprecations
Between your current release family and Yokohama, some Core ServiceNow AI Platform features or functionality were deprecated.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
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Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Activation information
Review information on how to activate Core ServiceNow AI Platform.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
ServiceNow AI Platform is a ServiceNow AI Platform feature that is active by default. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Additional requirements
If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Core ServiceNow AI Platform we have noted them here.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Browser requirements
If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Core ServiceNow AI Platform we have noted them here.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Accessibility information
Review details on accessibility information for Core ServiceNow AI Platform, such as specific requirements or compliance levels.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
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Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Localization information
If there are specific localization considerations for Core ServiceNow AI Platform we have noted them here.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Highlight information
If there are specific highlight considerations for Core ServiceNow AI Platform we have noted them here.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
See Administer the ServiceNow AI Platform for more information. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |