Code Signing release notes

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
  • 1 minute to read

    • The Code Signing application validates scripts and code that runs on your instance. Code Signing was enhanced and updated in the Yokohama release.

    Code Signing highlights for the Yokohama release

    Use Code Signing Guardrails to improve checks during the signing process to create more secure workflows.

    See Code Signing for more information.

    Changed in this release

    Enhancements to the guardrails check
    The Code Signing Guardrails check has been improved to enhance signature verification, resulting in more secure workflows. In addition, multiple optimizations have been implemented to improve the performance benchmarks of the Guardrails scan, and log files now feature a more intuitive naming convention, which simplifies file identification within your system.
    Generate update sets with a maximum size of 10,000 records
    Code Signing now enforces limits on large update sets to improve the user experience. The maximum size for an update set is 10,000 records.
    Naming updates for trusted and production instances
    The trusted non-production instance has been renamed to trusted instance, and the protected production instance has been renamed to protected instance. These naming updates have been made to better align with customer usage.

    Activation information

    Code Signing is a ServiceNow AI Platform feature that is available with activation of the Code Signing (com.glide.code_signing_enterprise) plugin. For details, see Configuring Code Signing.

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