Combined Data Privacy release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Zurich

How to use this page

To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Data Privacy release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Xanadu to Zurich.

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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 Data Privacy to Zurich

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


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	Licensing changes enable you to install Data Discovery, Data Discovery APIs, Data Anonymization, and Data Privacy APIs without an entitlement, but you must have an entitlement to run a job.
Yokohama	Licensing changes enable you to install Data Discovery, Data Discovery APIs, Data Anonymization, and Data Privacy APIs without an entitlement, but you must have an entitlement to run a job.
Zurich	No updates for this release.

New features

Between your current release family and Zurich, new features were introduced for Data Privacy.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	Child job execution Run child parallel jobs to optimize the duration of your job executions. Encrypt with column level encryption (CLE) As a security admin, view whether the discovery field is encrypted or can be encrypted.
Yokohama	AL/ML Based Data Discovery for Real Time Anonymization Use AI/ML data discovery using Named Entity Recognition (NER) models to discover sensitive data that does not follow a pattern like name, address, organizations, and more; and run real-time anonymization. Configuring Data Privacy for Now Assist Sanitize sensitive data entered in Now Assist prompts to prevent data leakage without impacting the response. Discover sensitive data from attachments. Discover and report on sensitive data from attachments.
Zurich	New Data Discovery experience Use the new Data Discovery experience, which simplifies the experience of discovering and anonymizing PII. Column-level discovery Select a specific column of a table for granular scanning during data discovery jobs. Anonymization of encrypted field Anonymize encrypted columns to help you achieve compliance with data privacy regulations and defense-in-depth data protection.

Changes

Between your current release family and Zurich, some changes were made to existing Data Privacy features.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	Discover and anonymize journal fields Journal fields are now supported for Data Discovery and Data Anonymization with Workspace UI. Data pattern regular expression length increased The data pattern regular expression length limit is increased to 1000 characters. New base system data patterns New base system data patterns are supported. See Default data patterns for more information. Indicators for Security Center dependencies Indicators for missing Security Center dependencies have been added.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.
Zurich	Full scan support added Data Discovery jobs support full type scans, which scan for sensitive data patterns in all the records. You can also use an incremental scan, which acts as a delta scan from the point of the last full scan. XLS and CSV support added Data Discovery attachment scan type jobs now support XLS and CSV files. Attachment scans are incremental scans by default. Text to Regex from a LLM Create a regex data pattern with the help of Now Assist, which supports all third-party LLMs approved by ServiceNow.

Removed

Between your current release family and Zurich, some Data Privacy features or functionality were removed.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.
Zurich	No updates for this release.

Deprecations

Between your current release family and Zurich, some Data Privacy features or functionality were deprecated.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.
Zurich	No updates for this release.

Activation information

Review information on how to activate Data Privacy.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	Data Privacy is available with activation of the Data Privacy Plugin (sn_dp_store_app). For details, see Activate data privacy.
Zurich	Data Privacy is available with activation of the Data Privacy plugin (sn_dp_store_app). For details, see Activate data privacy.

Additional requirements

If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Data Privacy we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.
Zurich	No updates for this release.

Browser requirements

If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Data Privacy we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.
Zurich	No updates for this release.

Accessibility information

Review details on accessibility information for Data Privacy, such as specific requirements or compliance levels.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.
Zurich	No updates for this release.

Localization information

If there are specific localization considerations for Data Privacy we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.
Zurich	No updates for this release.

Highlight information

If there are specific highlight considerations for Data Privacy we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	Navigate an improved Data Privacy and Data Discovery UI in Next Experience dashboards. Discover and anonymize sensitive data as it's entered with the real-time anonymization policy. Anonymize and discover journal fields with expanded support and an increased data pattern regular expression limit of up to 1000 characters. See Platform Privacy for more information.
Yokohama	Leverage Data Privacy in Now Assist to discover sensitive data in Now Assist prompts and data send to models. Sanitize sensitive data from Now Assist prompts without impacting response. Discover sensitive data from attachments using enhanced Data Discovery jobs. See Platform Privacy for more information.
Zurich	Use a revamped Data Discovery interface, enhancing your Data Discovery experience with intuitive widgets, a streamlined user experience, and a guided setup for first-time users. Target scans on specific table columns for discovery using column-level discovery and expanded support for Field Encryption. Discover PII in Microsoft Excel and CSV files with expanded file support. Generate regex patterns using prompts with the text-to-regex feature, which leverages Now Assist and supports all large language models (LLMs) approved by ServiceNow. See Platform Privacy for more information.