Combined Developer Sandboxes release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Zurich

Consolidated page of all release notes for Developer Sandboxes from Xanadu to Zurich.

How to use this page

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

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 Developer Sandboxes to Zurich

Before you upgrade to Zurich, 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.
Zurich	No updates for this release.

New features

Between your current release family and Zurich, new features were introduced for Developer Sandboxes.

Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.
Zurich	Explore View the total, available, and allocated sandboxes in your instance by using the Sandbox Management home dashboard. The dashboard also displays information about each sandbox, including the status, data utilization, owner, when the sandbox was last accessed, and when the sandbox was allocated. Using sandbox templates Enable your delegated developers to reuse the data so that they can test their changes without manually inputting the data every time. Create a Data Generation Profile Enable your customers to generate the data for testing within the context of developer sandboxes, but also independently of sandboxes. Note: Developer Sandboxes can't copy all the instance data. Data generation profiles enable a statistical sampling of data from selected tables with curated mappings to populate the sandbox with the data needed for building an application. Allocate a sandbox Allocate the sandboxes that were created to your development teams. Retire sandboxes Retire outdated sandboxes to make room for the new sandboxes in your instance. Automatically backed up update sets If you install Developer Sandboxes on an instance after Zurich Patch 5, update sets are automatically backed up when the instance is upgraded.

Changes

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

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

Removed

Between your current release family and Zurich, some Developer Sandboxes 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 Developer Sandboxes 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 Developer Sandboxes.

Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.
Zurich	Contact your ServiceNow account manager to install Developer Sandboxes.

Additional requirements

If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Developer Sandboxes 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 Developer Sandboxes 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 Developer Sandboxes, 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 Developer Sandboxes 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 Developer Sandboxes we have noted them here.

Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.
Zurich	Enable your administrators and delegated developers to request, access, and manage the isolated development environments on top of the same underlying development instance. Provide developer isolation and parallelism for customer development environments and instances. View the total, available, and allocated sandboxes in your instance by using the Sandbox Management home dashboard. The dashboard also displays information about each sandbox, including the status, data utilization, owner, when it was last accessed, and when the sandbox was allocated. See Developer Sandboxes for more information.