Combined Data Privacy release notes for upgrades from Yokohama to Australia

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title: Combined Data Privacy release notes for upgrades from Yokohama to Australia
description: Consolidated page of all release notes for Data Privacy from Yokohama to Australia.
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release: australia
topic_type: reference
last_updated: "2026-09-15"
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breadcrumb: [Products combined by family]
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# Combined Data Privacy release notes for upgrades from Yokohama to Australia

Consolidated page of all release notes for Data Privacy from Yokohama to Australia.

## 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 Yokohama to Australia.

**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 Data Privacy to Australia

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

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

-   **Upgrade information**

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.


</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## New features

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

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

-   **[Discover sensitive data from attachments.](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=configure-data-discovery-jobs&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US)**

Discover and report on sensitive data from attachments.


</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

-   **[New Data Discovery experience](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=data-discovery-landing&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US)**

Use the new Data Discovery experience, which simplifies the experience of discovering and anonymizing PII.

-   **[Column-level discovery](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=granular-configuration&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US)**

Select a specific column of a table for granular scanning during data discovery jobs.

-   **[Anonymization of encrypted field](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-data-anonymization&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US)**

Anonymize encrypted columns to help you achieve compliance with data privacy regulations and defense-in-depth data protection.


</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

-   **[Real-time alerting and blocking of sensitive data](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=real-time-protection&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US)**

Analyze user input in real time at the field level to identify sensitive data and alert users about potential sensitive data entry. You can also choose to block users from saving this information.

-   **[Data logs for real-time sensitive data](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-data-privacy-overview&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US)**

Leverage real-time alerting and blocking capabilities to obtain insights into where sensitive data is being entered into the instance and by which users.

-   **[Real-time sensitive data-scanning for attachments](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=attachment-quarantine-policies&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US)**

Scan attachments for sensitive data during user uploads into fields. If sensitive data is detected, the attachment is quarantined. This restricts the access and download of the file to the original document owner and authorized users until the admin reviews the files.

-   **[New Named Entity Recognition \(NER\) model data patterns](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=default-data-patterns&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US)**

Employ new AI/ML-based model data patterns \(Address, City, State, Country, Job Position, and Salary\) to detect and anonymize sensitive data.

-   **[Anonymization support for catalog variables](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-create-anonymization-policies&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US)**

Anonymize sensitive data in catalog items \(including record producers\) using anonymization jobs \(in production and during cloning\).

-   **[New base system Regular Expression \(RegEx\) data patterns](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dds-review-discovery-findings&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US)**

Employ new base system regular expression data patterns to detect and anonymize sensitive data in line with global compliance requirements.

-   **[Enhanced anonymization reporting](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-create-anonymization-job&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US)**

Demonstrate defensible compliance to regulators, auditors and internal teams using the new anonymization dashboard to provide quantitative insights into anonymization and data protection operations.


</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Changes

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

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

-   **[Text to Regex from a LLM](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=configure-data-discovery-patterns&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US)**

Create a regex data pattern with the help of Now Assist, which supports all third-party LLMs approved by ServiceNow.


</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

-   Use the [improved anonymization dashboard](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-data-privacy-overview&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) to get more details about anonymization. For example, what data was anonymized and how \(real-time or through anonymization jobs\).
-   Use the new [real-time protection module](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=real-time-protection&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) to configure real-time alerting and your blocking policies. You can also view real-time sensitive data logs.

 -   **New experience**
    -   [Optional condition filter](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-create-anonymization-job&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) when running anonymization jobs to fine tune the scope of data to be anonymized.
    -   [Specific anonymization policy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-create-anonymization-policies&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) for catalog variables to anonymize sensitive data in catalog requests.

 -   **Key word matching**

As part of key word matching when discovering sensitive data using regex, more precise data pattern matching has been implemented, using full strings of text. This may require customers to add more specific variants of keywords to achieve the same level of discovery precision as prior platform releases


</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Removed

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

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Deprecations

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

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Activation information

Review information on how to activate Data Privacy.

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

-   **Activation information**

Data Privacy is available with activation of the Data Privacy Plugin \(sn\_dp\_store\_app\). For details, see [Activate data privacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-activate-data-privacy&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US).


</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

-   **Activation information**

Data Privacy is available with activation of the Data Privacy plugin \(sn\_dp\_store\_app\). For details, see [Activate data privacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-activate-data-privacy&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US).


</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

-   **Activation information**

Data Privacy is available with activation of the Data Privacy plugin \(`sn_dp_store_app`\). For details, see [Activate data privacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-activate-data-privacy&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US).


</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Additional requirements

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

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Browser requirements

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

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Accessibility information

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

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Localization information

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

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Highlight information

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

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

-   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](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=privacy-landing-page&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) for more information.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

-   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](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=privacy-landing-page&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) for more information.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

-   Discover and block sensitive data from user inputs to prevent it from entering the platform, alert users when sensitive data is entered to raise awareness, and leverage sensitive data logs to understand where and who is entering sensitive data.
-   Scan and quarantine attachments that contain sensitive data to restrict their access and downloading.
-   Define conditions for the anonymization of sensitive data to meet business specific requirements. Use the enhanced data anonymization dashboard to obtain insights and metrics about data protection and anonymization for executive reporting.

 See [Data Privacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=data-privacy-landing&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) for more information.

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</table>**Parent Topic:**[Products combined by family](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/delta-yokohama-australia/rn-combined-intro.md)