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17.0.5
Australia Patch 5, Australia Patch 4, Australia Patch 3, Australia Patch 2, Australia Patch 1, Australia, Zurich Patch 12, Zurich Patch 11, Zurich Patch 10, Zurich Patch 9, Zurich Patch 8, Zurich Patch 7, Zurich Patch 5, Zurich Patch 4, Zurich Patch 2, Zurich Patch 1, Zurich, Yokohama Patch 11, Yokohama Patch 8, Yokohama Patch 6, Yokohama Patch 3, Yokohama Patch 1, Yokohama
Generative AI
Now Assist for ITSM is our out-of-the-box GenAI application purpose built to assist IT agents and create self service opportunities by providing agents dynamic, contextual assists at key inflection points throughout and incident’s lifecycle from which self service content can be seamlessly generated.
AI Agent:
- Prebuilt ITSM AI Agent collection to help agents triage and work incidents and changes.
For Employees:
- Now Assist Virtual Agent integrated with Slack
- Enable your requestors to interact with the Now Assist Virtual Agent while remaining in Slack.
For Agents
- Knowledge creation from a group of similar incidents
- Enable agents, domain SMEs, and knowledge managers to generate a knowledge article from a group of similar incidents to lower the overhead of managing multiple knowledge articles, craft higher quality knowledge articles, and enable more effective self-service.
- AI Search integrated with Recommended Actions in Service Operations Workspace
- Enable agents to search across knowledge articles, incidents, changes, etc. to triage the task at-hand within Service Operations Workspace.
- Change request summarization
- Enable developers, change managers, and everyone in the change ecosystem to assess and understand the risk, impact, approval criteria, and back-out plan(s) associated to a change.
- Task Intelligence for similar incidents in Service Operations Workspace
- Enable admins to train, fine-tune, deploy, and monitor ML solutions with agility.
- Live agent chat and email reply recommendations. Agents can also get email template and content edit recommendations.
- Enable agents with recommended replies and answers to common questions to enable faster time to resolution.
- Sidebar chat summarization
- Enrich the quality of information documented in incident, change, and other task records to generate effective resolution notes and knowledge articles by automatically summarizing and posting sidebar chat summaries to records. Supported in both coreUI (with Next Experience enabled) and Service Operations Workspace
- AI-generated release notes in Digital Product Release: Automatically create clear, contextual release summaries using AI, using standard artifacts for accuracy.
New
- AI can now automatically complete Change Risk Assessment and Dynamic Schema questions based on the change record's context, showing its reasoning for each answer so admins and change managers can verify or correct it. Answers that identify compliance exposure (for example SOX, PCI-DSS, or HIPAA) automatically populate the matching Dynamic Schema fields.
- A new AI agent can diagnose and resolve common Okta account lockouts and MFA failures reported through an incident or self-service, checking live account status and submitting the correct unlock or reset request automatically.
- A new Teams-native AI agent lets shift agents manage on-call coverage directly in chat — requesting coverage or leave, and asking questions like "who is on call" or "when is my next shift."
- Employees creating a ticket in Service Portal now see an AI-generated suggestion — drawn from relevant knowledge articles and catalog items — before they submit, based on the ticket description and their hardware, location, and department.
Changed
- Now Assist, Moveworks, and "AI Experience" branding has been renamed to ServiceNow Otto across in-product labels, icons, tooltips, and documentation.
- Incident Managers can now drill from any indicator on the Insights and Opportunities dashboard directly into the underlying incident records without losing their place on the dashboard.
- A new dashboard section shows how closely AI-proposed solutions in Copilot (supervised) mode matched what human agents ultimately implemented.
- The employee consent experience for remedial actions is more consistent and accurate: duplicate requests are no longer triggered for already-approved or declined actions, and messaging now notes when a device needs to stay online.
- The DEX Diagnosis AI agent now factors in event monitoring logs and statistical anomaly signals alongside existing telemetry for more accurate root-cause diagnoses, and now surfaces the specific evidence behind each conclusion.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where the summarize capability could produce an irrelevant summary on requested items with many related records.
- Fixed an issue where several AI agents (including Zscaler, Installed Apps, and Modern Change agents) had read-only configuration, preventing customers from disabling them.
- Fixed an issue where the Zscaler and Installed Apps agents' action engagement tools showed an empty timeout field.
- Corrected a remaining reference to the previous Now Assist branding that had been missed during the ServiceNow Otto rename.
- Fixed an issue on the Insights and Opportunities dashboard where assigning an incident to a cluster could fail and prevent clustering from completing.
- Fixed a date-formatting issue in the Change Outage Assistant AI agent.
- Fixed a security issue that allowed any authenticated user, regardless of role, to invoke ITSM AI agents and skills that should have been role-restricted.
- Fixed an issue where the incident investigation and resolution workflow could fail with an "incident search/read service unavailable" error.
- Fixed an issue where the knowledge-article search filters used by the Create Incident AI agent were not being applied correctly.
- Reordered the metrics on the Copilot Performance dashboard so the "80% or higher similarity" metric appears first.
- Improved the error message shown for the Resolution Notes generation skill when the "display in product desktop" setting is turned off
- Reduced processing time for the Generate Change Request Plans AI flow, which had been taking an unusually long time to complete
- Fixed an issue where built-in ITSM AI agents were unintentionally discoverable and visible within the Now Assist Platform
- Fixed an issue where a required role was missing from the Link Major Incident agent's flow, which could prevent the agent from working as expected for some users
- Fixed an issue where the Triage and Categorize AI agent could assign an irrelevant, caller-owned device as the configuration item when the matched service offering had no related configuration items of its own
Removed
- No items removed in this release
- Required plugins and products:
- Now Assist for Platform (12.1.1)
- ITSM Virtual Agent Conversations (9.3.2)
- Recommended Actions for ITSM (3.3.0)
- IT Service Management AI agent collection (10.0.1)
- If using Service Operations Workspace:
- Service Operations Workspace (Zurich: 8.6.0, Australia: 9.1.1)