FAQ: Release Notes

When will Preview release notes for the upcoming major release be available?: Release notes for a major release (Example: 2026R1) publish 1 week
before the features become available in Preview:
Release Center: By Wednesday afternoon with a refresh on Friday afternoon (Pacific time zone).
What's New in Workday Report: By Friday evening (Pacific time zone).
When should I start tracking feature release notes for a major release?: Workday recommends that you review Coming Soon release notes regularly between releases to get an advance view of bigger features that might be releasing to your Preview tenant early in the release cycle. Start reviewing feature release notes in the Release Center starting 1 week before Preview and weekly thereafter throughout the Preview window to see what’s delivering to your tenant.
Should we use the Release Center or the What’s New in Workday report to process an upcoming major release?: We recommend using the Release Center on doc.workday.com for these reasons:

We publish release notes to the Release Center by Wednesday afternoons PT, 2 days in advance of the What’s New in Workday report.
Feature release notes in the Release Center can include more information and additional resources, such as videos and attachments.
The Release Center consolidates all release note types in 1 place: Coming Soon, Features, Fixes, and Retirements. The What’s New in Workday report only
includes feature release notes.
We recommend the What’s New in Workday report ff you:
Use Adoption Planning or Worksheets to help process feature release content.
Prefer to view release notes by functional area.
Will the Release Center be replacing the What’s New in Workday report?: We will continue to support the What’s New in Workday report for the foreseeable future. While there is overlap between the two resources, there might be different reasons why you might use one over the other. See Should we use the Release Center or the What’s New in Workday report to process an upcoming major release?.
How can I identify the most import release notes to review?: To quickly assess important items in both the Release Center and the What’s New in Workday report, you can filter with
Setup Effort
: Automatically Available
. These features take effect automatically as the features deliver to your tenant.
Where can I find information about the difference between Automatically Available versus Setup Required ?: See Concept: What's New in Workday Report in the Administrator Guide.
On which days of the week are release notes updated?: We publish on these afternoons (PT):
Release Center: Wednesday and Friday
What's New in Workday (features only): Friday
Do new or updated features get released between major feature releases?: Yes. Workday delivers features and fixes each week. After each major feature release and prior to the next feature release, we often deliver new or updated features into your Preview tenants targeted for the next feature release. These early previews give you extended time to test and explore the new functionality and for us to gather feedback.
That feature might then deliver to your Production tenant with the subsequent release. We also occasionally deliver features, such as label changes or updates to existing features, directly into Production tenants between feature releases, when necessary.
Are VNDLY Preview release notes delivered on a different schedule in the What's New in Workday report?: Due to technical constraints, VNDLY release notes publish to the What's New in Workday report 1 week after feature delivery during the release Preview window only. You can use the Release Center to view release notes for VNDLY in the same week as feature delivery during Preview.

Setup Considerations: Adoption Planning

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