Universal Consent & Preference Management - February 20, 2026 - 202602.1.0 (Winter Release)

General Availability

Intelligent Rules for the Trust Center

Tailor your Trust Center to dynamically display content most relevant to your end users based on configured rules. This enhancement allows you to define conditions and actions that personalize content based on your data subjects' profile, interaction type, and session context.

This feature is related to the following ideas: OT-I-16837

For more information, see Configuring Intelligent Rules for the Trust Center.

Consent Acknowledgement Emails for Trust Center

Send email notifications to confirm an end user's change in preferences after interacting with the Trust Center by enabling the Send acknowledgment email setting. This feature allows you to provide end users with emailed receipts of their consent preferences.

For more information, see Configuring Settings for a Trust Center.

Enhanced Trust Center Customization

Trust Center branding has been improved to create a more customized and user-friendly experience when end users access your Trust Center. The following enhancements are now available:

• The Trust Center can now be configured to display an optional logo and login instructions when users log in

• Updated autosave messages now display on the Trust Center to indicate when end user configurations have been automatically saved.

• Font colors for components (buttons, switches, toggles) are automatically calculated to maximize contrast and correspond to your branding configurations.

• Configurable OneTrust default icons for Trust Center pages that correspond to branding colors.

For more information, see Configuring Authentication for a Trust Center, Configuring Branding for a Trust Center, and Customizing the Appearance of a Trust Center, and Creating a Trust Center.

Hosted Web Form Enhancements

The Branding and Builder tabs for hosted web forms have been improved to provide additional branding and configuration options. This enhancement allows you to further customize hosted web forms without leveraging custom CSS.

For more information, see Customizing Branding for OneTrust Hosted Web Form Collection Points.

Bulk Edit & Delete Data Subjects

Perform bulk actions on data subjects based on your specified criteria using the new DATA_SUBJECTS_BULK_ACTIONS export type that is now supported across all Bulk Export APIs. The following parameters were also added to support this new export type:

• The actionType parameter was added to the Create Bulk Export API to support the following actions: DELETE used for deleting data subjects and REMOVE_TEST_FLAG used for removing test flags from data subjects used for testing purposes.

• The testDataSubject parameter was added to the Create Bulk Export API to filter data subjects by the test flag.

With this enhancement, the exported file will now contain the actionType value that was selected when the Create Bulk Export API was called. You can then review the records within the exported file and import it into the OneTrust Platform using the new Consent data subjects bulk actions import template, enabling you to quickly update large volumes of data subject records.

This feature is related to the following ideas: OT-I-16433

For more information, see Bulk Importing Consent Records.

New Create Job API

Added the new Create Job API to create jobs for completing data subject bulk actions initiated from the Create Bulk Export API, such as deleting data subjects and removing test flags from data subjects used for testing purposes. With this API, you can automate the import of the exported file without having to manually review and import the records.

Fixed

• Resolved an issue that produced errors when valid values were added to the sort parameter when calling the following V4 APIs:

  • Get List of Data Subjects API

  • Get Optimized List of Data Subjects API

  • Get List of All Purpose Details by Data Subject API

  • Get List of All Purpose Details for All Data Subjects API

  • Get Optimized List of All Purpose Details for All Data Subjects API

  • Get Data Subject Details API

• Resolved an issue that prevented receipts from displaying on the Receipts tab of the Data subject details screen when consent had been previously withdrawn for a data subject.

• Resolved issue that prevented custom preference options from being stored correctly on the data subject when an end-user made updates through the preference center.

• Resolved an issue that displayed incorrect language codes for some languages in the Language field on the Receipt summary pane of a transaction.

• Resolved an issue that prevented magic link tokens from functioning correctly when logging into the preference center.

• Resolved an issue that caused purposes to expire after the Expire purposes setting was disabled for a purpose.

• Resolved an issue that prevented some purpose attributes from populating on the Receipt details screen.

• Resolved an issue that prevented some embedded trust centers from loading correctly due to translation issues.

Existing Public Preview Features

CMP Consent Context

Added support to our existing data hierarchy to allow CMP consent users to provide consent for a purpose multiple times when using consent groups. When using consent groups with the unified profile feature, the CMP will use the same data subject for different consent groups, eliminating the need to create additional profiles.

Permissions

• Permission changes have been implemented to improve platform usability and administrative efficiency.

  For more information, see Permissions Release Notes: Universal Consent & Preference Management. For a complete list of products with permission updates in this release, see Permissions Release Notes Catalog.

Things to Know

TheCollection pointslist screen can now be filtered by alert status to display collections points that have associated alerts.

OriginalandEnhancedpreference center types have been formally deprecated forUniversal Consent & Preference Managementand are no longer available for use. These preference center types will be deactivated in 202608.1.0 (Summer Release).

New hosted web forms no longer support custom CSS. Existing hosted web forms and any copies you make will continue to support custom CSS until 202605.1.0 (Spring Release).

Purpose description dropdowns now feature explanatory subtitles.

About Known Defects

 

Issues that may impact our customers are documented in our Known Defects Database located here with approved workarounds and targeted releases for resolving the issue.