Universal Consent & Preference Management - January 9, 2026 - 202601.1.0

General Availability

Table Enhancements for Standard Purposes, Cookie Purposes, and Purpose Preferences

Various tables and table functionalities within Universal Consent & Preference Management have been upgraded to improve usability, accessibility, and customization, including resizable columns, more records per view, and clearer row actions. These updates are designed to provide a consistent and improved user experience, helping users work more efficiently with data and tailor their experience to their specific needs.

Tables have been updated on the following tabs within the Purposes screen:

  • Standard purposes

  • Cookie purposes

  • Purposes preferences

For more information, see Table Enhancements Across the OneTrust Platform and Table Enhancements User Guide.

Enable Captcha for Trust Center Authentication

Enable the Verify users with Captcha setting on the Authentication tab in the Trust Center builder to require end users to complete a Captcha security test when logging in. This enhancement provides an extra layer of authentication for improved security.

For more information, see Configuring Authentication for Trust Center.

Trust Center Support for Implicit Consent and Hard Opt-Out

The Trust Center has been improved to support implicit consent and hard opt-out when users configure their consent preferences. Users can now configure hard opt-out on individual purposes. This enhancement is designed to support feature parity between UCPM and the Trust Center.

For more information, see About Implicit Consent and Overriding Data Subject Consent Using Hard Opt-Out.

Fixed

  • Resolved an issue that caused some data subject merges to lose records of notices.

  • Resolved an issue that prevented the Get List of Data Subject Tokens V4 API from returning the token of parent data subjects created simultaneously with child data subjects.

  • Resolved an issue that prevented users from configuring filters on the Retention Policy screen with the filter criteria defined as Retention status.

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.

Things to Know

TheEnable data subject deletionsetting is now enabled by default to prevent misconfigurations when setting up retention policies.

The retention ruleData subject profile retentionhas been renamed toData subject purpose retentionfor improved accuracy.

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.