Cookie Consent - May 15, 2026 - 202605.1.0 (Spring Release)

General Availability

Table Enhancements for Websites

Tables and table functionalities on the Websites screen 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.

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

Tenant-Level Cookie Patterns

Identify and isolate cookies patterns per tenant during cookie categorization. This enhancement enables you to log and detect tenant-level patterns for more accurate cookie categorization.

For more information, see Managing and Categorizing Cookies and SDKs. This feature is related to the following ideas: OT-I-10538, CS-I-19.

Fixed

• Resolved an issue that prevented users from navigating backward using keyboards when Age Gate prompts displayed on a website.

• Resolved an issue that allowed users to close the banner without interaction when the Require banner interaction setting was enabled within the template.

• Resolved an issue that prevented users from successfully downloading previously deployed production scripts from the History tab of the Scripts screen.

• Resolved an issue that produced a syntax error in scripts after downloading scripts for local hosting.

New Public Preview Features

Enhanced Tracking Technologies Interface

Leverage the new Tracking technologies interface to log and categorize tracking technologies on your websites or SDKs. This feature improves the existing Tracking technologies interface and enhances insight into your websites' or apps' tracking technologies by linking them to known vendors and hosts.

For more information, see Managing Tracking Technologies. This feature is related to the following ideas: CONTENT-I-81, PDGI-I-1592, CSC-I-9, PDGI-I-1739, OT-I-14035.

Note:

This feature was previously available as Vendor Identification, Categorization, and Consent.

CMP Governance through Ownership

Automatically define default owners for your websites and applications when configuring scans. This enhancement enables you to configure users within OneTrust who are notified of updates to the CMP configuration on specific websites and are responsible for managing these changes.

For more information, see Scanning a Website. This feature is related to the following ideas: CONTENT-I-320, OT-I-6353, PDGI-I-899, PDGI-I-1505, CSC-I-125.

Email Completion Notifications for Compliance Assistant

|Available with Solution Packaging Only

Receive email notifications for completed Compliance Assistant scans. This enhancement notifies compliance assistant scan owners via email that the scan has completed.

For more information, see Leveraging CMP Compliance Assistant.

Website Scan Observability

Access the new scanner Job queue to review scan statuses and start times for each of your scanned domains. This feature provides a higher degree of insight into each of your scans, enabling you to more easily monitor scan progress and diagnose failures.

For more information, see Scanning a Website. This feature is related to the following ideas: OT-I-514, OT-I-4946, OT-I-12712, OT-I-15978, PDGI-I-595.

Existing Public Preview Features

Enhanced Auto-Blocking Interface

Leverage an improved Auto-Blocking experience, featuring a redesigned safe list, block list, and match list. The enhanced Auto-Block tab is designed for a quicker and easier user experience when reviewing and blocking URLs.

For more information, see OneTrust Cookie Auto-Blocking (Enhanced Interface).

Banner SEO Configuration

Deploy your banner script with header (<h>) tags replaced as paragraph (<p>) tags for improved search engine optimization.

For more information, see Publishing and Implementing Cookie Consent Scripts, or contact OneTrust Support or your account representative.

Support for Multi-Language Privacy Policy Links

Configure privacy policy links in multiple languages on the Dynamic Links section of the Website Details screen. This feature enables you to offer privacy policy links and information in each language relevant to your business needs.

For more information, see Configuring Domain Branding.

Enhanced State Support for the Global Privacy Platform

The Global Privacy Platform (GPP) settings now support consent strings for the following US states:

• Delaware

• Iowa

• Nebraska

• New Hampshire

• New Jersey

• Tennessee

For more information, see Configuring Global Privacy Platform Settings.

Bulk Export APIs

The following APIs are now available for use to create and cancel bulk exports and retrieve their status, progress, download details, and credit details. These APIs enable users to extract large volumes of cookie receipts at once with a limit of six bulk exports per month.

• Create Bulk Export API

• Get List of Bulk Exports API

• Get Bulk Export Status API

• Cancel Bulk Export API

• Get Bulk Export Download Details API

• Get Bulk Export Credit Details API

• Get List of Bulk Export Download Details API

Authenticated Consent for New and Existing Users

Transfer consent from local storage to new and existing data subject IDs (DSIDs) for user profiles when leveraging Cross-Device Consent. This enhancement allows you to apply previously captured consent to user profiles to streamline consent collection.

Always Inactive Consent State

Leverage the new Always Inactive consent state to allow users to display tracking technologies that are present but not enabled on their websites. This consent state enables you to notify your end users that a tracking technology is deployed but not active.

For more information, see Cookie Consent Models and Configuring Geolocation Rules.

Enable Global Privacy Platform on TCF 2.2 Templates

Enable the Global Privacy Platform setting on TCF 2.2 templates. This setting allows you to enable the IAB Tech Lab - Global Privacy Platform (GPP) and populate the IAB TCF EU section of the GPP string.

For more information, see Configuring the Global Privacy Platform Settings.

Legitimate Interest Configuration for Reject All on IAB Templates

Implement a Reject All button on your Preference Center and Cookie Banner that prevents objection to legitimate interest. This enhancement improves compatibility with Google Limited Ads.

For more information, see Customizing the Preference Center Template.

Server-Side Rendering

Server-side rendering is now available for Cookie Banner HTML and CSS.

For more information, see Server-Side Rendering: Performance and Availability.

Accessibility Conformance

• Accurate ARIA roles are now applied to consent controls on the preference center that correspond to the control style (e.g., toggle, checkbox) configured for the template.

• The Cookie settings button on the preference center now includes the attribute aria-haspopup="dialog" to programmatically indicate that the button opens a dialog (WCAG-A 4.1.2: Name, Role, Value).

Things to Know

TheRegionselection menu on theGeolocation rule group detailsscreen now differentiates countries and states with similar names. This feature is related to the following ideas:CSC-I-144,OT-I-5039.

Audience Logic now supports websites with Content Security Policies (CSPs) enabled.

For more information, see Configuring Audience Logic Using Geolocation Rules.

TheDefine the Order of Buttons on the CMPfeature, previously announced in202508.1.0 (Summer Release), is now available for web CMPs.

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.