Assessment Automation - May 15, 2026 - 202605.1.0 (Spring Release)

Fixed

  • Resolved an issue that prevented information request emails from displaying the assessment name correctly in Japanese.

  • Resolved an issue that prevented Object-type question responses from appearing as available columns in assessment reports.

  • Resolved an issue that prevented German translations from displaying in incident assessment PDF reports.

  • Resolved an issue that prevented saved views on the Assessments screen from displaying in alphabetical order.

  • Resolved an issue that prevented archived assessments from displaying correctly on the Archived assessment screen when a filter was applied.

  • Resolved an issue that prevented users from accessing the Manage jurisdictions modal after clicking the Manage jurisdiction button while completing an assessment.

  • Resolved an issue that prevented filters from displaying on the Assessment screen for some users.

New Public Preview Features

Custom Notifications for Assessment Templates

Send customized, trigger-based automated email messages from a new global Notifications tab on the Assessment templates screen. This enhancement speeds up assessment completion, reduces support requirements, and provides users with more relevant information in the assessment.

For more information, see Configuring Custom Email Notifications on Assessment Templates. This feature is related to the following ideas: OT-I-949, OT-I-1270, OT-I-3522, OT-I-7945, and OT-I-16348.

Configuring Approver-only Assessment Sections

Configure approver-only sections on assessments automatically using template rules or inventory-based values. These enhancements mean users can launch assessments with approver-only sections directly from the self-service portal.

For more information, see Configuring Approver-only Assessment Sections. This feature is related to the following ideas: AA-I-293 and AA-I-302.

Leveraging AI Auto-responses for Assessments

Opt-out of automatically scanning your three most recent assessments, plus add more files, more file types, and bigger files to your uploads. These enhancements improve the performance and accuracy of the AI Doc Scanner.

For more information, see Leveraging AI Auto-responses for Assessments.

Privacy Risk Agent

|Available with Solution Packaging Only

Leverage our Privacy Risk Assessment Agent in Copilot to streamline the creation of processing activities and the completion of assessments. This agent dramatically reduces the time and manual effort required to complete PIAs, improves accuracy through semantic matching and document-based autofill, and provides transparent confidence scoring, which enables Privacy Managers to complete assessments faster, more consistently, and with greater confidence.

For more information, see OneTrust Privacy Risk Assessment Feature Guide.

Existing Public Preview Features

Launch Reassessments as Not Started

Configure reassessments to default to the Not Started stage upon launching. This enhancement applies to copied assessments, reassessments launched via automation rules, and reassessments launched via API.

Company Names in Email Notifications

Display your company name in assessment email notification templates using the __TenantName__ email variable when notifying users. This enhancement enables you to provide assessment notifications on behalf of your organization that reflect your tenant's name.

For more information, see Customizing Assessment Email Templates Using Dynamic Variables.

Things to Know

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.