The ServiceNow® Release Management application enables you to manage, plan, schedule, and control all aspects of hardware and software releases so that you can create a defined set of release components. Release Management is deprecated starting with the Xanadu release.

Release Management highlights for the Xanadu release

The Digital Product Release application is the preferred application to track and manage the release processes of digital products.

See Digital Product Release for more information.

Deprecations

Starting with the Xanadu release, Release Management v2 is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be hidden and no longer activated on new instances but will continue to be supported. Digital Product Release provides the latest experience for this functionality. For details, see the Deprecation Process [KB0867184] article in the Now Support Knowledge Base.

Activation information

Release Management is available with activation of the Release Management plugin (com.snc.release_management_v2). For details, see Activate Release Management.