<h2>Change Management release notes</h2><br/><div style="overflow-x:auto"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="generator" content="DITA-OT" /><meta name="DC.type" content="reference" /><meta name="DC.title" content="Change Management release notes" /><meta name="abstract" content="The ServiceNow Change Management application provides a tool for managing the life cycle of all changes in your organization, enabling rapid changes without compromising stability and governance. Change Management was enhanced and updated in the Vancouver release." /><meta name="description" content="The ServiceNow Change Management application provides a tool for managing the life cycle of all changes in your organization, enabling rapid changes without compromising stability and governance. 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Read the release notes to learn about the release, prepare for your upgrade, and upgrade your instance.">Vancouver release notes</a> > <a class="link" href="../../release-notes/concept/rn-learn-landing-page.html" title="The Vancouver release includes new features and improvements built on the Now Platform.">Learn about the Vancouver release</a> > <a class="link" href="../../release-notes/concept/rn-n-1-landing-page.html" title="When you upgrade from the Utah release, understand the fixes in each release version, notable changes for the user interface, browser support, plugin updates, and each feature's upgrade and migration tasks if applicable.">Release notes for upgrading from Utah</a> > <a class="link" href="../../release-notes/new-features-changes.html" title="Review the new features and changes in this release by product.">Features and changes by product</a> > </div> <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1"><span class="ph">Change Management</span> release notes</h1> <div class="body refbody" id="change-management-rn-rn-body"><p class="shortdesc">The <span class="ph">ServiceNow®</span> <span class="ph">Change Management</span> application provides a tool for managing the life cycle of all changes in your organization, enabling rapid changes without compromising stability and governance. <span class="ph">Change Management</span> was enhanced and updated in the <span class="ph">Vancouver</span> release.</p> <div class="section" id="change-management-rn__section_ndb_vpk_zwb"><h2 class="title sectiontitle"><span class="ph">Change Management</span> highlights for the <span class="ph">Vancouver</span> release</h2> <p class="p" id="change-management-rn__change-management-rn-highlights-1">Provides an extension of the existing data retention capabilities by using the conflict table.</p> <p class="p" id="change-management-rn__change-management-rn-highlights-2">See <a class="xref" href="../product/change-management/concept/c_ITILChangeManagement.dita/c_ITILChangeManagement.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Change Management</a> for more information.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="change-management-rn__section_ibl_vpk_zwb"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Changed in this release</h2> <div class="p" id="change-management-rn__change-management-rn-changed-features"><dl class="dl"> <dt class="dt dlterm"><a class="xref" href="../product/change-management/task/activate-data-retention-archive-rule.dita/activate-data-retention-archive-rule.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Activate Change Management - Data Archiving</a></dt> <dd class="dd"><p class="p">Archive the change requests, change tasks, and conflict data in your instance per your data retention policy through the updated archive rule, which enables you to include the conflict table with change requests and change tasks.</p> </dd> </dl> </div> </div> <div class="section" id="change-management-rn__section_lbl_vpk_zwb"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Activation information</h2> <p class="p" id="change-management-rn__change-management-rn-activation"><span class="ph">Change Management</span> is a <span class="ph">Now Platform</span> feature that is active by default.</p> </div> </div> <div class="related-links"> <div class="familylinks"> <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent Topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../../release-notes/it-service-management/it-service-management-rn-landing.html" title="IT Service Management has new and updated features in the Vancouver release.">IT Service Management release notes</a></div> </div> </div></body></html></div>