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title: Upgrade Console release notes
description: The ServiceNow Upgrade Console application guides you for a comprehensive and efficient upgrade experience. Upgrade Console was enhanced and updated in the Australia release.The ServiceNow Upgrade Console application guides you for a comprehensive and efficient upgrade experience. Upgrade Console was enhanced and updated in the Australia release.The ServiceNow Upgrade Console application guides you for a comprehensive and efficient upgrade experience. Upgrade Console was enhanced and updated in the Australia release.
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breadcrumb: [ServiceNow AI Platform administration release notes, Features and changes by product, Release notes for upgrading from Zurich, Learn about the Australia release, Australia release notes]
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# Upgrade Console release notes

The ServiceNow® Upgrade Console application guides you for a comprehensive and efficient upgrade experience. Upgrade Console was enhanced and updated in the Australia release.

## About Upgrade Console

-   Access the ATF troubleshooting agent directly from the Upgrade console.
-   Manage your application version compatibility by updating the Now Assist suite.

See [Upgrade Console](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/platform-administration/um-landing-page.md) for more information.

## Activation and other requirements

**Important:** Upgrade Console is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes.

-   **Activation information**

    Upgrade Console is a ServiceNow AI Platform feature that is active by default.


**Parent Topic:**[ServiceNow AI Platform administration release notes](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/release-notes/now-platform-admin-rn-landing.md)

## August 2026

The ServiceNow® Upgrade Console application guides you for a comprehensive and efficient upgrade experience. Upgrade Console was enhanced and updated in the Australia release.

### What's new

-   **[Bulk application update console](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/platform-administration/um_bulk_app_update_desc.md)**

    Review, select, and update multiple applications from a single console, reducing the effort of managing application updates individually.


## Australia

The ServiceNow® Upgrade Console application guides you for a comprehensive and efficient upgrade experience. Upgrade Console was enhanced and updated in the Australia release.

### What's new

-   **[App version compatibility support](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/platform-administration/um-pre-upgrade-activities.md)**

    Update the Now Assist suite to manage application version compatibility by automatically updating all related applications to compatible versions when you upgrade an application in the compatibility matrix.

-   **[ATF Troubleshooting agent access](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/platform-administration/um-post-upgrade-activities.md)**

    You can now troubleshoot failed tests by accessing the ATF troubleshooting agent from the Conduct post-testing step in the post-upgrade activities of a non-production instance.