Feature Release and Service Updates
- There are two Types of Schedules that you can notice in Workday.
- One is Feature release which is like an upgrade and the other being
- Service updates which is like regular maintenance, or applying patches, fixes.
Feature release:
Workday Feature releases occur 2 times per year. Version Change happens with every Feature release.
(Not Future release)
Do remember every single customer will be on the same version and it is the latest version.
This includes New or Feature releases, Enhancements, Bug Fixes, additional Packaged Integrations etc.,
When Workday roll-out the updates, the customer system automatically converts to the newest release.
Tenants are not available during the Feature release Weekend
(which happens 2 times every year)
Dates: ( 2019 - 20 Schedule)
Previous Version - 32
February 4, 2019 - Features available for Preview
March 9, 2019 - Workday 32 available in all tenants
Previous Version - 33
August 3, 2019 - Features available for Preview
September 7, 2019 - Workday 33 available in all tenants
Here on the Versions are called with Year and Release, Example: 2020R1 , 2020R2 instead of WD34, WD35
Current Version - Workday 2020 Release 1 (Known as WD34)
February 1, 2020 - Features available for Preview
March 7, 2020 - Workday 34 available in all tenants
Upcoming Version - Workday 2020 Release 2 (Known as WD35)
August 8, 2020 - Features available for Preview
September 12, 2020 - Workday 34 available in all tenants
Upcoming Version - Workday 2020 Release 2 (Known as WD35)
August 8, 2020 - Features available for Preview
September 12, 2020 - Workday 34 available in all tenants
Service Updates:
- During the scheduled updates you will notice the tenant will be down and a message saying
- "Workday is currently unavailable." with the duration of outage.
- Its generally a 12 hour window on a weekend for Non-Production environment.
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| Workday is currently unavailable |
