July 2026
This page documents all customer-facing changes to the DataGrail application made in July 2026. Additional entries will be added every week on Friday.
Week of July 27β
π Features Addedβ
- Vera now classifies Email Intake requests β instead of keyword matching, Vera reviews each inbound email to identify the data subject and accurately classify it as an Access, Deletion, or Opt Out request. When Vera isn't confident enough, the request is marked Unclassified so you can review it and select the correct type β or create an Opt Out request β directly from the wizard. Vera's classifications and any changes you make are recorded in the request activity feed. Nothing changes about how you forward emails, and accounts without Vera continue using the existing process.
- Assessment My Assignments drawer β a new button in the assessment header opens a drawer listing everything assigned to you in that assessment, grouped into section and question assignments. Each card shows the status, linked title, and who assigned it and when. Select an assignment to jump straight to it, mark assignments complete individually or all at once, and see assignment changes in the assessment's change history.
π Changes Madeβ
- Audit Log downloads β each row in the Consent Audit Log table now has a dedicated Download action. When an export takes more than a moment to prepare, a Download in Progress indicator appears on that row so you know it's working and won't start competing downloads. If a download fails, you'll get an error with the option to retry.
- Assessment template builder β the template builder now highlights invalid questions and sections wherever they are, even in parts of the form you haven't opened, and the sidebar shows an error indicator so you can jump straight to the problem instead of hunting for why a template won't save.
- Session expiration β when your session expires while a tab is open, you now see a banner asking you to refresh to log in, instead of being silently redirected mid-action.
π Bugs Squashedβ
- Resolved an issue where Adobe containers were left out of the consent publish preview.
- Resolved an issue where newly seen cookies could be attributed to the wrong consent project instead of the project they were collected under.
- Resolved an issue where Vera charts displayed time-based and date-range categories out of order.
Week of July 20β
π Changes Madeβ
- Rippling integration upgraded β the Rippling integration now runs on Rippling's modern Platform API, keeping this HR connection reliable as Rippling retires its legacy API. Authentication is now a single API token, and the same rich employee data β including sensitive fields like home address and date of birth β is still fully supported.
- Assessment export options β when downloading an approved assessment, you can now choose exactly what to include: toggle risk information and attachments on or off to get a standalone PDF, a full ZIP with attachments, or anything in between.
- Assessment country selection β country questions in assessments now use a collapsible checkbox tree grouped by region, with shortcuts for common selections like Global and EEA + UK β no more scrolling through 200+ countries one at a time. The same picker now powers country selection in the Live Data Map bulk-edit drawer.
- Assessment template visibility β Admins and Risk Monitor Admins can now hide DataGrail's default assessment templates, so only your organization's approved custom templates appear when creating a new assessment β reducing the risk of the wrong template being used for regulatory work like GDPR transfer impact assessments.
- Inbound Assessments β inbound assessment links now recognize when the submitter is already a platform user with the right access (Admins, Risk Monitor roles, Assessment Creators/Contributors) and route them straight into the app instead of sending a "check your email" link. Unmatched submitters see no change in their experience.
- Assessment creation β the Systems dropdown when starting a new assessment now lets you pick a specific system instance in addition to the parent system, and prefill data is aggregated across all instances when you select the parent.
- Processing Activities β systems with multiple connected instances (like separate production and sandbox environments) now collapse into a single expandable row instead of listing each instance separately, matching System Inventory's behavior.
- User management β the Users and Invitations tabs now support search and filtering.
- Assessment contributors β you can now search by name when inviting contributors to an assessment.
π Bugs Squashedβ
- Resolved an issue where the data subject request wizard language field didn't default to English correctly.
- Resolved an issue where cookie export patterns weren't consistently scoped to the correct consent project.
- Resolved an issue where a risk badge could display as
undefinedor an assessment's second risk wasn't linked correctly when re-adding it. - Resolved an issue where Notion access requests could stall under rate limits.
- Resolved an issue where a DSAR download link didn't refresh after the original link expired.
- Resolved an issue where the Inventory table didn't show an error state when it failed to load.
- Resolved an issue where cookie rule match patterns rejected colons.
- Resolved an issue where the backend's TCF publish-ready status wasn't reflected in the UI.
- Resolved an issue where the Source filter was missing Adobe managed properties.
- Resolved an issue where a Vera chat thread reset before an in-flight run was cancelled.
Week of July 13β
π Features Addedβ
- System Inventory bulk removal β you can now select up to 500 systems and remove them in a single action, instead of deleting them one at a time.
- Vera document awareness β Vera can now reference your system and processing activity documents when answering questions, giving more grounded and complete responses.
π Changes Madeβ
- Processing Activities redesign β the Processing Activities table has a new look built around progress, not warnings. Each activity now shows a completion progress bar at a glance, and you can customize which columns appear so your team can surface what matters most.
- Assessment approvers β approvers are now easier to find when assigning them, and they're notified automatically when an assessment is assigned to them for approval.
- Document downloads β in the document drawer, the View button is now labeled Download, and selecting it downloads the file directly with the correct file extension instead of opening a new tab β so it's clear what will happen and your device recognizes the file type.
- Configure Email template link β the Configure Email workflow step now includes a View Template link, so you can jump straight to the email a workflow will send.
- Vera reasoning β Vera now keeps its reasoning visible after you accept a suggestion, so you can see why it made a recommendation.
π Bugs Squashedβ
- Resolved integration issues affecting Salesforce, Notion, Rippling, TeamUp, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud request processing.
- Resolved an issue where a long value in a Google Cloud Storage connection field could be truncated during setup.
- Resolved an issue where Manage Languages wouldn't save when no locale was selected.
- Resolved an issue where a leftover confirmation window appeared after approving a suggested data subject in the Live Data Map.
- Resolved an issue where the Manage Layout button could be hidden behind the top navigation bar.
- Resolved issues where custom consent tags and consent service metadata weren't correctly scoped to individual consent projects.
Week of July 6β
π Features Addedβ
- Evidence documents β you can now attach supporting evidence documents directly to systems and processing activities, keeping documentation alongside the records it supports.
- SAP SuccessFactors β a new SAP SuccessFactors integration is now available, letting you search employee data across HR, payroll, and directory records.
- Assessment version history β assessments now show a list of related versions, and creating a new version records a change-log event, making it easier to track how an assessment evolved.
π Changes Madeβ
- Consent Analytics β analytics are now easier to interpret at a glance, with descriptions on each chart, clearer metric definitions, and added context to help privacy, marketing, and engineering teams understand what they're looking at and what to do next.
- Vera upgraded to Claude Sonnet 5 β every Vera agent now runs on Anthropic's latest and most capable model, for sharper reasoning, more nuanced answers, and stronger instruction-following across the board.
- Vera chat β charts in Vera reports now appear inline right where they're referenced, answers stream live as they're written, Vera remembers more of a conversation at once, and Vera suggests a wider range of your day's tasks.
- Workflow Automations β the "Add an Action" drawer now groups the Configure Email action with the send steps that depend on it, making workflow setup clearer.
π Bugs Squashedβ
- Resolved an issue where the Edit Systems drawer pre-selected all AI-suggested systems instead of leaving the choice to you.
- Resolved an issue where intake requests submitted in a non-English language could get stuck due to mismatched email locales.
- Resolved an issue where an integration group assignment was dropped when editing a non-OAuth integration.
- Resolved an issue with BambooHR credential validation.
- Resolved an issue where integration setup errors showed a generic message instead of the specific permission that was missing.
- Resolved an issue where Email Templates appeared for Live Data Map-only customers who don't use them.
- Resolved an issue where duplicate access categories could prevent unchecking data types on a data subject request.
Week of June 29β
π Features Addedβ
- Cisco Duo SSO β customers using Cisco Duo can now configure SAML 2.0 single sign-on. Follow the new setup guide, paste in your metadata URL, and users log in with their existing Duo credentials, with new users provisioned automatically on first login.
- Configure Email in Workflow Automations β a new Configure Email action lets you control exactly what email a workflow sends, or suppress it entirely, directly in the workflow. Send a specific published template or suppress emails per workflow β for example, suppress deletion-results emails for employee requests while keeping them for consumers, without touching global settings.
π Changes Madeβ
- Automations index β the workflows list is now a sortable, filterable, searchable table. Sort by name, phase, status, or error count, filter by published or draft, and see error counts inline. "View in automations" links throughout the app now open a pre-filtered list showing just the relevant workflows.
- Vera ticket filtering β Vera can now match privacy requests across multiple statuses at once and exclude specific states in a single query, so questions like "active requests not in the setup wizard" or "closed requests that weren't spam" resolve cleanly. Past-due queries no longer drop closed tickets.
- Intelligence Library data subject accuracy β data subject categories in system metadata are now more accurate, with fewer false positives. Some fields may now be intentionally empty where the data genuinely can't be known.
- Domain verification β when email domain verification times out, you now see a clear "Verification Failed" state with retry guidance instead of a request that hangs on "Pending."
- Assessment assignments β the assignments panel is easier to use, with an empty state, a sticky Assign button, a pending-count badge, and alignment fixes.
- Assessment template permissions β managing assessment templates is now restricted to admins; Assessment Creators have read-only access to templates.
- iOS Consent SDK 1.6.0 β text elements now respect the
stylesettings in your configuration for correct title, header, and body sizing, and a config parse failure affecting choice buttons has been fixed. - Android Consent SDK 1.6.0 β the banner now recovers gracefully from a corrupted keyset instead of crashing the host app on launch.
π Bugs Squashedβ
- Resolved an issue where the Live Data Map dropped active filters (such as high-risk) when scrolling past the first page of results.
- Resolved an issue where automation settings showed a false success message when a save had actually failed (for example, for users without permission).
- Resolved several Suggested Processing Activities issues: duplicate activities from rapid clicks, an error when reusing an archived activity's name, and a delay before archived activities disappeared.
- Resolved an issue in Consent where you couldn't add a Links element back to a layer after removing the last link.
- Resolved an issue where the Monetate integration failed to refresh its OAuth token.
- Resolved assessment collaborator role issues so Contributors can correctly comment, add risks, and be assigned questions.













