Release Notifications

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: 02/19/2021 (Friday) PT
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: 02/19/2021 (Friday) PT
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: 02/19/2021 (Friday) PT
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 02/23/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 02/25/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release: from 02/23/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 02/25/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Production: from 02/23/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 02/25/2021 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 293 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

We have enhanced the Configurable Lockbox feature to support payment processing against debit memos for the Account Only process.

By configuring the Account Document Processing Options setting, you can determine the order in which payments are applied to the documents on an account.

This enhancement will not impact your current processing. If you want to include debit memo support in your existing lockbox files, you need to modify your configurations for the particular lockbox file format.

See Zuora Collect Release Notes for more information about this release.

Starting from February 16, 2021, Configurable Payment Retry no longer provides native support for switching payment gateways as part of the retry logic. The default payment gateway and payment method identified on the account will be used for payment retry attempts.

You can still change gateways for payment retry and manage the corresponding logic through an external system such as Workflow, instead of Configurable Payment Retry. If you do not update your existing configuration to remove this switching gateway logic, the application will ignore the request of changing gateways and continue to retry at the designated time.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: 02/09/2021 (Tuesday) PT
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: 02/09/2021 (Tuesday) PT
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: 02/09/2021 (Tuesday) PT
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 02/18/2021 (Thursday) PT to 02/19/2021 (Friday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release: from 02/18/2021 (Thursday) PT to 02/19/2021 (Friday) PT
• US Data Center Production: from 02/18/2021 (Thursday) PT to 02/19/2021 (Friday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 292 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

We have released several enhancements to the Statement Generator and Notes.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: from 01/20/2021 (Wednesday) PT to 01/21/2021(Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: from 01/20/2021 (Wednesday) PT to 01/21/2021(Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: from 01/20/2021 (Wednesday) PT to 01/21/2021(Thursday) PT 
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 01/26/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 01/28/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release:from 01/26/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 01/28/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Production:from 01/26/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 01/28/2021 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 291 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: 01/12/2021 (Tuesday) PT
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: 01/12/2021 (Tuesday) PT 
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: 01/12/2021 (Tuesday) PT 
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 01/19/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 01/21/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release: from 01/19/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 01/21/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Production: from 01/19/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 01/21/2021 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 290 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

As part of our upcoming January 2021 release of Zuora Billing, in order to improve the overall performance and stability, two new limits on the operations of AQuA / Data Source Export will be introduced in Zuora Billing tenants. 

We will be pushing a Zuora for Salesforce maintenance release (Quotes 9.31.1) to all 9.26.1+ Sandbox orgs after 6 pm Pacific on January 6, 2021.

We have optimized the UIs for the Configurable Lockbox feature of Collect. There are no functional changes, but some operation flows and UI labels have been changed.

For details about the release, see Zuora Collect Release Notes.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: from 12/09/2020 (Wednesday) PT to 12/10/2020 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: from 12/09/2020 (Wednesday) PT to 12/10/2020 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: from 12/09/2020 (Wednesday) PT to 12/10/2020 (Thursday) PT
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 12/15/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 12/17/2020 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release: from 12/15/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 12/17/2020 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Production: from 12/15/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 12/17/2020 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 289 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Sandbox Release: from 11/04/2020 (Wednesday) PT to 11/05/2020 (Thursday) PT
• US Sandbox Release: from 11/04/2020 (Wednesday) PT to 11/05/2020 (Thursday) PT
• EU Production Release: from 11/10/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 11/12/2020 (Thursday) PT
• US Production Release: from11/10/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 11/12/2020 (Thursday) PT

• US Data Center Production Release: from 12/03/2020 (Thursday) PT to 12/04/2020 (Friday) PT
• EU Cloud Data Center Production Release: from 12/08/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 12/11/2020 (Friday) PT
• US Cloud Data Center Production Release: from 12/08/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 12/11/2020 (Friday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 288 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

We plan to release an enhancement to the Advanced Payment Manager feature of Collect soon. With the enhancement, Advanced Payment Manager will accept direct debit payments. Currently, direct debit payments are rejected in Advanced Payment Manager.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:
EU Sandbox Release: from 10/13/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 10/14/2020 (Wednesday) PT
US Sandbox Release: from 10/13/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 10/14/2020 (Wednesday) PT
EU Production Release: from 10/20/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 10/22/2020 (Thursday) PT
US Production Release: from 10/20/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 10/22/2020 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 287 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:
EU Sandbox Release: 09/17/2020 (Thursday) PT
US Sandbox Release: 09/17/2020 (Thursday) PT
EU Production Release: from 09/22/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 09/24/2020 (Thursday) PT
US Production Release: from 09/22/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 09/24/2020 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 286 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

As announced earlier, more enhancements to Zuora Billing are here! Three new usage charge models are expected to be made available to customers on September 30, 2020: Pre-Rated Pricing, High Water Mark Pricing, and Multi-Attribute Pricing.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:
EU Sandbox Release: 09/08/2020 (Tuesday) PT
US Sandbox Release: 09/08/2020 (Tuesday) PT
EU Production Release: from 09/15/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 09/17/2020 (Thursday) PT
US Production Release: from 09/15/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 09/17/2020 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 285 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

We just released the APIs for the Collections Window feature. Collections Window APIs use basic authentication. The user name is the email address that you use for logging in Zuora. The password is the API token that is shown in the settings of Collections Window.

To learn about the available API operations, see the Collections Window section in the Collect API Reference.

Zuora just released an update in Analytics to set the default currency of the tenant as the metric currency in the default datasets and cards that have not been edited by users. Previously, USD was the metric currency for all default datasets and cards.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:
EU Sandbox Release: 08/21/2020 (Friday) PT
US Sandbox Release: 08/21/2020 (Friday) PT
EU Production Release: from 08/25/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 08/27/2020 (Thursday) PT
US Production Release: from 08/25/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 08/27/2020 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 284 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:
EU Sandbox Release: from 08/12/2020 (Wednesday) PT to 08/13/2020 (Thursday)
US Sandbox Release: from 08/12/2020 (Wednesday) PT to 08/13/2020 (Thursday)
EU Production Release: from 08/18/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 08/20/2020 (Thursday) PT
US Production Release: from 08/18/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 08/20/2020 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 283 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release. Release status will be posted as this article comments. 

We will be pushing a Zuora for Salesforce maintenance release (Quotes 9.26) to all 9.23+ Sandbox orgs after 6 pm Pacific on August 12, 2020.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:
EU Sandbox Release: from 08/04/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 08/05/2020 (Wednesday)
US Sandbox Release: from 08/04/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 08/05/2020 (Wednesday)
EU Production Release: from 08/11/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 08/13/2020 (Thursday) PT
US Production Release: from 08/11/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 08/13/2020 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 282 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release. Release status will be posted as this article comments. 

The Promo Codes application release 1.3 is expected to be deployed to all production instances on August 5, 2020.  In this release, we will provide additional functionality and simplicity around Campaigns and custom fields management for Promo Codes.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:
EU Sandbox Release: from 07/15/2020 (Wednesday) PT to 07/16/2020 (Thursday) PT
US Sandbox Release:from 07/15/2020 (Wednesday) PT to 07/16/2020 (Thursday) PT
EU Production Release: from 07/21/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 07/23/2020 (Thursday) PT
US Production Release: from 07/21/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 07/23/2020 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 281 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release. Release status will be posted as this article comments. 

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:
EU Sandbox Release: 07/08/2020 (Wednesday) PT
US Sandbox Release: 07/08/2020 (Wednesday) PT
EU Production Release: from 07/14/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 07/16/2020 (Thursday) PT
US Production Release: from 07/14/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 07/16/2020 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 280 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release. Release status will be posted as this article comments. 

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:
EU Sandbox Release: 06/18/2020 (Thursday) PT
US Sandbox Release: 06/18/2020 (Thursday) PT
EU Production Release: from 06/23/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 06/24/2020 (Wednesday) PT
US Production Release: from 06/23/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 06/24/2020 (Wednesday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 279 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release. Release status will be posted as this article comments. 

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:
EU Sandbox Release: 06/09/2020 (Tuesday) PT
US Sandbox Release: 06/09/2020 (Tuesday) PT
EU Production Release: from 06/16/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 06/18/2020 (Thursday) PT
US Production Release: from 06/16/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 06/18/2020 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 278 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release. Release status will be posted as this article comments. 

We will be pushing a Zuora for Salesforce maintenance release (Quotes 9.24.1) to all 9.23+ Sandbox orgs after 6 pm Pacific on June 11, 2020.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:
EU Sandbox Release: 05/21/2020 (Thursday) PT
US Sandbox Release: 05/21/2020 (Thursday) PT
EU Production Release: from 05/26/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 05/28/2020 (Thursday) PT
US Production Release: from 05/26/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 05/28/2020 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 277 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release. Release status and release notes link will be posted as this article comments.