Release Notes keep our users updated on weekly changes to the Workday application. These can be new features, updates to existing features, or a solution to a problem. Subscribe to our Release Notes emails to receive notifications of our recent updates.
Below are our most recent updates
| Workday Area | Release Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Benefits | After submitting Benefit Election events, related Action and To Do steps now become available to the Employee, Retiree or Benefits Partner at the same time | 2/5/2026 |
| Compensation | The report, "My Compensation History," now displays the Job Profile and Business Title associated with a compensation event | 2/5/2026 |
| Staffing | Change Job Templates for Data Change reasons now include clearer help text, updated fields and routing, and more accurate naming conventions | 2/5/2026 |
Below are all of our updates from the past 6 months
| Workday Area | Release Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Benefits | The Benefits Partner Dashboard now displays an announcement with Open Enrollment information and links for Benefits Partners | 7/10/2025 |
| Recruiting | The Post Job business process now allows Recruiting Partners to post jobs to the System-wide External Career Site | 7/10/2025 |
| Benefits | The report, "Benefit Event Status Report - Pending Events," can now be run for Open Enrollment Events in a "submitted" status | 7/17/2025 |
| Benefits | The report, "Benefit Events Status Report - TAMUS," can now be run for Open Enrollment Events in a "completed" status | 7/17/2025 |
| Absence Management | Military Training/Duty and all Unpaid Time Off requests now route to the Absence Partner for approval | 7/24/2025 |
| Payroll | The report, "Salaried Timesheet Detail with Time Off," now returns correct Overtime Hourly Rate for salaried workers | 7/24/2025 |
| Payroll | Employees with a future hire date are now able to update their W-2 printing elections | 7/24/2025 |
| Absence Management | Requests for Leave of Absence and Return from Leave of Absence can no longer be initiated by Employee as Self | 7/31/2025 |
| Recruiting | Managers can no longer disposition candidates from the Screen stage of the Job Application process, based on member selection | 7/31/2025 |
| Absence Management | The Request Absence Time Off Categories and Time Off Types have been updated | 8/7/2025 |
| Staffing | The Compliance View Only role has been created to allow Compliance Officers access to the "Personal Travel to a Foreign-Adversary Requests" report | 8/7/2025 |
| Benefits | The report, "Open Enrollment Discrepancy," has been refined to exclude false positives | 8/14/2025 |
| Staffing | A new report, "Personal Information Changes," is available to HR Partner, Payroll Partner, and Tax Compliance Partner to view the most recent change to a worker's legal name, preferred name, social security number, home address, or work address | 8/14/2025 |
| Payroll | Camp Revenue Sharing Payments are now setup with a new earning code and one-time payment plan | 8/21/2025 |
| Payroll | The report, "Compensation Changes," has been updated to display correct base and prorated amounts regardless of annual work period | 9/11/2025 |
| Talent & Performance | Recruiting and Talent Pool Managers can now add or remove Pool Managers and Contacts to existing pools | 9/11/2025 |
| Time Tracking | A new report, "Time Summary Matrix," is available to Absence Partners, HR Contacts, HR Partners, Managers, and Timekeepers. This report provides time summaries per position to identify the position and manager associated with pending approvals | 9/11/2025 |
| Absence Management | The report, "FMLA Eligibility for Hours Worked and Projected," has updated help text, additional fields, and will now capture changes to monthly workers between pay calculation and the end of the month | 9/25/2025 |
| Staffing | The Flexible Work Arrangement business process now displays questionnaire results to HR Partner during the review task | 9/25/2025 |
| Staffing | The Contract Contingent Worker business process has been updated by hiding non-essential fields for a better user experience. The default weekly hours and first day of work fields are no longer editable | 9/25/2025 |
| Benefits | The report, "Employees Becoming Benefits Eligible," now includes employees with multiple jobs if the primary job is not a benefits-eligible position, but the additional job(s) is eligible for benefits | 10/16/2025 |
| Time Tracking | Managers will receive bi-weekly alerts for time entries pending approval | 10/16/2025 |
| Recruiting | External career sites now display a reminder that current employees should apply through the Jobs Hub in Workday The withdraw application confirmation message now warns candidates that they cannot reapply to a position after withdrawing their application | 10/23/2025 |
| Recruiting | Recruiting Partners and HR Partners can now view Offer Letters stored under an Employee’s Documents tab in the Worker Profile for the employees they support | 10/23/2025 |
| Talent & Performance | Talent Partners can now archive goals on behalf of employees they support | 10/23/2025 |
| Benefits | Workday now prohibits the use of the ORP - Already Enrolled benefit event unless the employee has responded "yes" to the Insurance and Retirement Benefits Eligibility question, "Were you enrolled in ORP at your last place of Texas State employment?" | 10/30/2025 |
| Compensation | College and University Professional Association (CUPA) Survey mappings have been updated for FY2026 | 10/30/2025 |
| Staffing | Multiple Performance Review Process reports have been removed. Users can now use the report, “Performance Reviews,” to manage performance review processes | 10/30/2025 |
| Staffing | The Assign Roles step in the Change Job business process now triggers when an Employee moves to a new position within the same supervisory organization | 10/30/2025 |
| Staffing | A new Contingent Worker Type has been added: Non-Affiliated Graduate Student | 10/30/2025 |
| Absence Management | Employees will no longer be notified when Suspension with Pay time off is submitted on their behalf | 11/6/2025 |
| Compensation | The Change Job business process now displays the Actual End Date field | 11/6/2025 |
| Recruiting | External applicants can now create a candidate account using their Google or Apple ID | 11/6/2025 |
| Staffing | In the Personal Information Change business process the Payroll Partner will now receive the To Do: Update Glacier or Foreign National Payroll Tax System, based on member selection | 11/6/2025 |
| Staffing | In the Termination business process a review step will now route to Benefits Partner when Reason is Death | 11/6/2025 |
| Time Tracking | The Time Request business process now has help text to clarify that the process is used to request overtime | 11/6/2025 |
| Payroll | The FLSA Overtime Premium Rate will now map to W-2 Box 14 beginning with the 2025 tax year to comply with the H.R.1 - One Big Beautiful Bill Act | 11/20/2025 |
| Payroll | The report, "Check Register by Supervisory Organization," now includes the field Employee ID | 11/20/2025 |
| Recruiting | The report, "Manager's Job Requisitions," now displays fields for Original Posting Date, Job Closing Date, Most Recent Posting Date, Most Recent Closing Date, Days Posted (as of most recent posting date), and a link to the external job posting | 11/20/2025 |
| Payroll | The IRS Annual Contribution Limit for Medical Spending Accounts has increased to $3,400 for CY2026 | 11/24/2025 |
| Payroll | The IRS Annual Contribution Limit (TDA+ORP) has increased from $70,000 to $72,000 for CY2026 per System Benefits Administration | 11/24/2025 |
| Payroll | The FY2026 wage limit for Optional Retirement Program (ORP) and Teacher Retirement System (TRS) is now $350,000 | 11/24/2025 |
| Benefits | Employees will receive a warning when updating the legal name of a beneficiary. The warning will clarify to create a new record if a new beneficiary is needed | 12/4/2025 |
| Cross-Application Services | "Assigned Security Roles" is a new tab in the Jobs section of the Worker Profile that shows the worker's assigned roles. Results are viewable for self-service, management chain, and Security Partners | 12/4/2025 |
| Staffing | The Export Control Job Duties Questionnaire in Create Position and Edit Position Restrictions now includes an option to route to the Manager for positions with Staff, Faculty, and Temp/Casual worker types only, based on member selection | 12/4/2025 |
| Benefits | A new report, "Grad Student Employee Waiver - Eligibility Research," is available for Benefits Partners to research eligibility for Grad Plan waivers for international students at the beginning of each semester | 12/11/2025 |
| Benefits | Extended plan details for the Medicare Advantage 65+ Plan have been updated to reflect plan changes effective 1/1/2026 | 12/11/2025 |
| Benefits | The Benefits View Only role can now see business process details for the following business processes: - Add Retiree Status - Change Beneficiary - Change Benefits - Change Benefits for Life - Change Benefits for Open Enrollment - Dependent Event - Edit Other Ids - Edit Worker Additional data - Manage Medicare Information - Passive event | 12/11/2025 |
| Cross-Application Services | Employees and supporting I9 Processors/Partners will now receive a notification from Workday and Guardian 180 days prior to their Work Authorization expiring | 12/11/2025 |
| Cross-Application Services | The report, "Worker I9 Details," has been updated to include filter options for missing social security numbers and the 90-day deadline by which they must be received | 12/11/2025 |
| Cross-Application Services | The Guardian H-1B Portability Days setting is now 240 Days, and the Track Visa Type and Work Eligibility functionality are enabled | 12/11/2025 |
| Payroll | Workday is now compliant with SECURE Act 2.0 and automatically switches retirement plan deductions for eligible participants to Roth once the regular limit is reached | 12/11/2025 |
| Benefits | The report, "Late Evidence of Insurability (EOI) Approvals," is now on the Benefits Partner Dashboard under Reports to be Run Monthly | 12/18/2025 |
| Compensation | The merit module has two new warning validations to identify employees who have an in progress Compensation or Job Change | 12/18/2025 |
| Recruiting | All references to Sterling in Recruiting business processes have been updated to First Advantage to reflect the company’s name change | 12/18/2025 |
| Staffing | A new report, "Last Payment Date of Active Workers," is available to HR and Payroll roles to view the last payment details of active workers | 12/18/2025 |
| Staffing | The following Change Job Templates have been made available for use: - Transfer - Transfer - Reorganization (HR Partner only) - Promotion Reclassification - Promotion New Position - Demotion Reclassification - Demotion New Position - Position Reclassification | 12/18/2025 |
| Staffing | An employee's Military Status can now be edited by HR Partners and HR Contacts on behalf of the employee | 12/18/2025 |
| Absence Management | Effective 2/1/2026, Unpaid Time Off must be requested exclusively through the Request Absence business process and can no longer be entered or approved via timesheets | 1/15/2026 |
| Absence Management | The Medical/Mental Health Care for Certain Veterans and Mental Health for Peace Officers Time Off Plans can now carryover up to 120 hours to the next Fiscal Year | 1/15/2026 |
| Benefits | TRS Annuity Letters from retirees can now be tracked using a new custom object, "TRS Annuity Letter Status," by Benefits Partners | 1/15/2026 |
| Payroll | IRS Annual Contribution limits have been updated for 2026 including higher limits for ages 50 plus and 60 to 63 to comply with the Secure Act 2.0 | 1/15/2026 |
| Recruiting | A new Background Check Status, “Missing Information,” has been added to allow First Advantage to indicate when required data or documents are incomplete or missing | 1/15/2026 |
| Recruiting | A new report, "Candidate Dispositions by Job Profile," is available to Recruiting roles and provides counts of candidate disposition reasons by job profile | 1/15/2026 |
| Recruiting | The report, "Time to Fill by Position," now has prompts to filter results within hire date range, exclude evergreen requisitions, and include calculated metrics | 1/15/2026 |
| Staffing | The Annual Financial Disclosure and Financial Interest Disclosure and Certification forms will now be completed in Workday | 1/15/2026 |
| Staffing | The Change Work Space process can now be initiated by Managers for their employees | 1/15/2026 |
| Absence Management | The State Comp Time Off Plan now has the Expiring Accruals feature enabled, allowing earned State Comp Time Off to expire exactly 12 months after accrual | 1/29/2026 |
| Absence Management | The Request Leave of Absence business process now includes a Faculty Partner approval step, based on member selection | 1/29/2026 |
| Staffing | The report, "Business Process Events - Worker Staffing Details," will now run as a background process and be available in My Reports | 1/29/2026 |
| Staffing | Approval steps for Staffing and Compensation business processes will identify the security role receiving the task within the title to improve clarity for the end user | 1/29/2026 |
| Benefits | After submitting Benefit Election events, related Action and To Do steps now become available to the Employee, Retiree or Benefits Partner at the same time | 2/5/2026 |
| Compensation | The report, "My Compensation History," now displays the Job Profile and Business Title associated with a compensation event | 2/5/2026 |
| Staffing | Change Job Templates for Data Change reasons now include clearer help text, updated fields and routing, and more accurate naming conventions | 2/5/2026 |