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HelloID

COLLAB
Velocity5.0

Identity governance shipping on a monthly train, mostly rollback correctness and rule tuning.

identity-governanceprovisioningservice-automationaudit-loggingrule-mining
◆Current state
HelloID publishes in release-numbered bundles — a preview of what is coming in 2026.08, then fixed lists per module. The substantive items this cycle are a configurable exception threshold for rule mining (now settable anywhere from 20% down to 0%), request-GUID stamping in the Elastic audit log, cached target-snapshot permissions in preview, and PowerShell 7 support for the local Service Automation agent. Everything else is defect work in provisioning rollback, delegated forms, and automation variables.
◆Where it's heading
The work is concentrated on making automated provisioning trustworthy enough to run unattended: rollback that cleans up a half-created Active Directory account when Exchange fails, variables that reflect their current values at execution time, and audit records that tie a message back to the request that produced it. Rule mining is the one place where the product is getting easier to adopt rather than merely more correct — dropping the exception threshold to zero is aimed squarely at the first-time setup problem of deriving rules from a messy directory. The release cadence is predictable and module-partitioned, with previews telegraphing the next train.
◆Prediction
Expect the 2026.08 train to land the PowerShell 7 agent alongside more rule-mining configurability, since both are the only threads in this window being extended rather than repaired.

◆Recent moves

  1. 15d ago

    Rollback now removes the AD account when Exchange mailbox creation fails

    Fixes for the 2026.08 provisioning train, the notable one being rollback deleting the Active Directory account when Exchange mailbox creation fails instead of leaving an unmanaged account behind. Defect work, but on exactly the failure mode that erodes trust in unattended provisioning.

  2. 15d ago

    PowerShell 7 support coming to the local Service Automation agent

    The 2026.08 preview lists PowerShell 7 support for the local Service Automation agent. A runtime modernization for the layer customers write their own automation scripts against, and the one forward-looking item in this batch.

  3. 18d ago

    Fixed Service Automation 2026.08

    Service Automation fixes for 2026.08: agent pool selection falling back to a random pool, delegated form tasks stuck in running state, and dropdown ordering. Routine correctness work on the delegated-forms surface.

  4. 18d ago

    Hotfix (14-07-2026): Image upload in company settings page does not work

    A hotfix for image uploads on the Company Settings page returning a 400 error. Isolated defect, no bearing on the provisioning or automation arc.

  5. 18d ago

    Hotfix (13-07-2026): Variables return old values after updating through variable library

    A hotfix for automation variables that kept serving stale values to product actions, PowerShell data sources, and delegated form tasks, while scheduled tasks were unaffected. Another execution-correctness fix in the same reliability push as the provisioning rollback work.

  6. 29d ago

    Rule mining: Configure threshold for percentage of exceptions

    The rule mining exception threshold, previously fixed at 20%, is now configurable down to 0%, so small groups inside large scopes surface as report entries and a first-time setup can demand exact matches. It makes derived entitlement rules usable on lopsided org structures rather than only tidy ones.