Tanium Cloud Release Notes Automate

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: June 22, 2026

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where playbooks could not be saved or scheduled.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: June 19, 2026

Improvements

Added enhanced API support for Atlas.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: June 16, 2026

Features

Introduced playbook triggers, allowing playbook runs to be automatically launched on a time-based schedule without manual intervention.
Introduced an enabled/disabled toggle on the trigger edit form, giving users direct control over activating or deactivating a playbook trigger without deleting it.
Introduced a warning banner on the Playbook Detail page when a step's source package has drifted from the current version.
Introduced a "View Package Details" option on the Edit Preview panel for both derived and source packages, making it easier to inspect package configuration before saving changes.

Improvements

Added an Automate playbook display component to Atlas, enabling AI-assisted agents to view playbooks through the Atlas interface.

Resolved Issues

Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: June 1, 2026

Resolved Issues

Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: May 26, 2026

Features

Introduced additional common platform actions including start/stop/restart service, service - set start mode, and remove custom tag, for easier accessibility when creating playbooks.

Improvements

Added Computer Group visibility filtering to step targeting, so users only see groups they're entitled to.
Added a Last 7 Days default filter on the Playbook Runs page, in replacement of the Last 30 days filter.
Added clearer step completion status displays, making completion state easier to undestand.

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where cron shortcut expressions were not being properly recognized.
Resolved an issue where adding or editing a schedule on a non-parameterized playbook incorrectly took the user to the Steps tab.
Resolved an issue where users without Patch permissions could attempt to start playbooks that used Patch steps with Patch Lists.
Resolved an issue where Patch User Notification settings could not be edited without modifying other settings.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: May 12, 2026

Improvements

Added the playbook list to default to sort by Last Modified.
Added the ability to fuzzy search by playbook ID or name for playbook runs and ring deployments.

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where playbooks could not be exported.
Resolved an issue where the entire playbooks connection was nulled out when an export failed.
Resolved an issue where the playbook and overview pages would crash when navigating to a page and then clicking the menu item for that same page.
Resolved an issue where the View in Patch link was missing from runs with Install Patch steps.
Resolved an issue where playbooks containing steps with deleted computer groups could still be run.
Resolved an issue where "Apply for" was misleadingly disabled when targeting had a missing sensor.
Resolved an issue where the playbook details schedules list did not show more than 20 items.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: May 5, 2026

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where a playbook with a multi-column sensor-sourced package cannot be saved.
Resolved an issue where a playbook with Deploy Action steps and sensor sourced names fail to run.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: April 21, 2026

Improvements

Added improved messaging for playbook steps that do not meet the step's completion criteria with a new failed completion criteria icon
Added a warning when trying to add a value over 30 days to a deploy action step
Updated behavior to pivot to the playbook run status page when initiating a playbook from a dashboard

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where the time remaining value does not update on wait steps
Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: April 6, 2026

Resolved Issues

Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: March 19, 2026

Resolved Issues

Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: March 18, 2026

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where a playbook scheduled could not be re-enabled after parameterized fields are added to a playbook step
Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: March 12, 2026

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where the time remaining value does not update for Wait steps
Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: February 25, 2026

Features

Introduced a remaining time value for each step when a playbook is running to easily understand when a playbook run can expect to complete
Introduced the ability to use sensor sourced packages in the Deploy Action step, adding a wider selection of available actions

Improvements

Added improved error messaging when there are missing dependencies when importing playbooks
Added improved refresh rates on playbook run statuses on the playbook detail page
Added improved messaging to provide actionable guidance when errors occur

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where using certain cron expressions may appear in the Schedules tab incorrectly
Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: February 6, 2026

Features

Introduced the ability to retry an action on failed endpoints in a ring as part of a ring-based deployment, improving the resiliency and efficiency of ring-based deployments

Resolved Issues

Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: February 4, 2026

Resolved Issues

Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: February 2, 2026

Improvements

Added a new column to the Notification Failures section including details on the reason for a notification failure

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where the status of a Ring Deployment Status page did not synchronize in a timely manner with the status of the ring deployment in the Deploy page
Resolved an issue where scheduled playbooks were not being disabled after 3 consecutive failures
Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: January 15, 2026

Resolved Issues

Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: January 5, 2026

Improvements

Added local time conversion from UTC in the scheduling form
Updated the label of the playbook status for waiting for user confirmation from "Waiting" to "Waiting for User Confirmation"
Separated the Playbook Run Status and Step Progress labels in the Playbook Run History to improve clarity

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue that incorrectly allows for issuing an an end request through the API even though the playbook run has already ended
Resolved an issue where the override maintenance windows settings was not listed in the deployment settings for the Patch deployment step

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: December 3, 2025

Features

Introduced the ability to set relative schedules and preview the next 5 instances of the scheduled playbook
Introduced the ability to select from a dropdown of available email server profiles for playbook email notifications

Improvements

Adjusted the placement of the toggle switch for parameters
Added tooltip with UTC time when hovering over the time values in the playbook schedule table
Added a new ring status to indicate when a platform action deployment is awaiting action approval

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where users without permissions to run a playbook could still see an active Start a Playbook option in the Actions menu in Reporting
Resolved an issue where single run schedules can get stuck in an Applying Changes state if scheduled beyond a supported future start date

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: November 20, 2025

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where the Override Maintenance Window option no longer appeared on the Patch Deployment step

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: November 3, 2025

Features

Introduced the ability to schedule one-time playbook runs at a future time

Improvements

Renamed the final ring in the Deployment Plan from All Computer to All Targeted Computers to improve clarity on the scope of affected endpoints
Updated the parameterized field UI from a checkbox to a switch to better differentiate parameters from form fields
Added the ability to view approval states for Deploy Action playbook steps

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where ring deployments did not account for enabled ECF approvals
Resolved an issue where viewing older ring deployments could result in error messages
Resolved an issue where an incorrect endpoint count in the target summary could appear if a parameterized sensor is used for targeting on a Patch step
Resolved an issue where attempting to import a playbook could result in an error
Resolved an issue where scheduled playbook runs may not appear in the Playbook Run history
Resolved an issue where pausing a playbook before a Require User Confirmation step results in the playbook remaining in an In Progress state
Resolved an issue where parameterized playbook schedules do not reflect correct start and end times on the edit page
Resolved an issue where editing a parameterized playbook schedule allows for selecting an invalid end date

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: September 18, 2025

Features

Introduced the ability to preview all steps in a playbook when reviewing parameters during a playbook run

Improvements

Updated the retention period of ring-based deployment history to be 30 days after the ring deployment has ended

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where the parameterized Step Completion field does not display in the Playbook Details page
Resolved an issue where entering an invalid time for the playbook schedule would not result in an error message
Resolved an issue where the default Step Duration displayed seconds as the time unit rather than minutes

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: September 17, 2025

Resolved Issues

Resolved issue where scheduled playbook runs could fail to appear in the Run History or Playbook Runs tab despite running successfully.
Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: September 3, 2025

Resolved Issues

Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: August 28, 2025

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where the Online Endpoint count in the Target Summary of the Patch step is incorrectly displayed when using parameterized sensors

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: August 21, 2025

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where ring-based deployments of platform actions unintentionally executes the action on eligible endpoints once per ring, instead of only once per ring deployment

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: August 19, 2025

Features

Introduced the ability to view details about a Patch deployment linked from the Automate playbook run history
Introduced parameterized fields to the Install Patch step

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where patch deployment status values were not consistent between the Automate playbook and deployment run in Patch
Resolved an issue where the ring details status does not update after the ring deployment is stopped
Resolved an issue where playbooks would not progress to the next step if action approval is enabled
Resolved an issue where ring deployments would not properly target the endpoints in the first ring and the ring status and completion states were not updated if action approval is enabled
Resolved an issue where ring deployment progress status may not update
Resolved an issue where a playbook import would fail if a step's targeting uses question-based targeting
Resolved on issue where edits to parameterized fields were not being properly reflected
Resolved an issue that allowed the creation and run of a playbook with an invalid computer group name or ID
Resolved an issue where multiple clicks of the Schedule button in rapid succession would create multiple playbook schedules

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: July 28, 2025

Features

Introduced the ability to create playbooks with parameterized fields, providing a flexible framework to apply multiple variations for the same automation, improving reusability and reducing errors

Improvements

Introduced a new Not Applicable status bucket to reflect endpoints that were targeted in a playbook action but Action Lock enabled
Removed the Automatic label on step summaries to better differentiate against Manual steps in a playbook

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where the run step status is incorrectly displayed if the playbook steps are not saved in the same order they are ran, which can occur if the playbook is created via the API or manually updating an exported playbook file
Resolved an issue where the Deploy Action step progress result does not match the status for the same action in Action History
Resolved an issue where the Missing Email Server Profile message is missing

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: July 10, 2025

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where a previously scheduled playbook continues to run even if a sensor used in targeting is deleted

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: June 12, 2025

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where the completion criteria could potentially not reflect the latest endpoint statuses due to shorter step duration windows that impact the timing of status reporting from endpoints.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: June 10, 2025

Improvements

Introduced the ability to create a playbook run from a report in Tanium Reporting using an existing playbook. The playbook run will constrain all the playbook step targeting to only those endpoints selected from the report.

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where targeting on steps that use “targets from previous step” targeting might be incorrect due to using contains instead of matches on the action ID of the targeting question.
Resolved an issue where a Patch deployment created by an Install Patch step might not stop when a sensor used for targeted is deleted.
Resolved an issue where some strings in the Automate workbench were not correctly translated into Japanese when Japanese was selected from a user’s preferences.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: May 21, 2025

Improvements

Introduced a new hidden sensor, Automate - Ring Deployment Progression Data Batched, that is used in progression criteria calculation of ring deployments.
Introduced a new hidden sensor, Automate - Ring Deployment Progression Data All, that is used in progression criteria calculation of ring deployments.
Updated the Automate - Ring Deployment Progression Data sensor to remove the hidden flag.

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where, in certain cases, playbooks did not properly save parameter values in the intended order if a playbook step used a parameterized package with multiple parameters. Review playbooks that use any parameterized package with multiple parameters, to validate that the parameter values are correct.
Resolved an issue where a playbook schedule might incorrectly display as a “Basic” schedule when defining a Cron expression using a forward slash (/).
Resolved an issue where a Patch Install step that targets endpoints that completed the previous step, might not display an online preview count when creating a playbook.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: May 19, 2025

Resolved Issues

Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: May 5, 2025

Resolved Issues

Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: April 24, 2025

Improvements

Improved the display of step targeting to clarify the relationship between computer groups and targeting criteria selection.
Updated the Playbook Details > Run History Tab to include all playbook runs, removing the limit of the most recent 500 playbook runs.
Updated the stability index of some Automate APIs to 1.1 - Experimental Active Development.
Updated the stability index of some Automate APIs to 1.2 - Experimental (Release Candidate).
Updated the stability index of some Automate APIs to 3 - Stable.

Resolved Issues

Updated the Deployment Plan Software Deployment progression criteria calculation to evaluate degradation against successful endpoints.
Resolved an issue where a user might encounter an unexpected error when selecting patches manually in an Install Patch step.
Resolved an issue where playbooks might not load when a playbook contains a package with double pipes (||) in the command line.
Resolved an issue where a Patch deployment created by a playbook Install Patch step might not stop when a playbook run is stopped manually.
Resolved an issue where a user with the Computer Group read permission is unable to see a computer group used in a playbook if the computer group is not explicitly assigned to their active persona.
Resolved an issue where the count of endpoints displayed in an Install Patch step, when the step ended, would only display currently online endpoints; this now includes all endpoints affected by the deployment, regardless of current online status.
Resolved an issue where a Deploy Action step using the Reboot Non-Windows Machine package incorrectly displayed an error when the default value of 30 seconds was entered.
Updated error messaging when attempting to save a playbook with missing or invalid input to provide additional details about the required change
Upgraded various third-party libraries to newer versions.
Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: March 6, 2025

Features

Added the ability to link from a Deploy Action step in the playbook run history to the corresponding action in Action History for easier troubleshooting and auditing.

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where the deployment plan preview could not be viewed due to missing read ring set permissions on the Default content set.
Resolved an issue where the Verify Condition step produced inconsistent results when using the same question conditions in Interact.
Resolved an issue where using the Step Completion criteria of All on a Verify Condition step could lead to instances where the playbook would preemptively end without having fully completed the question evaluation.
Resolved an issue where the Package field on a Deploy Action step obscures the full package name.
Resolved an issue where the Succeeded and Not Succeeded statuses from a package action with a verification query, were not being accounted for.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: Feburary 27, 2025

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where the Endpoint Details section of the Ring Deployment Status page was displaying an incorrect value for the All Computers Ring value.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: Feburary 6, 2025

Improvements

Updated the Deployment Plan Software Deployment progression criteria calculation from a minimum threshold to a maximum threshold.

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where stopping a ring deployment that has ended for more than two weeks via the Gateway results in an error.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: Feburary 3, 2025

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where a playbook schedule deletion will be unsuccessful while a scheduled run is still active; the schedule will appear to be deleted but the playbook will continue to execute on the previous schedule.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: January 16, 2025

Features

Added an info icon to indicate the reason and user, if applicable, that disabled a playbook schedule.
Added a banner to inform that editing a playbook with schedules will disable other users' existing schedules associated with the playbook.
Added note in the Schedule Playbook Run modal that the time selection is using the UTC time standard.
Added support for filtering and sorting Deployment Plans.

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where the package timeout for a Deploy Action step was not automatically used as the default step duration when the field was left blank.
Resolved an issue where upon first login to an environment and opening a playbook, an "invalid computer group" or "invalid sensor" error was briefly displayed.
Resolved an issue there the playbook scheduling modal did not display the full text for the Frequency options and could display a misconfigured calendar view.
Resolved an issue where the endpoint completion status is not shown for playbook runs when "None" is used for the step condition.
Resolved an issue where the playbook filter values did not include all available Authors and Content Sets.
Removed the playbook hyperlink from email notifications, which was not linking back to the Tanium console.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: December 2, 2024

Features

Added support for orchestrating progressive ring-based actions using Tanium Platform packages.
Added support for creating deployment plans, that allow users to select endpoints to target in each phase of a ring-based action, and the criteria that needs to be met to progress forward to the next ring.
Added support for displaying the historical and current status of ring-based actions, providing real-time updates through each phase of the ring progression.
For more information on Deployment Plans and the Ring Deployment Status page see Console Release Notes

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: November 26, 2024

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where the Patch deployment modal incorrectly exposed patch readiness and confidence score features despite not being enabled.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: November 19, 2024

Improvements

Added an additional option for step completion that allows starting the next step in a playbook even if no endpoints completed the step successfully

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: October 28, 2024

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where playbook runs failed due to one or more endpoints that remained in a Pending state, despite the step completion criteria allowing for progression to the next step even if not all endpoints were successful

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: October 22, 2024

The following new features are currently only available to Private Preview customers:

Features

Added support for orchestrating progressive ring-based actions using Tanium Platform packages.
Added support for creating deployment plans, that allow users to select endpoints to target in each phase of a ring-based action, and the criteria that needs to be met to progress forward to the next ring.
Added support for displaying the historical and current status of ring-based actions, providing real-time updates through each phase of the ring progression.

Improvements

Updated the API Token note that is created when Automate playbooks or ring-based actions are run to "System Use Only for Automate", reflecting a system-generated API token that is created to evaluate and verify proper user privileges are adhered to during action deployments, ensuring no escalation of privilege.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: October 14, 2024

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where scheduled and long-running playbooks failed after 7 days.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: October 3, 2024

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue where Deploy Action steps using parameterized sensors were causing run failures due to the parameters not saving and being applied correctly.
Resolved an issue with the Verify Condition step that stopped the playbook progression due to question results not reaching at least 95% completion within 10 minutes.
Resolved an issue that prevented changing the sequence of playbook steps and from being able to delete the steps.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: August 29, 2024

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue that caused playbooks with active action steps to immediately end if the Automate service experiences an intermittent disruption.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: August 20, 2024

Resolved Issues

Fixed playbook run statuses to accurately reflect successful states that were previously incorrectly marked as failed runs.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: August 16, 2024

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue that incorrectly marked successfully completed playbooks as failed when visiting the playbook run details page more than 2 days after the playbook run has completed.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: August 13, 2024

Resolved Issues

Resolved an issue with templated Deploy Action steps not properly enforcing required parameters.

Tanium Cloud Release Date Starting On: July 29, 2024

Features

Automate provides an intuitive, no-code workflow builder in the Tanium platform to help automate and orchestrate logical, repeatable sequences for solving key IT operations and security use cases.
- Automate repetitive and complex action sequences to drive efficiency and reduce manual processes.
- Combine powerful platform action steps to solve the most common and challenging workflows.
- Schedule playbook runs for consistent and reliable execution.
- Ensure full control over your automations with user approval steps.
- Capture a complete history of playbook runs for review and audit.
- Receive real-time email notifications on playbook run status.

Additional Information

This solution does not distribute tooling to endpoints.