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    What’s New in this Release?

    Insider Release Date: January 23, 2026

    General Availability Date for the Commercial Environment: February 8, 2026

    General Availability Date for the U.S. Government Environment: March 1, 2026

    The following features are in preview in the AvePoint Policies for Microsoft 365 insider environment, and they will be available in the commercial and U.S. Government environments on the general availability dates.

    Enhancements have been made to the Content Creation and Upload Restriction rule to improve governance:

    • Re-edited files are now scanned and reported accordingly;

    • The files that are restored from the recycle bin and moved or copied from one place to another will be scanned and reported accordingly.

    • Three distinct policy statuses Draft, Published, and Running are now displayed on the policy pages, providing clear visibility into the status of each policy and enabling you to prioritize your attention accordingly.

    • The dashboard has been optimized with the following changes:

      • The compliance overview section has been moved to the top of the page;

      • The original scope coverage section has been combined with the compliance overview section, and the Create policy button is displayed on each object card;

      • The policy templates section has been relocated to the left navigation pane;

      • A visual for violation tracking has been added;

      • A new card to list the top 5 policies with the most violations has been provided.

    • You now have the option to select the action to automatically fix the violations when using the Private Channel Owner Number Restriction rule.

    • You now have the option to send email notifications to newly assigned owners when using the following rules:

      • Site Owner Number Restriction

      • Owner Number Restriction

      • Site Collection Administrator Number Restriction

      • Private Channel Owner Number Restriction

    • You can now add up to 10 conditions when configuring the Control documents by the priority of sensitivity label setting of the Content Creation and Upload Restriction rule.

    • Enhancements have been made to the rule settings of the Content Sensitivity Label Enforcement rule to improve efficiency:

    • A new condition, Sensitivity label, has been introduced;

    • The conditions for Risk level, Exposure level, and Sensitivity level, are now optional.

    The following updates have been made to this user guide for this release:

    For additional technical information on the new functionality and known issues in this release, see the Release Notes.