# 📅 May 21, 2026 Release This release introduces major improvements across onboarding, billing, integrations, endpoint visibility, Trust Center, and overall platform usability. --- # ✨ New Features ## 🚀 14-Day Free Trials ### What’s New / Updated Organizations can now start a **14-day free trial** with **no credit card required**. This is now available for both new WatchDog Security tenants and existing Free Plan tenants looking to evaluate premium functionality. We also improved the overall trial activation and onboarding experience to make getting started significantly easier. --- ## 💳 Billing Management v1.1 ### What’s New / Updated We completely redesigned the WatchDog Security billing experience to support more flexible and scalable licensing models. This update introduces both **daily license usage billing** and **annual commitment billing**, while also improving invoice visibility, subscription management, payment method handling, and MSP billing workflows. ### Includes - Daily license usage billing - Annual commitment billing - Improved MSP billing experiences - Multi-license assignment support ### Documentation https://docs.watchdogsecurity.io/billing-usage-overview-2169859m0 --- ## 🖥️ WatchDog Windows Device Management ### What’s New / Updated We introduced the foundation for WatchDog Security Windows Device Management. The new WatchDog agent allows organizations to begin collecting Windows device inventory data and endpoint visibility information directly within the platform while laying the groundwork for future ESPM capabilities. ### Includes - Device inventory collection - Endpoint visibility - Device posture tracking ### Documentation --- ## 🆓 Free Plan Updates ### What’s New / Updated To better separate Free and Paid platform experiences, several Free Plan limitations have now been introduced across WatchDog Security. These changes are intended to better align premium functionality with paid plans while still allowing Free tenants access to core platform functionality. ### Includes - Premium WD University courses now require paid plans - Automated integrations on Free Plan are limited to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace - Trust Center approval request limits for Free tenants - Vendor and policy template limits on Free Plan --- ## 🔌 Confluence Cloud SSPM Integration ### What’s New / Updated WatchDog Security now supports Confluence Cloud SSPM monitoring. This integration improves visibility into Confluence environments by ingesting inventory and permission-related data to help organizations better monitor administrative and collaboration risks. ### Includes - Authentication & authorization visibility - Inventory ingestion - User and permission monitoring ### Documentation https://docs.watchdogsecurity.io/confluence-cloud-2153076m0 --- ## ☁️ AWS EKS Integration ### What’s New / Updated We added support for AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), expanding our AWS posture management and inventory visibility capabilities for containerized environments. Organizations can now ingest EKS cluster information directly into WatchDog Security for improved visibility and monitoring. ### Documentation https://docs.watchdogsecurity.io/amazon-web-services-aws-2028407m0 --- # ⚡ Platform Improvements ## 🎨 Trust Center Improvements ### What’s New / Updated The Trust Center received a major UI/UX refresh focused on improving readability, responsiveness, accessibility, and overall presentation quality. We also improved public Trust Center stability and made several enhancements to dark/light mode consistency across public-facing pages. ### Documentation https://docs.watchdogsecurity.io/trust-center-7260730f0 --- ## 🔔 Notification Center Improvements ### What’s New / Updated We redesigned portions of the Slack and Teams configuration experience to make user mapping and notification management easier to understand. The updated experience improves visibility into mapped users while simplifying the overall configuration workflow. ### Documentation https://docs.watchdogsecurity.io/notification-center-7386519f0 --- ## 📝 Policy Management Improvements ### What’s New / Updated The Policy Management editor received several usability and formatting improvements focused on making policy editing smoother and more consistent. This includes improvements to text formatting behavior, table editing, toolbar usability, and publishing workflows. ### Includes - Improved table editing behavior - Better formatting consistency - Improved toolbar usability - Better publishing refresh behavior ### Documentation https://docs.watchdogsecurity.io/policy-management-7260724f0 --- ## 👥 User Management Improvements ### What’s New / Updated We improved the user onboarding experience to make adding users to the platform significantly easier. Administrators can now assign licenses while creating users, helping streamline onboarding and reduce manual follow-up actions. ### Documentation https://docs.watchdogsecurity.io/user-management-7260735f0 --- ## 📋 Compliance Center Improvements ### What’s New / Updated We improved the experience for managing integration scope within Compliance Center by simplifying assignment workflows and improving overall visibility into configured scopes and integrations. ### Documentation https://docs.watchdogsecurity.io/compliance-center-7260728f0 --- # 🐞 General Improvements & Bug Fixes ### What’s New / Updated This release also includes a large number of frontend stability, accessibility, and usability improvements across Trust Center, Compliance Center, Vendor Management, Inventory, Vulnerabilities, Secure File Exchange, Policy Management, and Notification Center. ### Includes - Improved dark mode consistency - Better accessibility and text contrast - Improved table sorting and pagination - Better modal and loading state behavior