What's new in Cloud Platform for Palisades

Here are the Palisades release highlights for Guidewire Cloud Platform.

Access Management for role-based access control

With the Access Management app, you can precisely control authorization to the supported Guidewire Cloud applications. You can define which users can access your services, star systems, and planets. You can also check whether the Access Management service is operational on the Guidewire Cloud Status page.

Access Management eliminates the need to create and register access groups in your IdP. You can use the app to:

  • Check user access permissions.
  • Grant user access to services, star systems, and planets.
  • Revoke user access from services, star systems, and planets.
  • Create, assign, and delete roles.

For more information, see Access Management.

Advanced Product Designer App

Product Settings

The new Settings tab in Advanced Product Designer provides a new centralized configuration interface to manage the following product settings:
  • Currencies - View the default currency or add additional currencies for multicurrency policies.
  • Languages - Add languages and create localized versions of the product.
  • Rate Factor Types - Sync rate factor types supported in PolicyCenter and add new rate factor types to use with scheduled rate modifiers.

For a short demonstration, watch this video:

New required availability rule

Advanced Product Designer now supports the availability rule for marking attribute fields, coverage terms, exposures, and blanket fields as Required. This allows validation to execute immediately when advancing through the New Submission workflow. Previously, if one of these product elements needed to be marked as required (at workflow stages other than Bind, Issue, or Quote), users needed to configure the availability rule in Guidewire Studio or Product Designer instead of in Advanced Product Designer. Required product elements will display an asterisk in the user interface for a visual indicator that they are required.

Reference Date Type for Product Editions

In Advanced Product Designer, you can now configure the Reference Date Type per edition to route all edition lookups through PolicyCenter’s existing ReferenceDatePlugin. This configuration option means that you no longer have to hard-code the policy term start. It enables mid-term policy changes to pick up newer editions. Advanced Product Designer patterns (coverages, conditions, exclusions, modifiers) gain a Reference Date By selector (Policy Term, Parent Coverable, This Coverage / Defined Object) for a more granular edition selection, while the plugin still computes the actual dates. Each edition stores its Reference Date Type (for example Period Start, Written Date, or plugin-defined) as metadata, and a new line-level flag controls whether a product uses these granular lookups, allowing you to preserve this behavior when desired.

For more information about the new features in Advanced Product Designer, see Advanced Product Designer Release Notes.

App Events Reconciliation Service (Early Access)

App Events Reconciliation Service is a cloud-based microservice that provides an authoritative record of all events published by Guidewire InsuranceSuite applications. It enables downstream integrations to verify they have received every event they expect, identify gaps, and maintain data consistency across distributed systems.

The service works through a subscription model: integrations register for the event types they need to monitor, receive hourly reports of all events published for those types, and compare those reports against their own records to identify and investigate gaps.

Bring-your-own Build Management tool for CI/CD operations

You can use the Build Management API to integrate your third-party CI/CD tools with Guidewire Cloud Platform applications and manage all the Cloud Platform tools from one place, reducing context switching. Use these new, robust APIs and CI/CD events from your preferred third-party build management tools to achieve a consistent developer experience.

You can now use Build Management API to:
  • Get build information, including build definitions, filtered build lists, and details of specific builds.
  • Check available branches and parameters for build types.
  • Run a build.
  • Cancel a build.
  • Access a list of artifacts by a given build and download individual artifacts.

For more information, see Build Management API.

Check reasons for a blocked build

In the Planets app, when selecting builds for deployment, you can check the reason why an InsuranceSuite build is blocked for deployment. For more information, see Builds availability.

Configure Storage access with PrivateLink

When creating an access point in the Storage Access application, you can allow users to connect in one of the following ways:
  • Specific range of public IPs
  • Private VPC endpoints
Now, the private VPC endpoints can be directed through a PrivateLink connection. For details, see Configure PrivateLink for VPC endpoints in Storage Access.

Guidewire Home personalized launch page

You can now customize the layout of your Guidewire Home launch page to rearrange and hide widgets. This allows you to create a personalized Guidewire Home dashboard that works best for you. In Customize layout mode (accessed from a Customize layout link on the top right of the launch page), you can hide widgets, review hidden widgets and make them visible on the launch page again, and move visible widgets to different locations on the launch page. For more information, see the "Customize your launch page" section in the Guidewire Home documentation.

Manual sign-offs for build promotion

You can set a new type of default quality gates to ensure that InsuranceSuite builds are checked before promotion to higher star systems. In the Quality Gates app, you can create manual sign-offs which will block build promotion. To enable promotion, a build needs to be manually checked and signed off by a designated approver in the Build Promotion app.

To access Sign off builds in the Build Promotion app, you need be in the right access group in Guidewire Hub or have the right role and permissions in Access Management.

For details, see:

For a short demonstration, watch this video:

Settings Vault disaster recovery migration

To better support disaster recovery, several changes have been made to the Settings Vault (Helios) API. To confirm when your tenants will be updated with these changes, contact Guidewire Support.

  • The /setting-values/v2 API is now available, but you aren’t required to transition to the v2 API at this time. You can continue using the existing v1 API.
  • The v2 API adds a new “planet” layer, and also renames other layers according to current Guidewire naming conventions. In most cases, the planet layer configuration replaces the deployment layer configuration. This allows a particular planet to have two deployments that both use the same planet configuration. The deployment layer can then be configured for a particular deployment or galaxy.
  • For all of your InsuranceSuite and Integration Gateway applications, deployment configurations have been migrated to planet configurations. This migration doesn’t affect the behavior of any of your running applications. This change impacts only the display and history of certain setting-values in the Settings Vault API. The setting-value data and the Setting ID don’t change.

    These changes have the following effects:

  • Queries using the v1 API show planet or deployment settings as deployment settings. This includes any setting-value data created using the v2 API.
  • Any deployment layer settings created using the v1 API are automatically saved as planet layer settings.
  • The settings history shows the migrated settings as having been updated, with the following field changes:
    • modifiedBy: system
    • modifiedOn : date-of-migration
    • comment: cloned from settingId n with deployment id n

The history record sequence might appear out of order because the migration deletes and recreates the record.

For more information, see Settings Vault.