To help meet the ever-evolving needs of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) or sustainability reporting, Workiva's Sustainability Reporting solution updates frequently, including these new features and enhancements introduced August 2026.
Tip: These release notes are specific to Workiva's Sustainability Reporting features. For updates to other Workiva features or solutions, view Release Notes in Support Center.
Create metric tasks for multiple collection periods at once
To help ease data collection in Sustainability Program, you can now create tasks for multiple metric values and collection periods within the same reporting year at once. From the metric, either:
- From Values, choose the values to create tasks for — regardless of their period — then select Create task from Edit values.
- From Tasks, select All periods in Collection period, then click Create task.
Depending on the values selected, this may create multiple tasks with the same assignment details:
- A separate task for each value with a connected source file
- A separate task for each collection period, which includes the period's values not collected through source files
Tip: After you create the tasks, you can edit their assignment details as necessary, such as to adjust due dates based on the respective collection period.
To learn more, view Manage metric tasks in Sustainability Program.
Explore revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards
If your Sustainability Explorer includes the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), you can now explore the revised Standards as formally adopted by the European Commission (EC) in July 2026.
In the Frameworks panel:
- The revised ESRS appear as a Pending version.
- The ESRS Delegated Act from 2023 remains the Current version.
- The simplified ESRS — formerly a Draft version — now appear as Archived.
The revised ESRS officially apply for financial years that start on or after January 1, 2027. For 2026, you can:
- Fully adopt the revised Standards early.
- Continue to apply the current ESRS — either as amended by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1416, or with targeted reliefs defined in Annex 1 of the revised ESRS.
To learn more, view Adopt versions of European Sustainability Reporting Standards.