What's new and changed in Watson OpenScale

Watson OpenScale updates can include new features and fixes. Releases are listed in reverse chronological order so that the latest release is at the beginning of the topic.

You can see a list of the new features for the platform and all of the services at What's new in IBM Software Hub.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 5.2.2

A new version of Watson OpenScale was released in October 2025.

This release includes the following changes:

Customer-reported issues fixed in this release

For a list of customer-reported issues that were fixed in this release, see the Fix List for IBM Cloud Pak® for Data on the IBM Support website.

Deprecated features

The following features were deprecated in this release:

Drift (Classic) evaluations removed in Cloud Pak for Data 5.3: The Drift (Classic) evaluations will be removed from the UI and API from 5.3 CPD release. After this, switch to the Drift_v2 evaluations, which evaluate more metrics and support both predictive ML models and LLM prompt templates.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 5.2.1

A new version of Watson OpenScale was released in August 2025.

This release includes the following changes:

Customer-reported issues fixed in this release: For a list of customer-reported issues that were fixed in this release, see the Fix List for IBM Cloud Pak for Data on the IBM Support website.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 5.2.0

A new version of Watson OpenScale was released in June 2025.

This release includes the following changes:

Customer-reported issues fixed in this release: For a list of customer-reported issues that were fixed in this release, see the Fix List for IBM Cloud Pak for Data on the IBM Support website.