In some aspects, whereas the techniques described above relate to techniques that the UE employs to acknowledge a single DCI message activating or releasing one or more SPS configurations, the UE may use different techniques to transmit the acknowledgement through a MAC-CE when the single DCI message is used to activate or release one or more CG configurations. For example, in some aspects, the UE may transmit one or more MAC-CEs to acknowledge the one or more CG configurations that were activated or released, and each MAC-CE may indicate the index corresponding to the CG configuration being acknowledged. Furthermore, each MAC-CE may also indicate whether the acknowledgement is to confirm that the CG configuration was activated or released. Additionally, or alternatively, a bitmap may be used in the confirmation MAC-CE to jointly acknowledge multiple CG configurations that were activated or released, which reduces overhead of the MAC-CE because fewer (e.g., only one) MAC-CEs can be transmitted to acknowledge all of the CG configurations that were activated or released in the single DCI. For example, in some aspects, a size of the bitmap may correspond to a maximum quantity of uplink CG configurations that are supported per bandwidth part of a serving cell (e.g., if the UE can have up to 12 uplink CG configurations, the confirmation MAC-CE may have up to 12 bits, which may be arranged as two octets with 4 reserved bits). Additionally, or alternatively, a bit length of the MAC-CE can be reduced based on a technique used to jointly activate or release multiple CG configurations. For example, if a single DCI includes a codepoint or a bitmap to release multiple CG configurations grouped together in a configuration set, the confirmation MAC-CE can be sent with an indicator that identifies only a single index among the indices associated with the multiple CG configurations.