Release notes for the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on

Version 4.10.0 of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on was released on February 13, 2018.

New features

Version 4.10.x of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on includes the following new features.

• In the Certificates data model, if values for the common_name field are not defined or extracted, the values are filled with the string unknown. Because of this change, update any searches that include common_name!=* to common_name="unknown".
• In the Splunk Audit Logs data model, a new search_alias field exists to record a description of the search being run, such as the name of the search.

Upgrade requirements

Splunk platform version	Upgrade activity
6.6.X or later	If you apply custom tags to data mapped to CIM data models and you use these tags in searches and search filters, add these tags to the whitelists for those models. See Set up the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on for details about the tags whitelist field.
6.5.X or earlier	No upgrade activity required.

Compatibility

Version 4.10.x of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on requires Splunk platform version 6.5.x or later. Some functions on the CIM setup page, such as the accelerate until max time setting, are only available in version 6.6.x and later.

Fixed issues

This version of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on fixes the following issues.

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2017-11-03	CIM-583	Network Resolution data model has multiple references to reply_code_id field
2017-09-18	CIM-571, CIM-577	Python logging is not user-timezone agnostic.

Known issues

This version of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on has the following reported known issues.

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2018-12-19	CIM-785	index=_internal was not properly removed from tag=modaction
2018-12-05	CIM-784	Common Action Model calculates info_file incorrectly when using per-result alerting
2018-03-29	CIM-645	CIM doesn't support multi-value tcp flags in the network traffic data model
2018-01-10	CIM-616	CIM 4.8+ causes "guided search" build_id errors in Enterprise Security. Workaround: Upgrade to Enterprise Security 4.7.x or higher
2016-09-16	CIM-428, SPL-128919	sendalert reflects owner="system" for adhoc action invocations
2014-07-07	CIM-169	Remote search log warning messages from acceleration due to long search strings Workaround: Turn off truncation on indexers in etc/system/local/props.conf as shown: [splunkd_remote_searches] TRUNCATE = 0

Deprecated features

• As of version 4.5.0, the index definition cim_summary is deprecated and is only used to support backward compatibility with upgraded versions of Enterprise Security. The index definition will be removed in a future release.
• Several configurations are deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
  • `search_activity` macro
  • `search_typer` macro
  • datamodel_for_audittrail transform
  • savedsearch_name_for_audittrail transform
  • user_for_audittrail transform

Third-party software attributions

The Splunk Common Information Model Add-on does not incorporate any third-party software or libraries.