Release notes for the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on

Version 4.16.0 of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on was released on June 23, 2020.

New features

Version 4.16.x of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on includes the following new features.

Enhancement	Description
Updates to the Authentication data model to accommodate major cloud providers.	New fields: authentication_method authentication_service reason src_user_id src_user_role src_user_type user_agent user_id user_role user_type vendor_account See Authentication.
Documentation update for authentication field mapping.	Example of how authentication events map differently from various cloud providers to CIM data model field names. See Authentication Field Mapping.

Upgrade requirements

Splunk platform version	Upgrade activity
7.0.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.

Compatibility

Version 4.16.x of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on requires Splunk platform version 7.0.x or later. Some workarounds, such as the datamodels spec workaround for tags_whitelist and poll_buckets, are no longer available in version 7.0.x and later. This might lead to btool check warnings at startup.

Fixed issues

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

Known issues

This version of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on has the following reported known issues. If this section is empty, this release has no reported known issues.

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2021-01-04	CIM-978, CIM-1033	CIM Setup: "An error occurred fetching assets" Workaround: You can update datamodels.conf directly but this is not convenient and not all users have access to the .conf files.

Deprecated or removed features

As of version 4.15.0:

• The Predictive Analytics dashboard is removed in favor of Machine Learning Toolkit functionality.

As of version 4.14.0:

• The Predictive Analytics dashboard has been deprecated in favor of Machine Learning Toolkit functionality and will be removed in a future version.

As of version 4.13.0:

• N/A

As of version 4.12.0:

• The modaction_invocations_rest_handler.py (alerts/modaction_invocations) has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
• The following previously deprecated configurations have been removed.
  • `search_activity` macro
  • `search_typer` macro
• Deprecated data models: Application State and Change Analysis

As of version 4.11.0:

• The index definition cim_summary has been removed.
• Several configurations are deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
  • 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.