Release notes for the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on

Version 5.0.0 of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on was released on December 16, 2021.

New features

Version 5.0.0 of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on includes no new features.

Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Common Information Model add-on, and Splunk app for PCI Compliance are released synchronously even if no new features or enhancements are included.

Upgrade requirements

Splunk platform version	Upgrade activity
8.0.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 5.0.x of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on requires Splunk platform version 8.0.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. If this section is empty, this release has no reported fixed 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
2022-08-31	CIM-1108	Adaptive Response relay errors occur when polling a Splunk Cloud search head cluster that is configured with the Spunk_SA_CIM modular action worker. Workaround: Following two options are available to resolve the errors: Option 1: Configure the search head cluster. This is a quick solution but might cause false positive errors. Configure the heavy forwarders to poll all search heads in the search head cluster, instead of the search head cluster URL. This guarantees the retrieval and dequeing of the alert from the search head that generated the alert. However, the other four search heads still display errors. Option 2: Enhancements to Splunk_SA_CIM: Splunk_SA_CIM/lib/splunk_sa_cim/modaction_queue.py Create a custom version of the Splunk_SA_CIM with the updated modaction_queue.py file and components to generate an alert. The custom app does not impact the Splunk_SA_CIM app or data model acceleration.

Deprecated or removed features

The following are deprecated or removed features for the last seven versions.

As of version 4.20.2:

• N/A

As of version 4.20.2:

• N/A

As of version 4.20.0:

• N/A

As of version 4.19.0:

• N/A

As of version 4.18.0:

• The body field is deprecated in favor of the description field in the Alerts data model and will be removed in a future version.
• The subject field is deprecated in favor of the signature field in the Alerts data model and will be removed in a future version.

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 is deprecated in favor of Machine Learning Toolkit functionality and will be removed in a future version.

As of version 4.13.0:

• N/A

Third-party software attributions

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