Release notes for the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on
Version 5.0.2 of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on was released on October 5, 2022.
New features
Version 5.0.2 of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on includes the following new features:
New features | Description |
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New fields added to some data models | The following fields were added to the the Data Access and the Endpoint Process data models:
For more information on the new fields added to the Data Access and the Endpoint Process data models, see Data Access and Endpoint. |
Upgrade requirements
Splunk platform version | Upgrade activity |
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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 allowlists for those models. See Set up the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on for details about the tags allow list 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_allowlist 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.
Date resolved | Issue number | Description |
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2022-10-04 | CIM-1110 | Issues with ES-CIM when dark mode is turned on. |
2022-09-29 | CIM-1099 | ES SOAR adaptive response actions not working. |
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 |
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2022-11-28 | CIM-1128, SOLNESS-33830 | The parent_process_name field is not extracted correctly when events with data model are searched. |
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.
Option 2: Enhancements to Splunk_SA_CIM: |
Deprecated or removed features
The following are deprecated or removed features for the last seven versions.
As of version 5.0.1:
- N/A
As of version 5.0.0:
- 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 thedescription
field in the Alerts data model and will be removed in a future version. - The
subject
field is deprecated in favor of thesignature
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.
Set up the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on | Support and resource links for the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on |
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Common Information Model Add-on: 5.0.2
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