Release notes for the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on

Version 5.1.0 of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on was released on January 11, 2023.

New features

Version 5.1.0 of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on includes the following new features:

New features	Description
Schema add: Endpoint DM is missing parent_process_hash field	Added parent_process_hash to Endpoint data-model Added the parent_process_hash description to read "The digest(s) of the parent process, such as <md5>, <sha1>, etc." Fixed the description of process_hash to read "The digest(s) of the process, such as <md5>, <sha1>, etc."
Support added for adaptive response framework on search head cluster for Cloud in hybrid deployments	Added the process to ensure that the heavy forwarder requests for the modular action relay gets directed to the appropriate member of the search head cluster that initiates the adaptive response action. Code change for this is located in Splunk_SA_CIM/bin/relaymodaction.py.

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 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
2023-01-09	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.
2022-11-17	CIM-1047	Endpoint DM is missing parent_process_hash field

Limitations

If you are in a search head cluster environment on Splunk Cloud Platform, you might see error messages related to adaptive response actions. To troubleshoot these issues, see Troubleshoot adaptive response actions in search head cluster deployments on Splunk Cloud Platform.

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
2023-03-13	CIM-1156	Description of the cim field "power" needs correction in the Performance.json Workaround: The description of field Template:Power in the Performance Data model is change to: {quote}Amount of power consumed by the facilities resource, in kW.{quote}
2023-01-18	CIM-1140	ARR not working when actions sent from on-prem Splunk Search Head to on-prem HWF
2022-11-28	CIM-1128, SOLNESS-33830	The parent_process_name field is not extracted correctly when events with data model are searched.

Deprecated or removed features

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

As of version 5.1.0:

• N/A

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 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.