Release notes

Version 3.16.0 of Splunk DB Connect was released on February 27, 2024.

New and changed features

Version 3.16.0 of Splunk DB Connect contains the following new or changed features:

• Supports Azure AD Authentication for Azure MS SQL Connection. It requires the installation of the latest version of Splunk DBX Add-on for Microsoft SQL Server JDBC.
• Documentation on how to use the DB Connect API.
• We no longer support MS-SQL Server Using jTDS Driver, MS-SQL Server Using jTDS Driver with Windows Authentication and AWS RedShift in favor of AWS Redshift v2.0.
• Support for connecting to Hive databases using the Cloudera JDBC driver.

Fixed issues

Version 3.16.0 of Splunk DB Connect fixes the following issues. If no issues appear below, no issues have yet been fixed.

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2024-03-13	DBX-5812	Issues in the dbxlookup query having the '$' sign in it

Known issues

Version 3.16.0 of Splunk DB Connect contains the following known issues. If no issues appear below, no issues have yet been reported.

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2024-06-14	DBX-5845	An exception was thrown while dispatching the python script handler Workaround: Delete the file splunk_sdk-1.5.0-py2.7.egg in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/splunk_app_db_connect/bin Please wait for a patch to be released soon.
2024-06-11	DBX-5843	The connection string is invalid. Connection strings must start with: jdbc:mongodb// Workaround: This error only occurs when the JDBC driver was unable to establish a connection to the database. Driver Manager then tries to use other drivers and in the end the JDBC driver for MongoDB throws an exception which is shown as the last one. To get the error message corresponding to the expected driver, you will need to disable the Splunk DBX Add-on for MongoDB JDBC. Please wait for a patch to be released soon.

Third-party software attributions

Some of the components included in this add-on are licensed under free or open source licenses. We wish to thank the contributors to those projects.

A complete listing of third-party software information for this add-on is available as a Document file for download:
Splunk DB Connect third-party software credits.