Release Notes

This topic contains information on new features, known issues, and updates as we version the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory.

Version 2.0.1 of the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory was released on Tuesday, December 9, 2014.

What's new

Here's what's new in the latest version of the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory:

Bug fixes.
The add-on now has improved usability and feedback on its configuration page. (TAG-4581)
The add-on now provides a host field that contains the domain controller that it bound to when it performed its operation. The ldapsearch command returns this field in results. (TAG-2115)
The add-on now allows you to not perform decoding of special fields in Active Directory. If you set decode=f in a command, it does not perform decoding of fields. See the configuration options for each command for details. (TAG-3303)
The add-on no longer lets you save alternate domain names that are not unique. (TAG-3371, TAG-4582)

The Splunk Add-on for Windows has the following known issues:

The add-on now has a document link in the main search page. (TAG_3314)
The default logging level for the add-on has been raised from DEBUG to WARNING. (TAG-3271)
The add-on now properly decodes file time, sAMAccountType, userAccountControl, instanceType, and groupType fields. (TAG-3299, TAG-3300, TAG-3301, TAG-3302, TAG-3304)
The add-on no longer uses the default password when attempting to connect to a newly-configured connection. (TAG-3350)
A condition that caused a traceback when you entered an incorrect LDAP attribute name was fixed. (TAG-3349)
The add-on now displays the domain you specified (instead of None) in the error message it generates when you specify an invalid domain. (TAG-4576)
The add-on now skips unrecognized search result types and prints an error message. This happens when the add-on cannot follow a search result continuation referral. (TAG-3372)
The add-on now lets you save and test connections in the Safari and Chrome browsers. (TAG-4580)