Release Notes for Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory

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

Version 3.1.0 of the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory was released in September 2024.

What's new

The Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory v3.1.0 has the following new features and the fixes.

• Support of the NTLMv2 authentication for Windows-based AD server. ( NTLMv2 is not FIPS compliant.)
• Support for Python 3.9.
• Updated the custom commands to run locally by default to reduce the manual intervention on Splunk Cloud instances.
• Enabled the SSL support by default for On-Premise deployments
• Removed the base64 encoded password support. It is now mandatory to have the list_storage_passwords capability to use this add-on.

See the known issues and fixed issues of these release notes for other product updates.

Known issues

This version of the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory has the following reported known issues and workarounds. If no issues appear below, no issues have yet been reported.

Fixed issues

This version of the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory fixes the following issues. If no issues appear below, no issues have yet been reported.

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2023-11-27	TAG-14084	Splunk Cloud Customers using Distributed Search are not able to run the custom commands shipped with Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory