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.

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2024-10-14	TAG-14174	Test connection failure in SA-Ldap Add-on encountered when NTLMv2 authentication is used with splunk python version 3.9 Workaround: Customers with the need to use NTLM2 authentication have to use python 3.7 for the add-on.

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