What's new

This page summarizes the new features and enhancements in each release of Splunk Cloud Platform. Use the Version drop-down list to see information for other versions of Splunk Cloud Platform.

The product features deployed in your environment might vary depending on your topology, deployment type, and configuration settings.

See also the release notes for the Cloud Monitoring Console app and the Admin Configuration Service for their respective new features.

9.1.2308

New feature, enhancement, or change	Description
Bitwise enhancements	Use the following new bitwise functions to manipulate fields in eval searches. bit_shift_left for logical left shifts. bit_shift_right for logical right shifts. bit_and for bitwise AND operations. bit_or for bitwise OR operations. bit_not for bitwise NOT operations. bit_xor for bitwise XOR operations. The following eval functions also now support bitwise operations. tonumber converts a string representation of a binary number to the corresponding number in base 10. tostring converts a number to a string of its binary representation. For more information, see Common eval functions in the Search Reference.
New JSON delete function	Use the new json_delete function to remove one or more keys and their corresponding values from the specified JSON object. For more information, see json_delete(<object>,<keys>) in the Search Reference.
Dashboard Studio improvements	New ability to conditionally show or hide panels in Grid layout New option to select Dashboard Studio when saving reports to dashboards
Improved upgrade experience	Zero downtime upgrades for Victoria Experience stacks with SHC architectures, allowing search continuity for short-running and long-running searches during core upgrades and rolling restarts.
Decentralized search telemetry collection	This improvement increases efficiency, integrity (completeness), and reliability of search telemetry while freeing up search head capacity.
Usability and accessibility	Updates to the Datasets page to improve usability and accessibility using modern technologies and frameworks.
Upgrade Readiness App	Version 4.2.0 of the Upgrade Readiness App includes minor updates and fixes.
Splunk Secure Gateway updates	Turn on and off mobile notifications for Alerts and Reports. Resize the SSG opt-in window enabling mobile users to opt-in from their mobile device during login.
populate_lookup alert action deprecation	The legacy alert action, populate_lookup, is deprecated and will be disabled in a future release. Use the lookup alert action instead. Note that you can still attach a lookup alert action to new saved searches even though the populate_lookup alert action is deprecated.