Welcome to Splunk UBA 5.0.1

Splunk UBA 5.0.1 is a maintenance release. See About Splunk User Behavior Analytics and release types for more information about the different types of Splunk UBA releases.

If you are new to Splunk UBA, review all the steps in the Splunk UBA installation checklist before installing Splunk UBA.

Planning to upgrade from an earlier version?

If you plan to upgrade to this version from an earlier version of Splunk UBA, read the following documentation before you get started:

• See Upgrade Splunk UBA prerequisites for information you need to know before you upgrade.
• Splunk UBA requires incremental upgrades from earlier versions. See How to install or upgrade to this release of Splunk UBA for upgrade path information.

What's new in 5.0.1

Splunk UBA 5.0.1 contains the following features and enhancements:

New feature or enhancement	Description
Migration	The backup and restore scripts are updated to provide migration support for Splunk UBA deployments. The following migration paths are supported: Migrate up one deployment size, such as 3 nodes to 5 nodes, or 10 nodes to 20 nodes. Both deployments must have the same operating system. See Migrate Splunk UBA using the backup and restore scripts.
Enhancements for how Splunk UBA handles closed threats	Filter the threats displayed in the Threats Table, Threat Review, and Threat Dashboard by threat status. See Filter the threats displayed in the Threats Table.
Kafka data ingestion	This version of Splunk UBA requires version 1.3 of the Splunk UBA Kafka Ingestion App. See Compatible Splunk Enterprise and Splunk UBA versions for the Splunk UBA Kafka Ingestion App.