What's new and changed in Common core services

Common core services updates can include new features and fixes. Releases are listed in reverse chronological order so that the latest release is at the beginning of the topic.

You can see a list of the new features for the platform and all of the services at What's new in IBM Software Hub.

IBM Software Hub Version 5.3.0

A new version of common core services was released in December 2025 with IBM® Software Hub 5.3.0.

Operand version: 12.0.0

This release includes the following changes:

New features
This release of common core services includes the following features:
Access more data with new connectors
  • Amazon Aurora for MySQL
  • Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL
  • ClickHouse
  • Confluence
  • Datastax HCD
  • Iceberg Metastore
  • SAP Business Warehouse for DataStage
Write data to Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage with the watsonx.data™ connection
You can now write data to the Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage data source by using the watsonx.data connection.
Write data that uses the compressed gzip format for Amazon S3
You can now write in the compressed data format gzip for the Amazon S3 data source.

You can load data that is in this format into the Snowflake connection.

Access new versions of your data sources
You can now connect to updated versions of the following data sources to take advantage of the latest features and improvements:
  • PostgreSQL version 18
Updates
The following updates were introduced in this release:
Match360 changing to IBM Master Data Management
The Match360 connection is now changing to IBM Master Data Management.
Customer-reported issues fixed in this release
For a list of customer-reported issues that were fixed in this release, see the Fix List for IBM Cloud Pak for Data on the IBM Support website.
Security issues fixed in this release
The following security issues were fixed in this release:

CVE-2025-9784, CVE-2025-64329, CVE-2025-64118, CVE-2025-61795, CVE-2025-61725, CVE-2025-61724, CVE-2025-61723, CVE-2025-59419, CVE-2025-58185, CVE-2025-58183, CVE-2025-58057, CVE-2025-56200, CVE-2025-54798

CVE-2024-45338, CVE-2024-45310, CVE-2024-25621

CVE-2022-40896, CVE-2022-33070

CVE-2018-19057