What's new and changed in Data Privacy
Data Privacy updates can include new features, bug fixes, and security updates. Updates 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® Cloud Pak for Data.
Installing or upgrading Data Privacy
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Refresh 9 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Data Privacy was released in May 2022.
Operand version: 4.0.9
This release includes the following changes:
- Bug fixes
- This release includes the following fixes:
- Issue: Users are unable to create a masking job with connection
issues.
Resolution: This issue is now fixed.
- Issue: When a credit card number is redacted or obfuscated with the
identifier method using data protection rules, the masking flow job fails.
Resolution: This issue is now fixed.
- Issue: Creating a masking flow fails when an asset contains Db2 uppercase
column names.
Resolution: This issue is now fixed.
- Issue: Users are unable to create a masking job with connection
issues.
Refresh 8 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Data Privacy was released in April 2022.
Operand version: 4.0.8
This release includes the following changes:
- Bug fixes
- This release includes the following fixes:
- Issue: Edit rule page: A data protection rule
that was created by using a data class produces console error 400 and 504.
Resolution: This issue is now fixed.
- Issue: Edit rule page: A data protection rule
that was created by using a data class produces console error 400 and 504.
- Security fixes
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This release includes fixes for the following security issues:
CVE-2022-22965
Refresh 7 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Data Privacy was released in March 2022.
Operand version: 4.0.7
This release includes the following changes:
- Security fixes
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This release includes fixes for the following security issues:
CVE-2021-44568, CVE-2021-23555
Refresh 6 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Data Privacy was released in February 2022.
Operand version: 4.0.6
This release includes the following changes:
- Security fixes
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This release includes fixes for the following security issues:
CVE-2022-0235
Refresh 5 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Data Privacy was released in January 2022.
Operand version: 4.0.5
This release includes the following changes:
- Security fixes
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This release includes fixes for the following security issues:
CVE 2021-45105, CVE 2021-45046
Refresh 4 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Data Privacy was released in December 2021.
Operand version: 4.0.4
This release includes the following changes:
- Bug fixes
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This release includes the following fixes:
- Issue: Rows that contain values that fail to be masked are skipped.
Resolution: The issue is now fixed.
- Issue: Data values are cast back to source data type format where
applicable.
Resolution: The issue is now fixed.
- Issue: Rows that contain values that fail to be masked are skipped.
Refresh 3 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Data Privacy was released in November 2021.
Operand version: 4.0.3
This release includes the following changes:
- New features
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The Data Privacy service is now available on Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
Data Privacy enables you to protect sensitive data with features such as:
- Advanced masking options
- The service includes masking options such as enhanced format-preservation, one-way tokenization, reversible encryption, and relationship integrity in data protection rules. For details, see Advanced data masking.
- Define the data that you want to mask
- When you create a masking flow, you can choose whether you want to mask a complete copy of the data or a subset of the data. For details, see Creating masking flows.
- Self-service access to masked data
- You can add masked data to catalogs and collaborative project to enable controlled access to the data For details, see Masking data with Data Privacy.