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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Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.7
A new version of Data Privacy was released in October 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.7.
Operand version: 4.8.7
This release includes the following changes:
- Security fixes
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This release includes fixes for the following security issues:
Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.6
A new version of Data Privacy was released in August 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.6.
Operand version: 4.8.6
This release includes the following changes:
- Security fixes
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This release includes fixes for the following security issues:
Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.5
A new version of Data Privacy was released in April 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.5.
Operand version: 4.8.5
This release includes the following changes:
- Security fixes
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This release includes fixes for the following security issues:
Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.4
A new version of Data Privacy was released in March 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.4.
Operand version: 4.8.4
This release includes the following changes:
- Bug fixes
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This release includes the following fix:
Resolution: This issue is now fixed.
Resolution: This issue is now fixed.
- Security fixes
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This release includes fixes for the following security issues:
Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.3
A new version of Data Privacy was released in February 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.3.
Operand version: 4.8.3
This release includes the following changes:
- Bug fixes
-
This release includes the following fix:
Resolution: This issue is now fixed.
Resolution: This issue is now fixed.
- Security fixes
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This release includes fixes for the following security issues:
Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.2
A new version of Data Privacy was released in January 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.2.
Operand version: 4.8.2
This release includes the following changes:
- New features
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The 4.8.2 release of Data Privacy includes the following features and updates:
- New option for rule action precedence
- Rule action precedence enables you to specify how rules are applied when there are multiple
rules with different actions on a data set. You can use the new Hierarchical
enforcement option to configure a two-layer evaluation of data protection rules.
- The first layer evaluates the rules for an
Allow
orDeny
action without considering any masking actions. The decision from this first layer must be to allow access to move to the second layer. - The second layer evaluates the rules for a
Transform
action.
You can set this option from the user interface or from the
access_decision_precedence
API.For more information, see Managing rule settings.
- The first layer evaluates the rules for an
- Enforce rules based on a tenant modality setting for aliases
- You can now evaluate assets based on a tenant modality setting by calling the
update tenant settings
API and defining theasset_dealiasing_item_selection
option. For more information, see Data protection rules enforcement.
- Security fixes
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This release includes fixes for the following security issues:
Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.1
A new version of Data Privacy was released in December 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.1.
Operand version: 4.8.1
This release includes the following changes:
- Security fixes
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This release includes fixes for the following security issues:
Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.0
A new version of Data Privacy was released in November 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.0.
Operand version: 4.8.0
This release includes the following changes:
- New features
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The 4.8.0 release of Data Privacy includes the following features and updates:
- Export and import data protection rules
- You can now use the Cloud Pak for Data command-line
interface (
cpd-cli
) to export and import data protection rules across multiple instances of Cloud Pak for Data. The links to glossary artifacts, catalogs, assets, and users are maintained when you export the data protection rules. For more information, see Migrating data protection rules. - Double-byte or Unicode data is masked to
X
characters when you define Obfuscate masking rules - When you mask data with Identifier masking method (a data masking option
for obfuscating), all the special characters in Unicode (such as double-byte characters) that are
non-English-language characters is masked to
X
except the alphanumeric character and some special characters, such as-./@#$ %^&*()\:;?_"
For more information, see Obfuscating data method.
- Security fixes
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This release includes fixes for the following security issues: