What's new and changed in Cognos Dashboards

Cognos Dashboards 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 Cloud Pak for Data Version 5.1.3

A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in April 2025.

This release includes the following changes:

Issues fixed in this release
This release of the service includes various fixes.
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.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 5.1.2

A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in March 2025.

This release includes the following changes:

Issues fixed in this release
This release of the service includes various fixes.
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.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 5.1.1

A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in February 2025.

This release includes the following changes:

New features
This release of Cognos Dashboards includes the following features:
Updated software version
This release of the service provides Version 12.0.4 IF2 of the Cognos Analytics dashboards software. For details, see Release 12.0.4 IF2 - Dashboards in the Cognos Analytics documentation.
Issues fixed in this release
This release of the service includes various fixes.
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.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 5.1.0

A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in December 2024.

This release includes the following changes:

New features
This release of Cognos Dashboards includes the following features:
Updated software version
This release of the service provides Version 12.0.4 of the Cognos Analytics dashboards software. For details, see Release 12.0.4 - Dashboards in the Cognos Analytics documentation.
Issues fixed in this release
This release of the service includes various fixes.
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.