What's new and changed in Data Privacy

Data Privacy 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 5.1.2

A new version of Data Privacy was released in March 2025.

This release includes the following changes:

Issues fixed in this release
The following issues were fixed in this release:
Issue: Search behavior works unexpectedly for a predefined data class in the dialogs for data protection rules.

Resolution: This issue is now fixed.

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 Data Privacy was released in December 2024.

This release includes the following changes:

Issues fixed in this release
The following issues were fixed in this release:
Issue: Can't preview assets with date columns and watsonx.data as the protection solution.

Resolution: This issue is now fixed.

Issue: Unable to preview assets when row filters are applied in data protection rules.

Resolution: This issue is now fixed.

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.
Deprecated features
The following features were deprecated in this release:
  • Reversible option is now removed for obfuscating data to reverse the masking to recover the original values.
  • Reversible encryption is no longer available for creating copies of data by creating masking flows and one-way hash tokenization for flexible compliance.
  • Decrypt reversible masked data is no longer available.