What's new and changed in Cognos Analytics

Cognos Analytics 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.

Installing or upgrading Cognos Analytics

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  • To install Cognos Analytics along with the other IBM® Software Hub services, see Installing IBM Software Hub.
  • To upgrade Cognos Analytics along with the other IBM Software Hub services, see Upgrading IBM Software Hub.
  • To install or upgrade Cognos Analytics independently, see Cognos Analytics.
    Remember: All of the IBM Software Hub components associated with an instance of IBM Software Hub must be installed at the same version.

IBM Software Hub Version 5.4.0

A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in June 2026 with IBM Software Hub 5.4.0.

Operand version: 30.0.0

This release includes the following changes:

New features
This release of Cognos Analytics includes the following features:
Updated software version for Cognos Analytics
This release of the service provides Version 12.1.2 of the Cognos Analytics software. For details, see Release 12.1.2 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.
Security issues fixed in this release
The following security issues were fixed in this release:

CVE-2025-12758, CVE-2025-12816, CVE-2025-55130, CVE-2025-55131, CVE-2025-55132, CVE-2025-59465, CVE-2025-59466, CVE-2025-6176, CVE-2025-64756, CVE-2025-65945, CVE-2025-66030, CVE-2025-66031, CVE-2026-1519, CVE-2026-21637, CVE-2026-2359, CVE-2026-24001, CVE-2026-27903, CVE-2026-32141, CVE-2026-3304, CVE-2026-33228, CVE-2026-33891, CVE-2026-33894, CVE-2026-33895, CVE-2026-33896, CVE-2026-3520.