What's new and changed in Product Master

Product Master 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 Product Master

Ready to install or upgrade Product Master?

  • To install Product Master along with the other IBM® Software Hub services, see Installing IBM Software Hub.
  • To upgrade Product Master along with the other IBM Software Hub services, see Upgrading IBM Software Hub.
  • To install or upgrade Product Master independently, see Product Master.
    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 Product Master was released in June 2026 with IBM Software Hub 5.4.0.

Operand version: 10.0.0

This release includes the following changes:

New features
This release of Product Master includes the following features:
Access management and Organization explorer feature
Authorized administrators can now more easily manage and organize users, roles, access control groups, and organizations for application users.
Administrators can now easily:
  • Manage application users: Create, view, update, enable, disable, archive, and reactivate users.
  • Manage roles: Create, view, and update user roles.
  • Manage access control groups: Create, view, and update access control groups and manage object-to-access-control-group mappings.
  • Manage organizations: Create, view, edit, and delete organizations. For details, see. Using Organization explorer.
New capabilities for the Suspect duplicate processing feature
The process of duplicate matching and merging data based on the data within the catalog is now improved so that you can automatically:
  • Bulk identify and mark duplicate records.
  • Review and act on the duplicates for the multiple records.
  • Run a catalog-wide duplicate match through a report job.
Natural Language Processing (NLP)-based search
Catalog users can now search data across all catalogs by using natural language queries.
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-2025-66614, CVE-2025-67030

CVE-2026-3497, CVE-2026-4176, CVE-2026-4424, CVE-2026-4786, CVE-2026-5121, CVE-2026-6100, CVE-2026-22731, CVE-2026-22733, CVE-2026-22737, CVE-2026-24281, CVE-2026-24308, CVE-2026-24734, CVE-2026-24880, CVE-2026-25854, CVE-2026-27135, CVE-2026-28417, CVE-2026-28421, CVE-2026-29145, CVE-2026-29146, CVE-2026-33412, CVE-2026-34165, CVE-2026-34483, CVE-2026-34487, CVE-2026-34500, CVE-2026-34982, CVE-2026-34986, CVE-2026-35385, CVE-2026-35414, CVE-2026-39883, CVE-2026-39892