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Important Hosts with LUKS encryption cannot be upgraded to 7.5.0 Update Pack 8

As the release of QRadar 7.5.0 Update Package 8 approaches, QRadar SIEM development has identified a known issue where hosts with LUKS encryption cannot be upgraded to 7.5.0 Update Pack 8. This is a RHEL limitation for QRadar 7.5.0 Update Package 8, which is not yet released at this time. Customers wishing to upgrade to 7.5.0 Update Pack 8 from 7.5.0 Update Pack 7 should ensure that no hosts in the deployment have LUKS encryption. For more information, see the Flash Notice.

QRadar Flash Notice
25 March QRadar 7.5.0 Update Package 8 released

QRadar 7.5.0 Update Package 8 is released to IBM Fix Central for entitled users. This release updates the baseline operating system version from RHEL 7.9 to RHEL 8.8. Customers who plan to upgrade should review for LUKS encrypted disks, ensure that /storetmp has 10GB of space before you upgrade, and if you have HA appliances there is a post-installation required procedure documented in DT365145. For more information, see the Software 101 page and review the release notes.

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25 March WinCollect 7.3.1 P3 is released

Administrators with managed WinCollect agents planning an upgrade to QRadar 7.5.0 Update Package 8 need to ensure they update to the latest WinCollect version. A new version of WinCollect 7.3.1-43 is available for administrators. After you upgrade to 7.5.0 Update Package 8, you can download and install the SFS file for WinCollect 7.4.1-43. For more information, see the WinCollect 7 page on QRadar 101.

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20 March WinCollect 10.1.10 is released to IBM Fix Central

IBM Development posted a new version of WinCollect, release 10.1.10 to IBM Fix Central. This release resolved four issues reported by users: 1. Microsoft Security Events longer than 4k bytes may be truncated when rendered by WinCollect 10 (DT261310). 2: WinCollect crashes reading NetApp DataONTAP evtx files (DT255031). 3. Multiline File Forwarder Block Filtering regex issues (DT258861). 4. Hostname validation check box is not working (DT320040).

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15 March IBM QRadar SIEM includes components with known vulnerabilities

A new security bulletin is available for QRadar users on the Software 101 page. The published bulletin outlines the 10 CVEs resolved in QRadar 7.5.0 Update Package 7 Interim Fix 6. For more information about this release and direct links to the download and release notes, see the QRadar Software 101 page.

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13 March Troubleshooting the UBA Error: “JSON.parse: Unexpected Character After JSON Data”

Administrators who open the Users view in the UBA app receive a “JSON.parse: unexpected non-whitespace character after JSON data at line 1 column 5 of the JSON data” when opening the user view.

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13 March QRadar: Assistant App “Manage” Button is missing from the application interface

When the QRadar Assistant Application is launched, administrators notice that the “Manage” button is missing hence causing them not to be able to manage their applications by using the application.

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6 March Upgrade path information for the transition to Red Hat Enterprise 8

A new flash notice was sent to users on 6 Nov 2023 about QRadar’s transition from Red Hat Enterprise 7 to move to Red Hat Enterprise 8. Administrators who plan to upgrade to a QRadar version that includes Red Hat Enterprise 8 must first install QRadar 7.5.0 Update Package 7. This restriction is to ensure all of the required packages needed to transition to RHEL8 are available when users attempt to upgrade. An upgrade to QRadar 7.5.0 Update Package 7 is required for users who plan to go to 7.5.0 UP8 or later.

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5 March QRadar Custom Action Script: Testing Scripts

How to troubleshoot when a Custom Action Script should trigger. As IBM Support does not troubleshoot complex scripts, administrators can run a simplified script to trigger the Custom Action Script. This technical note advises users how to troubleshoot when there is no indication that the Custom Action Script is running.

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5 February WinCollect 10.1.9 is released

A new version of WinCollect is available for administrators with the release of 10.1.9. This update resolved 4 known issues and updates code and packaged libraries.

Download WinCollect 10.1.9 Release notes

Auto Updates

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Recent updates


The auto update for 26 March includes four updates:

  • PingFederate: Release of a new DSM to support parsing and categorization of PingFederate events from Ping Identity. Administrators can configure configure the PingFederate server’s log4j2.xml file to forward CEF formatted Syslog events to be auto discovered by QRadar.
  • Microsoft Windows Security Event Log: Resolved an issue in the Microsoft Windows Security Event Log for Event ID 4625. Users reported an issue where Event ID 4625 does not parse the sub-status field as expected, which causes the event to not report ‘User Locked Out’ as part of the event sub-status details. When the DSM Editor advanced option ‘Enable Additional Parsing Failed LogON’ is true, the event parses incorrectly without the sub-status detail as ‘Failure Audit: An account failed to log on’, where the correct parsing is expected to be ‘Failure Audit: An account failed to log on: User Locked Out’. This RPM release updates parsing to ensure the status and sub-status is parsed from the event payload correctly.
  • FireEye MPS: Resolved an issue in the FireEye MPS DSM where the vendor name changed in the logs from FireEye to Trellix in the LEEF header. The name change caused the DSM parsing to break, leading to ‘Stored’ events. This RPM release resolves the issue and allows events with either vendor name to parse correctly.
  • SIM Notification: Enhanced the QRadar SIM Notification DSM to add two new System Notifications related to applications. This RPM release adds two new QIDs: 1. The first notification is an information level event for QID 38750193 – ‘App installed successfully via Assistant App autoupdate’ 2. The second notification is an error level event for QID38750194 – ‘App Installation failed’ where the event can dynamically display the reason for the app installation failure.
The auto update for 19 March includes five updates:

  • Alibaba Action Trail: Enhanced the DSM to support parsing of events from the Simple Log Service Protocol. Administrators with automatic updates disabled must manually install both the Alibaba Action Trail DSM and Alibaba Cloud Simple Log Service protocol to collect and parse events in Simple Log Service format.
  • Alibaba Cloud Simple Log Service: Release of a new protocol to support event collection from Alibaba Cloud Simple Log Service sources.
  • Linux Iptables: Resolved an issue where users reported 11 header and martian packet kernel events parse as ‘Unknown’. This RPM release updates parsing to assign an Event ID as ‘miscellaneous_traffic’ to ensure the event parses as expected.
  • Microsoft Windows Security Event Log: Resolved a reported issue where the username did not parse as expected from Windows EventID 4625. This RPM release updates parsing patterns to ensure the Username value is extracted from the event payload.
  • Cisco Aironet: Resolved an issue where administrators reported that the Username did not parse as expected from the event payload. This RPM release updates parsing for SEC_LOGIN-5-LOGIN_SUCCESS and SYS-6-LOGOUT events to ensure the Username field is captured and displays correctly in the user interface.
The auto update for 12 March includes one protocol update and one DSM update:

  • Cisco IronPort: Resolved a reported issue in the Cisco Ironport DSM where users reported that after enabling Audit_Log events in AsyncOS 14.0, that monitor_email events did not parse and map as expected. This RPM release updates parsing and includes a QID map update to correct the reported problem.
  • Salesforce REST API Protocol: Resolved multiple issues in the Salesforce REST API protocol: 1. Resolved an issue described in DT252106 where attempts to connect to the Salesforce REST API were not successful with correct credentials when a proxy is used. 2. Resolved an issue where users reported polling for Salesforce events is inconsistent. An investigation in to this issue determined that the lastPollTime could be updated by another thread, leading to sporadic polling intervals as described in DT246106. Both of these issues are resolved in this RPM release.

The auto update for 5 March includes one protocol update and two DSMs:

  • Release of a new DSM to support parsing and categorizing Crowdstrike Falcon Data Replicator (FDR) JSON formatted events in QRadar. This RPM release requires administrators to have the latest versions of the Amazon AWS S3 REST API protocol, Protocol Common, and DSM Common to properly collect and parse Crowdstrike Falcon Data Replicator events.
  • Resolved an issue in the Symantec Endpoint Protection DSM where French language payloads might not parse as expected due to how single quotes are handled when they appear in the field name, such as in Nom d’utilisateur or de l’hote local. This RPM release updates parsing to ensure that IP addresses and values that contain single quotes parse as expected.
  • Enhanced the Microsoft Azure Event Hubs protocol to increase the size of EC queue capacity from 10k to 20k events. The goal of this change is to allow larger queues for events coming off of the wire for Microsoft Azure Event Hubs and potentially prevent events that might drop due to the queue size or event when spikes of events occur.
  • Resolved JDBC protocol issues: 1. The JDBC ‘Test’ option could fail unexpectedly due to connection string issues (DT117717). 2. The hostname input regex has been modified to allow valid hostnames that were previously rejected (DT092120). 3. Resolved an issue where the first time JDBC polls for data, it sets the compare field in the marker file to null and cause a socket timeout on large tables. 4. Kaspersky support is removed and existing log sources will no longer successfully poll for data. 5. A new log source configuration parameter is available for MSDE connections, ‘Use With (No Lock) in SQL statements’. When this feature is enabled, the system appends ‘WITH (NOLOCK)’ to queried tables in the SQL statements to prevent blocked requests. 6. Additional Test added for checking if the driver is available for use. 7. Resolved an issue where polling might stop on a recoverable exception (DT251918). 8. Resolved an issue where JDBC queries might be held as ‘idle in transaction’ (DT236990).
  • Resolved a reported issue where SMTP events did not parse the Log Source Time correctly for SMTP events.
  • Enhanced the TLS Syslog Protocol to increase the size of EC queue capacity from 10k to 20k events. The goal of this change is to allow larger queues for events coming off of the wire for TLS Syslog and potentially prevent events that might drop due to the queue size or event when spikes of TLS events occur.
  • Resolved a reported issue in the IBM i DSM (previously know as the AS/400 DSM) where events categorized as ‘Unknown’. An investigation in to this issue determined that the Event ID was not captured as expected due to a trailing underscore character at the end of the event payload.
  • Resolved an issue where user names that appear within square brackets did not parse as expected in the SIM Audit DSM.
  • Enhanced the Protocol Common framework to support a new feature in the latest JDBC protocol for MSDE queries. A new log source configuration parameter is available for MSDE connections, ‘Use With (No Lock) in SQL statements’. When this feature is enabled, the system appends ‘WITH (NOLOCK)’ to queried tables in the SQL statements to prevent blocked requests.

Version information

Features and what’s new

What’s New in QRadar v7.5.0?

Operational improvements

  • Operating system updated to Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® version 7.9.
  • Local Only authentication allows administrators to prevent unintended access to users with accounts in external authentication systems.
  • Use secure boot to ensure that only trusted kernels and kernel modules are loaded
  • Two new offense rule tests: ‘when an offense is closed’ and ‘when an offense is modified’
  • A new AQL OFFENSE_TIME function to increase the speed of your offense queries
  • A new AQL DISTINCTCOUNT function to return the unique count of the value in an aggregate
  • Encryption of managed hosts enabled by default

Flow Improvements
  • Support for IPFIX bidirectional flows
  • Multi-threaded processing for external flow sources
  • Sequence number verification
  • Support for Network Address Translation fields from IPFIX and NetFlow v9
  • New application determination algorithms
  • Support for more fields from AWS VPC flow logs
  • Alias Autodetection field is renamed to DNS lookup for Alias Autodetection
  • Flow direction algorithms are now applied at the beginning of the flow parsing process
  • You can no longer delete the ‘Uncategorized’ category for tagged flow fields from your system
  • Only relevant IPFIX fields are encoded into the payload and extra fieds are added as TLV elements

What is Changed or Removed?

The hashing algorithm default is changed to SHA-512 for all Ariel hashing. Several algorithms, such as MD-2, MD-5, HMAC-MD5 are removed.

  • Network inspection performance
  • Performance improvements for the QRadar Network Insights 6500 appliance
  • Modified process for identifying file types
  • More integration with IBM X-Force
  • Improved application detection
  • Data aggregation and segmentation improvements
  • Some inspectors are no longer supported, such as web domain, Myspace protocol, and SPDY.

During the upgrade to QRadar Incident Forensics 7.5.0, case data is exported and then imported back into the QRadar Incident Forensics managed host. As a result, the upgrade process takes longer to complete than in previous releases.

Vulnerability data scores and metric values are returned as CVSS version 3.0 or 3.1.


QRadar v 7.5.0


Upgrade release notes New installation release notes Upgrade Guide What’s new

What’s New in QRadar v7.4.3?

The operational efficiency improvements in QRadar 7.4.3 include adjusting the Asset Cleanup Batch Size Threshold.

  • Support for ICMPv6 ICMP messages
  • New inspector for Kerberos
  • New inspector for TFTP
  • New “Flow Source Types” field
  • Support for more fields from AWS Flow Logs
  • New API for managing flow applications
  • New API for managing common destination ports
  • Improvements to the Ariel Tagged Fields API

  • You can now set your own password for encrypted log files
  • Any authorized services with the “System Administrator” permission are expired, unless they are assigned to the “Admin” security profile
  • Several custom properties were either renamed or merged together

  • Simplified installation process
  • Deprecation notice for some inspectors

  • A new Kerberos inspector is available to parse Kerberos traffic that is sent to trusted third-party authentication providers.
  • A new inspector for Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) network traffic.
  • A new Kerberos inspector is available to parse Kerberos traffic that is sent to trusted third-party authentication providers.
  • A new inspector for Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) network traffic.


QRadar v 7.4.3


SFS Release notes ISO Release notes Upgrade Guide What’s new

What’s New in QRadar v7.4.2?

Adjusting the number of MAC addresses allowed for an asset

Generating regex for parsing event properties

  • MAC address support
  • Accumulated byte and packet counters
  • New “Common Destination Port” flow direction algorithms

  • User authentication with Active Directory (AD) is no longer supported
  • GlusterFS no longer supported

  • Support for 40 Gbps connectivity
  • QRadar Network Insights 1940 appliance stacking
  • Content flows are more easily identified
  • New TCP flow direction algorithms
  • Easily determine the direction of a content flow
  • More descriptive entity alerts


QRadar v 7.4.2


SFS Release notes ISO Release notes Upgrade Guide What’s new

What’s New in QRadar v7.4.1?

  • Parsing status is color coded in the user interface to display unparsed and unmapped data
  • An Override Delimiter option allows users to parse multiline event payloads more easily in the DSM Editor
  • Event ID and Event Category fields copied to Event Mapping

  • IBM QRadar Use Case Manager app installed by default
  • QRadar Analyst Workflow to help you investigate offenses

  • The core Operating System is updated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux® V7.7

  • Support for the flow ID field in NetFlow V9 flow records
  • Support for 40 Gbps Napatech card


QRadar v 7.4.1


SFS Release notes ISO Release notes Upgrade Guide What’s new

What’s New in QRadar v7.4.0?

  • Enhanced parsing support for XML events in the DSM Editor
  • Combined IPv4 & IPv6 columns to allow for more performant APIs and UIs
  • Added support for DSM Parameters in the DSM Editor
  • New event details provide extra context to how events are processed.

  • Apps can now run in multi-tenanted environments
  • Log Source Management app, now multi-tenanted
  • QRadar Assistant app can now manage installed applications
  • Pulse Dashboard V2.2 is now multi-tenanted and supports dashboard sharing

  • QRadar 7.4 is upgraded to Red Hat Enterprise Linux V7.6
  • SSH tunnel between two managed hosts can now be initiated from the remote host instead of the local host
  • A secure email server update allows you to send alerts, reports, or notifications with SMTP authentication and TLS

  • Content Management Export API expands the ability to export Custom Rules, Custom Searches, Reports, and required dependencies
  • Dynamic Search API allows users to complete advanced queries using a selection of fields available in the Offenses Rest API
  • Offense related searches possible in the Dynamic Search API
  • QRadar V7.4.0 introduces API V13.0 and marks V11.0 endpoints as deprecated

QRadar v 7.4.0


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Join us at a live event in San Francisco, CA for a Super User Forum created to connect and discuss all things IBM Security. These user groups allow product users as well as IBM experts to meet, talk, and learn about upcoming product changes.

  • Learn what’s new in Data Security, QRadar, Identity & Access, Automation, and more.
  • Product road map and architecture discussions.
  • Demos, roundtables, and use cases.
  • Networking opportunities.
  • Evening reception for all participants.
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  • Product road map and architecture discussions.
  • Demos, roundtables, and use cases.
  • Networking opportunities.
  • Evening reception for all participants.
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Join us for this Super User Forum created to connect and discuss all things IBM Security Identity and Access Management, Data Security, Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR), SIEM, and zSecurity with other product users as well as IBM experts.

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