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Cortex XSOAR Release Notes

Product
Cortex XSOAR
Version
6.8
Creation date
2022-09-02
Last date published
2023-07-02
End_of_Life
EoL
Category
Release Notes

The following new features are categorized by product component.

Installation file hash: 9fa916c581dd91042199565653aa9f8503a3069e9e985d402fe64644ba2a068c

Deployment Wizard

When installing or updating the Malware content pack, a new DEPLOYMENT WIZARD tab guides you step-by-step to quickly adopt the Malware use case. The Deployment Wizard significantly reduces the time required to set up your use case. The wizard guides you through the process of setting up your content pack for your specific use case, including:

  • Setting up a fetching integration

  • Setting up a playbook

  • Setting up any required supporting integrations

  • Enabling the fetching integration instance

Playbooks

Feature

Description

Error Handling in Playbooks

When creating/editing a standard task that uses an automation or a conditional task that uses an automation, you can select the following from the On Error tab:

  • Number of retries

  • Retry interval (seconds)

  • Error Handling: Determines how a playbook task behaves if there are automation errors during execution.

    Stop: The playbook stops if the task errors.

    Continue: The playbook continues to execute if the task errors.

    Continue on error path: If the task errors, the playbook continues on an error path. You have the option to create a separate, standard path or use a separate error path, which can handle all errors.

New custom playbooks are set to quiet mode

When creating a new custom playbook, by default, the playbook is set to Quiet Mode to improve system performance.

Marketplace

Feature

Description

Embedded Videos in Content Packs

An embedded YouTube video viewer is now supported in content packs. These videos walk you through the content including the playbooks, incident types, testing, etc.

Case Management

Feature

Description

HTTP, HTTPS, and SSH are now supported for remote repositories

You can now connect to a remote repository using HTTP or HTTPS as well as SSH.

API Endpoint Mappers on a production environment

In a remote repository, you can now add API Endpoint mapping directly on the production machine.

Add the group name flag to the installation file

When installing the server, you can now select the default Cortex XSOAR group name by adding the -system-group-name=<group name> flag to the installation file.

Auto suggestions for indicator types for Threat Intel

For manual indicator creation, there is now an auto suggest prompt for indicator types.

Platform

Feature

Description

Support Cortex XSOAR on RHEL 8.5

Cortex XSOAR now supports RHEL 8.5.

Exclude items from local changes in remote repositories

You can now exclude content items on your development machine from syncing with your production machine. Excluded items do not appear in the local changes table.

Control which users can create API keys

You can now select which roles have read and read/write permissions when creating API keys. By default, all users can create API keys.

Track API rate limit errors

Some content packs now contain dashboards and widgets that can track API rate limit errors, which is useful for troubleshooting and to make decisions about whether to enrich indicators.

You can define a widget to see the API rate limiting error of third-party products through a period of time (such as day/week) and to understand if there are tools that are not using all of the bought quota.

The widget enables you to visualize your API usage and provides guidance on when to retry commands that have failed due to rate limiting.

To add a widget, in the Widget Builder, select the following:

  1. Data Source: SOAR Metrics

  2. Query: type: integration

  3. From the Operations tab, in the Sum field, select Total API Calls.

  4. In the Group by field, select API Response Type.

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Dynamic sections are refreshed

The refresh button now refreshes all dynamic sections for incident and indicator layouts.

Integration fetch history

When fetching or mirroring an integration or feed, you can now see the fetch history, including the last run, source ID, duration, etc. This can assist with errors, enabling you to find the root cause of the problem.

Notification of breaking changes

When updating or installing a content pack, if the pack contains changes that break backward compatibility, the details are now displayed for you to review before deciding to proceed with installation.

Content Pack Update Notifications

You can now receive daily notifications of Marketplace Content Packs that have available updates.

Support for operating system git

You can now use your operating system git installation with a remote repository.