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Cortex XSIAM Release Notes

Product
Cortex XSIAM
Creation date
2025-03-11
Last date published
2025-06-22
Category
Release Notes
Abstract

Learn more about current maintenance releases of the Cortex XSIAM Broker VM and XDR Collectors.

Cortex XSIAM includes a number of features that are updated with every Cortex XSIAM Release. The Broker VM and XDR Collectors are released with their own version number, and can include additional changes that are integrated in a separate maintenance release. For more information about previous maintenance releases, see Previous Maintenance Releases.

The Broker VM major 27.0.47 release was released as part of the release of Cortex XSIAM 2.6. The release is divided into three deployments: April 27, 2025, May 11, 2025, and May 18, 2025.

The following table describes the changes integrated on the Broker VM maintenance version 27.100.18 released on June 22, 2025 as part of the Cortex XSIAM 2.6 release.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

CRTX-176531

Additional Azure-related package dependencies were installed to ensure stability for Azure deployments.

The following table describes the changes integrated on the Broker VM maintenance version 27.100.17 released on June 8, 2025 as part of the Cortex XSIAM 2.6 release.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

CRTX-172175

An issue that caused a conflict with the Azure agent in Broker VM deployments and potentially caused upgrade failures is now fixed.

CRTX-172843

The Broker VM upgrade mechanism is now updated to improve networking stability and error detection.

The XDR Collectors major release for Windows 1.5.0.1733 and Linux 1.5.0.1695 was released as part of the release of Cortex XSIAM 2.5 on February 16, 2025.

The following table describes the changes integrated for this release:

FEATURE/ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

New XDR Collector release versions for supporting different versions of Windows

To provide compatibility to older and newer versions of Windows, Cortex XSIAM now supports the following XDR Collector major versions:

  • XDRC 1.4.3 (Old line): Supports Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 R2 versions, including supported older versions. These versions will be maintained in their current state and will only receive critical fixes going forward. This version is based on the existing 1.4.X XDRC line.

  • XDRC 1.5.0 (New line): Supports Windows 10 and above OS versions. These versions will receive all new features and development going forward, including OpenSSL 3+. This version is based on the new 1.5.X XDRC release.

CPATR-25963

An issue with the XDR Collectors checking component tags is now fixed that sometimes caused duplicate logs, unnecessary downloads, and redundant copying operations.

CPATR-27427

An issue with an HTTP header in the XDR Collectors server is now fixed that caused duplicate logs in some cases.

The XDR Collectors major release for Windows 1.4.3.1686 was released as part of the release of Cortex XSIAM 2.5 on February 16, 2025.

The following table describes the changes integrated for this release:

FEATURE/ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

New XDR Collector release versions for supporting different versions of Windows

To provide compatibility to older and newer versions of Windows, Cortex XSIAM now supports the following XDR Collector major versions:

  • XDRC 1.4.3 (Old line): Supports Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 R2 versions, including supported older versions. These versions will be maintained in their current state and will only receive critical fixes going forward. This version is based on the existing 1.4.X XDRC line.

  • XDRC 1.5.0 (New line): Supports Windows 10 and above OS versions. These versions will receive all new features and development going forward, including OpenSSL 3+. This version is based on the new 1.5.X XDRC release.

CPATR-25963

An issue with the XDR Collectors checking component tags is now fixed that sometimes caused duplicate logs, unnecessary downloads, and redundant copying operations.

CPATR-27427

An issue with an HTTP header in the XDR Collectors server is now fixed that caused duplicate logs in some cases.