What's new and changed in SPSS Modeler?

SPSS Modeler updates can include new features, bug fixes, and security updates. Updates 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 Cloud Pak® for Data.

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Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.7

A new version of SPSS Modeler was released in October 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.7.

Assembly version: 4.8.7

This release includes the following changes:

Security fixes

CVE-2024-7885, CVE-2024-6923, CVE-2024-6345, CVE-2024-6119, CVE-2024-5971, CVE-2024-45492, CVE-2024-41110, CVE-2024-40897, CVE-2024-39338, CVE-2024-37371, CVE-2024-37370, CVE-2024-3653, CVE-2024-25638, CVE-2024-2398

CVE-2023-22102

CVE-2022-48940

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.6

A new version of SPSS Modeler was released in August 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.6.

Assembly version: 4.8.6

This release includes the following changes:

Security fixes

CVE-2024-6716, CVE-2024-6162, CVE-2024-5569, CVE-2024-4032, CVE-2024-39689, CVE-2024-3727, CVE-2024-3651, CVE-2024-36114, CVE-2024-35328, CVE-2024-35326, CVE-2024-35235, CVE-2024-34447, CVE-2024-34064, CVE-2024-34062, CVE-2024-33602, CVE-2024-33601, CVE-2024-33600, CVE-2024-33599, CVE-2024-3154, CVE-2024-30172, CVE-2024-30171, CVE-2024-29857, CVE-2024-2961, CVE-2024-29133, CVE-2024-29131, CVE-2024-29025, CVE-2024-28835, CVE-2024-28834, CVE-2024-28219, CVE-2024-28182, CVE-2024-26308, CVE-2024-25710, CVE-2024-25062, CVE-2024-24786, CVE-2024-23944, CVE-2024-23213, CVE-2024-23206, CVE-2024-22365, CVE-2024-21886, CVE-2024-21885, CVE-2024-21634, CVE-2024-21147, CVE-2024-21145, CVE-2024-21144, CVE-2024-21140, CVE-2024-21138, CVE-2024-21131, CVE-2024-21094, CVE-2024-21085, CVE-2024-21068, CVE-2024-21012, CVE-2024-21011, CVE-2024-1459, CVE-2024-0727, CVE-2024-0450, CVE-2024-0409, CVE-2024-0408, CVE-2024-0229

CVE-2023-7008, CVE-2023-6816, CVE-2023-6597, CVE-2023-6478, CVE-2023-6377, CVE-2023-6237, CVE-2023-6228, CVE-2023-6129, CVE-2023-5685, CVE-2023-5678, CVE-2023-5380, CVE-2023-5367, CVE-2023-52428, CVE-2023-43787, CVE-2023-43786, CVE-2023-43785, CVE-2023-42890, CVE-2023-42883, CVE-2023-42852, CVE-2023-41983, CVE-2023-41900, CVE-2023-41175, CVE-2023-40745, CVE-2023-40414, CVE-2023-40167, CVE-2023-39928, CVE-2023-3978, CVE-2023-39325, CVE-2023-38473, CVE-2023-38472, CVE-2023-38471, CVE-2023-38470, CVE-2023-38469, CVE-2023-37328, CVE-2023-36479, CVE-2023-36478, CVE-2023-3618, CVE-2023-3446, CVE-2023-32359, CVE-2023-3164, CVE-2023-3138, CVE-2023-2976, CVE-2023-2975, CVE-2023-26049, CVE-2023-26048, CVE-2023-26031, CVE-2023-25613, CVE-2023-25193

CVE-2022-48622, CVE-2022-48554, CVE-2022-40090, CVE-2022-3510, CVE-2022-3509, CVE-2022-33068, CVE-2022-33065, CVE-2022-3171, CVE-2022-0778

CVE-2021-43784, CVE-2021-29390, CVE-2021-22570, CVE-2021-22569

CVE-2020-8908, CVE-2020-36023

CVE-2018-10237

CVE-2014-1745

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.5

A new version of SPSS Modeler was released in April 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.5.

Assembly version: 4.8.5

This release includes the following changes:

New features

The 8.5.0 release of SPSS Modeler includes the following features and updates:

Connect to DataStax Enterprise: You can use the new DataStax Enterprise connector to connect SPSS Modeler to DataStax Enterprise, and your SPSS Modeler flows can have read and write access to the data source. For more information, see Supported data sources for SPSS Modeler.
Use timestamps with microseconds: For connectors that support SQL pushback, you can now use timestamps measured to an accuracy of six decimal places after the zero (0.000001). Your SPSS Modeler flows retain the more precise timestamp data. For information about using this new feature, see Setting properties for flows.
If you enable this new feature, you must manually open and save the Data Asset nodes that you want to use it on. For more information about this limitation, see Known issues and limitations for SPSS Modeler.

Security fixes

This release includes fixes for the following security issues:

CVE-2024-28849, CVE-2024-28757, CVE-2024-28180, CVE-2024-24557, CVE-2024-2312, CVE-2024-1931, CVE-2024-1488, CVE-2024-1048

CVE-2023-7216, CVE-2023-6918, CVE-2023-6004, CVE-2023-5455, CVE-2023-52426, CVE-2023-52425, CVE-2023-50447, CVE-2023-4693, CVE-2023-4692, CVE-2023-38546, CVE-2023-36632, CVE-2023-32665, CVE-2023-32611, CVE-2023-29499, CVE-2023-24056, CVE-2023-22081, CVE-2023-22025, CVE-2023-1579

CVE-2021-43618, CVE-2021-39537, CVE-2021-3472

CVE-2020-19188

CVE-2018-18700

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.4

A new version of SPSS Modeler was released in March 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.4.

Assembly version: 4.8.4

This release includes the following changes:

New features

The 8.4.0 release of SPSS Modeler includes the following features and updates:

You can now use timestamps with milliseconds: Your SPSS Modeler flows can now include timestamps with time measured in milliseconds. Previously, nodes in SPSS Modeler flows would truncate timestamps to seconds. The SPSS Modeler flow now retains and uses the more precise time data.

Security fixes

This release includes fixes for the following security issues:

CVE-2024-26130, CVE-2024-1597

CVE-2023-6135, CVE-2023-50868, CVE-2023-50782, CVE-2023-50387, CVE-2023-39410

CVE-2022-37052

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.3

A new version of SPSS Modeler was released in February 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.3.

Assembly version: 4.8.3

This release includes the following changes:

New features

The 8.3.0 release of SPSS Modeler includes the following features and updates:

Save field formatting in chart node: When you use the chart builder to visualize data from columns, any chart settings that you specify in the chart builder are now saved. For example, you can set an Age column to have a number format. When you run the chart, the field formats that you set for the columns are used. For more information about chart builder, see Charts node.
Set data set precedence for a Merge node with the Anti-join setting: When you run a Merge node with the Anti-join setting, you receive a set of records from the data set that has precedence. By default, the first data set that you connect to the Merge node in a Modeler flow always takes precedence. Now you can edit the Tags and order of input data sets setting in the Merge node to specify which data set has precedence. For more information about the Merge node and the Anti-join setting, see Merge node.

Issues fixed in this release

The following issue, which was reported by customers, has been fixed in this release:

DT260812: Job Interrupted with status Completed

The following issues were also fixed in this release:

Google BigQuery categorical fields now render correctly

Issue: Data Asset nodes had issues reading information from a Google BigQuery connection. The Data Asset node in the SPSS Modeler flow sometimes displayed categorical fields as typeless for Measurement.
Resolution: The categorical fields from Google BigQuery tables now display properly.

CSV file content with single quotation marks are parsed correctly

Issue: Due to a WDP connector issue, some information from CSV files was not parsed correctly when there were single quotation marks in the fields.
Resolution: CSV files are now parsed correctly.

Security fixes

This release includes fixes for the following security issues:

CVE-2024-22195, CVE-2024-20952, CVE-2024-20945, CVE-2024-20926, CVE-2024-20921, CVE-2024-20919, CVE-2024-20918, CVE-2024-0690, CVE-2024-0553

CVE-2023-7104, CVE-2023-6481, CVE-2023-6378, CVE-2023-5981, CVE-2023-5764, CVE-2023-5633, CVE-2023-5388, CVE-2023-49569, CVE-2023-49568, CVE-2023-48795, CVE-2023-4622, CVE-2023-45803, CVE-2023-45285, CVE-2023-45284, CVE-2023-45283, CVE-2023-43804, CVE-2023-42753, CVE-2023-39615, CVE-2023-39326, CVE-2023-39325, CVE-2023-39323, CVE-2023-39319, CVE-2023-39318, CVE-2023-38473, CVE-2023-38472, CVE-2023-38471, CVE-2023-38470, CVE-2023-38469, CVE-2023-3446, CVE-2023-27043, CVE-2023-26159, CVE-2023-2162, CVE-2023-20569

CVE-2022-48564, CVE-2022-48560, CVE-2022-44638, CVE-2022-36402

CVE-2021-35939, CVE-2021-35938, CVE-2021-35937, CVE-2021-3468

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.1

A new version of SPSS Modeler was released in December 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.1.

Assembly version: 4.8.1

This release includes the following changes:

Security fixes

This release includes fixes for the following security issues:

CVE-2023-5178, CVE-2023-49083, CVE-2023-4732, CVE-2023-4641, CVE-2023-45857, CVE-2023-44487, CVE-2023-4208, CVE-2023-4207, CVE-2023-4206, CVE-2023-41900, CVE-2023-4155, CVE-2023-4132, CVE-2023-40167, CVE-2023-4016, CVE-2023-3812, CVE-2023-3772, CVE-2023-36479, CVE-2023-36478, CVE-2023-3611, CVE-2023-3609, CVE-2023-35824, CVE-2023-35823, CVE-2023-34241, CVE-2023-33952, CVE-2023-33951, CVE-2023-33203, CVE-2023-32681, CVE-2023-3268, CVE-2023-32324, CVE-2023-3212, CVE-2023-3161, CVE-2023-31436, CVE-2023-3141, CVE-2023-3138, CVE-2023-31084, CVE-2023-30456, CVE-2023-29409, CVE-2023-29406, CVE-2023-29405, CVE-2023-29404, CVE-2023-29403, CVE-2023-29402, CVE-2023-29400, CVE-2023-28772, CVE-2023-28328, CVE-2023-26545, CVE-2023-2513, CVE-2023-24540, CVE-2023-24539, CVE-2023-24538, CVE-2023-24537, CVE-2023-24536, CVE-2023-24534, CVE-2023-24532, CVE-2023-23455, CVE-2023-22745, CVE-2023-21968, CVE-2023-21967, CVE-2023-21954, CVE-2023-21939, CVE-2023-21938, CVE-2023-21937, CVE-2023-21930, CVE-2023-2163, CVE-2023-1998, CVE-2023-1989, CVE-2023-1981, CVE-2023-1855, CVE-2023-1393, CVE-2023-1382, CVE-2023-1252, CVE-2023-1206, CVE-2023-1192, CVE-2023-1118, CVE-2023-1079, CVE-2023-1075, CVE-2023-1074, CVE-2023-1073, CVE-2023-0597, CVE-2023-0590, CVE-2023-0458

CVE-2022-4744, CVE-2022-46751, CVE-2022-45919, CVE-2022-45887, CVE-2022-45886, CVE-2022-45884, CVE-2022-45869, CVE-2022-42895, CVE-2022-41725, CVE-2022-41724, CVE-2022-41723, CVE-2022-41717, CVE-2022-41716, CVE-2022-41715, CVE-2022-40982, CVE-2022-40133, CVE-2022-38457, CVE-2022-3640, CVE-2022-3594, CVE-2022-32190, CVE-2022-2880, CVE-2022-2879, CVE-2022-28388, CVE-2022-27664, CVE-2022-26336

CVE-2021-43975

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.0

A new version of SPSS Modeler was released in November 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.0.

Assembly version: 4.8

This release includes the following changes:

New features

The 8.0.0 release of SPSS Modeler includes the following features and updates:

Traditional skewness values in the Data Audit table

The skewness value can help you understand the shape and nature of data distribution when you audit data. SPSS Modeler can calculate the skewness value in two ways:

The adjusted skewness value
The traditional skewness value

The traditional_skewness is calculated by Data View. The adjusted_skewness value is used by the SPSS Modeler backend and Python.

Previously, only the adjusted skewness was displayed in the Data Audit table. Now, the traditional skewness value is displayed by default. You can click the graph of the data set to view both skewness values. For more information, see Data Audit node.

Use additional files types

You can now use the following file types in SPSS Modeler:

Parquet data files
SAV data files

For more information, see Supported data sources for SPSS Modeler.

SQL pushback available on additional data sources

You can now connect to and use SQL pushback on the following data sources from SPSS Modeler:

PostgreSQL
IBM Cloud® Databases for PostgreSQL
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

For more information, see Supported data sources for SPSS Modeler.

Read and write access available on additional data source

You can now connect to and have read and write access on SingleStoreDB from SPSS Modeler.

Conserve resources

If multiple SPSS Modeler flows are open from the same project at the same time, your system might run low on memory. SPSS Modeler now displays a warning message when multiple flows cause your system to run low on memory. You can review all the active flows and close the ones that are not running to save resource.

Customize and reuse text analysis packages, libraries, and templates

You can customize and save linguistic resources, such as text analysis packages, libraries, and templates as project assets from the Text Analytics Workbench. You can then reuse these linguistic resources in other flows that include a Text Mining node. For more information, see Linguistic resources.

View branch status when you run your modeler flow

When you run an SPSS Modeler flow, you can see how many branches in the flow are running and its progress.

Issue fixed in this release

The following issue, which was reported by customers, has been fixed in this release:

DT240290: Incorrect confusion matrix in Neural Network model nugget

Security fixes

This release includes fixes for the following security issues:

CVE-2023-5156, CVE-2023-4911, CVE-2023-4863, CVE-2023-4813, CVE-2023-4806, CVE-2023-46234, CVE-2023-45803, CVE-2023-4527, CVE-2023-45143, CVE-2023-45142, CVE-2023-45133, CVE-2023-44981, CVE-2023-44271, CVE-2023-43804, CVE-2023-43642, CVE-2023-42503, CVE-2023-4237, CVE-2023-40217, CVE-2023-4004, CVE-2023-3978, CVE-2023-39410, CVE-2023-39333, CVE-2023-39325, CVE-2023-3899, CVE-2023-38552, CVE-2023-38325, CVE-2023-37920, CVE-2023-3776, CVE-2023-35788, CVE-2023-35001, CVE-2023-34969, CVE-2023-34462, CVE-2023-34455, CVE-2023-34454, CVE-2023-34453, CVE-2023-34104, CVE-2023-3390, CVE-2023-32732, CVE-2023-32731, CVE-2023-32681, CVE-2023-32559, CVE-2023-32360, CVE-2023-32006, CVE-2023-32002, CVE-2023-3090, CVE-2023-30630, CVE-2023-2976, CVE-2023-29491, CVE-2023-29469, CVE-2023-28842, CVE-2023-28841, CVE-2023-28840, CVE-2023-28484, CVE-2023-28466, CVE-2023-28321, CVE-2023-27536, CVE-2023-26920, CVE-2023-26604, CVE-2023-26136, CVE-2023-2603, CVE-2023-2602, CVE-2023-25399, CVE-2023-25193, CVE-2023-25173, CVE-2023-25153, CVE-2023-24329, CVE-2023-23936, CVE-2023-23920, CVE-2023-23919, CVE-2023-23918, CVE-2023-2283, CVE-2023-2253, CVE-2023-2235, CVE-2023-22081, CVE-2023-2194, CVE-2023-2124, CVE-2023-20593, CVE-2023-2002, CVE-2023-1829, CVE-2023-1667, CVE-2023-1637, CVE-2023-1428, CVE-2023-1281, CVE-2023-0804, CVE-2023-0803, CVE-2023-0802, CVE-2023-0801, CVE-2023-0800

CVE-2022-48281, CVE-2022-42896, CVE-2022-4285, CVE-2022-41721, CVE-2022-32149, CVE-2022-31030, CVE-2022-25883, CVE-2022-23471, CVE-2022-1259

CVE-2021-3999, CVE-2021-35942

CVE-2020-8908, CVE-2020-24736, CVE-2020-1752, CVE-2020-1751, CVE-2020-10029

CVE-2019-19126

CVE-2017-11468