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# Features Introduced in Cortex XDR Agent 8.4
The following section describes the new features introduced in Cortex XDR agent 8.4 releases according to the supported agent operating systems.
#### General Features
| Feature | Description |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Forensics | Cortex XDR introduces a new Forensic Hunting feature to the Forensics add-on. This includes:
- Named collection of user-defined searches
- Method for running artifact searches at scale
- Support for custom search parameters across all supported artifacts
- Configurable timeouts for each artifact search
- Ability to schedule searches for specific days or time ranges
- Replaces artifact and search collections in User Agent settings and Forensic searches in the Action Center.
|
#### Linux Features
The following features were added to Cortex XDR agents running on Linux endpoints:
| Feature | Description |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Cloud Security Agent | Unified (single) agent that reduces maintenance and resource overheads while providing runtime security and vulnerability management capabilities for cloud native environments.
Requirements:
- Cortex XSIAM 2.2/Cortex XDR 3.10 Cloud per Host
- Prisma Cloud Compute
- Cortex XDR agent 8.2.1 or above
|
| Operating systems | Support for the following Linux Kubernetes operating system has been added in release 8.4
|
#### Mac Features
The following features were added to Cortex XDR agents running on Mac endpoints:
| Feature | Description |
| ---------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Vulnerability Assessment scanning engine | Cortex XDR support has been expanded to include an improved vulnerability scanning engine for both OS-level and 3rd-party applications level CVEs. |
#### Windows Features
The following features were added to Cortex XDR agents running on Windows endpoints:
| Feature | Description |
| ---------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Vulnerability Assessment scanning engine | Cortex XDR support has been expanded to include an improved vulnerability scanning engine for both OS-level and 3rd-party applications level CVEs. |
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