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# Additional features and enhancements

Cortex XDR 5 includes the following additional features and enhancements:

#### Dashboard and report enhancements

The following improvements make dashboard and report widgets more flexible, interactive, and customizable.

* Create script-based widgets to display relevant third-party data and streamline complex calculations, empowering your employees with insightful information at a glance.
* Create rich text and enhance readability with new markdown formatting for text-based widgets.
* Optimize time tracking with the ability to measure and present time duration in widgets, using the single value chart option.
* Refresh individual widgets on demand, while gaining visibility with an improved last updated status.

For more information, see [Fine-tune dashboards and reports](/cortex-xdr-5.x/detect-investigate-and-respond-to-threats/monitor-dashboards-and-reports.md).


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