Splunk® Universal Forwarder

Forwarder Manual

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Fixed issues

The following issues were fixed in releases of the universal forwarder.

8.0.7

Version 8.0.7 was released on October 28, 2020. No new universal forwarder issues are fixed in this release.

8.0.6

Version 8.0.6 was released on September 1, 2020. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issues.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-08-11 SPL-153385, SPL-156869 Splunk crashes after reloading tcpout-group on search head and universal forwarder with enabled autoLB
2020-07-29 SPL-189789, SPL-165635 splunk not reading file after log rotation


8.0.5

Version 8.0.5 was released on July 9, 2020. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issue.

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-05-07 SPL-188622, SPL-184263 UFs stop forwarding after some time and need constant restarting

8.0.4

Version 8.0.4 was released on May 21, 2020. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issue.

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-03-31 SPL-185540, SPL-183953 Batch Stanza deleting file upon restart/read completion

8.0.3

Version 8.0.3 was released on April 1, 2020. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issue.

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-02-27 SPL-184043, SPL-157269 High CPU usage originating from Splunk UF on macOS devices

8.0.2

Version 8.0.2 was released on February 11, 2020. No new universal forwarder issues are fixed in this release.

8.0.1

Version 8.0.1 was released on December 12, 2019. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issue.

Date resolved Issue number Description
2019-11-25 SPL-171961 Unpatched universal forwarders that process structured data, process data locally, or encounter unknown file types with a monitor input experience problems with timestamp extraction beginning on January 1, 2020. See Timestamp recognition of dates with two-digit years fails beginning January 1, 2020 for information and solutions.

8.0.0

Version 8.0.0 was released on October 22, 2019. No new universal forwarder issues are fixed in this release.

Last modified on 03 August, 2021
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Universal Forwarder: 8.0.7


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