4.1
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4.1
The following issues have been resolved in this release:
- Field picker sorting broken after I click around different pages of search results and add/remove fields. (SPL-23308)
- maxTotalDataSize doesn't seem to be honored. (SPL-30534)
- When getting local Windows Event logs and also indexing .evt files, splunkd will crash if the local Windows Event logs have GUIDs in them. (SPL-30314)
- Saved search object "win_eventlog_count_sum_index" has a specific owner, which causes the UI to try to access that specific user's workspace. (SPL-30229)
- Dashboard search in Windows app creates excessive summary index entries. (SPL-29972)
- Event Results Time range displayed in wrong TZ when choosing date from calendar picker.
- Running the MSI commandline installer with LAUNCHSPLUNK=0 & SplunkLightForwarder enabled causes splunkweb to start up. (SPL-29798)
- Disabling typeahead per role results in unsightly error in Splunk Web. (SPL-29337)
- Show Source' only displays 100 lines. (SPL-29292)
- Searches are scheduled & run with SplunkLightForwarder enabled. (SPL-29224)
- Running splunk clean all -f barfs with "ERROR :: Cannot call rmtree on a symbolic link" if symbolic links exists in DBs. (SPL-28949)
- In situations where an index has been deleted but the inputs feeding have not also been deleted, indexed data volume is measured before it's actually commited to disk. (SPL-28915)
- Systems with large metadata (.data) files (can be due to sourcetyping issues) experience degraded search performance. (SPL-28700)
- Sending files to the sinkhole follows symlinks to directories, deleting contents outside the sinkhole. (SPL-28652)
- Switching from enterprise to free results in nonfunctional searches with ugly summary indexing error. (SPL-28470)
- The content of the audit index is counting against license. (SPL-28462)
- Archived data copied into thaweddb requires Splunk restart. (SPL-28428)
- The _time field is always included in results, even when I tell it not to. (SPL-28413)
- SplunkLightForwarder app with forwarder license is reporting license violations. (SPL-28354)_
- Should not be able to remove app read/write privileges for the admin user. (SPL-28079)
- Cleartext passwords in authentication.conf files are not encrypted/replaced if the authentication.conf file is stored in etc/apps/search/local instead of etc/system/local. (SPL-28073)
- Automatic kv extraction is not working some events. (SPL-27889)
- Wnabling SplunkLightForwarder without an outputs.conf tcpout set up automatically blackholes your data. (SPL-27747)
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host=on TCP input is not respected. (SPL-27735) - Audit signing is IDing the events in wrong order resulting in false gaps. (SPL-27673)
- When a machine set up for distributed search goes down, the main indexer becomes unusable. (SPL-27640)
- Email alert garbles Japanese characters. (SPL-27541)
- If you use panel_row_1_col_1_grp_1 with nothing in the row_1_col_1 node, an exception is thrown. (SPL-27354)
- Problems with lookup tables against strings containing backslashes. (SPL-27351)
- Strings containing backslashes are not properly passed in forms. (SPL-27343)
- The splunk set server-type forwarder CLI option is broken and should be removed. (SPL-27283)
- Simple XML searchPostProcess basically doesn't work with <chart> and <fields>. (SPL-27248)
- Automatic load-balancing forwarder breaks when the indexer is out of disk space. (SPL-27235)
- Easy to overwrite saved searches when sharing. (SPL-27201)
- Setting in
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default/props.confstill taking precedence over setting in app's props.conf. (SPL-27062) - Search processes running but jobs page reports all searches as done. (SPL-26861)
- Links to saved searches in email alerts older than 24 hours return 404 and stack trace. (SPL-26448)
- The splunk list forward-server command does not work when doing SSL forwarding. (SPL-26236)
- Typeahead is not picking the right values. (SPL-26218)
- Different fields displayed searching via Splunk Web and email alert link. (SPL-26203)
- Typeahead searches crashing, high memory usage. (SPL-25790)
- Removing a UNC path via Splunk Web strips Windows backslashes. (SPL-25473_
- Highlight works for the first transaction event but not on the second event. (SPL-25419)
- Downed (ungraceful shutdown) forwarder completely skips over the rest of log file. (SPL-25259)
- Default extractions for access_combined sourcetype don't work when URI is enclosed with quotes. (SPL-18953)
- A .csv file with ^M linebreaks won't create fields, replace with proper linebreaks and it's ok. (SPL-17294)
- Undefined transform is reference in [WinRegistry] stanza in props.conf, resulting in an error in splunkd.log. (SPL-30433)
- Confusing messaging when using distributed search and mixed indexes:"A clause in your search will not return results. Make sure you are using 'OR' to search multiple indexes and at least one specified index exists." (SPL-30198)
- Quoted expression inside parentheses is incorrectly escaped on load. (SPL-29155)
- Exception data from search script does not work for some flags (streaming, retainsevents, overrides_timeorder) and an "error in 'restitch' command" error is displayed. (SPL-28851)
- Provided search command scripts do not actually do the same thing that the commands they are named after do; this confuses people trying to write search scripts. These scripts should be removed or renamed. (SPL-28789)
- Typeahead should timeout faster upon initial connection to search peers. (SPL-28773)
- Remove '(optional)' from Manager » Distributed search » Search peers » Add New. (SPL-28466)
- Alert script stalls if the search does not return. (SPL-28421)
- Setting user password with non-existent role breaks Splunk Web access. (SPL-28417)
- Package preinstall script tries to create solaris user with shell '/bin/bash' which is frequently not present. (SPL-28331)
- House cleaning on limits.conf.spec for those parameters no longer valid. (SPL-28321)
- Lookup code doesn't tell user about nonexistent fields. (SPL-28307)
- No online help for UPPERCASEd commands, although such are valid. (SPL-28284)
- Splunk Web gets really slow if its connection to the external internet is intermittent (it's trying to connect to Splunkbase. (SPL-28210)
- Batch file input/sinkhole doesn't re-eat files on Windows XP. (SPL-28019)
- Show source action will generate lots of errors in logs. (SPL-27839)
- In alert_actions.conf.spec: inline = auto -- should be removed. (SPL-27814)
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etc/apps/learned/local/props.confcan balloon when a "bad input is added and too many sourcetypes are created, which affects performance. (SPL-27810) - The cron_schedule is whitespace sensitive (SPL-27775)
- Reports with Heat map or high-low values don't show up on a dashboard. (SPL-27743)
- The progress indicator does not display anything initially, until the search returns the first event. (SPL-27736)
- Delayed indexing for 200+ UDP sources on same port. (SPL-27632)
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viewstates.confis not promoted when a user promote a search that has additional fields from the fields picker. (SPL-27503, SPL-28503, SPL-24827) - Missing
etc\system\README deploymentclient.conf.specand.example. (SPL-27388) - The
listtailsCLI command has been deprecated and should not be used. For most purposes, thelist monitorcommand can be used instead. (SPL-27334, SPL-31602)
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