Fixed issues

Splunk Enterprise 8.0.6 was released on September 1, 2020. This release includes fixes for the following issues.

Issues are listed in all relevant sections. Some issues might appear more than once. To check for additional security issues related to this release, visit the Splunk Security Portal.

Authentication and authorization issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-07-15	SPL-191770, SPL-174782	SAML Config Error When Optional Field is Empty

Upgrade issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-07-13	SPL-191799	Upgrading Splunk Enterprise from 7.x or 8.0.x to 8.0.5 breaks Splunk Add-on for Service Now

Data input issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-07-22	SPL-191788, SPL-191251	search_telemetry.json not populating sourcetypes on distributed searches

Search issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-08-05	SPL-192373, SPL-191605	fields command being run before streamstats in search causing incorrect results
2020-08-04	SPL-192269, SPL-188997	Search performance degradation with chained lookups.
2020-07-30	SPL-192057, SPL-188608	Realtime and in-progress adhoc searches shows "Job terminated unexpectedly" on members of SHC other than the SH from which the search originated
2020-07-27	SPL-192025	Search & Reporting App "Analytics" tab not working as expected
2020-07-27	SPL-191486, SPL-191993	CASE() combined with OR and non-CASE() statements only returns the results for the CASE() part
2020-07-21	SPL-191676, SPL-191092	sendalert failed as results.csv.gz was not found
2020-07-17	SPL-191848, SPL-186721	Use namespaced fetch requests on saved searches page
2020-07-13	SPL-191799	Upgrading Splunk Enterprise from 7.x or 8.0.x to 8.0.5 breaks Splunk Add-on for Service Now

Saved search, alerting, scheduling, and job management issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-08-26	SPL-194243, SPL-193332	After upgrade to version 8.0.5, the splunk user needs the "admin_all_objects" capability to send email alert
2020-08-11	SPL-193366, SPL-191471	Add Data wizard: Data preview pane is not working correctly with fairly complex data
2020-07-21	SPL-191676, SPL-191092	sendalert failed as results.csv.gz was not found

Charting, reporting, and visualization issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-07-28	SPL-192576, SPL-191721	cloud windows user getting Uncaught Invariant Violation: Minified React error #185 when editing dashboard
2020-07-27	SPL-192123, SPL-191120	Relative_time function in eval for token in dashboard date calculation returning future dates is wrong

Indexer and indexer clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2021-05-04	SPL-188878, SPL-189040	When a cluster slave restarts without $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/slave-apps, but current active bundle file still present, splunk starts up without slave-apps.
2020-06-26	SPL-191346, SPL-188562	Indexers crashes: Crashing thread: cachemanagerDownloadExecutorWorker-318 fails on assertion: `_groups_remaining > 0'

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-07-30	SPL-192057, SPL-188608	Realtime and in-progress adhoc searches shows "Job terminated unexpectedly" on members of SHC other than the SH from which the search originated

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

Monitoring Console issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-08-10	SPL-192386, SPL-191600	Update Health Report periodically without color change to show currently log messages

Windows-specific 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
2020-07-20	SPL-191296, SPL-190166	<daf> - App context option not working properly while creating Windows Inputs

Admin and CLI issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-07-27	SPL-192123, SPL-191120	Relative_time function in eval for token in dashboard date calculation returning future dates is wrong

Uncategorized issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-08-11	SPL-191188, SPL-185951, SPL-191953	Unable to upload background logo on 8.0.2
2020-07-10	SPL-188976, SPL-191370	streamstats return incomplete result after upgrade to v8.0.x
2020-07-06	SPL-186591, SPL-189033	Creating a diag fails using Japanese OS in Windows server 2016.
2020-07-06	SPL-180896, SPL-191129, SPL-203942	diag fail with: UnicodeDecodeError on 8.0.0