Fixed issues

Splunk Enterprise 8.0.7 was released on October 28, 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.

Upgrade issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-12-02	SPL-192191, SPL-193821, SPL-194814, SPL-194816	Splunk Enterprise upgrade from version 7.x to 8.0.3 fails due to authentication.conf being encoded as Unicode/UTF-16LE

Authentication and authorization issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-09-02	SPL-191964, SPL-192421, SPL-194541	Scripted authentication times out for pages that resolve permissions for many users.

Search issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-10-07	SPL-194790, SPL-194960, SPL-194961	Reached limit max_mem_usage_mb error not appearing in UI
2020-09-30	SPL-195126, SPL-193949	search process throws exception with "ERROR SearchEvaluatorBasedExpander - Caught exception during filter to index expansion - unbalanced parentheses"
2020-09-11	SPL-194285, SPL-191472	Getting Security ID value equal to NONE_MAPPED for Member for the EventCode = 4732
2020-09-10	SPL-194413, SPL-188395, SPL-194801, SPL-194819	WebUI is not Returning Proper Bundle Validation-Restart check when there is a "Not Critical" error
2020-09-10	SPL-191854, SPL-183986	webhooks failing on Python3
2020-09-03	SPL-194536, SPL-193073, SPL-193598	reverse lookup shows inconsistent behaviors
2020-08-26	SPL-192593, SPL-192874	Searches crash with segmentation fault, backtrace contains _ZN14UnpackedResult8addMatchEP15SearchResultMemPK22LookupProcessorOptionsP19ILookupMatchFunctorPK16LookupDefinition

Charting, reporting, and visualization issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-10-02	SPL-195274, SPL-193747	Console errors while loading Area chart - "TypeError: this.hcSeries.graph is undefined" or "TypeError: Cannot read property 'attr' of undefined" console error
2020-08-26	SPL-191256, SPL-191802	Dashboard search using geostats breaks when using basesearch
2020-08-20	SPL-193477, SPL-192954	Post 7.3.4 upgrade regression: SimpleXML: <selectFirstChoice> causes browser hang, cpu spike, when value is set to 'true'

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-10-07	SPL-193571, SPL-194010, SPL-194964	SHC Captain number of threads kept increasing to over 8000; searches stopped;due to deadlock in CascadingBundleReplicationProvider code
2020-09-09	SPL-194186, SPL-194479, SPL-194627	Some search jobs run and then pause for a period of time before the search finishes.
2020-09-03	SPL-190110, SPL-90688	Platform alert "DMC Alert - Search Peer Not Responding" will never trigger for cluster peers who are down because clustering doesn't track peers in this state

Indexer and indexer clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-09-11	SPL-194091, SPL-193066	Deserialization failed. val for key=indexing_disk_space is not a valid unsigned long long number.
2020-09-03	SPL-190110, SPL-90688	Platform alert "DMC Alert - Search Peer Not Responding" will never trigger for cluster peers who are down because clustering doesn't track peers in this state

Monitoring Console issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-09-03	SPL-190110, SPL-90688	Platform alert "DMC Alert - Search Peer Not Responding" will never trigger for cluster peers who are down because clustering doesn't track peers in this state
2020-08-27	SPL-191479, SPL-194327, SPL-192966	DiskMon messages throwing wrongly for volumes beyond normal hot/warm and cold

Splunk Web and interface issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-10-07	SPL-194790, SPL-194960, SPL-194961	Reached limit max_mem_usage_mb error not appearing in UI
2020-09-30	SPL-195126, SPL-193949	search process throws exception with "ERROR SearchEvaluatorBasedExpander - Caught exception during filter to index expansion - unbalanced parentheses"
2020-09-11	SPL-194285, SPL-191472	Getting Security ID value equal to NONE_MAPPED for Member for the EventCode = 4732
2020-09-10	SPL-194413, SPL-188395, SPL-194801, SPL-194819	WebUI is not Returning Proper Bundle Validation-Restart check when there is a "Not Critical" error
2020-09-10	SPL-191854, SPL-183986	webhooks failing on Python3
2020-09-03	SPL-194536, SPL-193073, SPL-193598	reverse lookup shows inconsistent behaviors
2020-08-26	SPL-192593, SPL-192874	Searches crash with segmentation fault, backtrace contains _ZN14UnpackedResult8addMatchEP15SearchResultMemPK22LookupProcessorOptionsP19ILookupMatchFunctorPK16LookupDefinition

Admin and CLI issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-08-28	SPL-191464, SPL-192551	Sharing permission of tags created under one view is not modifiable within other views

Uncategorized issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-10-22	SPL-193425, SPL-191436	Diag needs updating so it obfuscates or removes values for remote.s3.kms.key_id values
2020-09-16	SPL-191298, SPL-193299, SPL-194575	Excess bucket removal process getting stuck when unstable buckets are not deleted due to being missing in CacheManager