Splunk Enterprise version 8.1 will no longer be supported as of April 19, 2023. See the Splunk Software Support Policy for details. For information about upgrading to a supported version, see How to upgrade Splunk Enterprise.
This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® Enterprise.
For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.
Fixed issues
Splunk Enterprise 8.1.2 was released on February 1, 2021. 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.
Highlighted issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-29 | SPL-198149, SPL-199358 | KVStore lookup indexing leads to slow search performance and intermittent errors in searches. In Splunk Enterprise version 8.1.2, if you encounter this problem change the |
| Date resolved | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-14 | SPL-193996, SPL-186425 | SmartStore: Rebuilding an evicted DMA summary causes us to re-upload the old tsidx file with the newly rebuilt one |
| 2020-12-21 | SPL-196941, SPL-198281 | diag fails on windows server 2016 running splunk 8.1.0 with french locale/language set |
| 2020-12-17 | SPL-198536, SPL-197299 | Splunk will crash after startup when enableDataIntegrityControl=true is set for _metrics index |
| 2020-12-15 | SPL-198537, SPL-195587 | Bundles filled up + common bundle issues on SH after disk problems on idx peer |
Last modified on 12 August, 2024
| Field alias behavior change | Deprecated and removed in version 8.1 |
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 8.1.2
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