Fixed issues

Splunk Enterprise 8.1.7.2

Splunk Enterprise 8.1.7.2 was released on December 17, 2021. This release includes version 2.16.0 of Apache Log4j to address the issues described in Splunk Security Advisory for Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046).

Splunk Enterprise 8.1.7.1

Splunk Enterprise 8.1.7.1 was released on December 13, 2021. This release includes version 2.15.0 of Apache Log4j to address the issues described in Splunk Security Advisory for Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046).

Splunk Enterprise 8.1.7

Splunk Enterprise 8.1.7 was released on November 19, 2021. This release includes fixes for the following issues.

Issues are listed in all relevant sections. Some issues might appear more than once.

Authentication and authorization issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2021-10-07	SPL-206833, SPL-213035, SPL-213036, SPL-213029	ProxySSO broken on SH cluster after upgrading Splunk from 7.2.5 to 8.0.7. Web browser shows Bad request, HTTP Request was malformed.

Data input issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2021-10-28	SPL-213416, SPL-209519	dedicatedIOthreads is not respected, causing HEC performance problems
2021-10-05	SPL-213308, SPL-210455	Splunk 7.3.4 perfmon input recording impossible values
2021-09-17	SPL-211741, SPL-210525	splunkd crashing - thread: archivereader

Search issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2021-10-06	SPL-212955, SPL-194650, SPL-213152	IDX Crashes : Crashing thread: BucketSummaryActorThread; Signal: Segmentation fault when lookups fail
2021-10-06	SPL-212946, SPL-211322	search for timeformat=%Y-%m-%d returns error message on some instances of Splunk
2021-10-05	SPL-212343, SPL-209823	In 8.2 strftime(_time, "%Ez") returns incorrect output
2021-09-17	SPL-211743, SPL-209159	Search head crash on GenerationGrabberThread
2021-08-24	SPL-204074, SPL-207747, SPL-210553, SPL-210554	ERROR HTTPClient - Should have received at least 3 tokens in status line, while getting response code. Only got 0.

Saved search, alerting, scheduling, and job management issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2021-10-28	SPL-213899, SPL-208745	Linux 7.3.1 SHC - scheduler stops working unexpectedly
2021-08-24	SPL-204074, SPL-207747, SPL-210553, SPL-210554	ERROR HTTPClient - Should have received at least 3 tokens in status line, while getting response code. Only got 0.

Charting, reporting, and visualization issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2021-10-26	SPL-213952, SPL-209481, SPL-214759	Custom VIZ - data chunk duplication and receiving additional chunk

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2021-10-25	SPL-204230, SPL-206646, SPL-214045, SPL-214046	Crashing thread: TcpChannelThread and DispatchReaper Received fatal signal 11 - On Search Head Cluster.

Indexer and indexer clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2021-10-28	SPL-213902, SPL-206510	CM issues fixup tasks for "frozen in cluster" clustered buckets

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2021-10-19	SPL-213083, SPL-213081	TcpoutQ full with tcpout sendCookedData=false
2021-09-23	SPL-210684, SPL-211911, SPL-211912	AIX UF not able to ingest json files after upgrade to 8.2.x

Monitoring Console issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2021-10-27	SPL-213824, SPL-211712	DistHealthFetcher appears to be using https even when enableSplunkdSSL is false
2021-09-28	SPL-212813, SPL-210383	Search Head Clustering: Status and Configuration, Snapshots, Search Concurrency (Running Limit), metrics definitions unreadable after upgrade to 8.2.1

Splunk Web and interface issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2021-10-07	SPL-206833, SPL-213035, SPL-213036, SPL-213029	ProxySSO broken on SH cluster after upgrading Splunk from 7.2.5 to 8.0.7. Web browser shows Bad request, HTTP Request was malformed.

REST, Simple XML, and Advanced XML issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2021-09-08	SPL-208295, SPL-208430, SPL-211259, SPL-211262	Can't reassign objects with colons on All Configurations page

Admin and CLI issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2021-09-08	SPL-208295, SPL-208430, SPL-211259, SPL-211262	Can't reassign objects with colons on All Configurations page

Uncategorized issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2021-11-10	SPL-214594, SPL-214585	Workload Management Rules preventing user field extractions after creating an admission rule search_time_range=alltime
2021-11-02	SPL-214585, SPL-209701, SPL-214594	Workload Management Rules preventing user field extractions after creating an admission rule search_time_range=alltime
2021-09-21	SPL-207198, SPL-208229, SPL-212063, SPL-212064	transforms.conf regex for multi-line event with REPEAT_MATCH set to true causes crash
2021-08-24	SPL-210529, SPL-208338	When using a License Manager that has both ITSI and Hunk license installed, all connected Splunk instances are showing Hunk branding