Splunk® Enterprise

Release Notes

Splunk Enterprise version 8.2 is no longer supported as of September 30, 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 8.2.4 was released on December 21, 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).

This release also includes fixes for the following issues. Issues are listed in all relevant sections. Some issues might appear more than once.


Date resolved Issue number Description
2021-11-17 SPL-208777, SPL-209630 Splunk 8.2 fails to run scheduled searches to populate summary indexes due to StatsFileWriterLz4 file open failed
Last modified on 12 August, 2024
Field alias behavior change   Deprecated and removed in version 8.2

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 8.2.4


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