Release notes

This topic contains information on new features, known issues, and updates as we version the Splunk Add-on for Windows.

New Features

Version 4.8.4 of the Splunk Add-on for Windows does not have any new features.

Version 4.8.4 of the Splunk Add-on for Windows fixes the following issues.

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2017-02-25	ADDON-8495	Incorrect field transformations: Account_Domain to dest_nt_domain, and Login_ID_as_session_id
2017-02-22	ADDON-8497	"XmlWinEventLog:Security" events with EventCode 4776, 4768, 4769 not correctly mapped
2017-02-20	ADDON-8491	Windows TA DHCP server field names extracted directly to CIM; Mac field not CIM-compliant
2017-02-08	ADDON-13516	WMI:CPUTime: "ProcessorFrequency" does not exist in "Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Processor"
2017-02-08	ADDON-8496	OS name mapped to the CPU Architecture Family field for "WinHostMon" sourcetype
2017-01-23	ADDON-8488	severity_id is overriding severity
2017-01-23	ADDON-12004	InstalledScripts props incorrectly clips the time from AM (sub 1200) installations
2017-01-23	ADDON-11213	Should remove alert tag for ALL Windows event logs
2016-12-21	ADDON-8486	sourcetype=Script:InstalledApps needs quoted values for Splunk to see complete app names

Version 4.8.4 of the Splunk Add-on for Windows contains the following known issues.

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2018-09-06	ADDON-19338	Data duplication issue in WindowsUpdate.Log
2018-02-20	ADDON-17164	Use field alias instead of eval to extract thruput and thruput_max field extractions in WMI:LocalNetwork
2018-02-20	ADDON-17166	help content is indexed incorrectly in sourcetype DhcpSrvLog
2018-02-20	ADDON-17167	cpu_load_mhz is not extracted from counter "Processor Frequency" of Perfmon object="Processor Information"
2018-02-19	ADDON-17163	Some WMI fields values contain spaces but don't get extracted properly
2018-02-19	ADDON-17161	All prebuilt panels based on macro `compute-ingestion-stats` are not populating
2017-02-24	ADDON-13847, ADDON-13875	'cpu_load_percent' or 'windows_cpu_load_percent' is missing in sourcetype "Perfmon:CPUTime"
2017-02-24	ADDON-13848	'storage_free_percent' field is missing in sourcetype "Perfmon:FreeDiskSpace"
2017-02-19	ADDON-13647, ADDON-8485	Better error classification for event code 4625
2016-04-19	ADDON-9162	Field extraction for Account Domain extracts multiple values