Forwarder Manual

Fixed issues

The following issues were fixed in maintenance releases of the universal forwarder.

6.4.8

Version 6.4.8 was released on June 21, 2017.

This release does not fix any new universal forwarder issues.

6.4.7

Version 6.4.7 was released on April 24, 2017.

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2017-03-30	SPL-140544, SPL-135562	Universal forwarder on AIX attempts to start splunkweb during internally-triggered restart, warns that "SRC did not 'stopsrc splunkweb'".

6.4.6

Version 6.4.6 was released on February 23, 2017.

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2017-01-19	SPL-135019, SPL-134112	Unactionable error message for invalid server URIs in outputs.conf.
2017-01-06	SPL-134071, SPL-117117	Splunk Forwarder Service terminated unexpectedly occurs on several customer's environment
2016-12-06	SPL-132960, SPL-120612	Splunk Universal Forwarder on AIX 7.1 crashes when host not listed in AcceptFrom in inputs.conf file on indexers
2016-12-01	SPL-132620, SPL-128710	Having many forwarders, forwarding to an intermediate forwarder, can result in intermediate crashing in certain scenarios

6.4.5

Version 6.4.5 was released on December 15, 2016.

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2016-11-14	SPL-130802, SPL-129109	Improper line breaking of IIS logs
2016-11-01	SPL-127436, SPL-131210, SPL-131405	syslog forwarding does not work with IPv6+UDP connection

6.4.4

Version 6.4.4 was released on October 3, 2016. This release fixes the following issue.

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2016-08-30	SPL-127095, SPL-123187, SPL-127079	Duplicate events with indexerDiscovery following outages on indexer cluster.

6.4.3

Version 6.4.3 was released on August 22, 2016. This release fixes the following issue.

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2016-07-05	SPL-123781	Dropped events messages in splunkd are INFO; should be WARN.

6.4.2

Version 6.4.2 was released on July 11, 2016. This release fixes the following issue.

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2016-06-07	SPL-121336	UF crashes in populate_VolumesIdata when constructing IndexerService object.

6.4.1

Version 6.4.1 was released on May 18, 2016. This release fixes the following issues.

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2016-05-18	SPL-118187	Universal forwarder stops sending events due to TCP failover.
2016-05-08	SPL-118661	When forwarding to both standalone and indexerDiscovery, only cluster peers have data.