Splunk® Universal Forwarder

Forwarder Manual

This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® Universal Forwarder. For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.

Fixed issues

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

8.0.4

Version 8.0.4 was released on May 21, 2020. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issue.

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-03-31 SPL-185540, SPL-183953 Batch Stanza deleting file upon restart/read completion

8.0.3

Version 8.0.3 was released on April 1, 2020. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issue.

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-02-27 SPL-184043, SPL-157269 High CPU usage originating from Splunk UF on macOS devices

8.0.2

Version 8.0.2 was released on February 11, 2020. No new universal forwarder issues are fixed in this release.

8.0.1

Version 8.0.1 was released on December 12, 2019. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issue.

Date resolved Issue number Description
2019-11-25 SPL-171961 Unpatched universal forwarders that process structured data, process data locally, or encounter unknown file types with a monitor input experience problems with timestamp extraction beginning on January 1, 2020. See Timestamp recognition of dates with two-digit years fails beginning January 1, 2020 for information and solutions.

8.0.0

Version 8.0.0 was released on October 22, 2019. No new universal forwarder issues are fixed in this release.

Last modified on 16 June, 2020
Known issues   Third-party software

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Universal Forwarder: 8.0.4


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