Splunk® Universal Forwarder

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Fixed issues

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

8.1.7

Version 8.1.7 was released on November 19, 2021. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issues.

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


8.1.6

Version 8.1.6 was released on September 9, 2021. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issue.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2021-06-29 SPL-204906, SPL-207677, SPL-208018 UF has problems recognizing the DST changes


8.1.5

Version 8.1.5 was released on July 15, 2021. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issue.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2021-05-26 SPL-198052, SPL-206073, SPL-206074, SPL-206076 Upgrading From 8.0.6 to 8.1.0.1 Using a DEB package results in a No such file or directory message.


8.1.4

Version 8.1.4 was released on May 11, 2021. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issue.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2021-03-31 SPL-202163, SPL-195635 Splunkd increased memory usage over time when monitoring UDP port(s) with in inputs.conf
2021-03-24 SPL-198974, SPL-201704, SPL-202998, SPL-202659 AIX: Splunk Universal Forwarder crashing when the scripted input script is failing with an error (ProcessRunner - child's last words: 9cannot find portable_pid_t <tid> in _pidToUni)


8.1.3

Version 8.1.3 was released on March 18, 2021. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issue.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2021-03-05 SPL-199409, SPL-204579, SPL-199691 Windows EventLog SIDs no longer resolving after upgrade to 8.1

8.1.2

Version 8.1.2 was released on February 1, 2021. No new universal forwarder issues are fixed in this release.

8.1.1

Version 8.1.1 was released on December 8, 2020. No new universal forwarder issues are fixed in this release.

8.1.0

Version 8.1.0 was released on October 20, 2020. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issue.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-06-30 SPL-165635, SPL-191773, SPL-189789 splunk not reading file after log rotation
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Universal Forwarder: 8.1.7


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