Fixed issues

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

9.0.6

Version 9.0.6 was released on August 30, 2023.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2023-08-08	SPL-240820, SPL-242100, SPL-242101, SPL-242102, SPL-242103	Windows EventLog splunk-winevtlog.exe modular input crashing during AD object resolution

9.0.5

Version 9.0.5 was released on May 30, 2023. This release delivers the UF-relevant changes that have a date of 2023-06-01 on the Security Advisories list on the Splunk website. This release also fixes the following universal forwarder issues.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2023-03-15	SPL-236429	Universal forwarder download for PPCLE kernel 3.0+ is unavailable for version 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.0.4
2023-03-01	SPL-236166, SPL-232028	Windows Defender logs stop being forwarded but other Winevent logs continue to forward until UF is restarted
2023-02-27	SPL-236097, CSPL-2216, SPL-236361, SPL-240877	UF 9.0.x migration fails when systemd errors especially in Docker Containers

9.0.4

Version 9.0.4 was released on February 14, 2023. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issues.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2023-01-18	SPL-217024, SPL-252644	Constant Memory growth with Universal Forwarder UDP / TCP inputs and third party forwarding enabled.
2022-12-05	SPL-231514, SPL-228406	UF crash on EventLoop::run assert rv > 0
2022-12-01	SPL-233535, SPL-231086	UF 9.x Unnecessary user creation during silent installation

9.0.3

Version 9.0.3 was released on December 14, 2022. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issues:

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2023-04-14	SPL-232147	Debian package failed to start on armv8 agent `re-pkg-arm64`
2023-03-28	SPL-237740, SPL-226003	When forwarding from an 9.0 instance with useAck enabled, ingestion stops after some time with errors: "Invalid ACK received from indexer="
2022-11-14	SPL-231927, SPL-227653	UF throws erroneous WARN for KVSTORE SSL misconfiguration on startup - server.conf//sslVerifyServerCert or "Starting migrate-kvstore."
2022-11-02	SPL-231793	Crashing in TcpOutEloop thread with assertion_failure="_refCount > 0"
2022-10-12	SPL-227653, SPL-231927	UF throws erroneous WARN for KVSTORE SSL misconfiguration on startup - server.conf//sslVerifyServerCert or "Starting migrate-kvstore."
2022-09-07	SPL-226003, SPL-237740	When forwarding from an 9.0 instance with useAck enabled, ingestion stops after some time with errors: "Invalid ACK received from indexer="

9.0.2

Version 9.0.2 was released on November 2, 2022. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issues:

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2022-09-21	SPL-222917, SPL-230428	Crash in indexer discovery service on search head
2022-09-09	SPL-229853, SPL-229208	PowerShell Modular input stopped working after UF 9.0 upgrade

9.0.1

Version 9.0.1 was released on August 16, 2022. It delivers relevant fixes described in the August 16, 2022 quarterly security patch on the Splunk Product Security page.

9.0.0.1

Version 9.0.0.1 was released on July 20, 2022. This release introduces no changes to universal forwarder functionality. This release is provided only for version parity with Splunk Enterprise 9.0.0.1, which fixes the one issue described in Splunk Enterprise 9.0.0.1 fixed issues.

9.0.0

Version 9.0.0 was released on June 14, 2022. This release fixes no new universal forwarder issues.