Fixed issues

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

9.1.5

Version 9.1.5 was released on July 1, 2024. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issues.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2024-03-13	SPL-252445, SPL-245954	UF memory utilization by splunk-winevtlog.exe increases until resources are exausted on Domain Controller
2024-03-12	SPL-245954, SPL-252444, SPL-252445, SPL-252446	UF memory utilization by splunk-winevtlog.exe increases until resources are exausted on Domain Controller

9.1.4

Version 9.1.4 was released on March 27, 2024. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issues. It also delivers relevant updates from the 2024-03-27 Security Advisories list.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2024-03-21	SPL-248587, SPL-252796, SPL-252797	Unable to install or upgrade to Splunk Universal Forwarder version 9.1.3
2024-02-23	SPL-251516, SPL-237849	CHECK_METHOD = modtime not working as expected in ver. 9.0.4 upgrading from 8.2.7.

9.1.3

Version 9.1.3 was released on January 22, 2024. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issues.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2023-11-09	SPL-246708, SPL-245467	Global OPENSSL_CONF Env caused pre-flight check failure during installation
2023-11-02	SPL-246545, SPL-245807	Splunk forwarder crashing on AIX when failed to connect to indexers
2023-10-27	SPL-246142, SPL-233334	Warnings "user splunk does not exist" observed while installing rpm builds for Universal Forwarder
2023-10-24	SPL-244414	Crashing in TcpOutEloop thread after upgrade from 9.1.x

9.1.2

Version 9.1.2 was released on November 16, 2023. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issues.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2023-11-03	SPL-245807, SPL-246456, SPL-246545, SPL-246546	Splunk AIX UF crashing when failed to connect to indexers
2023-10-24	SPL-244414	Crashing in TcpOutEloop thread after upgrade from 9.1.x

9.1.1

Version 9.1.1 was released on August 30, 2023. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issue.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2023-08-30	SPL-242093, SPL-242240	At upgrade, the Linux RPM/DEB installer creates a default "splunkfwd" account, causing issues when Splunk is already managed by another account
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

9.1.0.1

Version 9.1.0.1 was released on July 6, 2023. This release introduces no changes to universal forwarder functionality. This release is provided only for version parity with Splunk Enterprise 9.1.0.1, which fixes the one issue described in Splunk Enterprise 9.1.0.1 fixed issues.

9.1.0

Version 9.1.0 was released on June 28, 2023. This release fixes the following universal forwarder issue.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2023-02-15	SPL-232028, SPL-236165, SPL-236166	Windows Defender logs stop being forwarded but other Winevent logs continue to forward until UF is restarted