Release notes

1.0.0

Version 1.0.0 was released on January 16, 2025.

About this release

The Remote Upgrader for Linux Universal Forwarders to remotely upgrade your universal forwarder for Linux. It monitors for new universal forwarder packages in a predefined folder and upgrades the universal forwarder with new packages and then ingests the upgrade detail logs from the universal forwarder to the indexers.

Known issues

This topic lists known issues that are specific to the universal forwarder.

Jira	Issue
SPL-242848	UF changes after the updater installation may need to manually update the config files: Changes after updater installation Problem Root cause Resolution Change SPLUNK_HOME Get the previous SPLUNK_HOME, and abort upgrade due to invalid SPLUNK_HOME SPLUNK_HOME is discovered only once during installation Manually update SPLUNK_HOME in local_config Install UF with another package Abort upgrade due to no package found from the monitored dir, or upgrade with incorrect package INSTALLED_UF_PKG_TYPE is discovered only once during installation Manually update INSTALLED_UF_PKG_TYPE in local_config
SPL-241389	Lack of rmp/dpkg permission of the updater user may upgrade UF with wrong packages.