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Fixed issues

Splunk Enterprise 7.1.9 was released on October 7, 2019. This release includes fixes for the following issues.

Issues are listed in all relevant sections. Some issues might appear more than once. To check for additional security issues related to this release, visit the Splunk Security Portal.

Data input issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2019-06-18 SPL-169707, SPL-169706 Splunk Enterprise for Windows missing python six (possibly others)

Search issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2019-09-13 SPL-173458, SPL-173777, SPL-174871, SPL-174872 Crash from multisearch command causing splunkd to crash.
2019-07-05 SPL-164164, SPL-165401, SPL-172754 Missing Lookup does not cause Failure in Scheduled Searches
2019-07-05 SPL-172453, SPL-165608 column order is misaligned in alert email compared to the results showing in Splunk.
2019-06-04 SPL-130503, SPL-168864, SPL-170977, SPL-170978 CEXC: Field order not preserved in generating reporting custom commands

Saved search, alerting, scheduling, and job management issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2019-09-06 SPL-170981, SPL-172822, SPL-175483, SPL-175484 Running jobs should not be marked as expired
2019-08-25 SPL-173807, SPL-171073 SHC Stop Executing DMA Searches
2019-08-25 SPL-174884, SPL-173647 Search dispatched without all peers participating without having a message that not all peers were participating
2019-07-05 SPL-164164, SPL-165401, SPL-172754 Missing Lookup does not cause Failure in Scheduled Searches

Data model and pivot issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2019-08-25 SPL-173807, SPL-171073 SHC Stop Executing DMA Searches

Indexer and indexer clustering issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2019-09-10 SPL-170943, SPL-167708 Apply cluster bundle does not apply bundle to any indexers which are in progress of adding to cluster
2019-08-25 SPL-174884, SPL-173647 Search dispatched without all peers participating without having a message that not all peers were participating

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2019-09-10 SPL-173618, SPL-175396, SPL-175397, SPL-174681 Servers with Custom groups in DMC are not saved to distsearch.conf
2019-08-25 SPL-173807, SPL-171073 SHC Stop Executing DMA Searches
2019-08-25 SPL-171401, SPL-175305, SPL-173077, SPL-175304 KVstore out of Sync In Two Out Of Nine SHs
2019-06-28 SPL-171367, SPL-169046 in SHC, several copies of the same scheduled index-time realtime search are running on distinct SHC instances - impacting ITSI itsi_event_grouping

Monitoring Console/DMC issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2019-09-10 SPL-173618, SPL-175396, SPL-175397, SPL-174681 Servers with Custom groups in DMC are not saved to distsearch.conf
2019-07-05 SPL-166121, SPL-168248, SPL-170453, SPL-170454 DMC App, Filter in Apps search is case sensitive

Splunk Web and interface issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2019-07-05 SPL-172453, SPL-165608 column order is misaligned in alert email compared to the results showing in Splunk.

Windows-specific issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2019-08-01 SPL-171658, SPL-166645 Splunk is filling the "C:/Windows/Temp" folder with .tmp files

Authentication and Authorization issues

For a list of security issues, please see the Security Advisory. A list of all recent advisories can be found in the Security Portal.

Date resolved Issue number Description
2019-09-12 SPL-175247, SPL-168795 Unable to clear non-actionable messages requesting a splunkd restart from WebUI with sc_admin role

Unsorted issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2019-09-12 SPL-175126, SPL-168112 Search Head on Search Head Cluster on Windows platform crash in thread: TcpChannelThread.
2019-08-25 SPL-171401, SPL-175305, SPL-173077, SPL-175304 KVstore out of Sync In Two Out Of Nine SHs

Uncategorized issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2019-09-13 SPL-172641, SPL-174492, SPL-174494, SPL-174491 regex_cpu_profiling not generating events on WIndows instance
2019-09-06 SPL-171220, SPL-174138, SPL-175767, SPL-175768 Frequent restarting of real-time searches and bundle replication can cause memory growth in splunkd mothership
2019-09-02 SPL-162758, SPL-167453 Replicated bucket in indexer cluster is timestamped with earliest time 0 (January 1970) if its last slice is empty.
2019-08-26 SPL-174634, SPL-175272, SPL-175273, SPL-175167 $message$ token is not working for <fail> search event handler
2019-07-08 SPL-167490, SPL-162985 When using Time Picker set to Date&Latest, $timepicker.latest$ fails to populate when set to now
2019-07-05 SPL-171699, SPL-169847 Configure Splunk to refuse to send 0 size attachments when an alert or report contains no results
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