Fixed issues

Splunk Enterprise 7.2.8

Splunk Enterprise 7.2.8 was released on September 9, 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.

Search issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-07-31	SPL-166826, SPL-172400, SPL-173986	Stats search may return empty string for the aggregated fields when there is high number of events and cardinalities.
2019-07-29	SPL-172023, SPL-167934	Different Search Result Between 7.2.x and 6.6.x
2019-07-29	SPL-171270, SPL-172665, SPL-172836	dedup's sortby not working as expected when using head/transaction
2019-07-19	SPL-172773, SPL-172639	trim command throws error and truncates return when concatenating empty field to a number
2019-07-08	SPL-172754, SPL-164164	Missing Lookup does not cause Failure in Scheduled Searches
2019-07-05	SPL-169594, SPL-170696, SPL-172821	The results of mstats command vary depending on spans
2019-07-05	SPL-165608, SPL-166627, SPL-172449, SPL-172453	column order is misaligned in alert email compared to the results showing in Splunk.
2019-07-02	SPL-170453, SPL-166121	DMC App, Filter in Apps search is case sensitive
2019-07-02	SPL-168112, SPL-175126, SPL-170575, SPL-172237	Crashing thread: dispatch- __assert_perror_fail and phase_1-StatsDatum8setValue
2019-06-21	SPL-172299, SPL-168859	Any transformational commands will not include the base fields from transforms.conf when performing search in SMART mode resulting in required field not been included
2019-06-14	SPL-169649, SPL-170146, SPL-170469	User role with search filter that limits searched indexers in "Restrict Search Terms" would still distribute to non-matching splunk_servers
2019-06-10	SPL-166901, SPL-170551, SPL-170761	Search intermittently hangs when using custom python command and chunked protocol on Windows
2019-06-04	SPL-170978, SPL-130503	CEXC: Field order not preserved in generating reporting custom commands
2019-05-20	SPL-168797, SPL-166413	info_max/min_time provides incorrect values when search is real time.
2019-05-17	SPL-170643, SPL-168750	Warning produced by Search does not indicate the Search ID causing the warning.

Saved search, alerting, scheduling, and job management issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-07-08	SPL-172754, SPL-164164	Missing Lookup does not cause Failure in Scheduled Searches
2019-05-28	SPL-170956, SPL-168454	now()function in real time alert returns 0 Epoch time

Charting, reporting, and visualization issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-07-15	SPL-171800, SPL-172927, SPL-172928	Color palette expression type is not updating when using token value
2019-06-14	SPL-159484, SPL-170665, SPL-171409, SPL-171410	Incorrect scale selected when using Log scaling in charts for values between 0 and 1
2019-05-24	SPL-169370, SPL-163158	Custom drilldown search string is not encoded causing drilldown search failure

Indexer and indexer clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-07-29	SPL-172578, SPL-168132	Clustered indexes aren't fully searchable during an indexer cluster rolling upgrade
2019-07-15	SPL-168577, SPL-169193, SPL-172814, SPL-172815	Indexer Discovery breaks when one Indexer stops listening.
2019-07-11	SPL-172814, SPL-168577	Indexer Discovery breakers when one Indexer stops listening
2019-05-23	SPL-169959, SPL-170226, SPL-170366	max_nonhot_rep_kBps setting is not working after restarts

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-06-21	SPL-169046, SPL-170862, SPL-171283, SPL-171341, SPL-171367	in SHC, several copies of the same scheduled index-time realtime search are running on distinct SHC instances - impacting ITSI itsi_event_grouping
2019-06-20	SPL-168162, SPL-158244	Search Head Cluster experiencing snapshot creation issues
2019-06-12	SPL-167093, SPL-167749, SPL-167750	Splunk search does not handle tabs grace-fully
2019-05-17	SPL-164088, SPL-167505, SPL-170647	DistributedBundleReplicationManager log still says "Asynchronous bundle replication to peer(s) succeeded" while a bundle replication failed

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-07-15	SPL-168577, SPL-169193, SPL-172814, SPL-172815	Indexer Discovery breaks when one Indexer stops listening.
2019-07-11	SPL-172814, SPL-168577	Indexer Discovery breakers when one Indexer stops listening

Splunk Web and interface issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-07-19	SPL-172773, SPL-172639	trim command throws error and truncates return when concatenating empty field to a number
2019-07-05	SPL-165608, SPL-166627, SPL-172449, SPL-172453	column order is misaligned in alert email compared to the results showing in Splunk.
2019-07-02	SPL-170453, SPL-166121	DMC App, Filter in Apps search is case sensitive
2019-06-17	SPL-169176, SPL-171339, SPL-171985	All summary indexes are not listed in Edit Summary Index dialog

Windows-specific issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-07-29	SPL-171659, SPL-166645	Splunk is filling the "C:/Windows/Temp" folder with .tmp files

Rest, Simple XML, and Advanced XML issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-07-29	SPL-169155, SPL-172690, SPL-172691	Splunkd runs out of file descriptors when post processing with services/search/jobs/{search_id}/results endpoint

Admin and CLI issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-07-26	SPL-167536, SPL-169275, SPL-172946	Some blank lines are created when exporting report to csv file by cli command on windows
2019-06-17	SPL-169176, SPL-171339, SPL-171985	All summary indexes are not listed in Edit Summary Index dialog

Uncategorized issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-08-02	SPL-170999, SPL-169775	"parsing" thread crashing on bad data when it is in a tar.gz2 format
2019-07-24	SPL-168818, SPL-162510	Memory Exhaustion causes LMTracker to stay in INFLIGHT state permenantly
2019-07-24	SPL-172647, SPL-164127	S2 - Try optimise applyDeletesToTsidx from each search in S2 mode
2019-07-22	SPL-169589, SPL-169940, SPL-172397	Carriage Returns are added to csv files when users export Windows Eventlog
2019-07-11	SPL-167489, SPL-162985	When using Time Picker set to Date&Latest, $timepicker.latest$ fails to populate when set to now
2019-07-05	SPL-171958, SPL-171943	Diag needs updating so it obfuscates or removes values for remote.s3*key values
2019-07-05	SPL-171419, SPL-146805	PDF x-axis labels overlapping on line&column chart
2019-07-05	SPL-171700, SPL-169847	Configure Splunk to refuse to send 0 size attachments when an alert or report contains no results
2019-07-05	SPL-170927, SPL-169411	DDAA fails with buckets larger than 5GB
2019-07-02	SPL-169562, SPL-173213, SPL-170421, SPL-172722, SPL-173212	EXTRACT with REGEX capture groups are not extracting fields without specifying FORMAT.
2019-06-28	SPL-170929, SPL-170618	DDAA fails with the error "The specified key does not exist"
2019-06-27	SPL-171277	phased_execution_mode = auto causes savedsearch command to fail
2019-06-27	SPL-170928, SPL-169489	DDAA fails with the error "Failed to download and update receipt file"
2019-06-13	SPL-169706, SPL-169707, SPL-191375	Splunk Enterprise for Windows missing python six (possibly others)
2019-05-30	SPL-169607, SPL-162658	Editing Summary Indexing not working when Search contains a tstats
2019-05-30	SPL-167402, SPL-167931, SPL-170748	search of host=app* not returning results in 7.2.4 whereas host=*app* returning results
2019-05-29	SPL-170880, SPL-169429	Do not evict bucket contents from target indexers after S3 upload
2019-05-23	SPL-170799, SPL-163485	Daily License Usage panel for previous 30 days does not sum all license stacks for stack size overlay
2019-05-17	SPL-170615, SPL-167918	Expanding event in events viewer has lot of horizontal space in the table