Release Notes

Fixed issues

Splunk Enterprise 7.3.1.1

Splunk Enterprise 7.3.1.1 was released on September 18, 2019. Version 7.3.1 introduced a defect (SPL-175599) that affected data durability under certain conditions for customers using SmartStore. Version 7.3.1.1 fixes this issue. This issue is also fixed in version 7.3.2 and higher.

Splunk Enterprise 7.3.1

Splunk Enterprise 7.3.1 was released on July 31, 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
2019-10-07	SPL-172819, SPL-142263	TAB character in Search string causes splunk to throw error - ERROR bucket - Error in 'bucket' command: Invalid argument: ' '
2019-06-21	SPL-170761, SPL-166901	Search intermittently hangs when using custom python command and chunked protocol on Windows
2019-06-09	SPL-170977, SPL-130503	CEXC: Field order not preserved in generating reporting custom commands

Saved search, alerting, scheduling, and job management issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-06-09	SPL-171390, SPL-168454	now()function in real time alert returns 0 Epoch time

Charting, reporting, and visualization issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-06-25	SPL-166952, SPL-164920	Dashboard issue: Multiselect URL retains single value after Hide Filters selected
2019-06-05	SPL-168636, SPL-166770	URI malformed error in dashboard if search string contains %

Indexer and indexer clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-06-21	SPL-170366, SPL-169959	max_nonhot_rep_kBps setting is not working after restarts
2019-06-12	SPL-169632, SPL-166222	7.2.1.1 CM using up whole memory available.

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-06-24	SPL-171341, 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

Unsorted issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-06-19	SPL-169239, SPL-162510	Memory Exhaustion causes LMTracker to stay in INFLIGHT state permenantly
2019-06-05	SPL-170800, SPL-163485	Daily License Usage panel for previous 30 days does not sum all license stacks for stack size overlay

Uncategorized issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-06-26	SPL-172417, SPL-172431	Entries for `coldToFrozenDir` and `coldToFrozenScript` in indexes.conf.spec incorrectly state that the settings are not available for remote storage enabled indexes.
2019-06-18	SPL-170748, SPL-167402	search of host=app* not returning results in 7.2.4 whereas host=*app* returning results
2019-06-12	SPL-169431, SPL-175437	tab characters used in quoted string in map command negate results in 7.2.0+
2019-06-07	SPL-170616, SPL-167918	Expanding event in events viewer has lot of horizontal space in the table