Fixed issues

Splunk Enterprise 7.3.4.2

Splunk Enterprise 7.3.4.2 was released on March 11, 2020. This release fixes the following issue.

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2020-03-04	SPL-184234, SPL-183532	Search head performance degraded after upgrade to version 7.3.4.

Splunk Enterprise 7.3.4

Splunk Enterprise 7.3.4 was released on January 14, 2020. 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
2019-12-19	SPL-180267, SPL-177675	Crash in BucketSummaryActorThread for a specific summary directory, persists after removing
2019-12-18	SPL-178545, SPL-180933, SPL-180934, SPL-179704	Recursive _SOURCETYPE settings block splunkd startup.
2019-12-18	SPL-179452, SPL-177399	Search on indexers crashes in reverse_lookup when working with kvstore lookup (use_lookups_v2=false)
2019-12-18	SPL-177887, SPL-174425	outputlookup with the setting, override_if_empty=false does not work for KVStore lookups.
2019-12-10	SPL-179427, SPL-179569, SPL-180261	A rest call with XML email attachment treats "\n" as regular characters following a ">"
2019-12-04	SPL-179746, SPL-177665	(7.3.x) - tstats where clause does not filter as expected when structured like "WHERE * NOT (field1=foo AND field2=bar)"
2019-11-27	SPL-175515, SPL-173098	Slow SH lookups impacting search performance post 7.2.6 upgrade
2019-11-20	SPL-178264, SPL-176921	Search results not returned intermittently for _indextime search on hot bucket, results are found on later searches (Windows platform only).
2019-11-08	SPL-178267, SPL-176046	Lookup overwrites source filed when OUTPUTNEW is used in search

Saved search, alerting, scheduling, and job management issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-12-10	SPL-179988, SPL-178839	datamodels.conf does not respect stanza
2019-11-19	SPL-179627, SPL-173414	Splunk unable to load defined Saved Searches in a conf file if a bad/malformed cron_schedule value is present/set
2019-10-30	SPL-173502, SPL-173906, SPL-176216, SPL-176217, SPL-176218, SPL-178522	Windows - Alert Triggered Time displays GMT despite Local Time set as AEST for Alert Owner in Preferences

Charting, reporting, and visualization issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-11-08	SPL-179170, SPL-178113	Editing color scale using colorpalette in dashboard creates custom configuration
2019-11-07	SPL-178012, SPL-178751, SPL-179167, SPL-179261	Dashboard having post-process search without <query> element is not loading

Data model and pivot issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-12-10	SPL-179988, SPL-178839	datamodels.conf does not respect stanza
2019-11-19	SPL-179627, SPL-173414	Splunk unable to load defined Saved Searches in a conf file if a bad/malformed cron_schedule value is present/set
2019-10-30	SPL-173502, SPL-173906, SPL-176216, SPL-176217, SPL-176218, SPL-178522	Windows - Alert Triggered Time displays GMT despite Local Time set as AEST for Alert Owner in Preferences

Indexer and indexer clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-12-19	SPL-171893, SPL-173131	SmartStore: After new index is enabled for remote store already migrated index take 20 hours to become searchable. Fixup reason: commit lone vote
2019-11-25	SPL-180015, SPL-175926	S2 Smartstore :Indexer cluster not recovering when decommissioning indexers greater than or equal to SF/RF
2019-11-15	SPL-178414, SPL-155281, SPL-179523	Indexer Clustering Search Performance - search manifest updates should be locked per site+genid
2019-11-08	SPL-174533, SPL-168108	Cloud Cluster Master - Identical Bundles not reaping
2019-11-05	SPL-178228, SPL-176976	After multisite indexer cluster upgrade from 7.0.3.1 to 7.3.1 the UF/HF/SH are intermittently unable to forward data to the indexers.

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-12-11	SPL-179986, SPL-175387	app.conf not being replicated in SHC gives end user false promises of ui functionality

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-12-18	SPL-180846, SPL-167310	Error in splunkd.log "splunk-perfmon - OutputHandler::composeOutput: Counter is not found: "

Windows-specific issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-12-18	SPL-180846, SPL-167310	Error in splunkd.log "splunk-perfmon - OutputHandler::composeOutput: Counter is not found: "

Authentication and Authorization issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-12-18	SPL-180078, SPL-179933	SAML Failure after upgrade to 7.3.3 - ERROR UiSAML - Malformed SAML document(Assertion) received from IDP

Admin and CLI issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-12-18	SPL-180152, SPL-173365	UI displaying incorrect results from Data Model List view
2019-12-18	SPL-181085, SPL-181118, SPL-181120, SPL-181116, SPL-181117	Jan 1 2020 Bug: 7.3.3 datetime.xml has a misleading line (comment line 198) should be 2023 not 2017
2019-11-19	SPL-179627, SPL-173414	Splunk unable to load defined Saved Searches in a conf file if a bad/malformed cron_schedule value is present/set

Uncategorized issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-12-18	SPL-176211, SPL-178258, SPL-179833	Indexer crashes in updateBucketsCreatedCountHealth due to thread concurrency issues
2019-12-18	SPL-180149, SPL-179256	kvstore inputlookup with large 'where' filter fails silently when hitting 300 second timeout
2019-12-18	SPL-178057, SPL-174960	(PinkiePie)- Customer Spin Off for code fix - SmartStore - 0 bytes receipt.json Upload
2019-12-18	SPL-179937, SPL-179772	Script to create Self Signed default web SSL cert add's "/opt/splunk/" to path in Web.conf
2019-12-18	SPL-180371, SPL-175319	CSS <style> tag outside of <html> tag or as first tag in SimpleXML doesn't work
2019-12-18	SPL-180194, SPL-177752	Deadlock in splunk when using pstacks action
2019-12-17	SPL-181018, SPL-164839	systemd warnings about Splunkd.service being executable and world-inaccessible
2019-12-16	SPL-178973, SPL-176583	Check receipt existence before making GET call in dedup code
2019-12-13	SPL-179930, SPL-180039, SPL-180718	Uncategorized sourcetypes wont show the full list in IFX
2019-12-11	SPL-180519, SPL-174286	Using timechart AS clause with wildcard and a constant (*_x) in fast mode returns too many columns
2019-12-06	SPL-178148, SPL-180165, SPL-180474	Disable edit operation in HEC manager page for non-DMC search heads
2019-11-27	SPL-177926, SPL-176230	HealthReporter threads deadlock resulting in stuck _reload, blocked ingestion, eventually causing a crash
2019-11-27	SPL-176174	Remove license showing typo "detele" should be "delete"
2019-11-08	SPL-178768, SPL-149157	Missing some meta keys extracted by INDEXED_EXTRACTION after changing _raw content and adding index-time field extraction
2019-11-08	SPL-178722, SPL-152457	splunkd.log WARN TelemetryHandler - 1521648000.000000
2019-11-05	SPL-177366, SPL-168459	Splunkd Server Memory growth over time on ES search head
2019-10-29	SPL-177846, SPL-176142	IOStats events for introspection occasionally reports negative avg_total_ms