Fixed issues

Splunk Enterprise 8.0.8 was released on January 20, 2021. 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.

Authentication and authorization issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-11-18	SPL-196712, SPL-196863, SPL-197658, SPL-197656	list_indexer_cluster cannot see the cluster info from the UI
2020-10-27	SPL-196620, SPL-195586	Linux 7.2.4.2 SHC + Duo Security 2FA - Authentication - login fails when using a custom root_endpint
2020-10-08	SPL-194288, SPL-190298	SAML - unable to update idpCerts via idpCertChain text box in SHC with replicate certificates enabled

Upgrade issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-12-11	SPL-198237, SPL-196933	Settings removed from savedsearches.conf after upgrading from 7.3.3 to 7.3.7.1
2020-11-23	SPL-196903, SPL-195414	Custom Navigation Menus Lost When Upgrading Splunk from 7.3.6 to 7.3.7

Search issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2021-01-04	SPL-193416, SPL-192132	The 'strict' argument of the 'rest' command produces incorrect results when used with an up-to-date SH and older indexers
2021-01-04	SPL-196222, SPL-193845	Bucket that rolled during search execution contained events missing from results
2021-01-04	SPL-198240, SPL-198094	srchTimeWin not effective if earliest= is used in query
2020-12-21	SPL-196346, SPL-196545, SPL-198275	The use of "usetime" and "earlier" arguements are causing a left join to behave as a inner join
2020-11-19	SPL-196588, SPL-194959	Using wildcards in conjunction with summary indexing reserved fields (psrsvd) yields incorrect search results.
2020-10-30	SPL-196484, SPL-194112	Cascading replication aborted for peer=Peer_URI:8089 with bundle status = bundle_initialized after a retry attempt
2020-10-14	SPL-195717, SPL-194016	search optimizer causing some search condition to be missing in remote search for searches including multiple wildcarded terms for the same field

Saved search, alerting, scheduling, and job management issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-11-12	SPL-194596, SPL-194014	getMgmtUri shouldn't include stderr in the results.

Charting, reporting, and visualization issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-12-10	SPL-198412, SPL-196313	Dashboard panel font size changes with browser zoom on v8.0.2

Indexer and indexer clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-10-19	SPL-196335, SPL-194863	During indexer cluster searchable rolling restart, indexer was stuck in ReassigningPrimaries

Distributed deployment, forwarder, deployment server issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-11-24	SPL-196464, SPL-182933	Renaming server class creates multiple serverclass.conf files
2020-11-19	SPL-197228, SPL-196194	All App from Deployment Server UI show "Unchanged from state on deployment server"

Admin and CLI issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-12-11	SPL-198237, SPL-196933	Settings removed from savedsearches.conf after upgrading from 7.3.3 to 7.3.7.1

Uncategorized issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2020-12-15	SPL-198559, SPL-194635	smartstore start new upload jobs as soon as the current job failed no back off
2020-12-15	SPL-198571, SPL-190942	Enable Non-zero "max_cache_size" setting to account for local cached state on node restart
2020-11-10	SPL-197011, SPL-195826	splunkd.exe is constantly crashing by Access violation, cannot read at address
2020-10-30	SPL-196708, SPL-195411	Redundant absent summary cachemanager open calls