Splunk® Enterprise

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Splunk Enterprise version 8.1 will no longer be supported as of April 19, 2023. See the Splunk Software Support Policy for details. For information about upgrading to a supported version, see How to upgrade Splunk Enterprise.
This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® Enterprise. For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.
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Fixed issues

Splunk Enterprise 8.1.13 was released on February 14, 2023. This release includes fixes for the following issues.

Issues are listed in all relevant sections. Some issues might appear more than once.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2023-01-18 SPL-217024, SPL-252644 Constant Memory growth with Universal Forwarder UDP / TCP inputs and third party forwarding enabled.

Windows-specific issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2022-12-05 SPL-233456, SPL-224633 Windows Event Logs Message Showing "Splunk could not get the description for this event"

Uncategorized issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2023-01-09 SPL-225374, SPL-219715 Workload Management fails to enable on restart if a rule contains a role that is missing on the platform
2022-12-07 SPL-233745, SPL-232879 error message: "Host header contains invalid characters" for host headers containing "_" and for literal IPv6 adresses in square brackets :8000") ]
2022-11-28 SPL-233144, SPL-230560 Splunk crashes with error Crashing thread: IndexInitExecutorWorker-0
2022-11-02 SPL-219356, SPL-232357, SPL-232358, SPL-231794 Splunk heavy forwarder crashes on TcpOutEloop
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 8.1.13


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