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.
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 |
Last modified on 15 March, 2024
| Field alias behavior change | Deprecated and removed in version 8.1 |
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 8.1.13
Download manual
Feedback submitted, thanks!