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.
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Fixed issues

Splunk Enterprise 8.1.2 was released on February 1, 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.

Highlighted issues

Date filed Issue number Description
2021-01-29 SPL-198149, SPL-199358 KVStore lookup indexing leads to slow search performance and intermittent errors in searches.

In Splunk Enterprise version 8.1.2, if you encounter this problem change the enable_splunkd_kv_lookup_indexing parameter to true in the [lookup] stanza of limits.conf in your $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local directory on your search peers.

Authentication and authorization issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-12-21 SPL-198824 SAML configuration causes splunkd crash with assert "Assertion `rootPath.isDir()' failed."

Upgrade issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-12-11 SPL-198236, SPL-196933 Settings removed from savedsearches.conf after upgrading from 7.3.3 to 7.3.7.1

Data input issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-11-26 SPL-198010, SPL-197548 Splunk Web > Add Data > Set Source Type; the extracted timestamp (_time) should be in Splunk User's timezone

Search issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-12-21 SPL-198275, SPL-196346 The use of "usetime" and "earlier" arguements are causing a left join to behave as a inner join
2020-12-10 SPL-198365, SPL-198156 On Splunkweb - Splunk Answers link in Help section redirects to a page which is not working
2020-12-10 SPL-198407, SPL-198097 disabling ui tour in local/ui-conf breaks search in 8.1.0.1 when upgrading from 8.0.5
2020-11-26 SPL-198010, SPL-197548 Splunk Web > Add Data > Set Source Type; the extracted timestamp (_time) should be in Splunk User's timezone
2020-11-25 SPL-198006, SPL-196788 Matching terms on search bear display field names lowercase

Charting, reporting, and visualization issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-12-10 SPL-198411, SPL-196313 Dashboard panel font size changes with browser zoom on v8.0.2

Indexer and indexer clustering issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-12-08 SPL-197830, SPL-197071 CMMaster and Fixup warnings repeatedly on new 8.1 index cluster install

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2021-01-14 SPL-199416, SPL-198851 Unexplained benign SHCMasterHTTPProxy Low Level HTTP Request failure (for artifact) Response Code 500 post upgrade
2020-12-21 SPL-198824 SAML configuration causes splunkd crash with assert "Assertion `rootPath.isDir()' failed."

Splunk Web and interface issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-12-21 SPL-198275, SPL-196346 The use of "usetime" and "earlier" arguements are causing a left join to behave as a inner join
2020-12-10 SPL-198365, SPL-198156 On Splunkweb - Splunk Answers link in Help section redirects to a page which is not working
2020-12-10 SPL-198407, SPL-198097 disabling ui tour in local/ui-conf breaks search in 8.1.0.1 when upgrading from 8.0.5
2020-11-26 SPL-198010, SPL-197548 Splunk Web > Add Data > Set Source Type; the extracted timestamp (_time) should be in Splunk User's timezone
2020-11-25 SPL-198006, SPL-196788 Matching terms on search bear display field names lowercase

Admin and CLI issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-12-11 SPL-198236, 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
2021-01-14 SPL-193996, SPL-186425 SmartStore: Rebuilding an evicted DMA summary causes us to re-upload the old tsidx file with the newly rebuilt one
2020-12-21 SPL-196941, SPL-198281 diag fails on windows server 2016 running splunk 8.1.0 with french locale/language set
2020-12-17 SPL-198536, SPL-197299 Splunk will crash after startup when enableDataIntegrityControl=true is set for _metrics index
2020-12-16 SPL-198468, SPL-196929 in outputs.conf, configure syslog forward to third party, when the third party syslog server hang, the whole HF stop sending data to indexer tier
2020-12-15 SPL-198537, SPL-195587 Bundles filled up + common bundle issues on SH after disk problems on idx peer
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