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
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Issue number
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Description
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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.
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Authentication and authorization issues
Date resolved
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Issue number
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Description
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2020-12-21 |
SPL-198824 |
SAML configuration causes splunkd crash with assert "Assertion `rootPath.isDir()' failed."
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Upgrade issues
Date resolved
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Issue number
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Description
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2020-12-11 |
SPL-198236, SPL-196933 |
Settings removed from savedsearches.conf after upgrading from 7.3.3 to 7.3.7.1
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Data input issues
Date resolved
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Issue number
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Description
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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
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Search issues
Date resolved
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Issue number
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Description
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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
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2020-12-10 |
SPL-198365, SPL-198156 |
On Splunkweb - Splunk Answers link in Help section redirects to a page which is not working
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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
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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
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2020-11-25 |
SPL-198006, SPL-196788 |
Matching terms on search bear display field names lowercase
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Charting, reporting, and visualization issues
Date resolved
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Issue number
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Description
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2020-12-10 |
SPL-198411, SPL-196313 |
Dashboard panel font size changes with browser zoom on v8.0.2
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Indexer and indexer clustering issues
Date resolved
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Issue number
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Description
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2020-12-08 |
SPL-197830, SPL-197071 |
CMMaster and Fixup warnings repeatedly on new 8.1 index cluster install
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Distributed search and search head clustering issues
Date resolved
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Issue number
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Description
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2021-01-14 |
SPL-199416, SPL-198851 |
Unexplained benign SHCMasterHTTPProxy Low Level HTTP Request failure (for artifact) Response Code 500 post upgrade
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2020-12-21 |
SPL-198824 |
SAML configuration causes splunkd crash with assert "Assertion `rootPath.isDir()' failed."
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Splunk Web and interface issues
Date resolved
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Issue number
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Description
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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
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2020-12-10 |
SPL-198365, SPL-198156 |
On Splunkweb - Splunk Answers link in Help section redirects to a page which is not working
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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
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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
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2020-11-25 |
SPL-198006, SPL-196788 |
Matching terms on search bear display field names lowercase
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Admin and CLI issues
Date resolved
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Issue number
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Description
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2020-12-11 |
SPL-198236, SPL-196933 |
Settings removed from savedsearches.conf after upgrading from 7.3.3 to 7.3.7.1
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Uncategorized issues
Date resolved
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Issue number
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Description
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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
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2020-12-21 |
SPL-196941, SPL-198281 |
diag fails on windows server 2016 running splunk 8.1.0 with french locale/language set
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2020-12-17 |
SPL-198536, SPL-197299 |
Splunk will crash after startup when enableDataIntegrityControl=true is set for _metrics index
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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
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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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