Splunk® Enterprise

Release Notes

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 8.1.6 was released on September 9, 2021. This release includes fixes for the following issues.

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


Date resolved Issue number Description
2021-08-11 SPL-209801, SPL-194766 SPL-171553, SPL-171647 Smartstore: S3 GET is being done before S3 PUT for the receipt.json causing 404 errors
2021-07-30 SPL-204497, SPL-207696, SPL-209394, SPL-209395 httpout on UF behaves different than tcpout when there is no TZ in the event
2021-06-29 SPL-206233, SPL-208289, SPL-206946, SPL-207301 Tsidx Reduction creates very large amount of "minify-tsidx fsck" and repeatedly for the same bucket at the same causing large amount of memory usage and OoM in extreme cases
2021-06-29 SPL-204162, SPL-207380, SPL-207438 Splunk diag: ERROR Cannot process directory path in Windows after upgrade to 8.1.2
Last modified on 12 August, 2024
Field alias behavior change   Deprecated and removed in version 8.1

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 8.1.6


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