Splunk® Enterprise

Release Notes

Splunk Enterprise version 8.2 is no longer supported as of September 30, 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 8.2.0 was released on May 12, 2021. This release includes fixes for the following issues.

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

Data input issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2021-03-04 SPL-195024, SPL-195482, SPL-200120, SPL-202918, SPL-202919, SPL-202917 sometimes a HEC bundle reload can introduce HEC server DOS.

Search issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2021-01-14 SPL-196040, SPL-212495 Excessive logging of 'Unable to parse site_label, label=invalid due to err="Invalid site id: invalid"' for SearchResultsFiles

Saved search, alerting, scheduling, and job management issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-10-20 SPL-195481, SPL-207587, SPL-207588 Users are not able to open 'Advance Edit' feature while editing Alerts

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2021-02-16 SPL-196300 Extremely rare user session management deadlock leading to high thread count and memory usage, and ultimately blocking external communication.

Indexer and indexer clustering issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2021-03-11 SPL-197930 Splunk 8.1.0 post-upgrade indexer high memory usage with tsidxWritingLevel=4
2021-02-16 SPL-196300 Extremely rare user session management deadlock leading to high thread count and memory usage, and ultimately blocking external communication.
2021-01-14 SPL-196040, SPL-212495 Excessive logging of 'Unable to parse site_label, label=invalid due to err="Invalid site id: invalid"' for SearchResultsFiles

Distributed deployment, forwarder, deployment server issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2021-02-25 SPL-184113, SPL-201518 when targetRepositoryLocation is set in a  stanza in serverclass.conf, invalid key error is thrown on startup

Uncategorized issues

Date resolved Issue number Description
2022-02-01 SPL-171553, SPL-171647 Smartstore: S3 GET is being done before S3 PUT for the receipt.json causing 404 errors (Source peer should not check if the bucket/receipt exists during uploads)
2021-02-03 SPL-199630, SPL-198659 License warning '1 pool warning reported by 1 indexer' comes up on Licensing page
Last modified on 12 August, 2024
Field alias behavior change   Deprecated and removed in version 8.2

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 8.2.0

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