Latest changes to the Splunk Style Guide

This table shows the history of updates to the Splunk Style Guide since its publication on December 2, 2019:

Date	Chapter or topic	Change
January 5, 2021	UI text style guidelines	Added a "Numbers" section with guidance to use numerals in UI text.
December 3, 2020	Usage dictionary	Added "multifactor authentication".
December 3, 2020	Links to Splunk materials	Updated guidance about linking to subheadings. Now okay to link to an H2 or H3, and treat it the same way as linking to a topic.
November 30, 2020	Formatting reference	Changed name of page to "Formatting reference". Added explicit guidance for all elements in documentation rather than generalizations. Added more examples and some sidebar comments.
November 30, 2020	Formatting text chapter	Deleted the "Bold", "Italics", and "Monospaced font" topics from chapter.
November 30, 2020	Links to third-party websites	Clarified the difference between essential and supplemental links. Added new guidance about linking to essential sites.
November 30, 2020	Usage dictionary	Updated formatting in "File paths". Removed guidance that says not to use directional language in UI text.
November 30, 2020	Titles and headings chapter	Clarified guidance around how to use heading and text together in "The order of headings" and "Headings and text together" sections.
November 13, 2020	Usage dictionary	Added "SSH", "URI, URL", and "URN".
November 13, 2020	Measurements	Added tebibyte (TiB).
November 12, 2020	Titles and headings chapter	Deleted topics on writing tasks, prerequisites, supertasks, next step sections, and see also sections. Changed "Content structure" chapter name to "Titles and headings".
November 11, 2020	Formatting quick reference	Added formatting guidance for URIs and URLs.
November 9, 2020	Usage dictionary	Update definitions for "ad hoc", "drilldown", and "lookup". Added "app". Added examples to "command-line" and "real-time".
July 22, 2020	Usage dictionary	Updated "master" and "install". Added "slave" and "deploy".
July 20, 2020	Usage dictionary	Updated "blacklist" and "whitelist".
May 26, 2020	Usage dictionary	Added "AM" and "PM".
May 22, 2020	Usage dictionary	Clarified guidance for "*nix*, "Linux", and "UNIX".
May 22, 2020	Usage dictionary	Added "blacklist" and "whitelist".
April 13, 2020	Usage dictionary	Added "into". Also added a correct usage example to the Manual names, topic titles, and section headings topic.
April 13, 2020	Usage dictionary	Added "reenable" and revised the entry for "reenter".
March 24, 2020	Usage dictionary	Clarified "multivalue field". Updated "plugin" as a noun or adjective.
March 19, 2020	Example names and domains	Updated IP address blocks to be ranges.
March 9, 2020	Numbers or numerals? Time	Added guidance around duration of time.
March 5, 2020	Write in indicative or imperative mood	Updated title and guidance to emphasize writing in indicative and imperative mood and to avoid writing in subjunctive mood. Added new examples.
February 19, 2020	Usage dictionary	Added "spin up, spin down".
February 18, 2020	Formatting quick reference Brackets	Clarified language and examples for square brackets around .conf file stanza names.
February 5, 2020	Usage dictionary	Added "directory".
January 31, 2020	Usage dictionary	Added "drilldown" as an adjective.
December 23, 2019	Usage dictionary	Added "tarball".
December 12, 2019	Commas and decimals	Added clarification to use standard American-style formatting for commas and decimal points in numbers.