Release notes

This topic contains information on new features, known issues, and updates as we version the Splunk Add-on for Windows.

The latest version of the Splunk Add-on for Windows was released on Thursday, February 12, 2015.

What's new

Here's what's new in the latest version of the Splunk Add-on for Windows:

• Bug fixes.
• The add-on has been updated to better handle interaction with host field values in generated event data. (TAG-8935)

Current known issues

The Splunk Add-on for Windows has the following known issues:

• On Windows Server 2003 systems, the sourcetypes for WinEventLog events are in lower case, while others have mixed case (for example: WinEventLog:Security versus WinEventLog:security). This causes filters set up in props.conf to fail to match. To work around the issue, read this Splunk Answers post. (SPL-78726, MSAPP-2916)

Change log (what's been fixed)

• A problem with the secrpt-new-users macro has been fixed. (TAG-8945)
• A problem with a transform that prevented the "User Account Lockout" dashboard from display events correctly was fixed. (TAG-8915, TAG-8894)
• A problem with a transform that prevented security log field extractions from working properly was fixed. (TAG-3433)