topic Re: static list of released Splunk versions in Splunk Enterprise

static list of released Splunk versions

utoddl — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:44:01 GMT

We have automation which compares installed versions of Splunk (universal forwarder mostly, but other instances) with released versions. Until very recently, we could easily scrape released Splunk versions from https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/VersionCompatibility/current/Matrix/CompatMatrix. However, that page now requires specific browsers, javascript, etc. which together makes pulling that data with curl particularly impractical.

Is there a web-accessible static source of released Splunk versions that's usable by automated processes?

Re: static list of released Splunk versions

livehybrid — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:48:50 GMT

Hi @utoddl

Check out https://raw.githubusercontent.com/livehybrid/downloadSplunk/refs/heads/main/version.list

This is automatically updated daily with new builds based on the original work from ryanadler.

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Re: static list of released Splunk versions

ITWhisperer — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:02:44 GMT

Try setting the User-Agent header - for example

curl -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:139.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/139.0" https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/release-notes-and-updates/compatibility-matrix/splunk-products-version-compatibility/splunk-products-version-compatibility-matrix

Re: static list of released Splunk versions

utoddl — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:33:32 GMT

Thanks to both @ITWhisperer and @livehybrid for these helpful solutions. Wrt setting the User-Agent header, I assumed (yeah, I should know better by now) that the page wouldn't claim to require specific browsers when plain old `curl` would work. The compatibility-matrix page seems like it ought to be the canonical source for this information, but looking at the actual content doesn't instill a sense of confidence. (It already broke recently for silly monkey reasons.) @livehybrid 's version.list page seems intended to be consumed by automation/scripts/etc., but it's also farther "downstream" from the source of truth than the matrix page. Either can be made to work today. Tomorrow? Job security for my successor. 🙂

Re: static list of released Splunk versions

PickleRick — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:21:28 GMT

Remember that:

1) Compatibility matrix contains only supported versions. Older versions are not covered

2) The matrix can lag behind current releases (today morning 9.2.8 still wasn't on the list, for example).