Happy new year (bit early) all dev.splunk.com readers….
We have just posted our second 3.2 preview release. (build number 30455)

Its packed with holiday goodness, albeit very raw.

First you will notice we have posted a windows build. Its been in the cooker since last Feb and thanks to Mitch, Ledio, Igor and a bit of Amrit we now have a single code base that rocks on linux, mac, solaris, freebsd, aix, AND windows. This was not an easy feat as evidenced by our gift of a pony (soft and electronic) to Mitch for his effort. Its still very raw (the build not the pony), and has a tendency to crash because of a memory fragentation and limited vm space. Which will be fixed by GA… MarkB. will post more on the build so stay tuned for details. Its a big deal for us so be patient and we sure could use feedback on how to make it the best it can be.

Also in this release you will see the UI starts to get some of the async search results. Over the next few releases we will be moving to fully async search in the UI. It will take a few turns but this preview has some of the first cut.

Splunk fans.

We have posted the our first of many preview releases. You can find them here:
Our hope is that every week or two as new features or API’s become usable that we post builds soliciting feedback.
This first post has a bunch of backend and UI performance improvements as well as some new but hidden features:

• live searching of data
• flexible roles
• scripted authentication
• event decoration ( for the xmas season )
• auditing of splunk server actions
• file system change detection
• improved (proper) sub second support
• transaction search
• new experimental simple search interface
• “where” support in search clause ( you dont need to use the “| where” anymore and can just search for foo=10 )

I’m not going to explain here what these things mean or how to find them or use them
Instead the product managers and developers will post here with ideas on what to try and what feedback we are looking for.

I’d like to thank in advance those brave few of you that have the few minutes to install these builds and give us your feedback.

e.