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Yep, that's exactly what Splunk have done - scroll down the release notes linked to by the grandparent and the faulty regex is shown.

What's super daft is the proposed fix is only a further sticking plaster, adding support for the 16... range (and the 2020s decade) rather than all future dates. So in a couple of years a further patch will be needed...



To fix the fire this is probably the best solution because the risk of unintended side effects is very low. I would just hope it is then followed by a proper fix.


Wow ... I'm ... I'm sure there's a better way to handle this.




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