Release Notes

6.3.1

Splunk Enterprise 6.3.1 was released on November 4, 2015.

The following issues have been resolved in this release. For information about security fixes not related to authentication or authorization, refer to the Splunk Security Portal.

Upgrade issues

This section lists issues that customers have reported when upgrading from an earlier version of Splunk Enterprise. If you are considering an upgrade, please read "How to upgrade Splunk Enterprise" in the Installation Manual.

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2015-11-04	SPL-107253	After upgrade searches fail due to vector::_M_range_check exception because of Malformed lookup CSV files.

Distributed deployment, forwarder, and deployment server issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2015-11-04	SPL-102412, SPL-83461	UFs receive ACKs out of order causing huge memory growth.
2015-11-04	SPL-103257, SPL-100887	20k+/hr forwarder connections cause deployment server to become unresponsive
2015-11-04	SPL-104953, SPL-99702	UI: Data Inputs > Forwarded Inputs serverclass name is truncated / incomplete
2015-11-04	SPL-104976, SPL-104626	outputs.conf comments are stripped from file when encrypting SSL password
2015-11-04	SPL-106305, SPL-100624	Very large serverclass.conf causes the Forwarder Management page to stay blank
2015-11-04	SPL-106972	Installing Apps on a Universal Forwarder using the CLI results in the forwarder crashing
2015-11-04	SPL-107738	Forwarder management page displays with incorrect formatting

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2015-11-04	SPL-104474, SPL-103056	Scheduled searches after upgrading from 5.0.6 to 6.2.3 are delayed significantly leading to reports of "skipped" searches due to search processes making additional calls to the /admin/summarization endpoint
2015-11-04	SPL-104672	GenerationGrabberThread asserts on "ita_thread == ThreadToken::self" due to shutdown race condition
2015-11-04	SPL-104885, SPL-103012	Undefined props.acl causes JavaScript SDK to error and stop executing script
2015-11-04	SPL-107053	Unable to start the Web Server under Windows when search head pool is enabled
2015-11-04	SPL-107106	When SAML is enabled, SHC captain becomes unresponsive during periods with high scheduled search activity
2015-11-04	SPL-107524, SPL-106842	SHC Captain crash due to seg fault in CallbackRunnerThread

Indexers and indexer clustering issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2015-11-04	SPL-103900, SPL-103464	Buckets with invalid timebounds cause cluster peer to crash
2015-11-04	SPL-104701, SPL-102940	Assertion raised by archivereader thread while indexing tar log files
2015-11-04	SPL-104835, SPL-104735	Error message thrown in retrieving filesystem for UNC path
2015-11-04	SPL-104955, SPL-104738	Indexer incorrectly stops indexing due to out of disk or too many tsidx files

Integrated PDF generation and PDF Report Server issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2015-11-04	SPL-105152, SPL-104867	Scheduled PDF generation fails when XML encoding does not match content encoding
2015-11-04	SPL-106303, SPL-100294	PDF delivery fails for specific scheduled searches

Search, saved search, alerting, scheduling, and job management issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2015-11-04	SPL-103271, SPL-103270, SPL-100183	Warn when a large lookup table is loaded into memory!
2015-11-04	SPL-103705, SPL-103704, SPL-82385	default remote_timeline_fetchall = 1 in limits.conf causes searches spending long time in Finalizing status
2015-11-04	SPL-104232, SPL-104227, SPL-103419	Indexed lookup returns NULL result when the lookup table has large number of duplicate rows
2015-11-04	SPL-104425, SPL-104427	Role is automatically mapped back to user and LDAP group even after the role is deleted then re-introduced.
2015-11-04	SPL-104475, SPL-103381	Test email contains incorrect subject and message values
2015-11-04	SPL-104560, SPL-103416	Splunk add saved-search with -email parameter creates the typo with action.emai (missing the 'L') in savedsearches.conf
2015-11-04	SPL-104660, SPL-103527	The "fields" command cannot remove "row*" fields created by "transpose" command
2015-11-04	SPL-104884, SPL-104023	Show source displays blank page with message "Show source not available for this event"
2015-11-04	SPL-104951, SPL-104591	Regex in IFX does not allow multiline match in an event
2015-11-04	SPL-105277, SPL-99985	Drill-down on field returns HandleIntentionsParserDataProvider error
2015-11-04	SPL-105405, SPL-103836	Datamodel acceleration status needs to show the correct percentage when backfill parameter is configured
2015-11-04	SPL-107200	Splunk Search Process Crashes - Integer division by zero
2015-11-04	SPL-107253	After upgrade searches fail due to vector::_M_range_check exception because of Malformed lookup CSV files.
2015-11-04	SPL-107263	Backfill script does not accept wildcard for name attribute
2015-11-04	SPL-107270, SPL-103546	Same regex may behave differently between rex command and props.conf.

Splunk Web and Home interface issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2015-11-04	SPL-104471, SPL-103137	Job management view selects an incorrect app when an app name contains another app's appid
2015-11-04	SPL-104473, SPL-103538	Improve messaging for the form input dropdown when there are duplicate values
2015-11-04	SPL-104677, SPL-103168	Cursor jumps to end of line when typing anywhere inside the login form input fields
2015-11-04	SPL-104861, SPL-96663	GDI File directory browser breaks when running behind Apache proxy
2015-11-04	SPL-104883, SPL-104327	HTTP response header provides CherryPy version
2015-11-04	SPL-104886, SPL-97319	In Chrome, the Time field in time picker sizes incorrectly.
2015-11-04	SPL-104952, SPL-100036	GDI Index dropdown displays default index even if write access is not available
2015-11-04	SPL-106302, SPL-103938	Information in Splunk Web and inputs.conf is inconsistent when enabling or disabling TCP input
2015-11-04	SPL-107390	DMC Forwarders: Deployment page shows wrong figure of average events

Unsorted issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2015-11-04	SPL-103614, SPL-103613, SPL-81391	splunkd.log needs to continue to report a authentication forwarding error beyond restart. ERROR TcpOutputProc - Error initializing SSL context - invalid sslCertPath
2015-11-04	SPL-104078, SPL-104017	Splunkd crash due to assertion failure in Tailing.
2015-11-04	SPL-104515	The default value of max_count should be 500000 in limits.conf.spec. (Clones: SPL-104440, SPL-104512, SPL-104513, SPL-104514)
2015-11-04	SPL-104881, SPL-103335	Site minder proxy using unsupported “Content-type” case in XHR response headers cause GET requests to have undefined job id.
2015-11-04	SPL-105147, SPL-103293	support for https protocol when using googlemapview lib
2015-11-04	SPL-106838, SPL-105362	Corrupt/truncated info.csv causes crash in IdataDO_Collector after throwing an instance of JsonStreamingParser::error
2015-11-04	SPL-107105	Splunkd crashes when a SAML Attribute Query receives a bad response
2015-11-04	SPL-107563	SimpleXML chart data count option does not work

Windows-specific issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2015-11-04	SPL-104831, SPL-100643	In Windows, Data Model Acceleration fails to run due to inaccessible distributed search keyfiles.
2015-11-04	SPL-104905, SPL-94305	Windows Security Event Logs are missing when there is a burst of events
2015-11-04	SPL-105113, SPL-101716	Whitelist values ignored when configured in multiple whitelists
2015-11-04	SPL-106785, SPL-104595	perfmon counters at the end of input have an extra tab character at the end of their indexed value
2015-11-04	SPL-107244, SPL-104915	Windows events forwarded as syslog data display hostname before timestamp