Release Notes

6.3.4

Splunk Enterprise 6.3.4 was released on April 20, 2016.

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.

Security Issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2016-04-22	SPL-115109	Upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2g.

For a list of security issues, please see the Security Advisory. A list of all recent advisories can be found in the Security Portal.

Data input issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2016-04-22	SPL-111594	On a monitor stanza with a direct subdirectory with it's own monitor stanza, setting recursive=false prevents monitoring.
2016-04-22	SPL-109964	Splunkd crash on archivereader. (Clone: SPL-109032)
2016-04-22	SPL-109966	Indexing duplicate events after restart when .gz files are monitored. (Clone: SPL-106997)
2016-04-22	SPL-110377	Bug during applyPendingMetadata, header processor does not own the indexed extractions confs. (Clone: SPL-92461 )

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

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2016-04-22	SPL-110901	Editing Mail Action in an Alert will delete / uncheck "Summary Indexing" enabled.
2016-04-22	SPL-108971	Only having a Mint license without an Enterprise license crashes searches.
2016-04-22	SPL-112269	CLI search returns 0 results when using a cron-scheduled shell script. (clone: SPL-110866)
2016-04-22	SPL-111629	Splunk crashes on job management page when searches contain NOT clause.
2016-04-22	SPL-111881	Cursor mode returns some duplicate results under certain conditions.
2016-04-22	SPL-112851	Crashing thread: DispatchReaper - assert fail in TimeFormat::render().
2016-04-22	SPL-113907	Cursor mode search results can have missing events under certain conditions.
2016-04-22	SPL-114611	Visualization tab shows warning messages which are already in the job drop down.
2016-04-22	SPL-114334	Event summary dialog of the add data page shows <ode>-1</code> as events count while uploading the data.
2016-04-22	SPL-112851	Crashing thread: DispatchReaper - assert fail in TimeFormat::render(). (Clone: SPL-58137)
2016-04-22	SPL-110142	null password gets hashed and breaks email alerts.
2016-04-22	SPL-93584	The search job inspector no longer clearly advertises when a search is using a report-acceleration automatic summary.
2016-04-22	SPL-115477	In certain condition, accessing the jobs management dashboard would get one of these errors in the UI: This EntityLister module could not retrieve its results. A 503 error was returned with the following text "Service Unavailable". [JobManager module] 'str' object has no attribute 'os_startIndex'

Data model and Pivot issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2-16-04-22	SPL-115318	Filter dropdown in pivot ignores the timerange settings while dispatching a search.
2016-04-22	SPL-110805	Time restrictions not passed when creating new pivot.
2016-04-22	SPL-114765	appendcols returns zero results

Splunk Web, DMC, and Home interface issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2016-04-22	SPL-115356	Slash "/" in the selected directory on Add Data menu is translated to "%2F"
2016-04-22	SPL-112478	+3K savedsearches stanza loads app too slow.
2016-04-22	SPL-113798	Table row numbers in the dashboard panel are not updated when navigating to different pages using the paginator.
2016-04-22	SPL-111513	Chained relative_time offsets do not work in dashboard.
2016-04-22	SPL-112383	"'Search more apps'" feature does not work when using proxy.
2016-04-22	SPL-111488	Line break characters do not work in email messages.
2016-04-22	SPL-110384	Dashboard panel shows "Waiting for data..." message when custom search command is used in the post-process search.
2016-04-22	SPL-110303	The DMC indexing performance views need a note about parallel pipelines compatibility. (Clone: SPL-110299)
2016-04-22	SPL-107999	When a dashboard containing extension scripts and stylesheets from other app context is cloned, the cloned dashboard does not contain the extension scripts and stylesheets.

Indexer and index processor issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2016-04-22	SPL-111079	Crash in PipelineInputChannel::setIndexedExtractionsDestructive.
2016-04-22	SPL-115549	Index reload fails because of trailing slash in path inside indexes.conf.
2016-04-22	SPL-111596	Non-UTF8 file names monitored by universal forwarder causes Indexers to crash. (Clone: SPL-106537)

Distributed deployment, forwarder, and deployment server issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2016-04-22	SPL-113772	DistributedPeerHandler::handleEditCreate() crash adding search peer. (Clone: SPL-112794)
2016-04-22	SPL-112310	Deployment Sever displays warn message when app name contains the word "download". (Clone: SPL-111535)
2016-04-22	SPL-113405	Forwarder Management Add data - Unable to add inputs with unique serverclasses and same sourcepath.

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2016-04-22	SPL-110513	srchJobsQuota and rtSrchJobsQuota are not centralized across search head clusters. (Clone: SPL-101954 )
SPL-112836	Local.meta modtime change for a blacklisted lookup file causes high frequency full bundle replication.
2016-04-22	SPL-114702	After search head update from 6.2.x to 6.3.x, distributed search fails because peer has status = "Down".
2016-04-22	SPL-114354	Hanging search processes using all available CPUs on the search head.
2016-04-22	SPL-114658	Backport fix for crash in DispatchCommand::dumpPipelineSetsFile(). (Clone:SPL-111602)
2016-04-22	SPL-112294	CMPeerJob does not provide an error message describing failures. (Clone: SPL-112217 )
2016-04-22	SPL-115988	Search results link from result sharing workflow don't work on receiving peers.

Windows-specific issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2016-04-22	SPL-111356	"Plus" button for the machine type filter on the forwarder management page does not display on IE ver.11.
2016-04-22	SPL-112734	UF fails to install on Windows7 workstations via SCCM.

Unsorted issues

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2016-04-22	SPL-113816	Splunk does not report the correct Hardware-CPU information on startup or via REST.
2016-04-22	SPL-114422	Assert in SSLCommon::init() if alternate name in the incoming certificate doesn't match.
2016-04-22	SessionToken::Locked_revalidate_user(time_t): Assertion `_p->refcnt >= 2' failed.
2016-04-22	SPL-113431	Exported PDF shows "year=1 is before 1900; the datetime strftime() methods require year >= 1900" error message when the last row of table does not contain any value for _time column.