Release Notes

6.4.3

Splunk Enterprise 6.4.3 was released on August 22, 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.

Issues are listed in all relevant sections. Some issues appear more than once.

Data input issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2016-08-05	SPL-121549, SPL-124544	Sinkhole inputs fail to index file if file is still being written to on first attempt to read
2016-08-02	SPL-102939, SPL-125707, SPL-126848, SPL-126849	Archive Processor cannot handle zip files if they contain Japanese characters in the file name..

Search issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2016-08-17	SPL-123133, SPL-95575	SortProcessor::getStreamingOp crashes in appendpipe subsearch due to inserting streaming operators into report search

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2016-07-28	SPL-120037, SPL-115793	Error messaging unclear when there are failures creating replication bundles.
2016-07-28	SPL-123774, SPL-80967	Configuration bundles corrupted during creation might be replicated, causing issues in other servers.
2016-07-22	SPL-124244, SPL-119757	Artifact replication failing due to origin node trying to replicate itself and causing the original artifact to never reap.
2016-07-22	SPL-124762, SPL-121746	Increase default value for max_chunk_queue_size from 1MB to 10MB

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2016-08-01	SPL-123781, SPL-125393	dropped events messages in splunkd are INFO; should be WARN

Monitoring Console/DMC issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2016-08-03	SPL-121812, SPL-119348	DMC doesn't support Cluster Label with space in it

Windows-specific issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2016-08-16	SPL-122695, SPL-118920	Windows local user added to domain group does not properly translate SID/GUIDs.

Admin and CLI issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2016-07-22	SPL-124762, SPL-121746	Increase default value for max_chunk_queue_size from 1MB to 10MB

Unsorted issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2016-08-16	SPL-123528, SPL-124453	Clarification on where to make squash_threshold changes
2016-07-28	SPL-123338, SPL-125198	When splunk is configured as license slave, the "show all messages" link on the licensing page returns 404 not found
2016-07-28	SPL-119539, SPL-126209	After upgrading 6.3.x/6.2.x HWFs to 6.4.x, queues block and data is heavily delayed.
2016-07-25	SPL-122846, SPL-123882	Forwarder RPM package failing to install due to missing useradd and groupadd binaries.
2016-07-15	SPL-123630, SPL-123723	diag fails when index path directory names are shorter than SPLUNK_HOME
2016-07-15	SPL-123622, SPL-123991, SPL-123987, SPL-123988, SPL-123989, SPL-123990	Clustered indexers frequently crashing in TimeoutHeap::checkClockSkew
2016-06-16	SPL-122438, SPL-121429	License related searches need to use source=*license_usage.log* instead of source=*license_usage.log
2016-06-16	SPL-120527, SPL-118185	When "useDeploymentServer = 1", HttpInputConf does not properly load tokens into memory

Uncategorized issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2016-08-17	SPL-118842, SPL-124241, SPL-124028	Missing Event Type Color for transaction search results including multiple Event Types.
2016-07-28	SPL-123769, SPL-123262	Crashing thread: indexerPipe on failing to write raw data to a hot bucket due to no space on disk
2016-07-07	SPL-122982, SPL-123842	Embedded report uses oldest search artifact from the history endpoint
2016-06-15	SPL-122426, SPL-122057	DNS Host Matching failure for IPv6 addresses