Release Notes

6.5.5

Splunk Enterprise 6.5.5 was released on July 19, 2017.

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.

Search issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2017-06-02	SPL-141751, SPL-142198, SPL-142199	Sparkline fails to render for the panel which was in hidden state previously
2017-05-30	SPL-141299, SPL-126101	The median function is incorrect if the number of values is even. Documentation implied "perc_method=interpolated" was default, but actually defaults to nearest-rank

Saved search, alerting, scheduling, and job management issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2017-06-02	SPL-141823, SPL-141887, SPL-141888	SearchParser Errors for Datamodel Acceleration prevents other scheduled searches from being executed
2017-05-23	SPL-136608, SPL-146181, SPL-168934, SPL-141967, SPL-168759, SPL-141966, SPL-167291	Users don't have capability "accelerate_search", can not access accelerated reports

Indexer and indexer clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2017-05-22	SPL-141709, SPL-141854, SPL-141855	Cluster Master crashes during bundle creation if master-apps directory is not present

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2017-06-21	SPL-140662, SPL-137319	Search head cluster member can't recover from REMOTE_CHKSUM_UNMATCHED error during bundle replication after SHC captaincy.

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2017-05-17	SPL-141740, SPL-141821, SPL-141822, SPL-141856	Universal Forwarder warns that kernel has transparent huge pages enabled in splunkd.log

Splunk Web and interface issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2017-06-02	SPL-141751, SPL-142198, SPL-142199	Sparkline fails to render for the panel which was in hidden state previously
2017-06-01	SPL-141853, SPL-142101, SPL-142102	Date format in the timerange picker is wrong for the "fr-FR" locale

Rest, Simple XML, and Advanced XML issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2017-06-21	SPL-141906, SPL-141538	HandleJobsDataProvider logs warning for failure to save search history for user=nobody.

Unsorted issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2017-06-21	SPL-142195, SPL-137981	TCP input from pan syslog device throwing "TcpOutputProc - Pipeline data does not have indexKey" though index is defined in inputs.conf

Uncategorized issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2017-06-15	SPL-142342, SPL-143212, SPL-143213	Cannot reach default search pages for some applications
2017-05-31	SPL-141319, SPL-142087, SPL-142086	Crash thread: parsing CsvLineBreaker::parser::gotEol
2017-05-30	SPL-138443, SPL-142064, SPL-142065, SPL-142066	Better messaging for invalid server.conf, sslVersion setting using quotes ("tls")
2017-05-10	SPL-140946, SPL-141727, SPL-141728	SplunkWeb hang because of log rotation configuration of python.log