Fixed issues

Splunk Enterprise 7.2.4.2

This release addresses an issue that might impact data durability under certain rare cluster conditions. The issue is triggered when there is a confluence of data replication errors from index clustering as well as an upload to the Splunk object store medium (SmartStore) via secondary or tertiary replication nodes.

While the incidence of the condition is rare and the impact is negligible, we recommend that customers that are currently using SmartStore in a clustered production environment upgrade to version 7.2.4.2 and set max_replication_errors in server.conf to 20.

The upcoming Splunk Enterprise 7.2.5 release will also contain the fixes, but will not require you to set max_replication_errors to 20.

If you are an on-premises customer using both SmartStore and Indexer Clustering and have questions regarding this upgrade, please open a support case via the support portal with the subject 7.2.4.2 upgrade questions.

Splunk Cloud customers will be upgraded as part of Splunk Cloud standard operations.

Splunk Enterprise 7.2.4

Splunk Enterprise 7.2.4 was released on February 7, 2019. This release includes fixes for the following issues.

Issues are listed in all relevant sections. Some issues might appear more than once. To check for additional security issues related to this release, visit the Splunk Security Portal.

Authentication and authorization issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-01-17	SPL-164999, SPL-163411	LookupAccountName No mapping between account names and security IDs was done
2019-01-17	SPL-165089, SPL-154655	On a search-head, the messaging framework does not filter BBM based on the roles & capabilities settings for messages emitted by search peers
2019-01-16	SPL-162604, SPL-160537	saml - "Did not find a saml session index for this session, maybe a local user" should be WARN
2019-01-16	SPL-164795, SPL-161438	Splunk Enterprise Windows 64 bit installer for 7.1.2 contains data in \etc\system\local\authentication.conf
2018-11-29	SPL-161628, SPL-145067	Exclude user "nobody" from LDAP searches to prevent skipped searches.
2018-11-09	SPL-162484, SPL-159552	SAML - "role" not parsing comma separated list

Data input issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-01-15	SPL-162868, SPL-153132	Creating every process as a Daemon by process-runner causing D state for process runner.
2018-12-04	SPL-163298, SPL-162714	HEC: Source is not logged when invalid token is used

Search issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-01-29	SPL-162846, SPL-164977	When Setting Language Via URL Some Fields Are Getting Renamed
2019-01-24	SPL-165363, SPL-164718	"phased_execution_mode = singlethreaded" causes issue with field ordering
2019-01-17	SPL-162567, SPL-162308	Severe performance degradation with batch mode searches over large numbers of buckets
2019-01-16	SPL-162166, SPL-162548	splunkd: /opt/splunk/src/search/processors/lookup/IndexedCsvDataProvider.cpp:165: virtual void IndexedCsvDataProvider::lookupBatch(UnpackedResults&, const SearchResultsInfo&, const LookupDefinition&): Assertion `!_parse_only' failed.
2019-01-16	SPL-163624, SPL-162341	Artifacts are not being reaped in a timely manner causing searches to be queued
2019-01-04	SPL-164146, SPL-163825	Search process management may fail on race conditions resulting in spurious status as in SPL-152541.
2019-01-03	SPL-164427, SPL-162377	220 crashes over 12 days Thread: searchOrchestrator
2018-12-19	SPL-163425, SPL-152541	/search/jobs/*/control endpoint is responding 404 Unknown sid for executing search jobs
2018-12-18	SPL-163888, SPL-162433	Precision may be truncated in accum, addtotals, addcoltotals commands based on event ordering
2018-12-14	SPL-163831	Duplicate field defined in |table or |fields command causes incorrect data to be assigned to a field in the Statistics tab
2018-12-06	SPL-163454, SPL-163319	forceCsvResults parameter is improperly added to summary indexed data
2018-12-04	SPL-161649, SPL-138177	Workflow action menu stops rendering when using invalid special parameter tokens
2018-12-03	SPL-163063, SPL-159979	Crashing Thread: TcpChannelThread - Post process search using stats fields with null crashes Splunk
2018-12-03	SPL-162448, SPL-154678, SPL-163564	|metadata search error - Failed to apply deletes to some metadata
2018-11-07	SPL-160506, SPL-158401	Search with a FullFilePath containing \\ produce less events than with * and less over a longer period
2018-11-07	SPL-162599, SPL-159002	Search process crashing - thread: phase_1 - Segmentation fault in LookupTable::applyLookup

Saved search, alerting, scheduling, and job management issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-01-15	SPL-164182, SPL-164480	per_result_alert mode and disable suppress cause missing results.srs.gz in 7.2+
2019-01-15	SPL-164489, SPL-157118	invisible datamodels /data/models/._*.json files are causing the manager to fail finding the datamodel definition
2019-01-09	SPL-163315, SPL-163882	Alert action not being fired with permission denied on reading search results after upgrade to 7.2.1
2018-12-06	SPL-163454, SPL-163319	forceCsvResults parameter is improperly added to summary indexed data

Charting, reporting, and visualization issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-01-17	SPL-162567, SPL-162308	Severe performance degradation with batch mode searches over large numbers of buckets
2019-01-15	SPL-164721, SPL-154054	Dashboard Editor in de-DE locale CSS error in Format visualization modal for Stats Table/Line/Bar Charts
2018-12-06	SPL-163622, SPL-157994	HTML content inside dashboard XML can't be localized
2018-12-04	SPL-161649, SPL-138177	Workflow action menu stops rendering when using invalid special parameter tokens

Data model and pivot issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-01-15	SPL-164489, SPL-157118	invisible datamodels /data/models/._*.json files are causing the manager to fail finding the datamodel definition

Indexer and indexer clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-01-14	SPL-162802, SPL-161301	For a multisite cluster, splunk is not reaping prior search-buckets manifests after new generation
2019-01-07	SPL-164157, SPL-162733	Rolling-restart fails on some search heads or indexers
2018-12-19	SPL-162309, SPL-156164	Shutdown sequence does not begin after master has instructed peer to restart during rolling restart phase of a bundle push

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-01-17	SPL-164732, SPL-164011	SHC: when captain node is in AutomaticDetention status, all alerts (scheduled searches) appear to have stopped as well.
2019-01-10	SPL-164476, SPL-141869	App bundle push issued from SHC app deployer extremely slow
2019-01-07	SPL-164157, SPL-162733	Rolling-restart fails on some search heads or indexers
2019-01-04	SPL-163883, SPL-163216	Bundle replication from search head not using SNI with https connection
2019-01-03	SPL-164272, SPL-164134	Search performance degrading over time
2018-12-05	SPL-163487, SPL-162318	DispatchReaper fails to reap artifacts from fill_summary_index.py in SH Cluster

Universal forwarder issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-01-02	SPL-164282, SPL-156799	Forwarder fails to restart when disableDefaultPort=true but port is being used
2018-12-19	SPL-163080, SPL-161891	RPM dependencies (/bin/mv, uname, which, hostname)

Distributed deployment, forwarder, deployment server issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-01-17	SPL-163320, SPL-162350	Ingest-time log-to-metrics conversion of structured log data is broken for 7.2.x Universal Forwarders
2019-01-17	SPL-161045, SPL-141772	App deployment fails sporadically on Windows

Monitoring Console issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2018-12-11	SPL-163189, SPL-161714	Saving edit to server roles in DMC configure view results in 409 Conflict error response code

Splunk Web and interface issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-01-29	SPL-162846, SPL-164977	When Setting Language Via URL Some Fields Are Getting Renamed

Windows-specific issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2018-12-19	SPL-164104, SPL-155540	Windows Inputs events are not being created when certain inputs are enabled (perfmon://Process)

Admin and CLI issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-02-05	SPL-163669	In cloud indexes manager page, "Max size column" and "Max Size of Entire Index" input fields need to be removed
2019-01-17	SPL-163320, SPL-162350	Ingest-time log-to-metrics conversion of structured log data is broken for 7.2.x Universal Forwarders
2019-01-15	SPL-164561, SPL-160864	Excessive logging of external scheme definitions by SpecFiles
2018-11-21	SPL-163100, SPL-154372	Shared embedded report is not loading when admin is logged in

Uncategorized issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-01-28	SPL-162969, SPL-165614, SPL-164661	Splunk upgrade failures from pre 7.2 to 7.2.X due to kv store migration issues
2019-01-17	SPL-164976, SPL-164862	After migration, Splunk Cloud customer seeing unexpected large increase in outbound network bandwidth from forwarders
2019-01-17	SPL-165011, SPL-165008	MaxMind GeoIP DB needs to be updated for Jan 2019
2019-01-16	SPL-164531, SPL-160841	Received fatal signal 11 (SEGV) on TailWatcher on Heavy Forwarders RegexExtractionProcessor race condition
2019-01-15	SPL-164266, SPL-158199	when merging tsidx files, splunk optimize failed to open temporary manifest file due to file name collision cause by race condition
2019-01-14	SPL-164725, SPL-159813	Post 6.6 / 7.0 upgrade, power user role cannot edit alert.expires from UI
2019-01-14	SPL-164842, SPL-162335	IdataDO_Collector.cpp void collect__summaries(): Assertion `paths.size() == 2' failed.
2019-01-09	SPL-164524, SPL-163224	Duplicated license error (72 hour grace period) shutting down search before 72 hours has passed.
2019-01-08	SPL-164252, SPL-163808	CIM Setup page is showing single line because of syntax error in underlying search
2019-01-04	SPL-163272, SPL-159337	Splunk UF crashing due to invalid EVENT_BREAKER
2019-01-03	SPL-163032, SPL-157014	Search results on a dashboard are given with system timezone instead of user timezone
2018-12-20	SPL-163552, SPL-157146	Diag with SPLUNK_DB set to drive name and \ results in improper format on Windows
2018-12-18	SPL-163474, SPL-158779	Indexer crash with thread: BatchSearch
2018-12-17	SPL-163953, SPL-160833	Seeing 500 internal server error when opening many manager pages
2018-12-14	SPL-163530, SPL-162247	After adding Tags Whitelist for Data Models, the newly added tags disappears when there is a change in the acceleration setting for the respective datamodel from the UI.
2018-12-14	SPL-163974, SPL-157230	conf-mutator.pid cleanup error during GUI initiated restart
2018-12-10	SPL-162971, SPL-154925	KVstore restore failure sometimes when having >1000 rows in the collection
2018-12-06	SPL-163475, SPL-161299	ES Search Head Captain Crash: 'it != _summary_inprogress.end()'
2018-12-06	SPL-163621, SPL-158665	Token inside HTML element is not localized
2018-12-04	SPL-163279, SPL-159553	Despite no-enforcement license is in placed, the customer is still getting license violation errors for some of the indexers in a cluster
2018-12-03	SPL-162282, SPL-157891, SPL-163562	Unable to open bucket as bucket is stuck in stale state
2018-11-20	SPL-162980, SPL-152828	Splunk does not start as specified user on boot on MacOS
2018-11-13	SPL-162469, SPL-163577, SPL-162764	After upgrade to 7.2 Splunk is unable to start - KVStoreConfigurationThread crash
2018-11-08	SPL-159413, SPL-162105, SPL-162723, SPL-163566, SPL-162670, SPL-162676, SPL-162724	"Failed to localize" due to "ERROR CacheManagerHandler"..."not an owner"..."and the bucket is draining"
2018-11-02	SPL-159203, SPL-159254, SPL-163561	splunk_archiver app is included in the Splunk Cloud package in error, needs to be excluded at packaging time