From 650bea0e8629dd42e44936aaa1f96a43b7df72ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: vmalaviya <vmalaviya@splunk.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 15:12:08 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Release-1.6.17 changes

---
 CHANGELOG.md                         | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 README.md                            |  2 +-
 docs/searchcommands.rst              |  6 +++---
 examples/searchcommands_app/setup.py |  2 +-
 splunklib/__init__.py                |  2 +-
 splunklib/binding.py                 |  2 +-
 6 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 63f520c82..743b4f175 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,25 @@
 # Splunk Enterprise SDK for Python Changelog
 
+## Version 1.6.17
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+* [#396](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/396) Updated KVStore Methods to support dictionaries
+* [#397](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/397) Added code changes for encoding '/' in _key parameter in kvstore.data APIs.
+* [#398](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/398) Added dictionary support for KVStore "query" methods.
+* [#404](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/404) Fixed test case failure for 8.0 and latest(8.2.x) splunk version
+
+### Minor changes
+
+* [#381](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/381) Updated current year in conf.py
+* [#389](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/389) Fixed few typos
+* [#391](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/391) Fixed spelling error in client.py
+* [#393](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/393) Updated development status past 3
+* [#394](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/394) Updated Readme steps to run examples
+* [#395](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/395) Updated random_number.py
+* [#399](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/399) Moved CI tests to GitHub Actions
+* [#403](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/403) Removed usage of Easy_install to install SDK
+
 ## Version 1.6.16
 
 ### Bug fixes
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6b92a179a..a1f077ebe 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 # The Splunk Enterprise Software Development Kit for Python
 
-#### Version 1.6.16
+#### Version 1.6.17
 
 The Splunk Enterprise Software Development Kit (SDK) for Python contains library code and examples designed to enable developers to build applications using the Splunk platform.
 
diff --git a/docs/searchcommands.rst b/docs/searchcommands.rst
index a620fbb84..281f755ff 100644
--- a/docs/searchcommands.rst
+++ b/docs/searchcommands.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ splunklib.searchcommands
 
 .. automodule:: splunklib.searchcommands
 
-.. autofunction:: dispatch(command_class[, argv=sys.argv, input_file=sys.stdin, output_file=sys.stdout, module_name=None])
+.. autofunction:: dispatch(command_class[, argv=sys.argv, input_file=sys.stdin, output_file=sys.stdout, module_name=None, allow_empty_input=True])
 
 .. autoclass:: EventingCommand
     :members:
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ splunklib.searchcommands
 
     .. automethod:: splunklib.searchcommands::GeneratingCommand.generate
 
-    .. automethod:: splunklib.searchcommands::GeneratingCommand.process(args=sys.argv[, input_file=sys.stdin, output_file=sys.stdout])
+    .. automethod:: splunklib.searchcommands::GeneratingCommand.process(args=sys.argv[, input_file=sys.stdin, output_file=sys.stdout, allow_empty_input=True])
 
 .. autoclass:: ReportingCommand
     :members:
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ splunklib.searchcommands
         :inherited-members:
         :exclude-members: configuration_settings, fix_up, items, keys
 
-    .. automethod:: splunklib.searchcommands::StreamingCommand.process(args=sys.argv[, input_file=sys.stdin, output_file=sys.stdout])
+    .. automethod:: splunklib.searchcommands::StreamingCommand.process(args=sys.argv[, input_file=sys.stdin, output_file=sys.stdout, allow_empty_input=True])
 
     .. automethod:: splunklib.searchcommands::StreamingCommand.stream
 
diff --git a/examples/searchcommands_app/setup.py b/examples/searchcommands_app/setup.py
index b9dc87b78..ba2d46a0d 100755
--- a/examples/searchcommands_app/setup.py
+++ b/examples/searchcommands_app/setup.py
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ def run(self):
     setup(
         description='Custom Search Command examples',
         name=os.path.basename(project_dir),
-        version='1.6.16',
+        version='1.6.17',
         author='Splunk, Inc.',
         author_email='devinfo@splunk.com',
         url='http://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python',
diff --git a/splunklib/__init__.py b/splunklib/__init__.py
index 525dc8eed..36f8a7e0b 100644
--- a/splunklib/__init__.py
+++ b/splunklib/__init__.py
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@
 
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 from splunklib.six.moves import map
-__version_info__ = (1, 6, 16)
+__version_info__ = (1, 6, 17)
 __version__ = ".".join(map(str, __version_info__))
diff --git a/splunklib/binding.py b/splunklib/binding.py
index 8d47d244f..cea9894e3 100644
--- a/splunklib/binding.py
+++ b/splunklib/binding.py
@@ -1391,7 +1391,7 @@ def request(url, message, **kwargs):
         head = {
             "Content-Length": str(len(body)),
             "Host": host,
-            "User-Agent": "splunk-sdk-python/1.6.16",
+            "User-Agent": "splunk-sdk-python/1.6.17",
             "Accept": "*/*",
             "Connection": "Close",
         } # defaults