Splunk-sdk

Minor changes
* [482](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/482) Special handling related to the semantic versioning of specific Search APIs functional in Splunk Enterprise 9.0.2 and (Splunk Cloud 9.0.2209). These SDK changes will enable seamless transition between the APIs based on the version of the Splunk Enterprise in use

Bug fixes
* [471](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/471) Fixed support of Load Balancer "sticky sessions" (persistent cookies) [[issue#438](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/issues/438)]

Minor changes
* [466](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/466) Tests for CSC apps
* [467](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/467) Added 'kwargs' parameter for Saved Search History function
* [475](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/475) README updates

New features and APIs
* [468](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/468) SDK Support for splunkd search API changes

Bug fixes
* [464](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/464) Updated checks for wildcards in StoragePasswords [[issue#458](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/issues/458)]

Minor changes
* [463](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/463) Preserve third-party cookies

New features and APIs
* [442](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/442) Optional retries feature added
* [447](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/447) Create job support for "output_mode:json" [[issue#285](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/issues/285)]

Bug fixes
* [449](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/449) Set cookie [[issue#438](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/issues/438)]
* [460](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/460) Remove restart from client.Entity.disable

Minor changes
* [444](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/444) Update tox.ini
* [446](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/446) Release workflow refactor
* [448](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/448) Documentation changes
* [450](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/450) Removed examples and it's references from the SDK

New features and APIs
* [441](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/441) JSONResultsReader added and deprecated ResultsReader
* Pre-requisite: Query parameter 'output_mode' must be set to 'json'
* Improves performance by approx ~80-90%
* ResultsReader is deprecated and will be removed in future releases (NOTE: Please migrate to JSONResultsReader)
* [437](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/437) Added setup_logging() method in splunklib for logging
* [426](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/426) Added new github_commit modular input example
* [392](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/392) Break out search argument to option parsing for v2 custom search commands
* [384](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/384) Added Float parameter validator for custom search commands
* [371](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/371) Modinput preserve 'app' context

Bug fixes
* [439](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/439) Modified POST method debug log to not log sensitive body/data
* [431](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/431) Add distsearch.conf to Stream Search Command examples [ [issue#418](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/issues/418) ]
* [419](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/419) Hec endpoint issue[ [issue#345](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/issues/345) ]
* [416](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/416) Removed strip() method in load_value() method from data.py file [ [issue#400](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/issues/400) ]
* [148](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/148) Identical entity names will cause an infinite loop

Minor changes
* [440](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/440) Github release workflow modified to generate docs
* [430](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/430) Fix indentation in README
* [429](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/429) Documented how to access modular input metadata
* [427](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/427) Replace .splunkrc with .env file in test and examples
* [424](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/424) Float validator test fix
* [423](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/423) Python 3 compatibility for ResponseReader.__str__()
* [422](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/422) ordereddict and all its reference removed
* [421](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/421) Update README.md
* [387](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/387) Update filter.py
* [331](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/331) Fix a couple of warnings spotted when running python 2.7 tests
* [330](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/330) client: use six.string_types instead of basestring
* [329](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/329) client: remove outdated comment in Index.submit
* [262](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/262) Properly add parameters to request based on the method of the request
* [237](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/237) Don't output close tags if you haven't written a start tag
* [149](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/149) "handlers" stanza missing in examples/searchcommands_template/default/logging.conf

Bug fixes
* [405](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/405) Fix searchcommands_app example
* [406](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/406) Fix mod inputs examples
* [407](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/407) Fixed issue with Streaming and Generating Custom Search Commands dropping fields that aren't present in the first row of results. More details on how to opt-in to this fix can be found here:
https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/blob/develop/README.md#customization [ [issue401](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/issues/401) ]

Minor changes
* [408](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/408) Add search mode example
* [409](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/409) Add Support for authorization tokens read from .splunkrc [ [issue#388](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/issues/388) ]
* [413](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/pull/413) Default kvstore owner to nobody [ [issue#231](https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/issues/231) ]