https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/user-prefs-conf-More-Undocumented-Settings/m-p/444101#M13072 <P>it will be available in the local path $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/..../local<BR /> because its fully user-specific</P> Tue, 12 Jun 2018 09:05:45 GMT logloganathan 2018-06-12T09:05:45Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/user-prefs-conf-More-Undocumented-Settings/m-p/444100#M13071 <P>Hi all,</P> <P>Would anyone be able to elaborate on what these settings mean in user-prefs.conf</P> <PRE><CODE>[general] render_version_messages = checked_new_maintenance_version = checked_new_version = new_maintenance_version = new_version = </CODE></PRE> <P>They are not documented in the online Splunk Docs: <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/User-prefsconf">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/User-prefsconf</A></P> <P>And they're not in the spec file in: $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/README/</P> <P>I'd would be good to know if setting:</P> <PRE><CODE>[general] render_version_messages = 0 </CODE></PRE> <P>Would disable the display of the 'New version available' in the Messages drop-down:</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper"><img src="https://community.splunk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5153i7BDF413D8E1A1413/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" title="alt text" alt="alt text" /></span></P> <P>But in general, it would be good to have these settings documented. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span></P> Tue, 12 Jun 2018 07:24:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/user-prefs-conf-More-Undocumented-Settings/m-p/444100#M13071 gvmorley 2018-06-12T07:24:48Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/user-prefs-conf-More-Undocumented-Settings/m-p/444101#M13072 <P>it will be available in the local path $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/..../local<BR /> because its fully user-specific</P> Tue, 12 Jun 2018 09:05:45 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/user-prefs-conf-More-Undocumented-Settings/m-p/444101#M13072 logloganathan 2018-06-12T09:05:45Z