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Salt 0.16.4 Release Notes¶

Version 0.16.4 is another bugfix release for 0.16.0, likely to be the last before 0.17.0 is released. The changes include:

Multiple documentation improvements/additions
Added the osfinger and osarch grains
Properly handle 32-bit packages for debian32 on x86_64 (issue #6607)
Fix regression in yum package installation in CentOS 5 (issue #6677)
Fix bug in hg.latest state that would erroneously delete directories (issue #6661)
Fix bug related to pid not existing for ps.top (issue #6679)
Fix regression in MySQL returner (issue #6695)
Fix IP addresses grains (ipv4 and ipv6) to include all addresses (issue #6656)
Fix regression preventing authenticated FTP (issue #6733)
Fix setting password for windows users (issue #6824)
Fix file.contains on values YAML parses as non-string (issue #6817)
Fix file.get_gid, file.get_uid, and file.chown for broken symlinks (issue #6826)
Fix comment for service reloads in service state (issue #6851)