Salt 0.17.2 Release Notes¶

release

2013-11-14

Version 0.17.2 is another bugfix release for 0.17.0. The changes include:

• Add ability to delete key with grains.delval (issue #7872)

• Fix possible state compiler stack trace (issue #5767)

• Fix architecture regression in yumpkg (issue #7813)

• Use correct ps on Debian to prevent truncating (issue #5646)

• Fix grains targeting for new grains (issue #5737)

• Fix bug with merging in git_pillar (issue #6992)

• Fix print_jobs duplicate results

• Fix apt version specification for pkg.install

• Fix possible KeyError from ext_job_cache missing option

• Fix auto_order for - names states (issue #7649)

• Fix regression in new gitfs installs (directory not found error)

• Fix escape pipe issue on Windows for file.recurse (issue #7967)

• Fix fileclient in case of master restart (issue #7987)

• Try to output warning if CLI command malformed (issue #6538)

• Fix --out=quiet to actually be quiet (issue #8000)

• Fix for state.sls in salt-ssh (issue #7991)

• Fix for MySQL grants ordering issue (issue #5817)

• Fix traceback for certain missing CLI args (issue #8016)

• Add ability to disable lspci queries on master (issue #4906)

• Fail if sls defined in topfile does not exist (issue #5998)

• Add ability to downgrade MySQL grants (issue #6606)

• Fix ssh_auth.absent traceback (issue #8043)

• Add upstart detection for Debian/Raspbian (issue #8039)

• Fix ID-related issues (issue #8052, issue #8050, and others)

• Fix for jinja rendering issues (issue #8066 and issue #8079)

• Fix argument parsing in salt-ssh (issue #7928)

• Fix some GPU detection instances (issue #6945)

• Fix bug preventing includes from other environments in SLS files

• Fix for kwargs with dashes (issue #8102)

• Fix salt.utils.which for windows '.exe' (issue #7904)

• Fix apache.adduser without apachectl (issue #8123)

• Fix issue with evaluating test kwarg in states (issue #7788)

• Fix regression in salt.client.Caller() (issue #8078)

• Fix apt-key silent failure

• Fix bug where cmd.script would try to run even if caching failed (issue #7601)

• Fix apt pkg.latest regression (issue #8067)

• Fix for mine data not being updated (issue #8144)

• Fix for noarch packages in yum

• Fix a Xen detection edge case (issue #7839)

• Fix windows __opts__ dictionary persistence (issue #7714)

• Fix version generation for when it's part of another git repo (issue #8090)

• Fix _handle_iorder stacktrace so that the real syntax error is shown (issue #8114 and issue #7905)

• Fix git.latest state when a commit SHA is used (issue #8163)

• Fix various small bugs in yumpkg.py (issue #8201)

• Fix for specifying identify file in git.latest (issue #8094)

• Fix for --output-file CLI arg (issue #8205)

• Add ability to specify shutdown time for system.shutdown (issue #7833)

• Fix for salt version using non-salt git repo info (issue #8266)

• Add additional hints at impact of pkgrepo states when test=True (issue #8247)

• Fix for salt-ssh files not being owned by root (issue #8216)

• Fix retry logic and error handling in fileserver (related to issue #7755)

• Fix file.replace with test=True (issue #8279)

• Add flag for limiting file traversal in fileserver (issue #6928)

• Fix for extra mine processes (issue #5729)

• Fix for unloading custom modules (issue #7691)

• Fix for salt-ssh opts (issue #8005 and issue #8271)

• Fix compound matcher for grains (issue #7944)

• Improve error reporting in ebuild module (related to issue #5393)

• Add dir_mode to file.managed (issue #7860)

• Improve traceroute support for FreeBSD and macOS (issue #4927)

• Fix for matching minions under syndics (issue #7671)

• Improve exception handling for missing ID (issue #8259)

• Fix grain mismatch for ScientificLinux (issue #8338)

• Add configuration option for minion_id_caching

• Fix open mode auth errors (issue #8402)