Salt 3006.17 release notes¶

Fixed¶

• Render post/pre up/down and hwaddr options for debian-ip. See #58210 and #57820. #58210

• Fix event flood by ensuring we do not retry sending the event indefinitely to the Master of Masters. #61845

• Prevent _pygit2.GitError: error loading known_hosts with certain pygit2/libgit2 versions. #64121

• • salt-ssh now supports state.sls_exists (#66893) #66893

• Allows file.symlink to pass a string to cmd_check #66939

• Simplied and sped up utils.json.find_json function #68258

• Improved runtime performance of chocolatey.installed #68308

• Add check for vault in opts var #68312

• Fixed user.present not having capability to persist home directory by adding persist_home flag. #68322

• Fixed pkg.installed state from showing warning if python rpm package not installed. Fixed pkg.installed state from showing warning and using slow process fork for version comparison when rpmdevtools is installed #68341

• Update pre-commit version used in github workflows to 4.3.0 #68349

• Fixed issue with network grains in interfaces that don't support ip4 or ip6 #68355

• Patch tornado for BDSA-2024-3438 #68377

• Patch tornado for BDSA-2024-3439 #68379

• Patch tornado for BDSA-2025-4215 #68381

• Patch tornado for BDSA-2024-9026 #68383

• • Update LZMA to 5.8.2

  • Update ncurses to 6.5

  • Update openssl to 3.5.4

  • Fix shebang creating to work with pip >=25.2

  • Fix python source hash checking

  • Update to recent python versions: 3.12.12, 3.11.14, 3.10.19 and 3.9.24. #68385

• Fixed the lgpo_reg error when reading REG_BINARY type data in the registry.pol file. #68387

• Fix leak in SaltMessageServer where the unpacker was re-used on a stream disconnect. #68394

• • Upgrade relenv to 0.21.2:

    • We refresh the ensurepip bundle during every build so new runtimes ship with pip 25.2 and setuptools 80.9.0.

    • Windows builds now pull newer SQLite (3.50.4.0) and XZ (5.6.2) sources, copy in a missing XZ config file, and tweak SBOM metadata; the libexpat update is prepared but only runs on older maintenance releases.

    • Our downloader helpers log more clearly, know about more archive formats, and retry cleanly on transient errors.

    • pip’s changing install API is handled by runtime wrappers that adapt to all of the current signatures.

    • Linux verification tests install pip 25.2/25.3 before building setuptools to make sure that flow keeps working. #68431

• salt/utils/odict.py has been deprecated and will be removed in 3009. Use the standard library implementation instead. #68440

• Fixed issue in cmd execution module that always return "Invalid user" for domain users. #68450

• Fixed authentication protocol version downgrade vulnerability (CVE-2025-62349) by adding minimum_auth_version configuration option (default: 3) to prevent minions from bypassing security features through protocol downgrade attacks.

  BREAKING CHANGE: The default value enforces authentication protocol version 3 or higher. If upgrading a deployment with older minions that do not support protocol v3, you must temporarily set minimum_auth_version: 0 in the master configuration before upgrading the master, then upgrade all minions before removing this override. #68467

• Fixed unsafe YAML loader usage in junos execution module (CVE-2025-62348) #68469