Salt 3006.15 release notes¶

cmdmod: invoke a shell only with cmd.shell or when using the shell parameter cmdmod: run PowerShell scripts via -File instead of -Command cmdmod: allow passing args as a list for cmd.script cmdmod: return an error when running a bad command with cmd.powershell #68156

Fixes issue with the minion.restart function not working with systemd. Will now detect if the system is using systemd or is a Windows system and use service.restart instead. #46255

Fixed max_depth not respected in file.directory state #55306

Updated CLI examples in docs to conform to bash syntax. Standardized documentation on Windows modules to Google Style Python Docstrings. #63856

Ensure the right HOME environment value is set during Pygit2 remote initialization. #64121

Ensure network connections are cleanly closed in ipc and tcp transports #67076

cmdmod: fix special character handling on Windows #68096

cmdmod: fix quotation handling with Windows and Powershell #68118

Fixed ssh_known_hosts.present failure when ssh host keys changed #68132

Revert 'ipc_write_timeout' change (3006.13) due to multiple reports of this change causing instability #68151

cmdmod: handle cases where the temp script is not removed with cmd.script #68156

Fixed MinionManager.stop() to allow processing of minion event bus when called, to allow jobs returns from service.restart salt-minion no_block=True to reach master. #68183

grains.disks: fix exception with incompatible output of Get-PhysicalDisk #68184

Log a useful error if the minion's key is overwritten with bad data; instead of a traceback. #68190

win_lgpo_reg only applies user settings to the registry.pol file. It no longer applies those same settings to the user registry. Those settings will be applied to all users the next time they log in. #68191

salt.crypt.AsyncAuth and salt.crypt.SAuth read the private key from the filesystem a single time. #68195

Modifies systemd_service.{restart,stop} to default to using no_block=True when the service being stopped or restarted is the salt-minion. #68212

Upgrade onedir relenv to 0.20.5:

• Update gdbm from 1.25 to 1.26

• Update libffi from 3.5.1 to 3.5.2

• Update readline from 8.2.13 to 8.3

• Update sqlite from 3.50.2 to 3.50.4

• Update sqlite on windows from 3.40.1 to 0.35.4 (CVE-2025-6965) #68291

Added a new force option to pkg.install on Windows to force the installer to run even if the package is already installed #68102

Adds support for creating a scheduled job to restart the minion if the initial attempt at restarting it via minion.restart has failed. #68225