Salt 2015.5.9 Release Notes¶

Statistics¶

• Total Merges: 45

• Total Issue References: 21

• Total PR References: 48

• Contributors: 21 (abednarik, aletourneau, attiasr, basepi, cachedout, clan, clarkperkins, cro, dmyerscough, jacobhammons, jfindlay, jsutton, justinta, lorengordon, markckimball, mpreziuso, rallytime, terminalmage, titilambert, twangboy, zmalone)

Changelog for v2015.5.8..v2015.5.9¶

Generated at: 2018-05-27 22:31:06 UTC

• PR #30248: (jfindlay) add 2015.5.9 release notes @ 2016-01-08 23:13:10 UTC

  • 92889db638 Merge pull request #30248 from jfindlay/2015.5

  • 741f7aba31 add 2015.5.9 release notes

• PR #30237: (jacobhammons) Updated man pages and doc version for 2015.5.9 @ 2016-01-08 18:10:05 UTC

  • 7a329d89d7 Merge pull request #30237 from jacobhammons/man-pages-prev

  • 2431c4c5c3 Updated man page and doc conf.py copyright year to 2016

  • fe3da1c174 Updated man pages and doc version for 2015.5.9

• PR #30207: (rallytime) Use correct spacing in rabbitmq state examples @ 2016-01-07 18:37:35 UTC

  • 2c0b725924 Merge pull request #30207 from rallytime/rabbitmq_states_doc_fix

  • 8d48c24182 Use correct spacing in rabbitmq state examples

• PR #30191: (jacobhammons) Updated doc site banners @ 2016-01-06 22:37:40 UTC

  • b49cf910f4 Merge pull request #30191 from jacobhammons/banner-prev

  • c3390955b0 Updated doc site banners

• ISSUE #29633: (twellspring) user.present does not modify home directory (refs: #30125)

• PR #30125: (abednarik) Update user home event when createhome is set to False @ 2016-01-05 18:15:38 UTC

  • 9363d6f5b6 Merge pull request #30125 from abednarik/update_user_home

  • 56544a77f6 Update user home event when createhome is set to False

• ISSUE #10155: (jhenry82) Option to select a random master in multi-master mode (refs: #30127)

• PR #30127: (jsutton) Updating documentation and example minion config for random_master/master_shuffle. @ 2016-01-04 19:30:50 UTC

  • 1a5d585d91 Merge pull request #30127 from jsutton/clarify-documentation-for-random_master

  • 01dbf385ef Adding random_master to reference and updating master_shuffle. Adding master_shuffle to the minion example config file as it is needed for multi-master PKI.

• PR #30110: (markckimball) Fixed flag sent to salt.utils.http in order for verify_ssl to work correctly @ 2015-12-31 21:17:53 UTC

  • 28b1bbbe77 Merge pull request #30110 from markckimball/fix-verify_ssl-in-joyent-cloud

  • e1c08cb269 Fixed flag sent to salt.utils.http in order for verify_ssl to work appropriately.

• PR #30093: (zmalone) Noting that file_roots and "state tree" should both be avoided @ 2015-12-30 22:40:05 UTC

  • 040412b0b1 Merge pull request #30093 from zmalone/pillar-notes

  • cfbfd58afe Noting that file_roots and "state tree" should both be avoided, because in some environments, the actual states show up another level down. Adding notes about why this is undesirable.

• ISSUE #28120: (jtylers) Clear text passwords (refs: #30097)

• PR #30097: (cachedout) Note concern about cleartext password in docs for shadow.gen_password @ 2015-12-30 22:37:33 UTC

  • 25edefc93a Merge pull request #30097 from cachedout/note_on_password_process_list

  • 58aec884ef Note concern about cleartext password in docs for shadow.gen_password

• PR #30089: (mpreziuso) Fixes terminology and adds more accurate details about the algorithms @ 2015-12-30 20:02:18 UTC

  • 6b1c3a6bf2 Merge pull request #30089 from mpreziuso/patch-1

  • 50533add40 Fixes terminology and adds more accurate details about the algorithms

• ISSUE #29921: (anlutro) pygit 0.21 not fully supported? (refs: #30086)

• PR #30086: (cachedout) Document that gitfs needs recent libs @ 2015-12-30 19:26:05 UTC

  • 200d09385d Merge pull request #30086 from cachedout/issue_29921

  • 8c29e2dd6a Document that gitfs needs recent libs

• ISSUE #27835: (bertjwregeer) [FreeBSD] salt-ssh hangs forever (refs: #30070)

• PR #30070: (cachedout) Add documentation on debugging salt-ssh @ 2015-12-29 23:00:06 UTC

  • 404414bf57 Merge pull request #30070 from cachedout/issue_27835

  • 60431e342a Add documentation on debugging salt-ssh

• PR #30059: (mpreziuso) Fixes wrong function scope @ 2015-12-29 16:12:06 UTC

  • 84db12212d Merge pull request #30059 from mpreziuso/patch-1

  • 1cb1c2da07 Fixes wrong function scope

• PR #30025: (justinta) Skipping some Boto tests until resolved moto issue @ 2015-12-28 15:21:45 UTC

  • PR #29725: (cachedout) Disable some boto tests per resolution of moto issue (refs: #30025)

  • 1c6c9b1a06 Merge pull request #30025 from jtand/boto_tests

  • e706642152 Skipping some Boto tests until resolved moto issue

• ISSUE #28956: (racooper) Netscaler module doc enhancements (refs: #29949)

• PR #29949: (aletourneau) Enhanced netscaler docstring @ 2015-12-22 20:26:52 UTC

  • 0f91021c59 Merge pull request #29949 from aletourneau/2015.5

  • cf855fe262 Fixed trailing white spaces

  • 864801e002 fixed version

  • 041d9346c4 Enhanced netscaler docstring

• PR #29941: (cachedout) Fix spelling error in boto_vpc @ 2015-12-22 15:49:54 UTC

  • 229d3eb60b Merge pull request #29941 from cachedout/boto_spelling

  • b11bfd07b8 Fix spelling error in boto_vpc

• ISSUE #29880: (githubcdr) Salt pkg.uptodate fails on Arch linux (refs: #29908)

• PR #29908: (cachedout) Allow kwargs to be passed to pacman provide for update func @ 2015-12-22 15:04:18 UTC

  • 69c5ada636 Merge pull request #29908 from cachedout/issue_29880

  • 4cd77b4118 Allow kwargs to be passed to pacman provide for update func

• ISSUE #27056: (oogali) pkgng provider on FreeBSD does not do BATCH=yes (refs: #29909)

• PR #29909: (abednarik) FreeBSD pkgng fix for non-interactive install. @ 2015-12-22 15:03:50 UTC

  • ad0de4d563 Merge pull request #29909 from abednarik/freebsd_pkgng_non_interactive_fix

  • 8ac213001a FreeBSD pkgng fix for non-interactive install.

• ISSUE #24698: (cmhe) docker.installed not working (salt 2015.5.0, docker 1.6.2, dockerpy 0.5.3) (refs: #29730)

• PR #29730: (rallytime) Update docker-py version requirement to 0.6.0 for dockerio.py files @ 2015-12-16 14:44:40 UTC

  • f43f3d166c Merge pull request #29730 from rallytime/fix-24698

  • 120fd5fdf0 Update docker-py version requirement to 0.6.0 for dockerio.py files

• ISSUE #23343: (micaelbergeron) npm state ignore the requested version (refs: #29715)

• ISSUE #18647: (hundt) Version number in npm state name does not result in correct version being installed (refs: #29715)

• PR #29715: (rallytime) Install correct package version, if provided, for npm state. @ 2015-12-15 23:19:45 UTC

  • c393a4175a Merge pull request #29715 from rallytime/fix-23343

  • a0ed857c37 Install correct package version, if provided, for npm state.

• PR #29721: (terminalmage) Fix display of multiline strings when iterating over a list @ 2015-12-15 22:16:10 UTC

  • 1310afbbc2 Merge pull request #29721 from terminalmage/nested-output-multiline-fix

  • 761be9cb93 Fix display of multiline strings when iterating over a list

• ISSUE #29488: (Shad0w1nk) salt.cloud.clouds.vmware.revert_to_snapshot crash when using the default value (refs: #29646)

• PR #29646: (rallytime) Don't stacktrace on kwargs.get if kwargs=None @ 2015-12-15 19:02:58 UTC

  • 52cc07cec9 Merge pull request #29646 from rallytime/fix-29488

  • c5fa9e9351 Don't stacktrace on kwargs.get if kwargs=None

• ISSUE #29661: (mosuowhq) bug report when creating VM in /salt/cloud/clouds/nova.py (refs: #29673)

• PR #29673: (rallytime) Default value should be False and not 'False' @ 2015-12-14 18:08:44 UTC

  • f606c23ea8 Merge pull request #29673 from rallytime/fix-29661

  • e4af7a1157 Default value should be False and not 'False'

• PR #29527: (jfindlay) 2015.5.7 notes: add note about not being released @ 2015-12-08 21:08:26 UTC

  • f77c8e7baf Merge pull request #29527 from jfindlay/2015.5

  • 1a8044f0c9 2015.5.7 notes: add note about not being released

• PR #29539: (basepi) [2015.5] Merge forward from 2014.7 to 2015.5 @ 2015-12-08 19:14:51 UTC

  • 867d550271 Merge pull request #29539 from basepi/merge-forward-2015.5

  • 2c9c4ba430 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/2014.7' into merge-forward-2015.5

  • 85aa70a6cb Merge pull request #29392 from jacobhammons/2014.7

    • d7f0db1dd8 updated version number to not reference a specific build from the latest branch

• ISSUE #12072: (vk00226) Passing user-data when provisioning ec2 instances (refs: #29504)

• PR #29504: (rallytime) Document userdata_file option for EC2 driver @ 2015-12-08 16:54:33 UTC

  • de7f3d5a59 Merge pull request #29504 from rallytime/fix-12072

  • 8357c95dc2 Document userdata_file option for EC2 driver

• ISSUE #29101: (jessbreckenridge) Salt-cloud 2015.8.0 - del_*_vols_on_destroy does not work according to docs (refs: #29507)

• PR #29507: (rallytime) Switch volumes and del_*_on_destroy example ordering @ 2015-12-08 16:50:11 UTC

  • 65deba8bb5 Merge pull request #29507 from rallytime/ec2-doc-fix

  • 90b4823bc2 Switch volumes and del_*_on_destroy example ordering

• ISSUE #28862: (trevor-h) salt-cloud uppercase timeout options no longer recognized (refs: #29469)

• PR #29469: (abednarik) Added Documentation note in salt cloud. @ 2015-12-07 18:27:46 UTC

  • 0918c9294f Merge pull request #29469 from abednarik/doc_note_for_saltcloud_connection_timeout

  • 8e5c3e366a Added Documentation note in salt cloud.

• PR #29461: (dmyerscough) Fix resource limits, systemd sets the default too small @ 2015-12-05 16:26:34 UTC

  • e43c7c05a6 Merge pull request #29461 from dmyerscough/fix-resource-limits

  • 85a8a3b033 Fix resource limits, systemd sets the default number of open files to 4096 causing te master to complain about limits when you have a large number of keys

• ISSUE #28526: (clarkperkins) yumpkg.installed broken in salt v2015.8.1 on CentOS 6 minions (refs: #28656)

• PR #29439: (rallytime) Back-port #28656 to 2015.5 @ 2015-12-04 22:56:17 UTC

  • PR #28656: (clarkperkins) #28526 fixed yumpkg module issue with pkg.installed (refs: #29439)

  • 730f02fbdf Merge pull request #29439 from rallytime/bp-28656

  • 2f11bb021f #28526 fixed yumpkg module

• PR #29418: (jacobhammons) Added CVE 2015-8034 to 2015.5.8 release notes @ 2015-12-04 03:02:53 UTC

  • 197210d52e Merge pull request #29418 from jacobhammons/dot8

  • 4f51a737f9 Added CVE 2015-8034 to 2015.5.8 release notes

• PR #29389: (jacobhammons) updated version numbers in documentation @ 2015-12-03 16:27:23 UTC

  • b3452f2a1a Merge pull request #29389 from jacobhammons/2015.5

  • 824721ff36 updated version numbers

• ISSUE #26898: (twangboy) Symlinks in Windows (2015.8) (refs: #28191)

• PR #28501: (twangboy) Requested fixes for 26898 @ 2015-12-03 01:12:12 UTC

  • PR #28420: (jfindlay) fix removal of symbolic links on windows in the file state (refs: #28501)

  • PR #28191: (twangboy) Fix 26898 (refs: #28420, #28501)

  • 6a7a95f28a Merge pull request #28501 from twangboy/jmoney_26898

  • c0cf33332c Fixed some Lint...

  • df17fc59d3 Merge pull request #6 from jfindlay/twang_test

    • bc7e0cfe64 add file.symlink unit tests

    • 9381dc7215 orthogonalize file.symlink unit tests

  • 8f462ba044 Merge pull request #5 from cachedout/fix_twangboy_test

    • 5293150d25 Fix tests

  • 7d39091c91 Fixed some more lint

  • 3dbd62af2c Fixed some tests... hopefully

  • f187db3288 Removed unnecessary logic

  • 89ebd268e6 Added file attributes restore on fail

  • 9ec72ca724 fix file state unit tests for win symlink feature

  • 69c32a663e Fixed some lint

  • 638dec5027 Fixed some tests... let's see if they're really are

  • 5ed7a99792 Replaced instances of shutil.rmtree in file state

  • 2651ce509f Fix file.remove for windows

• ISSUE #29344: (justinta) file.search broken on python 2.6 with empty files (refs: #29348)

• PR #29348: (justinta) Fixes an file.search on python2.6 @ 2015-12-02 23:26:36 UTC

  • 760a521603 Merge pull request #29348 from jtand/file_search_fix

  • 04f82bd4fd Fixes an file.search on python2.6

• ISSUE #29206: (mschiff) ssh_known_hosts.present creates wrong known_hosts lines (refs: #29276)

• PR #29336: (rallytime) Back-port #29276 to 2015.5 @ 2015-12-02 19:37:42 UTC

  • PR #29276: (abednarik) Prevent adding port twice when adding entry in known hosts (refs: #29336)

  • 51ea88d489 Merge pull request #29336 from rallytime/bp-29276

  • 3a0e19debb Prevent adding port twice when adding entry in known hosts

• PR #29333: (rallytime) Back-port #29280 to 2015.5 @ 2015-12-02 19:37:05 UTC

  • PR #29280: (cachedout) [Doc] Add note for SVN state (refs: #29333)

  • PR #29165: (titilambert) [Doc] Add note for SVN state (refs: #29280, #29333)

  • 28255af52a Merge pull request #29333 from rallytime/bp-29280

  • 722d02ff4a Lint

  • 4a0040c1b4 [Doc] Add note for SVN state

• PR #29316: (basepi) [2015.5] Merge forward from 2014.7 to 2015.5 @ 2015-12-01 20:20:23 UTC

  • 14e94b3593 Merge pull request #29316 from basepi/merge-forward-2015.5

  • 33f40b3c47 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/2014.7' into merge-forward-2015.5

  • d2fb2109a3 Merge pull request #29296 from douardda/patch-3

  • d2885390f4 Use process KillMode on Debian systems also

• PR #29216: (clan) size is 0 doesn't mean no data, e.g, /proc/version @ 2015-11-30 20:01:43 UTC

  • 6a2ffbfb7c Merge pull request #29216 from clan/file_search_on_proc_file

  • 91a20c07a1 try mmap first

  • 8aa4f2053e remove extra space to fix lint failure

  • d34e6b1a9a use read only if has read() method

  • 3209c1cdb5 size is 0 doesn't mean no data, e.g, /proc/version

• PR #29261: (attiasr) fix incorrect reinstallation of windows pkg @ 2015-11-30 18:28:42 UTC

  • d6aaae8d7b Merge pull request #29261 from attiasr/patch-1

  • 7a99b90596 add log and return if pkg already installed

  • 1843c7ab8e fix incorrect reinstallation of windows pkg

• PR #29214: (cro) Doc for salt.utils.http should say verify_ssl not ssl_verify. @ 2015-11-25 23:55:38 UTC

  • 9236188867 Merge pull request #29214 from cro/ssl_verify_ssl

  • e9c13c561b Doc bug--salt.utils.http takes verify_ssl not ssl_verify.

• ISSUE #29202: (lorengordon) Broken ca bundle lookup in salt.utils.http.get_ca_bundle (refs: #29204)

• PR #29204: (lorengordon) Use os.path.join to return full path to ca bundle @ 2015-11-25 20:00:42 UTC

  • df7b35a86b Merge pull request #29204 from lorengordon/fix-29202

  • b1dae5e6fe Use os.path.join to return full path to ca bundle