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)