Salt 2014.1.1 Release Notes¶

release:

2014-03-18

Version 2014.1.1 is a bugfix release for 2014.1.0. The changes include:

• Various doc fixes, including up-to-date Salt Cloud installation documentation.

• Renamed state.sls runner to state.orchestrate, to reduce confusion with the state.sls execution function

• Fix various bugs in the dig module (issue 10367)

• Add retry for query on certain EC2 status codes (issue 10154)

• Fix various bugs in mongodb_user state module (issue 10430)

• Fix permissions on ~/.salt_token (issue 10422)

• Add PyObjects support

• Fix launchctl module crash with missing files

• Fix saltutil.find_job for Windows (issue 10581)

• Fix OS detection for OpenSolaris (issue 10601)

• Fix broken salt-ssh key_deploy

• Add support for multiline cron comments (issue 10721)

• Fix timezone module for Arch (issue 10789)

• Fix symlink support for file.recurse (issue 10809)

• Fix multi-master bugs (issue 10732 and issue 10969)

• Fix file.patch to error when source file is unavailable (issue 10380)

• Fix pkg to handle packages set as purge in pkg.installed (issue 10719)

• Add zmqversion grain

• Fix highstate summary for masterless minions (issue 10945)

• Fix saltutil.find_job for 2014.1 masters talking to 0.17 minions (issue 11020)

• Fix file.recurse states with trailing slashes in source (issue 11002)

• Fix pkg states to allow pkgname.x86_64 (issue 7306)

• Make iptables states set a default table for flush (issue 11037)

• Added iptables --reject-with after final iptables call in iptables states (issue:10757)

• Fix improper passing of “family” in iptables states (issue 10774)

• Fix traceback in iptables.insert states (issue 10988)

• Fix zombie processes (issue 10867 and others)

• Fix batch mode to obey --return settings (issue 9146)

• Fix localclient issue that was causing batch mode breakage (issue 11094, issue 10470, and others)

• Multiple salt-ssh fixes

• FreeBSD: look in /usr/local/etc/salt for configuration by default, if installed using pip --editable.

• Add a skip_suggestions parameter to pkg.installed states which allows pre-flight check to be skipped (issue 11106)

• Fixed tag-based gitfs fileserver environments regression (issue 10956)

• Yum: fix cache of available pkgs not cleared when repos are changed (issue 11001)

• Yum: fix for plugin-provided repositories (i.e. RHN/Spacewalk) (issue 11145)

• Fix regression in chocolatey.bootstrap (issue 10541)

• Fix fail on unknown target in jobs runner (issue 11151)

• Don’t log errors for commands which are expected to sometimes exit with non-zero exit status (issue 11154, issue 11090)

• Fix test=True CLI override of config option (issue 10877)

• Log sysctl key listing at loglevel TRACE (issue 10931)