Salt 3006.8 release notes¶

user.add on Windows now allows you to add user names that contain all numeric characters #53363

Fix an issue with the win_system module detecting established connections on non-Windows systems. Uses psutils instead of parsing the return of netstat #60508

pkg.refresh_db on Windows now honors saltenv #61807

Fixed an issue with adding new machine policies and applying those same policies in the same state by adding a refresh_cache option to the lgpo.set state. #62734

file.managed correctly handles file path with '#' #63060

Fix master ip detection when DNS records change #63654

Fix user and group management on Windows to handle the Everyone group #63667

Fixes an issue in pkg.refresh_db on Windows where new package definition files were not being picked up on the first run #63848

Display a proper error when pki commands fail in the win_pki module #64933

Prevent full system upgrade on single package install for Arch Linux #65200

When using s3fs, if files are deleted from the bucket, they were not deleted in the master or minion local cache, which could lead to unexpected file copies or even state applications. This change makes the local cache consistent with the remote bucket by deleting files locally that are deleted from the bucket.

NOTE this could lead to breakage on your affected systems if it was inadvertently depending on previously deleted files. #65611

Fixed an issue with file.directory state where paths would be modified in test mode if backupname is used. #66049

Execution modules have access to regular fileclient durring pillar rendering. #66124

Fixed a issue with server channel where a minion's public key would be rejected if it contained a final newline character. #66126

Fix content type backwards compatablity with http proxy post requests in the http utils module. #66127

Fix systemctl with "try-restart" instead of "retry-restart" within the RPM spec, properly restarting upgraded services #66143

Auto discovery of ssh, scp and ssh-keygen binaries. #66205

Add leading slash to salt helper file paths as per dh_links requirement #66280

Fixed x509.certificate_managed - ca_server did not return a certificate #66284

removed log line that did nothing. #66289

Chocolatey: Make sure the return dictionary from chocolatey.version contains lowercase keys #66290

fix cacheing inline pillar, by not rendering inline pillar during cache save function. #66292

The file module correctly perserves file permissions on link target. #66400

Upgrade relenv to 0.16.0 and python to 3.10.14 #66402

backport the fix from #66164 to fix #65703. use OrderedDict to fix bad indexing. #66705