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latest release.
Salt 2015.8.2 Release Notes
Note
A significant orchestrate issue #29110 was discovered during the release
process of 2015.8.2, so it has not been officially released. Please use
2015.8.3
instead.
Extended changelog courtesy of Todd Stansell (https://github.com/tjstansell/salt-changelogs):
Generated at: 2015-11-13T17:24:04Z
Total Merges: 378
Changes:
- PR #28730: (garethgreenaway) Fixes to how return_job is handled in the scheduler for the salt master.
- PR #28848: (cro) Lint
- PR #28842: (cachedout) Add transport setting to shell test
- PR #28837: (basepi) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
- PR #28827: (jacksontj) Cleanup virtual_timer in loader
- PR #28836: (cachedout) Cast to dict to fix wheel tests in tcp
- PR #28834: (cachedout) Fix breakage in tcp server
- PR #28804: (cachedout) TCP test fixes
- PR #28826: (basepi) [2015.8] Add new tornado deps to salt-ssh thin
- PR #28759: (jfindlay) simplify stdin use of stdin in at.present state
- PR #28824: (rallytime) Back-port #28778 and #28820 to 2015.8
- PR #28803: (jfindlay) decode strings to utf-8
- PR #28782: (rallytime) Fixes to rabbitmq user state
- PR #28789: (nmadhok) Provide ability to enable/disable customization for newly create VMs using VMware salt-cloud driver
- PR #28768: (mrosedale) 2015.8
- PR #28772: (rallytime) rabbitmq.list_user_permissions returns a dict, not a list. Don't expect a list.
- PR #28774: (rallytime) Back-port #28725 to 2015.8
- PR #28775: (rallytime) Back-port #28740 to 2015.8
- PR #28755: (rallytime) Move most vmware driver list_* functions to use salt.utils.vmware functions
- PR #28744: (jfindlay) import gate elementtree
- PR #28758: (jfindlay) remove redundant logic in useradd execution module
- PR #28757: (mbarrien) Bug fix: pip command to not quote spaces in cmd line args
- PR #28764: (multani) Various documentation fixes
- PR #28752: (aboe76) Update openSUSE grain for tumbleweed
- PR #28713: (hexedpackets) Rename consul.list to consul.list_keys.
- PR #28719: (jacobhammons) removed dependencies info from docs
- PR #28709: (basepi) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
- PR #28710: (rallytime) Pass kwargs correctly to _get_group from get_group_id
- PR #28698: (rallytime) Back-port #28530 to 2015.8
- PR #28700: (rallytime) Back-port #28679 to 2015.8
- PR #28695: (s0undt3ch) [2015.8] Update to latest bootstrap script v2015.11.09
- PR #28656: (clarkperkins) #28526 fixed yumpkg module issue with pkg.installed
- PR #28672: (jfindlay) add OS grain support for SuSE Leap
- PR #28673: (jfindlay) add hidden_opts to mount.mounted
- PR #28667: (cro) saltutil.sync_all should sync proxymodules as well as the rest.
- PR #28665: (jfindlay) fixes to windows execution and state modules
- PR #28660: (techhat) Don't sign empty regions
- PR #28632: (terminalmage) Fixes/improvements to pkgbuild state/modules
- PR #28658: (techhat) Remove _pkgdb_fun() references
- PR #28653: (rallytime) Provide possible parameters for boto_rds.present engine values
- PR #28649: (bdrung) Fix OS related grains on Debian
- PR #28646: (rallytime) Back-port #28614 to 2015.8
- PR #28647: (rallytime) Back-port #28624 to 2015.8
- PR #28648: (rallytime) Merge branch '2015.5' into '2015.8'
- PR #28638: (anlutro) Salt-SSH: Return more concise error when SSH command fails
- PR #28644: (pass-by-value) Make sure versionchanged is correct
- PR #28615: (The-Loeki) Fixes to FreeBSD pkg
- PR #28613: (cachedout) Add facility to deepcopy bound methods in Py2.6 and apply to grains
- PR #28612: (rallytime) Remove unsupported storage_type argument for parity with boto_rds module
- PR #28611: (rallytime) [2015.8] Be explicit about salt.utils.vmware function calls
- PR #28610: (pass-by-value) Lxc config additions
- PR #28602: (nasenbaer13) Allow setting of custom dimensions in asg alarm specification
- PR #28596: (rallytime) Merge branch '2015.5' into '2015.8'
- PR #28593: (blueyed) doc: fix typo with salt.states.file: s/preseve/preserve/
- PR #28578: (twangboy) Fixed the script... something got broke...
- PR #28579: (jfindlay) fix __virtual__ returns: tls,uptime mods
- PR #28584: (rallytime) If AssociatePublicIpAddress is set to True, don't auto-assign eip.
- PR #28576: (jacksontj) Only encode the zmq message once
- PR #28587: (cachedout) Reset yaml rendering hooks to avoid leaks
- PR #28581: (basepi) Revert b4875e585a165482c4c1ddc8987d76b0a71ef1b0
- PR #28573: (jacksontj) Add body to salt.utils.http.query returns
- PR #28564: (s0undt3ch) [2015.8] Update to latest bootstrap script v2015.11.04
- PR #28561: (Oro) Issue #28527 boto_rds.create does not work
- PR #28560: (bdrung) Fix various typos
- PR #28550: (jfindlay) check timedatectl errno and return stdout on failure
- PR #28545: (jfindlay) pass on concurrent create of jid_dir in local_cache
- PR #28544: (rallytime) Start moving some vmware.py cloud funcs to utils/vmware.py
- PR #28543: (gtmanfred) clean up changes for pkg.uptodate and supervisord.dead
- PR #28538: (jfindlay) decode path and url to utf-8 in url.create
- PR #28533: (jfindlay) decode highstate error messages to utf-8
- PR #28547: (nmadhok) [Backport] [2015.8] Tasks can be in queued state instead of running
- PR #28535: (techhat) Fail gracefully if 169.254* isn't available
- PR #28536: (cro) Default configuration file for proxy minions.
- PR #28534: (rallytime) Add versionadded directive for vpc_name arg in boto_secgroup.present
- PR #28516: (rallytime) Back-port #28489 to 2015.8
- PR #28506: (basepi) [2015.8] Log minion list for all rosters, at debug level
- PR #28514: (basepi) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
- PR #28502: (cachedout) Lint #28427
- PR #28464: (basepi) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
- PR #28486: (rallytime) Back-port #26945 to 2015.8
- PR #28472: (gtmanfred) overwrite more than one value with names
- PR #28493: (rallytime) Back-port #28492 to 2015.8
- PR #28494: (whiteinge) Fix filter_by passing incorrect parameters to match functions
- PR #28491: (rallytime) Back-port #28388 to 2015.8
- PR #28465: (twangboy) Fix #12363: Password Expiration in Windows
- PR #28485: (nasenbaer13) Fix invalid usage of _get_conn causing #28484
- PR #28454: (sdm24) Fixed nodegroup doc formatting to correctly link to pillar_opts in the master config
- PR #28487: (cachedout) Lint 28456
- PR #28457: (sdm24) Clarified comments for grains/core.py for ip_interfaces, ip4_interfac…
- PR #28473: (anlutro) Show check_cmd output on failure
- PR #28460: (jtand) Skipped wipefs test if wipefs does not exist on OS
- PR #28426: (terminalmage) pkgbuild.built: make template engine optional
- PR #28422: (cachedout) Handle windows logging on thread_multi [WIP]
- PR #28425: (twangboy) Fix #13513 - Reflection
- PR #28417: (rallytime) Add note about azure sdk version to getting started docs
- PR #28410: (jacksontj) Add retries to the zeromq.AsyncReqMessageClient
- PR #28404: (rallytime) Back-port #28395 to 2015.8
- PR #28405: (opdude) Detect legacy versions of chocolatey correctly
- PR #28187: (sjansen) fix at.present
- PR #28375: (merll) Merge pillar includes correctly
- PR #28376: (ryan-lane) Support update of route53 records with multiple values
- PR #28377: (terminalmage) Deprecate 'always' in favor of 'force' in pkgbuild.built
- PR #28380: (cro) Add missing call for service provider
- PR #28348: (jfindlay) salt.utils.alias informs user they are using a renamed function
- PR #28364: (jtand) In CentOS 5 the .split() causes a stacktrace.
- PR #28361: (rallytime) Back-port #28087 to 2015.8
- PR #28360: (multani) Various documentation fixes
- PR #28370: (rallytime) Back-port #28276 to 2015.8
- PR #28353: (merll) Consider each pillar match only once.
- PR #28334: (anlutro) iptables needs -m comment for --comment to work
- PR #28340: (jfindlay) sdecode file and dir lists in fileclient
- PR #28344: (ryan-lane) Fix iptables state for non-filter tables
- PR #28343: (rallytime) Back-port #28342 to 2015.8
- PR #28330: (rallytime) Back-port #28305 to 2015.8
- PR #28270: (rallytime) Refactor RabbitMQ Plugin State to correctly use test=true and format errors
- PR #28269: (rallytime) Refactor rabbitmq_user state to use test=True correctly
- PR #28299: (rallytime) Add test for availability_zone check to boto_vpc_tests
- PR #28306: (sdm24) Updated the Nodegroup docs to include how to target nodegroups in SLS Jinja
- PR #28308: (rallytime) Firewalld state services should use --add-service, not --new-service
- PR #28302: (DmitryKuzmenko) Always close socket even if there is no stream.
- PR #28282: (keesbos) Fix for __env__ in legacy git_pillar
- PR #28258: (pass-by-value) Add service module for ssh proxy example
- PR #28294: (bechtoldt) correct a bad default value in http utility
- PR #28185: (jtand) Added single package return for latest_version, fixed other bug.
- PR #28297: (cachedout) Lint fix proxy junos
- PR #28210: (terminalmage) Fix for ext_pillar being compiled twice in legacy git_pillar code
- PR #28265: (jfindlay) fix blockdev execution and state modules
- PR #28266: (rallytime) Back-port #28260 to 2015.8
- PR #28253: (rallytime) Back-port #28063 to 2015.8
- PR #28231: (rallytime) Make sure we're compairing strings when getting images in the DO driver
- PR #28224: (techhat) Optimize create_repo for large packages
- PR #28214: (rallytime) Don't stacktrace if invalid credentials are passed to boto_route53 state
- PR #28228: (rallytime) Back-port #27562 to 2015.8
- PR #28232: (rallytime) Add documentation to supply the ssh_username: freebsd config to DO docs
- PR #28198: (jacobhammons) Added note regarding missing spm exe on Debian/Ubuntu
- PR #28182: (erchn) Some fixes for nova driver for Rackspace
- PR #28181: (rallytime) Revamp firewalld state to be more stateful.
- PR #28176: (cro) Add ping function
- PR #28167: (The-Loeki) file.serialize needs to add a final newline to serialized files
- PR #28168: (rallytime) Make sure availability zone gets passed in boto_vpc module when creating subnet
- PR #28148: (basepi) [2015.8] Only expand nodegroups to lists if there is a nested nodegroup
- PR #28155: (basepi) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
- PR #28149: (pass-by-value) Add clarification to cloud profile doc about host
- PR #28146: (cachedout) Lint dracr.py
- PR #28141: (rallytime) Don't use RAM for root disk size in linode.py
- PR #28143: (jtand) Removed blank line at end of chassis.py
- PR #28021: (blueyed) Handle includes in include_config recursively
- PR #28095: (rallytime) Back-port #28001 to 2015.8
- PR #28096: (rallytime) Back-port #28061 to 2015.8
- PR #28139: (rallytime) Back-port #28103 to 2015.8
- PR #28098: (jacksontj) For all multi-part messages, check the headers. If the header is not …
- PR #28134: (bernieke) fix unicode pillar values #3436
- PR #28076: (redmcg) Replace option 'i' with an explicit queryformat
- PR #28119: (jacksontj) Check if the remote exists before casting to a string.
- PR #28105: (jfindlay) add reason for not loading localemod
- PR #28108: (cachedout) Set logfile permsissions correctly
- PR #27922: (cro) WIP States/Modules for managing Dell FX2 chassis via salt-proxy
- PR #28104: (pass-by-value) Add documentation for proxy minion ssh
- PR #28020: (DmitryKuzmenko) LazyLoader deepcopy fix.
- PR #27933: (eliasp) Provide all git pillar dirs in opts[pillar_roots]
- PR #28013: (rallytime) Back-port #27891 to 2015.8
- PR #28018: (rallytime) Add example to Writing Grains of how grains can be loaded twice
- PR #28084: (cachedout) #28069 with lint
- PR #28079: (The-Loeki) Fix for trace dump on failing imports for win32com & pythoncom 4 win_task
- PR #28081: (The-Loeki) fix for glance state trace error on import failure
- PR #28066: (jacksontj) Use the generic text attribute, not .body of the handler
- PR #28019: (rallytime) Clean up version added and deprecated msgs to be accurate
- PR #28058: (rallytime) Back-port #28041 to 2015.8
- PR #28055: (rallytime) Back-port #28043 to 2015.8
- PR #28046: (pass-by-value) Add pkg install and remove functions
- PR #28050: (ryan-lane) Use a better method for checking dynamodb table existence
- PR #28042: (jfindlay) fix repo path in ubuntu installation documentation
- PR #28033: (twangboy) Fixed win_useradd.py
- PR #28027: (cro) Make ssh conn persistent.
- PR #28029: (jacobhammons) Updated release notes with additional CVE information
- PR #28022: (jacobhammons) Updated Debian and Ubuntu repo paths with new structure for 2015.8.1
- PR #27983: (rallytime) Pip state run result should be False, not None, if installation error occurs.
- PR #27991: (twangboy) Fix for #20678
- PR #27997: (rallytime) Remove note about pip bug with pip v1 vs pip v2 return codes
- PR #27994: (jtand) Fix schedule_test failure
- PR #27992: (cachedout) Make load beacon config into list
- PR #28003: (twangboy) Fix #26336
- PR #27984: (rallytime) Versionadded for clean_file option for pkgrepo
- PR #27989: (ryan-lane) Do not try to remove the main route table association
- PR #27982: (pass-by-value) Add example for salt-proxy over SSH
- PR #27985: (jacobhammons) Changed current release to 8.1 and added CVEs to release notes
- PR #27979: (cachedout) Fix regression with key whitespace
- PR #27977: (cachedout) Decode unicode names in fileclient/server
- PR #27981: (jtand) Fixed trailing whitespace lint
- PR #27969: (jeffreyctang) fix parse of { on next line
- PR #27978: (terminalmage) Add note about dockerng.inspect_image usage
- PR #27955: (pass-by-value) Bp 27868
- PR #27953: (The-Loeki) Fix CloudStack cloud for new 'driver' syntax
- PR #27965: (ryan-lane) Fail in boto_asg.present if alarms fail
- PR #27958: (twangboy) Added new functionality to win_task.py
- PR #27959: (techhat) Change __opts__ to self.opts
- PR #27943: (rallytime) Back-port #27910 to 2015.8
- PR #27944: (rallytime) Back-port #27909 to 2015.8
- PR #27946: (jtand) Changed grain to look at osmajorrelease instead of osrelease
- PR #27914: (rallytime) Use eipalloc instead of eni in EC2 interface properties example
- PR #27926: (rallytime) Back-port #27905 to 2015.8
- PR #27927: (ryan-lane) Do not manage ingress or egress rules if set to None
- PR #27928: (rallytime) Back-port #27908 to 2015.8
- PR #27676: (ticosax) [dockerng] WIP No more runtime args passed to docker.start()
- PR #27885: (basepi) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
- PR #27882: (twangboy) Created win_task.py module
- PR #27802: (terminalmage) Correct warning logging when update lock is present for git_pillar/winrepo, add runner function for clearing git_pillar/winrepo locks
- PR #27886: (rallytime) Handle group lists as well as comma-separated group strings.
- PR #27746: (anlutro) timezone module: handle timedatectl errors
- PR #27816: (anlutro) Make system.reboot use shutdown -r when available
- PR #27874: (rallytime) Add mention of Periodic Table naming scheme to deprecation docs
- PR #27883: (terminalmage) Work around --is-ancestor not being present in git-merge-base before git 1.8.0
- PR #27877: (rallytime) Back-port #27774 to 2015.8
- PR #27878: (rallytime) Use apache2ctl binary on SUSE in apache module
- PR #27879: (cro) Add docs for 2015.8.2+ changes to proxies
- PR #27731: (cro) Add __proxy__ to replace opts['proxymodule']
- PR #27745: (anlutro) Add pip_upgrade arg to virtualenv.managed state
- PR #27809: (ticosax) [dockerng] Remove dockerng.ps caching
- PR #27859: (ticosax) [dockerng] Clarify doc port bindings
- PR #27748: (multani) Fix #8646
- PR #27850: (rallytime) Back-port #27722 to 2015.8
- PR #27851: (rallytime) Back-port #27771 to 2015.8
- PR #27833: (jfindlay) decode path before string ops in fileclient
- PR #27837: (jfindlay) reverse truth in python_shell documentation
- PR #27860: (flavio) Fix OS related grains on openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise
- PR #27768: (rallytime) Clean up bootstrap function to be slightly cleaner
- PR #27797: (isbm) Zypper module clusterfix
- PR #27849: (rallytime) Don't require a size parameter for proxmox profiles
- PR #27827: (techhat) Add additional error checking to SPM
- PR #27826: (martinhoefling) Fixes #27825
- PR #27824: (techhat) Update Azure errors
- PR #27795: (eguven) better change reporting for postgres_user groups
- PR #27799: (terminalmage) Fix usage of identity file in git.latest
- PR #27717: (pass-by-value) Proxy beacon example
- PR #27793: (anlutro) update code that changes log level of salt-ssh shim command
- PR #27761: (terminalmage) Merge git pillar data instead of using dict.update()
- PR #27741: (ticosax) [dockerng] pass filters argument to dockerng.ps
- PR #27760: (basepi) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
- PR #27757: (jfindlay) fix virtual fcn return doc indentation
- PR #27754: (rallytime) Change test.nop version directive to 2015.8.1
- PR #27734: (jacobhammons) Updated saltstack2 theme to add SaltConf16 banner
- PR #27727: (rallytime) Merge #27719 w/pylint fix
- PR #27724: (jfindlay) update __virtual__ return documentation
- PR #27725: (basepi) Fix global injection for state cross calls
- PR #27628: (ticosax) [dockerng] Add support of labels parameter for dockerng
- PR #27704: (jacobhammons) Update compound matcher docs to clarify the usage of alternate delimi…
- PR #27705: (rallytime) Merge #27602 with final pylint fix
- PR #27691: (notpeter) Faster timeout (3s vs 2min) for instance metadata lookups. #13850.
- PR #27696: (blueyed) loader.proxy: call _modules_dirs only once
- PR #27630: (ticosax) Expose container_id in mine.get_docker
- PR #27600: (blueyed) dockerng: use docker.version=auto by default
- PR #27689: (rallytime) Merge #27448 with test fixes
- PR #27693: (jacobhammons) initial engines topic, updates to windows repo docs
- PR #27601: (blueyed) dockerng: handle None in container.Names
- PR #27596: (blueyed) gitfs: fix UnboundLocalError for 'msg'
- PR #27651: (eliasp) Check for existence of 'subnetId' key in subnet dict
- PR #27639: (rallytime) Docement version added for new artifactory options
- PR #27677: (rallytime) Back-port #27675 to 2015.8
- PR #27637: (rallytime) Back-port #27604 to 2015.8
- PR #27657: (garethgreenaway) Fix to pkg state module
- PR #27632: (rallytime) Back-port #27539 to 2015.8
- PR #27633: (rallytime) Back-port #27559 to 2015.8
- PR #27579: (rallytime) Change boto_route53 region default to 'universal' to avoid problems with boto library
- PR #27581: (tkwilliams) Add support for 'vpc_name' tag in boto_secgroup module and state
- PR #27624: (nasenbaer13) Wait for sync is not passed to boto_route53 state
- PR #27614: (blueyed) doc: minor fixes to doc and comments
- PR #27627: (eyj) Fix crash in boto_asg.get_instances if the requested attribute is None
- PR #27616: (jacobhammons) Updated windows software repository docs
- PR #27569: (lomeroe) boto_vpc.get_subnet_association now returns a dict w/key of vpc_id, a…
- PR #27567: (whiteinge) Use getattr to fetch psutil.version_info
- PR #27583: (tkwilliams) Fixup zypper module
- PR #27597: (blueyed) gitfs: remove unused variable "bad_per_remote_conf"
- PR #27585: (ryan-lane) Fix undefined variable in cron state module