Salt 2015.8.2 Release Notes¶

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