Salt 2015.8.9 Release Notes¶

Changes for v2015.8.8..v2015.8.9¶

Extended changelog courtesy of Todd Stansell (https://github.com/tjstansell/salt-changelogs):

Generated at: 2016-05-17T17:09:39Z

Total Merges: 145

Changes:

• PR #33293: (twangboy) Fix minion start retry on Windows (2015.8)

• 22c4331 linux_acl: Allow '-' as a separation character in ACL permissions. Fixes `#31270`_ (#33172) (#33305)
• 7a181f2 Handle more ipv6 error as an exception `#33299`_ (#33300)
• eb47a15 Ignore retcode when checking service's status (#33294)

• PR #33274: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8

• 4f3596a Add comment for test=true w/o changes ret and add changes dict example (#33254)
• 2a30c48 Update Git Policy docs to match Contribution guide (#33252)
• 056c273 Fix `#33238`_ (#33239)
• 1cd34ab Properly report on invalid gitfs/git_pillar/winrepo repos (#33245)

• PR #33253: (rallytime) Update the release process docs

• 8c2c5b1 update 2015.8.9 release notes (#33251)
• 8ee8ee3 Handle ipv6 error as an exception (#33246)
• 855bed3 Check rendered YAML for invalid keys (#33213)
• 6fb25a8 Make note of files that begin with '_' in master.d or minion.d dirs (#33224)
• a6dc0d2 Gate jnpr imports in salt.proxy.junos.py (#33150)
• 64a89c4 Add docs for the http state (#33222)
• 0a32163 Don't stacktrace when using --out=highstate at CLI during staterun. (#33215)
• 04d714d propagate opts to salt.util.http call (#33219)
• c8236c0 update 2015.8.9 release notes (#33237)

• PR #33217: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8

• 730bec1 [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8 (#33207)
• 379b151 Add a fetch when compiling git_pillar for masterless minions (#33204)
• b3805d8 cloud.clouds.ec2: cache each named node (#33164)
• 86db5df Properly handle failed git commands when redirect_stderr=True (#33203)
• 8a0950d Don't force use of global ssh_config when git identity file is specified (#33152)
• ce07133 update 2015.8.9 release notes (#33198)

• PR #33188: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8

• e9108e0 add 2015.8.9 release notes (#33161)
• 2d9919e [2015.8] Update to latest bootstrap script v2016.05.10 (#33156)
• 033bef2 Hash fileclients by opts (#33142)
• f520fa3 Back-port #31769 to 2015.8 (#33139)

• PR #33144: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
• PR #33140: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8

• ad607ef If cache_jobs: True is set, populate the local job cache when running salt-call (#33100)
• 64689a6 Fix broken parsing of usermgmt.conf on OpenBSD (#33135)
• 06a382e Add a check that the cmdline of the found proc matches (#33129)
• 10018e9 salt.utils.gitfs: fix formatting for warning messages (#33064)
• d45b599 Fix 33058 (#33099)

• PR #33106: (abednarik) Moved _finger_fail method to parent class.

• 20c7e10 clarify docs that map is designed to be run once. is not stateful (#33102)
• 558561d cloud.query needs to define mapper.opts (#33098)

• PR #33096: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8

• 22a327b salt-cloud: fix ipv6-only virtual machines (#32865)
• e788f7e modules.npm: do not log npm --version at info level (#33084)

• PR #33081: (jfindlay) ssh docs: install py-2.6 for RHEL 5
• PR #33088: (isbm) Bugfix: Restore boolean values from the repo configuration

• 2c6326f fix tests for file.blockplace to remove newline (#33082)

• PR #32892: (isbm) Resolve Zypper locks on asynchronous calls

• 3e0bf23 Add fun_args to scheduled return data (part of `#24237`_) (#33039)
• 264c0d4 Don't append a newline when creating new content with blockreplace (#33049)
• 54b783a Pass all data to batch.run() call when using --failhard (#33048)
• 2dbfa55 Display command output when command fails with batch + failhard options (#33050)
• add9199 Allow security_groups kwarg for boto_elb.present to be string or list (#33053)
• 111701c [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8 (#33054)
• 1066063 File and User test fixes for 2015.8 on Fedora23 (#33056)
• f97b5d5 Back-port #33030 to 2015.8 (#33040)
• e90a501 Update the docs for saltutil.find_job to be more clear/accurate (#33017)
• d3d77ce Add saltenv to the cmd.script state function (#33031)
• 3434f44 Fix syndic regression (#33021)
• 4bb3ca5 Compare uid and gid instead of name and group (#32674)
• 9ca5b02 Allow batch mode to use verbose option, as well as show_jid. (#32996)
• 81c0fa4 Fixed glusterfs.peered output (#32955)
• 8c70d7a Clarify some arg docs (#32994)
• 00fbeab Fix boto_secgroup_test (#32986)
• 3362367 fix user cron on solarish operating systems (#32970)
• 07e38bc salt.log.setup: process user args before format (#32796)
• b2d7c81 doc.ref.states.ordering: clarify requisite change (#32934)
• df41d5d mode should default to 'text' (#32928)
• f581a82 Remove FileClient class references from docs - it doesn't exist. (#32925)
• 31b96de Update contents_grains option with relevant docs (#32922)

• PR #32926: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8

• 1cd6a45 specify volume tags in profile configuration (#32908)
• 85ca86d Update docs to warn users that -1 isn't valid for iptables insert state (#32906)
• cb68706 Allow profile options to be specified in provider file when using maps (#32900)
• 1a55fcb Clarify service state opening docs - uses 'service' virtualname (#32880)

• PR #32884: (terminalmage) Fix incorrect deprecation notice
• PR #32878: (jacobhammons) added note about updating the bootstrap script in salt-cloud using th…
• PR #32869: (rallytime) Use correct config setting in cloud syndic docs
• PR #32844: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8

• eb8fb6b Back-port #31139 to 2015.8 (#32868)
• 4bb5545 backport PR #32732 for issue `#23714`_ (#32847)
• 5ea003b Add pyvmomi version warning to Getting Started with VMware docs (#32845)
• 44f08d0 Pass None as memory limit. (#32841)
• feebe69 Back-port #32813 to 2015.8 (#32839)
• 3b81031 various improvements on cloud deploy script docs (#32659)
• bf85987 update bootstrap to 2016.04.18 release (#32668)
• 83dee63 Back-port #29322 to 2015.8 (#32785)

• PR #32787: (rallytime) Back-port #32722 to 2015.8
• PR #32786: (rallytime) Back-port #32703 to 2015.8

• a6a42740 Merge branch 'pr-32775' into 2015.8
• cda00f4 Improve documentation on pygit2 versions (#32779)
• 1d6d234 Properly handle minion failback failure. (#32749)
• 3751a27 Document pillar cache options (#32643)
• 35c8af3 modules.win_dacl: consistent case of dacl constants (#32720)
• 2cd0817 Update external auth documentation to list supported matcher. (#32733)
• bba089d Check dependencies type before appling str operations (#32693)
• 3aa0605 Handle when beacon not configured and we try to enable/disable them (#32692)

• PR #32718: (garethgreenaway) Fixes to schedule.list in 2015.8
• PR #32684: (captaininspiration) Fix routes for redhat < 6

• 7cdd512 Handle a couple of arguments better (Azure) (#32683)
• aaa03bc Fix for issue 32523 (#32672)
• 21081b1 Don't access deprecated Exception.message attribute. (#32556)
• 5d1e9a4 Lower log level for pillar cache (#32655)

• PR #32588: (anlutro) Fix salt-ssh module function call argument type juggling by JSON encoding them

• 5e7edfc yumpkg: Ignore epoch in version comparison for explict versions without an epoch (#32563)
• fea6056 Fixing critical bug to remove only the specified Host instead of the entire Host cluster (#32640)
• 0477f66 align OS grains from older SLES with current one (#32649)
• 8d46244 Prevent crash if pygit2 package is requesting re-compilation of the e… (#32652)

• PR #32614: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
• PR #32616: (rallytime) Back-port #32547 to 2015.8

• 3047471 Fix comments value in salt.states.pkgrepo example (#32604)
• ab9da90 Revert PR #32480 and apply #32314 with fixes / documentation (#32558)
• c84c921 Better log message on minion restart if master couldn't be reached. (#32576)
• 3c81798 Don't return None from eval_master (#32555)

• PR #32536: (rallytime) Back-port #31898 to 2015.8

• d12a1c2 Fix binary search and replace (#32542)

• PR #32539: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
• PR #32531: (ticosax) [dockerng] Fix support of dockerng.volume_present when no volume is on present.

• 5d73d54 Enhance dockerng.wait() to control success on exit_code and on already stopped containers (#32475)
• 214f01e Bugfix: salt-key crashes if tries to generate keys to the directory w/o write access (#32436)
• 288839f Turn on exc_info when logging failed minion startup (#32515)
• 08a8020 Add ignore_epoch option to pkg.installed/removed/purged states (#32520)
• 492ebfc Isbm zypper list products sles11 crash (#32505)
• ae89882 Clear VCS fsbackend and git_pillar locks on master start (#32480)
• a6482a3 Use win32api to get Total System Memory (#32491)

• PR #32487: (terminalmage) Add explanation of nonzero epoch requirement to pkg.installed state documentation
• PR #32482: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8

• f5bd6bd Backport 31164 and 31364 (#32474)

• PR #32450: (cachedout) Pass parser options into batch mode

• b299835 Issue `#28706`_: Fix state user.present behavior. (#32448)
• cef33d5 Argument name in docs should match actual arg name (#32445)

• PR #32432: (ticosax) [dockerng] Fix Domainname introspection
• PR #32427: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
• PR #32423: (jtand) Update glusterfs_test to be inline with #32312
• PR #32425: (cachedout) Fix salt-cloud paralell provisioning

• 51fb2ac FreeBSD supports packages in format java/openjdk7 so the prior commit broke that functionality. Check freebsd/pkg`#1409`_ for more info.
• 709410a Improve git_pillar documentation/logging
• c53efc3 Update master config docs

• PR #32323: (mcalmer) fix sorting by latest version when called with an attribute
• PR #32376: (amontalban) Fixes saltstack/salt`#28262`_

• 0d9a06b Cleaner deprecation process with decorators
• 6979fda Correcty index glusterfs bricks

• PR #32393: (jfindlay) modules.win_timezone: don't list all zones in debug log
• PR #32372: (rallytime) Back-port #32358 to 2015.8
• PR #32392: (multani) Fix documentation on boto_asg and boto_elb modules and states
• PR #32373: (cachedout) Resolve memory leak in authentication
• PR #32126: (cro) Add a couple CLI examples for the highstate outputter.
• PR #32353: (mcalmer) Prevent metadata download when listing installed products
• PR #32321: (abednarik) Better message when minion fail to start
• PR #32345: (nmadhok) [2015.8] Check if profile key exists in vm_ dict
• PR #32343: (Ferbla) Fixed win_wua example documentation
• PR #32360: (rallytime) Make sure hash_type is lowercase in master/minion config files
• PR #32361: (cro) SDB is no longer experimental
• PR #32336: (rallytime) Back-port #28639 to 2015.8
• PR #32332: (rallytime) Don't unsubscribe from open events on the CLI too early on long-running commands
• PR #32333: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
• PR #32289: (rallytime) New salt-cloud instances should not use old hash_type default.
• PR #32291: (twangboy) Fix bad output for chocolatey.version (fixes `#14277`_)
• PR #32295: (rallytime) Test the contents of 'deploy_scripts_search_path' in salt.config.cloud_config
• PR #32315: (ahus1) fixing file.managed with requests lib
• PR #32316: (vutny) Update Salt Bootstrap tutorial
• PR #32325: (bdrung) Re-add shebang to ssh-id-wrapper shell script
• PR #32326: (bdrung) Fix typos
• PR #32300: (twangboy) Add documentation to disable winrepo/winrepo_ng
• PR #32288: (terminalmage) use dictupdate.merge instead of dict.update to merge CLI pillar overrides
• PR #32243: (isbm) Ensure latest pkg.info_installed ensure latest
• PR #32268: (ticosax) [dockerng] Improve detection for older versions of docker-py
• PR #32258: (jacobhammons) Replaces incorrect reference to master_alive_check
• PR #32254: (twangboy) Fix Display Name with spaces in win_servermanager
• PR #32248: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
• PR #32230: (terminalmage) systemd.py: Support both update-rc.d and chkconfig as managers of sysv services
• PR #32249: (jacobhammons) Fixes windows download paths to account for patch
• PR #32221: (dmurphy18) Fix version check, fix extracting Major and Minor versions from __ver…
• PR #32227: (twangboy) Remove list2cmdline usage from win_service.py
• PR #32239: (anlutro) Add state file name to warning log line
• PR #32215: (DmitryKuzmenko) rhel oscodename
• PR #32217: (jacobhammons) 2015.8.8.2 release notes
• PR #32212: (rallytime) Back-port #32197 to 2015.8
• PR #32211: (rallytime) Back-port #32210 to 2015.8
• PR #32209: (rallytime) Back-port #32208 to 2015.8
• PR #32204: (ticosax) [dockerng] Consider labels carried by the image when comparing user defined labels.
• PR #32186: (rallytime) Add some "best practices" information to test documentation
• PR #32176: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
• PR #32163: (rallytime) Update nacl.config docs to use key value instead of 'None'
• PR #32166: (vutny) salt.states.file: correct examples with multiline YAML string
• PR #32168: (rallytime) Lint 2015.8
• PR #32165: (terminalmage) Make __virtual__ for rhservice.py more robust
• PR #32160: (cachedout) Fix beacon tutorial docs
• PR #32145: (paclat) fixes 29817
• PR #32133: (basepi) Pass eauth user/groups through salt-api to destination functions
• PR #32127: (rallytime) Add runners to __salt__ docs
• PR #32143: (DmitryKuzmenko) Set auth retry count to 0 if multimaster mode is failover.
• PR #32134: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
• PR #32091: (clarkperkins) Fixed the regression in 410da78
• PR #32135: (rallytime) [2015.8] Support multiple valid option types when performing type checks
• PR #31760: (sakateka) SMinion need wait future from eval_master
• PR #32106: (jfindlay) update suse master service patch
• PR #32130: (jacobhammons) Added known issues 32004 and 32044 to 2015.8.8 release notes
• PR #32105: (clarkperkins) Fixed invalid deploy_scripts_search_path
• PR #32117: (tomlaredo) Fixed validation type for file_ignore_glob
• PR #32113: (sakateka) Fix log message for AsyncAuth initialization
• PR #32116: (ticosax) Obtain default value of memory_swap from the container.
• PR #32098: (rallytime) Back-port #32083 to 2015.8
• PR #32099: (jacobhammons) 2015.8.8 release docs
• PR #32088: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8
• PR #32074: (Xiami2012) Fix code for proto args in modules.iptables
• PR #32053: (basepi) [2015.8] Fix rabbitmq_user.present tag handling
• PR #32023: (sbreidba) Move constant declaration into member variable to avoid issues when m…
• PR #32026: (techhat) Don't require the decode_out file to already exist
• PR #32019: (rallytime) Back-port #32012 to 2015.8
• PR #32015: (ticosax) [dockerng] Fix ports exposition when protocol is passed.
• PR #31999: (jacobhammons) Fixes a doc build exception caused by missing mocks for modules.win_dacl
• PR #31992: (notpeter) salt-cloud: add D2 and G2 EC2 instance types
• PR #31981: (lloydoliver) include rotational disks in grains under linux
• PR #31970: (twangboy) Add apply_template_on_contents for windows
• PR #31960: (aletourneau) fixed ec2 get_console_output
• PR #31958: (rallytime) [2015.8] Merge forward from 2015.5 to 2015.8

• 3934c66 Merge branch '2015.5' into '2015.8'

• PR #31935: (twangboy) Back port nullsoft build script from 2015.8
• PR #31912: (jfindlay) log.mixins: remove extermporaneous .record