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)

Docs for previous releases are available on readthedocs.org.

Latest Salt release: 2016.3.2

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