Salt 2014.7.5 Release Notes¶

Version 2014.7.5 is a bugfix release for 2014.7.0.

Changes:

• Fixed a key error bug in salt-cloud
• Updated man pages to better match documentation
• Fixed bug concerning high CPU usage with salt-ssh
• Fixed bugs with remounting cvfs and fuse filesystems
• Fixed bug with alowing requisite tracking of entire sls files
• Fixed bug with aptpkg.mod_repo returning OK even if apt-add-repository fails
• Increased frequency of ssh terminal output checking
• Fixed malformed locale string in localmod module
• Fixed checking of available version of package when accept_keywords were changed
• Fixed bug to make git.latest work with empty repositories
• Added **kwargs to service.mod_watch which removes warnings about enable and __reqs__ not being supported by the function
• Improved state comments to not grow so quickly on failed requisites
• Added force argument to service to trigger force_reload
• Fixed bug to andle pkgrepo keyids that have been converted to int
• Fixed module.portage_config bug with appending accept_keywords
• Fixed bug to correctly report disk usage on windows minion
• Added the ability to specify key prefix for S3 ext_pillar
• Fixed issues with batch mode operating on the incorrect number of minions
• Fixed a bug with the proxmox cloud provider stacktracing on disk definition
• Fixed a bug with the changes dictionary in the file state
• Fixed the TCP keep alive settings to work better with SREQ caching
• Fixed many bugs within the iptables state and module
• Fixed bug with states by adding fun, state, and unless to the state runtime internal keywords listing
• Added ability to eAuth against Active Directory
• Fixed some salt-ssh issues when running on Fedora 21
• Fixed grains.get_or_set_hash to work with multiple entries under same key
• Added better explanations and more examples of how the Reactor calls functions to docs
• Fixed bug to not pass ex_config_drive to libcloud unless it's explicitly enabled
• Fixed bug with pip.install on windows
• Fixed bug where puppet.run always returns a 0 retcode
• Fixed race condition bug with minion scheduling via pillar
• Made efficiency improvements and bug fixes to the windows installer
• Updated environment variables to fix bug with pygit2 when running salt as non-root user
• Fixed cas behavior on data module -- data.cas was not saving changes
• Fixed GPG rendering error
• Fixed strace error in virt.query
• Fixed stacktrace when running chef-solo command
• Fixed possible bug wherein uncaught exceptions seem to make zmq3 tip over when threading is involved
• Fixed argument passing to the reactor
• Fixed glibc caching to prevent bug where salt-minion getaddrinfo in dns_check() never got updated nameservers

Known issues:

• In multimaster mode, a minion may become temporarily unresponsive if modules or pillars are refreshed at the same time that one or more masters are down. This can be worked around by setting 'auth_timeout' and 'auth_tries' down to shorter periods.