Salt 0.17.2 Release Notes¶

Version 0.17.2 is another bugfix release for 0.17.0. The changes include:

• Add ability to delete key with grains.delval (issue #7872)
• Fix possible state compiler stack trace (issue #5767)
• Fix architecture regression in yumpkg (issue #7813)
• Use correct ps on Debian to prevent truncating (issue #5646)
• Fix grains targeting for new grains (issue #5737)
• Fix bug with merging in git_pillar (issue #6992)
• Fix print_jobs duplicate results
• Fix apt version specification for pkg.install
• Fix possible KeyError from ext_job_cache missing option
• Fix auto_order for - names states (issue #7649)
• Fix regression in new gitfs installs (directory not found error)
• Fix escape pipe issue on Windows for file.recurse (issue #7967)
• Fix fileclient in case of master restart (issue #7987)
• Try to output warning if CLI command malformed (issue #6538)
• Fix --out=quiet to actually be quiet (issue #8000)
• Fix for state.sls in salt-ssh (issue #7991)
• Fix for MySQL grants ordering issue (issue #5817)
• Fix traceback for certain missing CLI args (issue #8016)
• Add ability to disable lspci queries on master (issue #4906)
• Fail if sls defined in topfile does not exist (issue #5998)
• Add ability to downgrade MySQL grants (issue #6606)
• Fix ssh_auth.absent traceback (issue #8043)
• Add upstart detection for Debian/Raspbian (issue #8039)
• Fix ID-related issues (issue #8052, issue #8050, and others)
• Fix for jinja rendering issues (issue #8066 and issue #8079)
• Fix argument parsing in salt-ssh (issue #7928)
• Fix some GPU detection instances (issue #6945)
• Fix bug preventing includes from other environments in SLS files
• Fix for kwargs with dashes (issue #8102)
• Fix salt.utils.which for windows '.exe' (issue #7904)
• Fix apache.adduser without apachectl (issue #8123)
• Fix issue with evaluating test kwarg in states (issue #7788)
• Fix regression in salt.client.Caller() (issue #8078)
• Fix apt-key silent failure
• Fix bug where cmd.script would try to run even if caching failed (issue #7601)
• Fix apt pkg.latest regression (issue #8067)
• Fix for mine data not being updated (issue #8144)
• Fix for noarch packages in yum
• Fix a Xen detection edge case (issue #7839)
• Fix windows __opts__ dictionary persistence (issue #7714)
• Fix version generation for when it's part of another git repo (issue #8090)
• Fix _handle_iorder stacktrace so that the real syntax error is shown (issue #8114 and issue #7905)
• Fix git.latest state when a commit SHA is used (issue #8163)
• Fix various small bugs in yumpkg.py (issue #8201)
• Fix for specifying identify file in git.latest (issue #8094)
• Fix for --output-file CLI arg (issue #8205)
• Add ability to specify shutdown time for system.shutdown (issue #7833)
• Fix for salt version using non-salt git repo info (issue #8266)
• Add additional hints at impact of pkgrepo states when test=True (issue #8247)
• Fix for salt-ssh files not being owned by root (issue #8216)
• Fix retry logic and error handling in fileserver (related to issue #7755)
• Fix file.replace with test=True (issue #8279)
• Add flag for limiting file traversal in fileserver (issue #6928)
• Fix for extra mine processes (issue #5729)
• Fix for unloading custom modules (issue #7691)
• Fix for salt-ssh opts (issue #8005 and issue #8271)
• Fix compound matcher for grains (issue #7944)
• Improve error reporting in ebuild module (related to issue #5393)
• Add dir_mode to file.managed (issue #7860)
• Improve traceroute support for FreeBSD and macOS (issue #4927)
• Fix for matching minions under syndics (issue #7671)
• Improve exception handling for missing ID (issue #8259)
• Fix grain mismatch for ScientificLinux (issue #8338)
• Add configuration option for minion_id_caching
• Fix open mode auth errors (issue #8402)