Salt 2014.1.1 Release Notes¶

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)