Salt 2014.1.5 Release Notes

release:2014-06-11

Version 2014.1.5 is another bugfix release for 2014.1.0. Changes include:

  • Add function for finding cached job on the minion
  • Fix iptables save file location for Debian (issue 11730)
  • Fix for minion caching jobs when master is down
  • Bump default syndic_wait to 5 to fix syndic-related problems (issue 12262)
  • Add OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD support for network.netstat (issue 12121)
  • Fix false positive error in logs for makeconf state (issue 9762)
  • Fix for yum fromrepo package installs when repo is disabled by default (issue 12466)
  • Fix for extra blank lines in file.blockreplace (issue 12422)
  • Fix grain detection for OpenVZ guests (issue 11877)
  • Fix get_dns_servers function for Windows win_dns_client
  • Use system locale for ports package installations
  • Use correct stop/restart procedure for Debian networking in debian_ip (issue 12614)
  • Fix for cmd_iter/cmd_iter_no_block blocking issues (issue 12617)
  • Fix traceback when syncing custom types (issue 12883)
  • Fix cleaning directory symlinks in file.directory
  • Add performance optimizations for saltutil.sync_all and state.highstate
  • Fix possible error in saltutil.running
  • Fix for kmod modules with dashes (issue 13239)
  • Fix possible race condition for Windows minions in state module reloading (issue 12370)
  • Fix bug with roster for passwd option that is loaded as a non-string object (issue 13249)
  • Keep duplicate version numbers from showing up in pkg.list_pkgs output
  • Fixes for Jinja renderer, timezone module/state (issue 12724)
  • Fix timedatectl parsing for systemd>=210 (issue 12728)
  • Fix saltenv being written to YUM repo config files (issue 12887)
  • Removed the deprecated external nodes classifier (originally accessible by setting a value for external_nodes in the master configuration file). Note that this functionality has been marked deprecated for some time and was replaced by the more general master tops system.
  • More robust escaping of ldap filter strings.
  • Fix trailing slash in gitfs_root causing files not to be available (issue 13185)