Salt 0.17.4 Release Notes¶

Version 0.17.4 is another bugfix release for 0.17.0. The changes include:

• Fix some jinja render errors (issue 8418)
• Fix file.replace state changing file ownership (issue 8399)
• Fix state ordering with the PyDSL renderer (issue 8446)
• Fix for new npm version (issue 8517)
• Fix for pip state requiring name even with requirements file (issue 8519)
• Fix yum logging to open terminals (issue 3855)
• Add sane maxrunning defaults for scheduler (issue 8563)
• Fix states duplicate key detection (issue 8053)
• Fix SUSE patch level reporting (issue 8428)
• Fix managed file creation umask (issue 8590)
• Fix logstash exception (issue 8635)
• Improve argument exception handling for salt command (issue 8016)
• Fix pecl success reporting (issue 8750)
• Fix launchctl module exceptions (issue 8759)
• Fix argument order in pw_user module
• Add warnings for failing grains (issue 8690)
• Fix hgfs problems caused by connections left open (issue 8811 and issue 8810)
• Add Debian iptables default for iptables-persistent package (issue 8889)
• Fix installation of packages with dots in pkg name (issue 8614)
• Fix noarch package installation on CentOS 6 (issue 8945)
• Fix portage_config.enforce_nice_config (issue 8252)
• Fix salt.util.copyfile umask usage (issue 8590)
• Fix rescheduling of failed jobs (issue 8941)
• Fix pkg on Amazon Linux (uses yumpkg5 now) (issue 8226)
• Fix conflicting options in postgres module (issue 8717)
• Fix ps modules for psutil >= 0.3.0 (issue 7432)
• Fix postgres module to return False on failure (issue 8778)
• Fix argument passing for args with pound signs (issue 8585)
• Fix pid of salt CLi command showing in status.pid output (issue 8720)
• Fix rvm to run gem as the correct user (issue 8951)
• Fix namespace issue in win_file module (issue 9060)
• Fix masterless state paths on windows (issue 9021)
• Fix timeout option in master config (issue 9040)