These release notes are for an old release of Salt. This release might contain known security and other issues that are fixed in the latest release.

# Salt 2015.8.5 Release Notes

Version 2015.8.5 is a bugfix release for 2015.8.0.

Important

About this Release Salt 2015.8.5 is identical to the 2015.8.4 release with the addition of a fix for issue 30820, fixed by PR 30833. See here for the 2015.8.4 release notes.

## Known Issue in `boto_*` execution modules

This release contains an issue that causes the `boto_*` execution modules to display a `__salt__ not defined` error (issue 30300). This issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, but can be manually resolved by completing the following:

1. Download the `boto_*` execution modules that you would like to update from the 2015.8 branch of Salt. A complete list of affected modules with the specific changes is available in :pull`30867`.

   A simple way to get the updated modules is to download a zip file of the 2015.8 branch from GitHub. The updated modules are in the `salt\modules` directory.

2. Place the `boto_*` modules into `salt://_modules`.

3. Run the following command to sync these modules to all Salt minions:

       salt '*' saltutil.sync_modules

## Changelog for v2015.8.4..v2015.8.5

Generated at: 2018-05-27 23:47:32 UTC

- c7db4350d5 Fix regression in scanning for state with 'name' param