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# Salt 2015.8.7 Release Notes

Version 2015.8.7 is a bugfix release for 2015.8.0.

Note

Salt 2015.8.4, 2015.8.5, and 2015.8.7 were all released within a short period due to regressions found soon after the releases of 2015.8.4 and 2015.8.5. See here for the 2015.8.4 release notes, and here for the 2015.8.5 release notes.

## Statistics

- Total Merges: 2

- Total Issue References: 1

- Total PR References: 5

- Contributors: 4 (gtmanfred, justinta, pass-by-value, terminalmage)

## Change to Epoch Support for YUM/DNF

For `pkg.installed` states, on Linux distributions which use yum/dnf, packages which have a non-zero epoch in the version number now require this epoch to be included when specifying an exact version for a package. For example:

    vim-enhanced:
      pkg.installed:
        - version: 2:7.4.160-1.el7

The `pkg.latest_version` and `pkg.list_repo_pkgs` functions can be used to get the correct version string to use, as they will now contain the epoch when it is non-zero.

## Changelog for v2015.8.5..v2015.8.7

Generated at: 2018-05-28 00:17:59 UTC

- PR #31111: (justinta) Fixes failing npm test on arch. @ 2016-02-10 21:51:47 UTC

  - 8d84c636cf Merge pull request #31111 from jtand/8_4_npm_fix

  - b0a48e5ef2 Fixes failing npm test on arch.

  - PR #30217: (pass-by-value) Make sure cloud actions can be called via salt run

- ISSUE #31014: (gtmanfred) [2015.8] pkg breaks for yum pkgs.latest if the packages has an epoch (refs: #31031, #31015)

- PR #31092: (terminalmage) Apply PR #31031 to 2015.8.4.follow_up @ 2016-02-10 20:54:37 UTC

  - PR #31031: (terminalmage) More complete fix for #31014 (refs: #31092)

  - PR #31015: (gtmanfred) include possible epoch in version for rpm (refs: #31031)

  - 5a6a93e98b Merge pull request #31092 from terminalmage/issue31014-2015.8.4.follow_up

    - 2767a4e519 Don't handle epoch specially for dnf

    - e5dfcc0ef2 More efficient way to add the epoch before version number

    - ed7462793c include possible epoch in version for rpm

  - 6c6b66aedd Comment multiprocessing line in minion config

  - 1f7dfefc4a Set multiprocessing to true in config.py

  - 433c645c20 Fix remove placeholder files

  - 71037560d4 Remove placeholder files

  - 20b381fdf7 Set overwrite to off

  - ca50f56d6c Fix boto_secgroup

  - fd571d23de Fix boto test failures

  - cfb6588744 Fix regression when contents_pillar/contents_grains is a list.

  - 881d8669e3 utils.aws: use time lib to conver to epoch seconds

  - 31412920fc The call to cp.get_url needs the saltenv, if you're using environments other than base, it will fail.

  - a8694014a9 Fix regression in git_pillar when multiple remotes are configured

  - 2243f25be5 Properly set the default value for pillar_merge_lists

  - c7472ff6aa Lint

  - d868711a83 Fix failing boto_vpc module unit tests

  - ed09516469 Fix failing state module tests

  - fd0e940088 Pylint fix

  - bc780a7c25 Don't use pack=pack. Just pass in pack=__salt__ always.

  - 1ae022dbfe Pass in 'pack' variable to utils.boto.assign_funcs function from ALL boto modules.

  - 1efaff107d Remove bad symlinks in osx pkg dirs