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 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)