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# Salt 0.17.5 Release Notes

release:

  2014-01-27

Version 0.17.5 is another bugfix release for 0.17.0. The changes include:

- Fix `user.present` states with non-string fullname (issue 9085)

- Fix `virt.init` return value on failure (issue 6870)

- Fix reporting of `file.blockreplace` state when `test=True`

- Fix `network.interfaces` when used in cron (issue 7990)

- Fix bug in pkgrepo when switching to/from mirrorlist-based repo def (issue 9121)

- Fix infinite recursion when cache file is corrupted

- Add checking for rev and mirror/bare args in `git.latest` (issue 9107)

- Add `cmd.watch` alias (points to `cmd.wait`) (issue 8612)

- Fix stacktrace when prereq is not formed as a list (issue 8235)

- Fix stdin issue with lvdisplay command (issue 9128)

- Add pre-check function for range matcher (issue 9236)

- Add exception handling for psutil for processes that go missing (issue 9274)

- Allow `_in` requisites to match both on ID and name (issue 9061)

- Fix multiple client timeout issues (issue 7157 and issue 9302, probably others)

- Fix `ZMQError: Operation cannot be accomplished in current state` errors (issue 6306)

- Multiple optimization in minion auth routines

- Clarify logs for minion ID caching