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 2014.1.1 Release Notes

release:

  2014-03-18

Version 2014.1.1 is a bugfix release for 2014.1.0. The changes include:

- Various doc fixes, including up-to-date Salt Cloud installation documentation.

- Renamed state.sls runner to state.orchestrate, to reduce confusion with the `state.sls` execution function

- Fix various bugs in the `dig` module (issue 10367)

- Add retry for query on certain EC2 status codes (issue 10154)

- Fix various bugs in mongodb_user state module (issue 10430)

- Fix permissions on `~/.salt_token` (issue 10422)

- Add PyObjects support

- Fix launchctl module crash with missing files

- Fix `saltutil.find_job` for Windows (issue 10581)

- Fix OS detection for OpenSolaris (issue 10601)

- Fix broken salt-ssh key_deploy

- Add support for multiline cron comments (issue 10721)

- Fix timezone module for Arch (issue 10789)

- Fix symlink support for `file.recurse` (issue 10809)

- Fix multi-master bugs (issue 10732 and issue 10969)

- Fix file.patch to error when source file is unavailable (issue 10380)

- Fix pkg to handle packages set as `purge` in `pkg.installed` (issue 10719)

- Add `zmqversion` grain

- Fix highstate summary for masterless minions (issue 10945)

- Fix `saltutil.find_job` for 2014.1 masters talking to 0.17 minions (issue 11020)

- Fix `file.recurse` states with trailing slashes in source (issue 11002)

- Fix `pkg states` to allow `pkgname.x86_64` (issue 7306)

- Make `iptables states` set a default table for flush (issue 11037)

- Added iptables `--reject-with` after final iptables call in `iptables states` (issue:10757)

- Fix improper passing of “family” in `iptables states` (issue 10774)

- Fix traceback in `iptables.insert` states (issue 10988)

- Fix zombie processes (issue 10867 and others)

- Fix batch mode to obey `--return` settings (issue 9146)

- Fix localclient issue that was causing batch mode breakage (issue 11094, issue 10470, and others)

- Multiple salt-ssh fixes

- FreeBSD: look in /usr/local/etc/salt for configuration by default, if installed using `pip --editable`.

- Add a `skip_suggestions` parameter to pkg.installed states which allows pre-flight check to be skipped (issue 11106)

- Fixed tag-based gitfs fileserver environments regression (issue 10956)

- Yum: fix cache of available pkgs not cleared when repos are changed (issue 11001)

- Yum: fix for plugin-provided repositories (i.e. RHN/Spacewalk) (issue 11145)

- Fix regression in `chocolatey.bootstrap` (issue 10541)

- Fix fail on unknown target in `jobs runner` (issue 11151)

- Don’t log errors for commands which are expected to sometimes exit with non-zero exit status (issue 11154, issue 11090)

- Fix `test=True` CLI override of config option (issue 10877)

- Log sysctl key listing at loglevel TRACE (issue 10931)