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 0.17.3 Release Notes

release:

  2013-12-08

Note

0.17.3 had some regressions which were promptly fixed in the 0.17.4 release. Please use 0.17.4 instead.

Version 0.17.3 is another bugfix release for 0.17.0. The changes include:

- Fix some jinja render errors (issue 8418)

- Fix `file.replace` state changing file ownership (issue 8399)

- Fix state ordering with the PyDSL renderer (issue 8446)

- Fix for new npm version (issue 8517)

- Fix for pip state requiring `name` even with requirements file (issue 8519)

- Fix yum logging to open terminals (issue 3855)

- Add sane maxrunning defaults for scheduler (issue 8563)

- Fix states duplicate key detection (issue 8053)

- Fix SUSE patch level reporting (issue 8428)

- Fix managed file creation umask (issue 8590)

- Fix logstash exception (issue 8635)

- Improve argument exception handling for salt command (issue 8016)

- Fix pecl success reporting (issue 8750)

- Fix launchctl module exceptions (issue 8759)

- Fix argument order in pw_user module

- Add warnings for failing grains (issue 8690)

- Fix hgfs problems caused by connections left open (issue 8811 and issue 8810)

- Add Debian iptables default for iptables-persistent package (issue 8889)

- Fix installation of packages with dots in pkg name (issue 8614)

- Fix noarch package installation on CentOS 6 (issue 8945)

- Fix portage_config.enforce_nice_config (issue 8252)

- Fix salt.util.copyfile umask usage (issue 8590)

- Fix rescheduling of failed jobs (issue 8941)

- Fix pkg on Amazon Linux (uses yumpkg5 now) (issue 8226)

- Fix conflicting options in postgres module (issue 8717)

- Fix ps modules for psutil >= 0.3.0 (issue 7432)

- Fix postgres module to return False on failure (issue 8778)

- Fix argument passing for args with pound signs (issue 8585)

- Fix pid of salt CLi command showing in status.pid output (issue 8720)

- Fix rvm to run gem as the correct user (issue 8951)

- Fix namespace issue in win_file module (issue 9060)

- Fix masterless state paths on windows (issue 9021)

- Fix timeout option in master config (issue 9040)