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 2014.7.5 Release Notes

release:

  2015-04-16

Version 2014.7.5 is a bugfix release for 2014.7.0.

Changes:

- Fixed a key error bug in salt-cloud

- Updated man pages to better match documentation

- Fixed bug concerning high CPU usage with salt-ssh

- Fixed bugs with remounting cvfs and fuse filesystems

- Fixed bug with alowing requisite tracking of entire sls files

- Fixed bug with aptpkg.mod_repo returning OK even if apt-add-repository fails

- Increased frequency of ssh terminal output checking

- Fixed malformed locale string in localmod module

- Fixed checking of available version of package when accept_keywords were changed

- Fixed bug to make git.latest work with empty repositories

- Added **kwargs to service.mod_watch which removes warnings about enable and __reqs__ not being supported by the function

- Improved state comments to not grow so quickly on failed requisites

- Added force argument to service to trigger force_reload

- Fixed bug to andle pkgrepo keyids that have been converted to int

- Fixed module.portage_config bug with appending accept_keywords

- Fixed bug to correctly report disk usage on windows minion

- Added the ability to specify key prefix for S3 ext_pillar

- Fixed issues with batch mode operating on the incorrect number of minions

- Fixed a bug with the proxmox cloud provider stacktracing on disk definition

- Fixed a bug with the changes dictionary in the file state

- Fixed the TCP keep alive settings to work better with SREQ caching

- Fixed many bugs within the iptables state and module

- Fixed bug with states by adding fun, state, and unless to the state runtime internal keywords listing

- Added ability to eAuth against Active Directory

- Fixed some salt-ssh issues when running on Fedora 21

- Fixed grains.get_or_set_hash to work with multiple entries under same key

- Added better explanations and more examples of how the Reactor calls functions to docs

- Fixed bug to not pass ex_config_drive to libcloud unless it's explicitly enabled

- Fixed bug with pip.install on windows

- Fixed bug where puppet.run always returns a 0 retcode

- Fixed race condition bug with minion scheduling via pillar

- Made efficiency improvements and bug fixes to the windows installer

- Updated environment variables to fix bug with pygit2 when running salt as non-root user

- Fixed cas behavior on data module -- data.cas was not saving changes

- Fixed GPG rendering error

- Fixed strace error in virt.query

- Fixed stacktrace when running chef-solo command

- Fixed possible bug wherein uncaught exceptions seem to make zmq3 tip over when threading is involved

- Fixed argument passing to the reactor

- Fixed glibc caching to prevent bug where salt-minion getaddrinfo in dns_check() never got updated nameservers

Known issues:

- In multimaster mode, a minion may become temporarily unresponsive if modules or pillars are refreshed at the same time that one or more masters are down. This can be worked around by setting 'auth_timeout' and 'auth_tries' down to shorter periods.