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# Salt 0.16.4 Release Notes

release:

  2013-09-07

Version 0.16.4 is another bugfix release for 0.16.0, likely to be the last before 0.17.0 is released. The changes include:

- Multiple documentation improvements/additions

- Added the `osfinger` and `osarch` grains

- Properly handle 32-bit packages for debian32 on x86_64 (issue 6607)

- Fix regression in yum package installation in CentOS 5 (issue 6677)

- Fix bug in `hg.latest` state that would erroneously delete directories (issue 6661)

- Fix bug related to pid not existing for `ps.top` (issue 6679)

- Fix regression in `MySQL returner` (issue 6695)

- Fix IP addresses grains (`ipv4` and `ipv6`) to include all addresses (issue 6656)

- Fix regression preventing authenticated FTP (issue 6733)

- Fix setting password for windows users (issue 6824)

- Fix `file.contains` on values YAML parses as non-string (issue 6817)

- Fix `file.get_gid`, `file.get_uid`, and `file.chown` for broken symlinks (issue 6826)

- Fix comment for service reloads in service state (issue 6851)