Salt 2015.5.9 Release Notes¶

Extended changelog courtesy of Todd Stansell (https://github.com/tjstansell/salt-changelogs):

Generated at: 2016-01-08T23:02:31Z

Total Merges: 44

Changes:

• PR #30237: (jacobhammons) Updated man pages and doc version for 2015.5.9
• PR #30207: (rallytime) Use correct spacing in rabbitmq state examples
• PR #30191: (jacobhammons) Updated doc site banners
• PR #30125: (abednarik) Update user home event when createhome is set to False
• PR #30127: (jsutton) Updating documentation and example minion config for random_master/master_shuffle.
• PR #30110: (markckimball) Fixed flag sent to salt.utils.http in order for verify_ssl to work correctly
• PR #30093: (zmalone) Noting that file_roots and "state tree" should both be avoided
• PR #30097: (cachedout) Note concern about cleartext password in docs for shadow.gen_password
• PR #30089: (mpreziuso) Fixes terminology and adds more accurate details about the algorithms
• PR #30086: (cachedout) Document that gitfs needs recent libs
• PR #30070: (cachedout) Add documentation on debugging salt-ssh
• PR #30059: (mpreziuso) Fixes wrong function scope
• PR #30025: (jtand) Skipping some Boto tests until resolved moto issue
• PR #29949: (aletourneau) Enhanced netscaler docstring
• PR #29941: (cachedout) Fix spelling error in boto_vpc
• PR #29908: (cachedout) Allow kwargs to be passed to pacman provide for update func
• PR #29909: (abednarik) FreeBSD pkgng fix for non-interactive install.
• PR #29730: (rallytime) Update docker-py version requirement to 0.6.0 for dockerio.py files
• PR #29715: (rallytime) Install correct package version, if provided, for npm state.
• PR #29721: (terminalmage) Fix display of multiline strings when iterating over a list
• PR #29646: (rallytime) Don't stacktrace on kwargs.get if kwargs=None
• PR #29673: (rallytime) Default value should be False and not 'False'
• PR #29527: (jfindlay) 2015.5.7 notes: add note about not being released
• PR #29539: (basepi) [2015.5] Merge forward from 2014.7 to 2015.5
• PR #29504: (rallytime) Document userdata_file option for EC2 driver
• PR #29507: (rallytime) Switch volumes and del_*_on_destroy example ordering
• PR #29469: (abednarik) Added Documentation note in salt cloud.
• PR #29461: (dmyerscough) Fix resource limits, systemd sets the default too small
• PR #29439: (rallytime) Back-port #28656 to 2015.5
• PR #29418: (jacobhammons) Added CVE 2015-8034 to 2015.5.8 release notes
• PR #29389: (jacobhammons) updated version numbers in documentation
• PR #28501: (twangboy) Requested fixes for 26898
• PR #29348: (jtand) Fixes an file.search on python2.6
• PR #29336: (rallytime) Back-port #29276 to 2015.5
• PR #29333: (rallytime) Back-port #29280 to 2015.5
• PR #29316: (basepi) [2015.5] Merge forward from 2014.7 to 2015.5
• PR #29216: (clan) size is 0 doesn't mean no data, e.g, /proc/version
• PR #29261: (attiasr) fix incorrect reinstallation of windows pkg
• PR #29214: (cro) Doc for salt.utils.http should say verify_ssl not ssl_verify.
• PR #29204: (lorengordon) Use os.path.join to return full path to ca bundle