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Salt 2015.8.7 Release Notes
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Changes for v2015.8.4..v2015.8.7
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Extended changelog courtesy of Todd Stansell (https://github.com/tjstansell/salt-changelogs):

*Generated at: 2016-02-11T22:13:51Z*

Statistics:

- Total Merges: **2**
- Total Issue references: **0**
- Total PR references: **3**

Changes:

- **PR** `#31111`_: (*jtand*) Fixes failing npm test on arch.
  @ *2016-02-10T21:51:47Z*

  * 8d84c63 Merge pull request `#31111`_ from jtand/8_4_npm_fix
  * b0a48e5 Fixes failing npm test on arch.

  * 733c6ab Some 3rd-party modules (e.g. gnupg) define custom log levels that emit at INFO level and above.  This patch sets the color data lookups to default to TextFormat('reset') rather than producing a stack trace every time a log message is generated from an affected module.

  * 3f71fd0 Revert `#30217`_

    - **PR** `#30217`_: (*pass-by-value*) Make sure cloud actions can be called via salt run

- **PR** `#31092`_: (*terminalmage*) Apply PR `#31031`_ to 2015.8.4.follow_up
  @ *2016-02-10T20:54:37Z*

  * 5a6a93e Merge pull request `#31092`_ from terminalmage/issue31014-2015.8.4.follow_up
    * 2767a4e Don't handle epoch specially for dnf

    * e5dfcc0 More efficient way to add the epoch before version number

    * ed74627 include possible epoch in version for rpm

  * 6c6b66a Comment multiprocessing line in minion config

  * 1f7dfef Set multiprocessing to true in config.py

  * 433c645 Fix remove placeholder files

  * 7103756 Remove placeholder files

  * 20b381f Set overwrite to off

  * ca50f56 Fix boto_secgroup

  * fd571d2 Fix boto test failures

  * cfb6588 Fix regression when contents_pillar/contents_grains is a list.

  * 881d866 utils.aws: use time lib to conver to epoch seconds

  * 3141292 The call to cp.get_url needs the saltenv, if you're using environments other than base, it will fail.

  * a869401 Fix regression in git_pillar when multiple remotes are configured

  * 2243f25 Properly set the default value for pillar_merge_lists

  * c7472ff Lint

  * d868711 Fix failing boto_vpc module unit tests

  * ed09516 Fix failing state module tests

  * fd0e940 Pylint fix

  * bc780a7 Don't use pack=pack. Just pass in pack=__salt__ always.

  * 1ae022d Pass in 'pack' variable to utils.boto.assign_funcs function from ALL boto modules.

  * 1efaff1 Remove bad symlinks in osx pkg dirs

  * c7db435 Fix regression in scanning for state with 'name' param

.. _`#30217`: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/30217
.. _`#31031`: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/31031
.. _`#31092`: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/31092
.. _`#31111`: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/31111

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**2015.8.5 Release Notes**
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