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Salt 0.8.9 Release Notes
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Salt 0.8.9 has finally arrived! Unfortunately this is much later than I had
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hoped to release 0.8.9, life has been very crazy over the last month. But
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despite challenges, Salt has moved forward!
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This release, as expected, adds few new features and many refinements. One
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of the most exciting aspect of this release is that the development community
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for salt has grown a great deal and much of the code is from contributors.
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Also, I have filled out the documentation a great deal. So information on
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States is properly documented, and much of the documentation that was out of
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date has been filled in.
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Download!
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The Salt source can be downloaded from the salt GitHub site:
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:download:`salt-0.8.9.tar.gz`
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Or from PyPI:
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https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/salt/salt-0.8.9.tar.gz
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Here s the md5sum:
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7d5aca4633bc22f59045f59e82f43b56
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For instructions on how to set up Salt please see the :ref:`installation`
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instructions.
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New Features
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Salt Run
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````````
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A big feature is the addition of Salt run, the ``salt-run`` command allows for
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master side execution modules to be made that gather specific information or
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execute custom routines from the master.
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Documentation for salt-run can be found :doc:`here </ref/runners/index>`
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Refined Outputters
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``````````````````
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One problem often complained about in salt was the fact that the output was
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so messy. Thanks to help from Jeff Schroeder a cleaner interface for the
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command output for the Salt CLI has been made. This new interface makes
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adding new printout formats easy and additions to the capabilities of minion
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modules makes it possible to set the printout mode or ``outputter`` for
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functions in minion modules.
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Cross Calling Salt Modules
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```````````````````````````
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Salt modules can now call each other, the ``__salt__`` dict has been added to
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the predefined references in minion modules. This new feature is documented in
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the :doc:`modules documentation </ref/modules/index>`.
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Watch Option Added to Salt State System
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````````````````````````````````````````
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Now in Salt states you can set the watch option, this will allow watch enabled
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states to change based on a change in the other defined states. This is similar
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to subscribe and notify statements in puppet.
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Root Dir Option
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Travis Cline has added the ability to define the option ``root_dir`` which
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allows the salt minion to operate in a subdir. This is a strong move in
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supporting the minion running as an unprivileged user
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Config Files Defined in Variables
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Thanks again to Travis Cline, the master and minion configuration file locations
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can be defined in environment variables now.
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New Modules
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Quite a few new modules, states, returners, and runners have been made.
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New Minion Modules
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apt
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Support for apt-get has been added, this adds greatly improved Debian and
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Ubuntu support to Salt!
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useradd and groupadd
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Support for manipulating users and groups on Unix-like systems.
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moosefs
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Initial support for reporting on aspects of the distributed file system,
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MooseFS. For more information on MooseFS please see: http://www.moosefs.org
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Thanks to Joseph Hall for his work on MooseFS support.
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mount
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Manage mounts and the fstab.
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puppet
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Execute puppet on remote systems.
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shadow
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Manipulate and manage the user password file.
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ssh
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Interact with ssh keys.
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New States
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user and group
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Support for managing users and groups in Salt States.
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mount
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Enforce mounts and the fstab.
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New Returners
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mongo_return
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Send the return information to a MongoDB server.
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New Runners
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manage
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Display minions that are up or down.
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