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Salt 0.17.0 Release Notes
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=========================
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:release: 2013-09-26
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The 0.17.0 release is a very exciting release of Salt, this brings to Salt
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some very powerful new features and advances. The advances range from the
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state system to the test suite, covering new transport capabilities and
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making states easier and more powerful, to extending Salt Virt and much more!
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The 0.17.0 release will also be the last release of Salt to follow the old
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0.XX.X numbering system, the next release of Salt will change the numbering to
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be date based following this format:
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<Year>.<Month>.<Minor>
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So if the release happens in November of 2013 the number will be 13.11.0, the
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first bugfix release will be 13.11.1 and so forth.
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Major Features
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==============
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Halite
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------
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The new Halite web GUI is now available on PyPI. A great deal of work has
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been put into Halite to make it fully event driven and amazingly fast. The
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Halite UI can be started from within the Salt Master (after being installed
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from PyPI), or standalone, and does not require an external database to run.
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It is very lightweight!
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This initial release of Halite is primarily the framework for the UI and the
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communication systems, making it easy to extend and build the UI up. It
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presently supports watching the event bus and firing commands over Salt.
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At this time, Halite is not available as a package, but installation
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documentation is available at:
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http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/tutorials/halite.html
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Halite is, like the rest of Salt, Open Source!
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Much more will be coming in the future of Halite!
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Salt SSH
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--------
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The new ``salt-ssh`` command has been added to Salt. This system allows for
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remote execution and states to be run over ssh. The benefit here being, that
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salt can run relying only on the ssh agent, rather than requiring a minion
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to be deployed.
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The ``salt-ssh`` system runs states in a compatible way as Salt and states
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created and run with salt-ssh can be moved over to a standard salt deployment
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without modification.
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Since this is the initial release of salt-ssh, there is plenty of room for
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improvement, but it is fully operational, not just a bootstrap tool.
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Rosters
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-------
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Salt is designed to have the minions be aware of the master and the master does
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not need to be aware of the location of the minions. The new salt roster system
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was created and designed to facilitate listing the targets for salt-ssh.
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The roster system, like most of Salt, is a plugin system, allowing for the list
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of systems to target to be derived from any pluggable backend. The rosters
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shipping with 0.17.0 are flat and scan. Flat is a file which is read in via the
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salt render system and the scan roster does simple network scanning to discover
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ssh servers.
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State Auto Order
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This is a major change in how states are evaluated in Salt. State Auto Order
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is a new feature that makes states get evaluated and executed in the order in
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which they are defined in the sls file. This feature makes it very easy to
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see the finite order in which things will be executed, making Salt now, fully
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imperative AND fully declarative.
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The requisite system still takes precedence over the order in which states are
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defined, so no existing states should break with this change. But this new
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feature can be turned off by setting ``state_auto_order: False`` in the master
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config, thus reverting to the old lexicographical order.
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state.sls Runner
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The ``state.sls`` runner has been created to allow for a more powerful system
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for orchestrating state runs and function calls across the salt minions. This
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new system uses the state system for organizing executions.
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This allows for states to be defined that are executed on the master to call
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states on minions via ``salt-run state.sls``.
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Salt Thin
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---------
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Salt Thin is an exciting new component of Salt, this is the ability to execute
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Salt routines without any transport mechanisms installed, it is a pure python
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subset of Salt.
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Salt Thin does not have any networking capability, but can be dropped into any
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system with Python installed and then ``salt-call`` can be called directly. The
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Salt Thin system, is used by the ``salt-ssh`` command, but can still be used to
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just drop salt somewhere for easy use.
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Event Namespacing
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Events have been updated to be much more flexible. The tags in events have all
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been namespaced allowing easier tracking of event names.
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Mercurial Fileserver Backend
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The popular git fileserver backend has been joined by the mercurial fileserver
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backend, allowing the state tree to be managed entirely via mercurial.
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External Logging Handlers
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The external logging handler system allows for Salt to directly hook into any
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external logging system. Currently supported are sentry and logstash.
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Jenkins Testing
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---------------
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The testing systems in Salt have been greatly enhanced, tests for salt are now
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executed, via jenkins.saltstack.com, across many supported platforms. Jenkins
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calls out to salt-cloud to create virtual machines on Rackspace, then the
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minion on the virtual machine checks into the master running on Jenkins where
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a state run is executed that sets up the minion to run tests and executes the
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test suite.
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This now automates the sequence of running platform tests and allows for
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continuous destructive tests to be run.
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Salt Testing Project
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The testing libraries for salt have been moved out of the main salt code base
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and into a standalone codebase. This has been done to ease the use of the
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testing systems being used in salt based projects other than Salt itself.
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StormPath External Authentication
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The external auth system now supports the fantastic Stormpath cloud based
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authentication system.
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LXC Support
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-----------
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Extensive additions have been added to Salt for LXC support. This included
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the backend libs for managing LXC containers. Addition into the salt-virt
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system is still in the works.
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Mac OS X User/Group Support
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Salt is now able to manage users and groups on Minions running Mac OS X.
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However, at this time user passwords cannot be managed.
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Django ORM External Pillar
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Pillar data can now be derived from Django managed databases.
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Fixes from RC to release
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- Multiple documentation fixes
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- Add multiple source files + templating for :mod:`file.append
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<salt.states.file.append>` (:issue:`6905`)
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- Support sysctl configuration files in systemd>=207 (:issue:`7351`)
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- Add :mod:`file.search <salt.modules.file.search>` and :mod:`file.replace
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<salt.modules.file.replace>`
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- Fix cross-calling execution functions in provider overrides
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- Fix locale override for postgres (:issue:`4543`)
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- Fix Raspbian identification for service/pkg support (:issue:`7371`)
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- Fix :mod:`cp.push <salt.modules.cp.push>` file corruption (:issue:`6495`)
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- Fix ALT Linux password hash specification (:issue:`3474`)
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- Multiple salt-ssh-related fixes and improvements
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