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Salt 0.9.8 Release Notes
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Salt 0.9.8 is a big step forward, with many additions and enhancements, as
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well as a number of precursors to advanced future developments.
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This version of Salt adds much more power to the command line, making the
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old hard timeout issues a thing of the past, and adding kwargs support to
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salt calls. These additions are also available in the salt client api, making
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the available api tools much more powerful.
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The new pillar system allows for data to be stored on the master and
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assigned to minions in a granular way similar to the state system.
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Additions to requisites making them much more powerful have been added and
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improved error checking for sls files in the state system. A new provider
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system has been added to allow for redirecting what modules function in
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the background for individual states.
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Support for OpenSUSE has been added and support for Solaris has begun
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serious development.
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The matcher and target systems have received a great deal of attention, the
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default behavior of grain matching has changed slightly to reflect the regular
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salt default behavior and the compound matcher system has been greatly refined.
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A number of impressive features with keyword arguments have been added to both
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the cli and to the state system, making states much more powerful and flexible,
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but available in a clean and simple way.
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The new batch size capability allows for executions to be rolled through the
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targeted minions.
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Upgrade Considerations
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Upgrade Issue
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There was an oversight that has been previously missed which could cause a
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newer minion to crash an older master. This oversight has been repaired so
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that this version incompatibility issue will not occur again. When upgrading
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to 0.9.8 make sure to upgrade the master first, followed by the minions.
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Debian/Ubuntu Packages
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The original Debian/Ubuntu packages were called salt and included all salt
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applications. New packages in the ppa are split. If an old salt package is
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installed then it should be manually removed and the new split packages
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need to be installed fresh.
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Major Features
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Pillar
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Pillar offers an interface to declare variable data on the master that is then
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assigned to the minions. The pillar data is made available to all modules,
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states, sls files etc. It is compiled on the master and is declared using the
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existing render system. This means that learning pillar should be fairly
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trivial to those already familiar with salt states.
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CLI Additions
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Better State Return Data
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Kwargs and States
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Kwargs and the CLI
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Matcher Refinements and Changes
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Providers
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Requisite Glob Matching
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Batch Size
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In Progress Development
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Master Side State Compiling
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While we feel strongly that the advantages gained with minion side state
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compiling is very critical, it does prevent certain features what may be
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desired. 0.9.8 has support for initial master side state compiling, but many
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more components still need to be developed, it is hoped that these can be
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finished for 0.9.9.
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The goal is that states can be compiled on both the master and the minion
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allowing for compilation to be split between master and minion.
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