saltstack/salt

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Salt 0.17.2 Release Notes
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:release: 2013-11-14

Version 0.17.2 is another bugfix release for :ref:`0.17.0
<release-0-17-0>`.  The changes include:

- Add ability to delete key with grains.delval (:issue:`7872`)
- Fix possible state compiler stack trace (:issue:`5767`)
- Fix architecture regression in yumpkg (:issue:`7813`)
- Use correct ``ps`` on Debian to prevent truncating (:issue:`5646`)
- Fix grains targeting for new grains (:issue:`5737`)
- Fix bug with merging in git_pillar (:issue:`6992`)
- Fix print_jobs duplicate results
- Fix apt version specification for pkg.install
- Fix possible KeyError from ext_job_cache missing option
- Fix auto_order for ``- names`` states (:issue:`7649`)
- Fix regression in new gitfs installs (directory not found error)
- Fix escape pipe issue on Windows for file.recurse (:issue:`7967`)
- Fix fileclient in case of master restart (:issue:`7987`)
- Try to output warning if CLI command malformed (:issue:`6538`)
- Fix ``--out=quiet`` to actually be quiet (:issue:`8000`)
- Fix for state.sls in salt-ssh (:issue:`7991`)
- Fix for MySQL grants ordering issue (:issue:`5817`)
- Fix traceback for certain missing CLI args (:issue:`8016`)
- Add ability to disable lspci queries on master (:issue:`4906`)
- Fail if sls defined in topfile does not exist (:issue:`5998`)
- Add ability to downgrade MySQL grants (:issue:`6606`)
- Fix ssh_auth.absent traceback (:issue:`8043`)
- Add upstart detection for Debian/Raspbian (:issue:`8039`)
- Fix ID-related issues (:issue:`8052`, :issue:`8050`, and others)
- Fix for jinja rendering issues (:issue:`8066` and :issue:`8079`)
- Fix argument parsing in salt-ssh (:issue:`7928`)
- Fix some GPU detection instances (:issue:`6945`)
- Fix bug preventing includes from other environments in SLS files
- Fix for kwargs with dashes (:issue:`8102`)
- Fix salt.utils.which for windows '.exe' (:issue:`7904`)
- Fix apache.adduser without apachectl (:issue:`8123`)
- Fix issue with evaluating ``test`` kwarg in states (:issue:`7788`)
- Fix regression in ``salt.client.Caller()`` (:issue:`8078`)
- Fix apt-key silent failure
- Fix bug where cmd.script would try to run even if caching failed (:issue:`7601`)
- Fix apt ``pkg.latest`` regression (:issue:`8067`)
- Fix for mine data not being updated (:issue:`8144`)
- Fix for noarch packages in yum
- Fix a Xen detection edge case (:issue:`7839`)
- Fix windows ``__opts__`` dictionary persistence (:issue:`7714`)
- Fix version generation for when it's part of another git repo (:issue:`8090`)
- Fix _handle_iorder stacktrace so that the real syntax error is shown (:issue:`8114` and :issue:`7905`)
- Fix ``git.latest`` state when a commit SHA is used (:issue:`8163`)
- Fix various small bugs in yumpkg.py (:issue:`8201`)
- Fix for specifying identify file in git.latest (:issue:`8094`)
- Fix for ``--output-file`` CLI arg (:issue:`8205`)
- Add ability to specify shutdown time for system.shutdown (:issue:`7833`)
- Fix for salt version using non-salt git repo info (:issue:`8266`)
- Add additional hints at impact of ``pkgrepo`` states when ``test=True`` (:issue:`8247`)
- Fix for salt-ssh files not being owned by root (:issue:`8216`)
- Fix retry logic and error handling in fileserver (related to :issue:`7755`)
- Fix file.replace with ``test=True`` (:issue:`8279`)
- Add flag for limiting file traversal in fileserver (:issue:`6928`)
- Fix for extra mine processes (:issue:`5729`)
- Fix for unloading custom modules (:issue:`7691`)
- Fix for salt-ssh opts (:issue:`8005` and :issue:`8271`)
- Fix compound matcher for grains (:issue:`7944`)
- Improve error reporting in ebuild module (related to :issue:`5393`)
- Add ``dir_mode`` to ``file.managed`` (:issue:`7860`)
- Improve traceroute support for FreeBSD and macOS (:issue:`4927`)
- Fix for matching minions under syndics (:issue:`7671`)
- Improve exception handling for missing ID (:issue:`8259`)
- Fix grain mismatch for ScientificLinux (:issue:`8338`)
- Add configuration option for minion_id_caching
- Fix open mode auth errors (:issue:`8402`)