saltstack/salt

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Salt 0.17.3 Release Notes
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:release: 2013-12-08

.. note::

    0.17.3 had some regressions which were promptly fixed in the 0.17.4
    release.  Please use 0.17.4 instead.

Version 0.17.3 is another bugfix release for :ref:`0.17.0
<release-0-17-0>`.  The changes include:

- Fix some jinja render errors (:issue:`8418`)
- Fix ``file.replace`` state changing file ownership (:issue:`8399`)
- Fix state ordering with the PyDSL renderer (:issue:`8446`)
- Fix for new npm version (:issue:`8517`)
- Fix for pip state requiring ``name`` even with requirements file (:issue:`8519`)
- Fix yum logging to open terminals (:issue:`3855`)
- Add sane maxrunning defaults for scheduler (:issue:`8563`)
- Fix states duplicate key detection (:issue:`8053`)
- Fix SUSE patch level reporting (:issue:`8428`)
- Fix managed file creation umask (:issue:`8590`)
- Fix logstash exception (:issue:`8635`)
- Improve argument exception handling for salt command (:issue:`8016`)
- Fix pecl success reporting (:issue:`8750`)
- Fix launchctl module exceptions (:issue:`8759`)
- Fix argument order in pw_user module
- Add warnings for failing grains (:issue:`8690`)
- Fix hgfs problems caused by connections left open (:issue:`8811` and :issue:`8810`)
- Add Debian iptables default for iptables-persistent package (:issue:`8889`)
- Fix installation of packages with dots in pkg name (:issue:`8614`)
- Fix noarch package installation on CentOS 6 (:issue:`8945`)
- Fix portage_config.enforce_nice_config (:issue:`8252`)
- Fix salt.util.copyfile umask usage (:issue:`8590`)
- Fix rescheduling of failed jobs (:issue:`8941`)
- Fix pkg on Amazon Linux (uses yumpkg5 now) (:issue:`8226`)
- Fix conflicting options in postgres module (:issue:`8717`)
- Fix ps modules for psutil >= 0.3.0 (:issue:`7432`)
- Fix postgres module to return False on failure (:issue:`8778`)
- Fix argument passing for args with pound signs (:issue:`8585`)
- Fix pid of salt CLi command showing in status.pid output (:issue:`8720`)
- Fix rvm to run gem as the correct user (:issue:`8951`)
- Fix namespace issue in win_file module (:issue:`9060`)
- Fix masterless state paths on windows (:issue:`9021`)
- Fix timeout option in master config (:issue:`9040`)