Recommended update for salt

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2024:1529-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP5
  • openSUSE Leap 15.5
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5
  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP5

An update that contains one feature and has five fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

  • Convert oscap output to UTF-8
  • Make Salt compatible with Python 3.11
  • Ignore non-ascii chars in oscap output (bsc#1219001)
  • Fix detected issues in Salt tests when running on VMs
  • Make importing seco.range thread safe (bsc#1211649)
  • Fix problematic tests and allow smooth tests executions on containers
  • Discover Ansible playbook files as ".yml" or ".yaml" files (bsc#1211888)
  • Provide user(salt)/group(salt) capabilities for RPM 4.19
  • Extend dependencies for python3-salt-testsuiteand python3-salt packages
  • Improve Salt and testsuite packages multibuild
  • Enable multibuilld and create test flavor
  • Prevent exceptions with fileserver.update when called via state (bsc#1218482)
  • Improve pip target override condition with VENV_PIP_TARGET environment variable (bsc#1216850)
  • Fixed KeyError in logs when running a state that fails

Special Instructions and Notes:

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-2024-1529=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2024-1529=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2024-1529=1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP5-2024-1529=1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP5-2024-1529=1
  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Transactional-Server-15-SP5-2024-1529=1

Package List:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
    • salt-cloud-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-proxy-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-syndic-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-master-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • python3-salt-testsuite-3006.0-150500.4.32.1
    • python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-doc-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-api-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-ssh-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
  • openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch)
    • salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    • salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-doc-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (noarch)
    • salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-proxy-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-cloud-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-syndic-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-master-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-api-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
    • salt-ssh-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP5 (noarch)
    • salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150500.4.32.2
  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150500.4.32.2

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