Recommended update for Salt

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:3267-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15
  • Server Applications Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

An update that has nine fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update fixes the following issues:

salt:

  • Improved IPv6 address handling (bsc#1108557)
  • Better handling for zypper exiting with exit code ZYPPER_EXIT_NO_REPOS (bsc#1108834, bsc#1109893)
  • Fix for dependency problem with pip (bsc#1104491)
  • Fix loosen azure sdk dependencies in azurearm cloud driver (bsc#1107333)
  • Fix for Python3 issue in zypper (bsc#1108995)
  • Allow running salt-cloud in GCE using instance credentials (bsc#1108969)
  • Improved handling of Python unicode literals in YAML parsing (bsc#1095651)
  • Fix for Salt "acl.present" and "acl.absent" states to make them successfully work recursively when "recurse=True". (bsc#1106164)
  • Fix for Python3 byte/unicode mismatch and additional minor bugfixes to x509 module.
  • Integration of MSI authentication for azurearm
  • Compound list targeting wrongly returned with minions specified in "not".
  • Fixes the x509 module to work, when using the sign_remote_certificate functionality.
  • Fix for SUSE Expanded Support os grain detection (returned "Redhat" instead of "Centos")

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:

  • Basesystem Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2018-2345=1
  • Server Applications Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-2018-2345=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-2018.3.0-5.15.1
    • python3-salt-2018.3.0-5.15.1
    • salt-minion-2018.3.0-5.15.1
    • python2-salt-2018.3.0-5.15.1
    • salt-doc-2018.3.0-5.15.1
  • Basesystem Module 15 (noarch)
    • salt-zsh-completion-2018.3.0-5.15.1
    • salt-bash-completion-2018.3.0-5.15.1
  • Server Applications Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-api-2018.3.0-5.15.1
    • salt-syndic-2018.3.0-5.15.1
    • salt-master-2018.3.0-5.15.1
    • salt-proxy-2018.3.0-5.15.1
    • salt-ssh-2018.3.0-5.15.1
    • salt-cloud-2018.3.0-5.15.1
  • Server Applications Module 15 (noarch)
    • salt-fish-completion-2018.3.0-5.15.1

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