Recommended update for Salt

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2019:14211-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for Ubuntu 16.04 1604

An update that has 13 fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update fixes the following issues:

salt:

  • Add missing 'fun' on events coming from salt-ssh wfunc executions (bsc#1151947)
  • Fix failing unit tests for batch async
  • Fix memory consumption problem on BatchAsync (bsc#1137642)
  • Fix dependencies for RHEL 8
  • Prevent systemd-run description issue when running aptpkg (bsc#1152366)
  • Take checksums arg into account for postgres.datadir_init (bsc#1151650)
  • Improve batch_async to release consumed memory (bsc#1140912)
  • Require shadow instead of old pwdutils (bsc#1130588)
  • Conflict with tornado >= 5; for now we can only cope with Tornado 4.x (bsc#1101780).
  • Fix virt.full_info (bsc#1146382)
  • Virt.volume_infos: silence libvirt error message
  • Virt.volume_infos needs to ignore inactive pools
  • Fix for various bugs in virt network and pool states
  • Implement network.fqdns module function (bsc#1134860)
  • Strip trailing "/" from repo.uri when comparing repos in apktpkg.mod_repo (bsc#1146192)
  • Make python3 default for RHEL8
  • Use python3 to build package Salt for RHEL8
  • Fix aptpkg systemd call (bsc#1143301)
  • Move server_id deprecation warning to reduce log spamming (bsc#1135567) (bsc#1135732)

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:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for Ubuntu 16.04 1604
    zypper in -t patch suse-ubu164ct-salt-201910-14211=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for Ubuntu 16.04 1604 (all)
    • salt-minion-2019.2.0+ds-1.1+22.1
    • salt-common-2019.2.0+ds-1.1+22.1

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