Recommended update for Salt

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:2462-1
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 23 fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

  • Fix file.blockreplace to avoid throwing IndexError. (bsc#1101812)
  • Fix pkg.upgrade reports when dealing with multiversion packages. (bsc#1102265)
  • Fix UnicodeDecodeError using is_binary check. (bsc#1100225)
  • Fix corrupt public key with m2crypto python3. (bsc#1099323)
  • Prevent payload crash on decoding binary data. (bsc#1100697)
  • Accounting for when files in an archive contain non-ascii characters. (bsc#1099460)
  • Handle packages with multiple version properly with zypper. (bsc#1096514)
  • Fix file.get_diff regression on 2018.3. (bsc#1098394)
  • Provide python version mismatch solutions. (bsc#1072599)
  • Add custom SUSE capabilities as Grains. (bsc#1089526)
  • Fix file.managed binary file utf8 error. (bsc#1098394)
  • Multiversion patch plus upstream fix and patch reordering.
  • Add environment variable to know if yum is invoked from Salt. (bsc#1057635)
  • Prevent deprecation warning with salt-ssh. (bsc#1095507)
  • Fix for sorting of multi-version packages. (bsc#1097174, bsc#1097413)
  • Align SUSE salt-master.service 'LimitNOFILES' limit with upstream Salt.
  • Add 'other' attribute to GECOS fields to avoid inconsistencies with chfn.
  • Prevent zypper from parsing repo configuration from not .repo files. (bsc#1094055)
  • Collect all versions of installed packages on SUSE and RHEL systems. (bsc#1089526)
  • Fix for [Errno 0] Resolver Error 0 (no error) (bsc#1087581)
  • Fix for logging during network interface querying (bsc#1087581)
  • Fallback to PyMySQL (bsc#1087891)
  • Check dmidecoder executable on each "smbios" call to avoid race condition (bsc#1101880)
  • Fix mine.get not returning data - workaround for #48020 (bsc#1100142)
  • Add API log rotation on SUSE package (bsc#1102218)
  • Add missing dateutils import (bsc#1099945)
  • remove minion/thin/version if exists to force thin regeneration (bsc#1092161)
  • Fix rhel packages requires both net-tools and iproute (bsc#1087055)
  • Backport the new libvirt_events engine from upstream

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-15-2018-1706=1
  • Server Applications Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-2018-1706=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15 (noarch)
    • salt-bash-completion-2018.3.0-5.9.1
    • salt-zsh-completion-2018.3.0-5.9.1
  • Basesystem Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • python3-salt-2018.3.0-5.9.1
    • salt-minion-2018.3.0-5.9.1
    • salt-doc-2018.3.0-5.9.1
    • python2-salt-2018.3.0-5.9.1
    • salt-2018.3.0-5.9.1
  • Server Applications Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-master-2018.3.0-5.9.1
    • salt-syndic-2018.3.0-5.9.1
    • salt-proxy-2018.3.0-5.9.1
    • salt-cloud-2018.3.0-5.9.1
    • salt-ssh-2018.3.0-5.9.1
    • salt-api-2018.3.0-5.9.1
  • Server Applications Module 15 (noarch)
    • salt-fish-completion-2018.3.0-5.9.1

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