Recommended update for Salt

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2019:14256-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for Ubuntu 16.04 1604

An update that has four fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update includes the following new features:

  • Add new "salt-standalone-formulas-configuration" package (fate#327791)

This update fixes the following issues:

salt:

  • Remove virt.pool_delete fast parameter (U#54474)
  • Remove unnecessary yield causing BadYieldError (bsc#1154620)
  • Prevent 'Already reading' continuous exception message (bsc#1137642)
  • Fix for aptpkg test with older mock modules
  • Remove wrong tests for core grain and improve debug logging
  • Use rich RPM deps to get a compatible version of tornado into the buildroot.
  • Core.py: ignore wrong product_name files
  • Zypperpkg: understand product type
  • Enable usage of downloadonly parameter for apt module
  • Add new "salt-standalone-formulas-configuration" package (fate#327791)
  • Fix StreamClosedError issue (bsc#1157479)
  • Let salt-ssh use platform-python on RHEL8 (bsc#1158441)

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-201911-14256=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for Ubuntu 16.04 1604 (all)
    • salt-minion-2019.2.0+ds-1.1+29.1
    • salt-common-2019.2.0+ds-1.1+29.1

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