Recommended Beta update for SUSE Manager Client Tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:14717-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools Beta for Ubuntu 16.04 1604

An update that has five fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update fixes the following issues:

salt:

  • Add support for Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 (Aliyun Linux)
  • Regression fix of salt-ssh on processing targets
  • Update target fix for salt-ssh and avoiding race condition on salt-ssh event processing (bsc#1179831, bsc#1182281)
  • Add notify beacon for Debian/Ubuntu systems
  • Fix zmq bug that causes salt-call to freeze (bsc#1181368)
  • Add core grains support for AlmaLinux
  • Allow vendor change option with zypper
  • Virt: virtual network backports to Salt 3000
  • Do not monkey patch yaml loaders: Prevent breaking Ansible filter modules (bsc#1177474)

spacecmd:

  • Update translation strings
  • Add group_addconfigchannel and group_removeconfigchannel
  • Add group_listconfigchannels and configchannel_listgroups
  • Handle SIGPIPE without user-visible Exception (bsc#1181124)
  • Fix spacecmd compat with Python 3

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 Beta for Ubuntu 16.04 1604
    zypper in -t patch suse-ubu164ct-client-tools-beta-202104-14717=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools Beta for Ubuntu 16.04 1604 (all)
    • salt-minion-3000+ds-1+9.29.1
    • spacecmd-4.2.7-2.21.1
    • salt-common-3000+ds-1+9.29.1

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