Recommended update for SUSE Manager Client Tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:2659-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for Debian 9

An update that contains one feature and has 13 fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update fixes the following issues:

salt:

  • Do noop for services states when running systemd in offline mode (bsc#1187787)
  • Transactional_updates: do not execute states in parallel but use a queue (bsc#1188170)
  • Handle "master tops" data when states are applied by "transactional_update" (bsc#1187787)
  • Enhance openscap module: add "xccdf_eval" call
  • Virt: pass emulator when getting domain capabilities from libvirt
  • Implementation of held/unheld functions for state pkg (bsc#1187813)
  • Fix exception in yumpkg.remove for not installed package
  • Fix save for iptables state module (bsc#1185131)
  • Virt: use /dev/kvm to detect KVM
  • Zypperpkg: improve logic for handling vendorchange flags
  • Add bundled provides for tornado to the spec file
  • Enhance logging when inotify beacon is missing pyinotify (bsc#1186310)
  • Add "python3-pyinotify" as a recommended package for Salt in SUSE/openSUSE distros
  • Check if dpkgnotify is executable (bsc#1186674)
  • Detect Python version to use inside container (bsc#1167586) (bsc#1164192)
  • Handle volumes on stopped pools in virt.vm_info (bsc#1186287)
  • Grains.extra: support old non-intel kernels (bsc#1180650)
  • Fix missing minion returns in batch mode (bsc#1184659)
  • Parsing Epoch out of version provided during pkg remove (bsc#1173692)

scap-security-guide:

  • Updated to 0.1.56 release (jsc#ECO-3319)
  • Align ism_o profile with latest ISM SSP (#6878)
  • Align RHEL 7 STIG profile with DISA STIG V3R3
  • Creating new RHEL 7 STIG GUI profile (#6863)
  • Creating new RHEL 8 STIG GUI profile (#6862)
  • Add the RHEL9 product (#6801)
  • Initial support for SUSE SLE-15 (#6666)
  • add support for osbuild blueprint remediations (#6970)

spacecmd:

  • Make spacecmd aware of retracted patches/packages
  • Enhance help for installation types when creating distributions (bsc#1186581)
  • Parse empty argument when nothing in between the separator

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 Debian 9
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-Debian-9.0-CLIENT-TOOLS-x86_64-2021-2659=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for Debian 9 (all)
    • spacecmd-4.2.11-2.13.1
    • salt-minion-3000+ds-1+2.26.1
    • scap-security-guide-debian-0.1.56-2.6.1
    • salt-common-3000+ds-1+2.26.1

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