Recommended update for salt

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:2668-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3
  • openSUSE Leap 15.3
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 Business Critical Linux 15-SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.2
  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP3

An update that has 13 fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for salt fixes the following issue:

  • salt had a lower release number in 15 sp2 and sp3 than in 15 sp1, which could lead to migration issues. (bsc#1186642)
  • 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
  • Adding preliminary support for Rocky Linux
  • Implementation of held/unheld functions for state pkg (bsc#1187813)
  • Replace deprecated 'Thread.isAlive()' with 'Thread.is_alive()'
  • 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
  • Fix 'tmpfiles.d' configuration for salt to not use legacy paths (bsc#1173103)
  • 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)

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:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-2021-2668=1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP3-2021-2668=1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP3-2021-2668=1
  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Transactional-Server-15-SP3-2021-2668=1

Package List:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
    • salt-transactional-update-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-api-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-minion-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-doc-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • python3-salt-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-proxy-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-syndic-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-ssh-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-master-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-cloud-3002.2-50.1.9.1
  • openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch)
    • salt-bash-completion-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-zsh-completion-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-fish-completion-3002.2-50.1.9.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-doc-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • python3-salt-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-minion-3002.2-50.1.9.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3 (noarch)
    • salt-bash-completion-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-zsh-completion-3002.2-50.1.9.1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-api-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-proxy-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-syndic-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-cloud-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-ssh-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3002.2-50.1.9.1
    • salt-master-3002.2-50.1.9.1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP3 (noarch)
    • salt-fish-completion-3002.2-50.1.9.1
  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-transactional-update-3002.2-50.1.9.1

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