Recommended update for salt

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:2669-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Business Critical Linux 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.1
  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP2

An update that has 12 fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

  • 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:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-2669=1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP2-2021-2669=1
  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Transactional-Server-15-SP2-2021-2669=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.0-2021-2669=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-3002.2-43.1
    • salt-doc-3002.2-43.1
    • salt-minion-3002.2-43.1
    • python3-salt-3002.2-43.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (noarch)
    • salt-zsh-completion-3002.2-43.1
    • salt-bash-completion-3002.2-43.1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-syndic-3002.2-43.1
    • salt-api-3002.2-43.1
    • salt-proxy-3002.2-43.1
    • salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3002.2-43.1
    • salt-cloud-3002.2-43.1
    • salt-master-3002.2-43.1
    • salt-ssh-3002.2-43.1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP2 (noarch)
    • salt-fish-completion-3002.2-43.1
  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-transactional-update-3002.2-43.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • salt-3002.2-43.1
    • salt-minion-3002.2-43.1
    • python3-salt-3002.2-43.1
    • salt-transactional-update-3002.2-43.1

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