Recommended update 5.0.4 for Multi-Linux Manager Salt Bundle

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2025:1312-1
Release Date: 2025-04-16T08:06:22Z
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for Debian 12

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

Description:

This update fixes the following issues:

venv-salt-minion:

  • Adapted to removal of hex attribute in pygit2 v1.15.0 (bsc#1230642)
  • Added DEB822 apt repository format support
  • Detect openEuler as RedHat family OS
  • Enhanced batch async and fixed some detected issues
  • Enhanced smart JSON parsing when garbage is present (bsc#1231605)
  • Ensure the correct crypt module is loaded
  • Fixed aptpkg 'NoneType object has no attribute split' error
  • Fixed crash due wrong client reference on SaltMakoTemplateLookup
  • Fixed error to stat '/root/.gitconfig' on gitfs (bsc#1230944, bsc#1234881, bsc#1220905)
  • Fixed issue of using update-alternatives with alts
  • Fixed issues running on Python 3.12 and 3.13
  • Fixed tests failures after "repo.saltproject.io" deprecation
  • Fixed virt_query outputter and added support for block devices
  • Fixed virtual grains for VMs running on Nutanix AHV (bsc#1234022)
  • Implemented multiple inventory for ansible.targets
  • Made _auth calls visible with master stats
  • Made Salt-SSH work with all SSH passwords (bsc#1215484)
  • Made x509 module compatible with M2Crypto 0.44.0
  • Moved logrotate config to /usr/etc/logrotate.d where possible
  • Removed deprecated code from x509.certificate_managed test mode
  • Repaired mount.fstab_present always returning pending changes
  • Set virtual grain in Podman systemd container
  • Removed strict binary dependency for libcrypt.so for EL9 bundle to make it compatible with openEuler and make using passlib instead.

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 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-Debian-12-CLIENT-TOOLS-x86_64-2025-1312=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for Debian 12 (amd64)
    • venv-salt-minion-3006.0-2.29.2

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