Recommended update for SUSE Manager Salt Bundle

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2024:2507-1
Rating: moderate
References:
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the Raspberry Pi 12-SP2
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12

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

Description:

This update fixes the following issues:

venv-salt-minion:

  • Add a timer to delete old env post update for venv-minion
  • Several fixes for tests to avoid errors and failures in some OSes
  • Speed up salt.matcher.confirm_top by using context
  • Do not call the async wrapper calls with the separate thread
  • Prevent OOM with high amount of batch async calls (bsc#1216063)
  • Add missing contextvars dependency in salt.version
  • Skip tests for unsupported algorithm on old OpenSSL version
  • Remove redundant _file_find call to the master
  • Prevent possible exception in tornado.concurrent.Future._set_done
  • Make reactor engine less blocking the EventPublisher
  • Make salt-master self recoverable on killing EventPublisher
  • Improve broken events catching and reporting
  • Make logging calls lighter
  • Remove unused import causing delays on starting salt-master
  • Include libffi and libyaml to the bundle for all of the clients to avoid extra dependencies from the client OS.
  • Update Python version from 3.10 to 3.11
  • Fix updating the venv-salt-minion pkg with itself
  • Enable build for SLE 11

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 SLE 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Manager-Tools-12-2024-2507=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • venv-salt-minion-3006.0-3.57.1

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