========================= Salt 0.16.4 Release Notes

:release: 2013-09-07

Version 0.16.4 is another bugfix release for :ref:0.16.0 <release-0-16-0>, likely to be the last before 0.17.0 is released. The changes include:

• Multiple documentation improvements/additions
• Added the osfinger and osarch grains
• Properly handle 32-bit packages for debian32 on x86_64 (:issue:6607)
• Fix regression in yum package installation in CentOS 5 (:issue:6677)
• Fix bug in :mod:hg.latest <salt.states.hg.latest> state that would erroneously delete directories (:issue:6661)
• Fix bug related to pid not existing for :mod:ps.top <salt.modules.ps.top> (:issue:6679)
• Fix regression in :mod:MySQL returner <salt.returners.mysql> (:issue:6695)
• Fix IP addresses grains (ipv4 and ipv6) to include all addresses (:issue:6656)
• Fix regression preventing authenticated FTP (:issue:6733)
• Fix setting password for windows users (:issue:6824)
• Fix :mod:file.contains <salt.modules.file.contains> on values YAML parses as non-string (:issue:6817)
• Fix :mod:file.get_gid <salt.modules.file.get_gid>, :mod:file.get_uid <salt.modules.file.get_uid>, and :mod:file.chown <salt.modules.file.chown> for broken symlinks (:issue:6826)
• Fix comment for service reloads in service state (:issue:6851)