========================= Salt 0.17.2 Release Notes

:release: 2013-11-14

Version 0.17.2 is another bugfix release for :ref:0.17.0 <release-0-17-0>. The changes include:

• Add ability to delete key with grains.delval (:issue:7872)
• Fix possible state compiler stack trace (:issue:5767)
• Fix architecture regression in yumpkg (:issue:7813)
• Use correct ps on Debian to prevent truncating (:issue:5646)
• Fix grains targeting for new grains (:issue:5737)
• Fix bug with merging in git_pillar (:issue:6992)
• Fix print_jobs duplicate results
• Fix apt version specification for pkg.install
• Fix possible KeyError from ext_job_cache missing option
• Fix auto_order for - names states (:issue:7649)
• Fix regression in new gitfs installs (directory not found error)
• Fix escape pipe issue on Windows for file.recurse (:issue:7967)
• Fix fileclient in case of master restart (:issue:7987)
• Try to output warning if CLI command malformed (:issue:6538)
• Fix --out=quiet to actually be quiet (:issue:8000)
• Fix for state.sls in salt-ssh (:issue:7991)
• Fix for MySQL grants ordering issue (:issue:5817)
• Fix traceback for certain missing CLI args (:issue:8016)
• Add ability to disable lspci queries on master (:issue:4906)
• Fail if sls defined in topfile does not exist (:issue:5998)
• Add ability to downgrade MySQL grants (:issue:6606)
• Fix ssh_auth.absent traceback (:issue:8043)
• Add upstart detection for Debian/Raspbian (:issue:8039)
• Fix ID-related issues (:issue:8052, :issue:8050, and others)
• Fix for jinja rendering issues (:issue:8066 and :issue:8079)
• Fix argument parsing in salt-ssh (:issue:7928)
• Fix some GPU detection instances (:issue:6945)
• Fix bug preventing includes from other environments in SLS files
• Fix for kwargs with dashes (:issue:8102)
• Fix salt.utils.which for windows '.exe' (:issue:7904)
• Fix apache.adduser without apachectl (:issue:8123)
• Fix issue with evaluating test kwarg in states (:issue:7788)
• Fix regression in salt.client.Caller() (:issue:8078)
• Fix apt-key silent failure
• Fix bug where cmd.script would try to run even if caching failed (:issue:7601)
• Fix apt pkg.latest regression (:issue:8067)
• Fix for mine data not being updated (:issue:8144)
• Fix for noarch packages in yum
• Fix a Xen detection edge case (:issue:7839)
• Fix windows __opts__ dictionary persistence (:issue:7714)
• Fix version generation for when it's part of another git repo (:issue:8090)
• Fix _handle_iorder stacktrace so that the real syntax error is shown (:issue:8114 and :issue:7905)
• Fix git.latest state when a commit SHA is used (:issue:8163)
• Fix various small bugs in yumpkg.py (:issue:8201)
• Fix for specifying identify file in git.latest (:issue:8094)
• Fix for --output-file CLI arg (:issue:8205)
• Add ability to specify shutdown time for system.shutdown (:issue:7833)
• Fix for salt version using non-salt git repo info (:issue:8266)
• Add additional hints at impact of pkgrepo states when test=True (:issue:8247)
• Fix for salt-ssh files not being owned by root (:issue:8216)
• Fix retry logic and error handling in fileserver (related to :issue:7755)
• Fix file.replace with test=True (:issue:8279)
• Add flag for limiting file traversal in fileserver (:issue:6928)
• Fix for extra mine processes (:issue:5729)
• Fix for unloading custom modules (:issue:7691)
• Fix for salt-ssh opts (:issue:8005 and :issue:8271)
• Fix compound matcher for grains (:issue:7944)
• Improve error reporting in ebuild module (related to :issue:5393)
• Add dir_mode to file.managed (:issue:7860)
• Improve traceroute support for FreeBSD and macOS (:issue:4927)
• Fix for matching minions under syndics (:issue:7671)
• Improve exception handling for missing ID (:issue:8259)
• Fix grain mismatch for ScientificLinux (:issue:8338)
• Add configuration option for minion_id_caching
• Fix open mode auth errors (:issue:8402)