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Salt 2015.8.7 Release Notes
===========================

Version 2015.8.7 is a bugfix release for :ref:`2015.8.0 <release-2015-8-0>`.

.. note::
    Salt 2015.8.4, 2015.8.5, and 2015.8.7 were all released within a short
    period due to regressions found soon after the releases of 2015.8.4 and
    2015.8.5. See :ref:`here <release-2015-8-4>` for the 2015.8.4 release
    notes, and :ref:`here <release-2015-8-5>` for the 2015.8.5 release notes.


Statistics
==========

- Total Merges: **2**
- Total Issue References: **1**
- Total PR References: **5**

- Contributors: **4** (`gtmanfred`_, `justinta`_, `pass-by-value`_, `terminalmage`_)


Change to Epoch Support for YUM/DNF
===================================

For :py:func:`pkg.installed <salt.states.pkg.installed>` states, on Linux
distributions which use yum/dnf, packages which have a non-zero epoch in the
version number now require this epoch to be included when specifying an exact
version for a package. For example:

.. code-block:: yaml

    vim-enhanced:
      pkg.installed:
        - version: 2:7.4.160-1.el7

The :py:func:`pkg.latest_version <salt.modules.yumpkg.latest_version>` and
:py:func:`pkg.list_repo_pkgs <salt.modules.yumpkg.list_repo_pkgs>` functions
can be used to get the correct version string to use, as they will now contain
the epoch when it is non-zero.


Changelog for v2015.8.5..v2015.8.7
==================================

*Generated at: 2018-05-28 00:17:59 UTC*

* **PR** `#31111`_: (`justinta`_) Fixes failing npm test on arch.
  @ *2016-02-10 21:51:47 UTC*

  * 8d84c636cf Merge pull request `#31111`_ from jtand/8_4_npm_fix

  * b0a48e5ef2 Fixes failing npm test on arch.

  * **PR** `#30217`_: (`pass-by-value`_) Make sure cloud actions can be called via salt run

* **ISSUE** `#31014`_: (`gtmanfred`_) [2015.8] pkg breaks for yum pkgs.latest if the packages has an epoch (refs: `#31031`_, `#31015`_)

* **PR** `#31092`_: (`terminalmage`_) Apply PR `#31031`_ to 2015.8.4.follow_up
  @ *2016-02-10 20:54:37 UTC*

  * **PR** `#31031`_: (`terminalmage`_) More complete fix for `#31014`_ (refs: `#31092`_)

  * **PR** `#31015`_: (`gtmanfred`_) include possible epoch in version for rpm (refs: `#31031`_)

  * 5a6a93e98b Merge pull request `#31092`_ from terminalmage/issue31014-2015.8.4.follow_up

    * 2767a4e519 Don't handle epoch specially for dnf

    * e5dfcc0ef2 More efficient way to add the epoch before version number

    * ed7462793c include possible epoch in version for rpm

  * 6c6b66aedd Comment multiprocessing line in minion config

  * 1f7dfefc4a Set multiprocessing to true in config.py

  * 433c645c20 Fix remove placeholder files

  * 71037560d4 Remove placeholder files

  * 20b381fdf7 Set overwrite to off

  * ca50f56d6c Fix boto_secgroup

  * fd571d23de Fix boto test failures

  * cfb6588744 Fix regression when contents_pillar/contents_grains is a list.

  * 881d8669e3 utils.aws: use time lib to conver to epoch seconds

  * 31412920fc The call to cp.get_url needs the saltenv, if you're using environments other than base, it will fail.

  * a8694014a9 Fix regression in git_pillar when multiple remotes are configured

  * 2243f25be5 Properly set the default value for pillar_merge_lists

  * c7472ff6aa Lint

  * d868711a83 Fix failing boto_vpc module unit tests

  * ed09516469 Fix failing state module tests

  * fd0e940088 Pylint fix

  * bc780a7c25 Don't use pack=pack. Just pass in pack=__salt__ always.

  * 1ae022dbfe Pass in 'pack' variable to utils.boto.assign_funcs function from ALL boto modules.

  * 1efaff107d Remove bad symlinks in osx pkg dirs

.. _`#30217`: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/30217
.. _`#31014`: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/31014
.. _`#31015`: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/31015
.. _`#31031`: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/31031
.. _`#31092`: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/31092
.. _`#31111`: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/31111
.. _`gtmanfred`: https://github.com/gtmanfred
.. _`justinta`: https://github.com/justinta
.. _`pass-by-value`: https://github.com/pass-by-value
.. _`terminalmage`: https://github.com/terminalmage