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- Salt 0.13.0 Release Notes
- =========================
- :release: 2013-02-12
- The lucky number 13 has turned the corner! From CLI notifications when quitting
- a salt command, to substantial improvements on Windows, Salt 0.13.0 has
- arrived!
- Major Features
- ==============
- Improved file.recurse Performance
- ---------------------------------
- The file.recurse system has been deployed and used in a vast array of
- situations. Fixes to the file state and module have led towards opening up
- new ways of running file.recurse to make it faster. Now the file.recurse
- state will download fewer files and will run substantially faster.
- Windows Improvements
- --------------------
- Minion stability on Windows has improved. Many file operations, including
- file.recurse, have been fixed and improved. The network module works better, to
- include network.interfaces. Both 32bit and 64bit installers are now available.
- Nodegroup Targeting in Peer System
- -----------------------------------
- In the past, nodegroups were not available for targeting via the peer system.
- This has been fixed, allowing the new nodegroup expr_form argument for the
- publish.publish function:
- salt-call publish.publish group1 test.ping expr_form=nodegroup
- Blacklist Additions
- -------------------
- Additions allowing more granular blacklisting are available in 0.13.0. The
- ability to blacklist users and functions in client_acl have been added, as
- well as the ability to exclude state formulas from the command line.
- Command Line Pillar Embedding
- -----------------------------
- Pillar data can now be embedded on the command line when calling ``state.sls``
- and ``state.highstate``. This allows for on the fly changes or settings to
- pillar and makes parameterizing state formulas even easier. This is done via
- the keyword argument:
- .. code-block:: bash
- salt '*' state.highstate pillar='{"cheese": "spam"}'
- The above example will extend the existing pillar to hold the ``cheese`` key
- with a value of ``spam``. If the ``cheese`` key is already specified in the
- minion's pillar then it will be overwritten.
- CLI Notifications
- -----------------
- In the past hitting ctrl-C and quitting from the ``salt`` command would just
- drop to a shell prompt, this caused confusion with users who expected the
- remote executions to also quit. Now a message is displayed showing what
- command can be used to track the execution and what the job id is for the
- execution.
- Version Specification in Multiple-Package States
- ------------------------------------------------
- Versions can now be specified within multiple-package :mod:`pkg.installed
- <salt.states.pkg.installed>` states. An example can be found below:
- .. code-block:: yaml
- mypkgs:
- pkg.installed:
- - pkgs:
- - foo
- - bar: 1.2.3-4
- - baz
- Noteworthy Changes
- ==================
- The configuration subsystem in Salt has been overhauled to make the ``opts``
- dict used by Salt applications more portable, the problem is that this is an
- incompatible change with salt-cloud, and salt-cloud will need to be updated
- to the latest git to work with Salt 0.13.0. Salt Cloud 0.8.5 will also require
- Salt 0.13.0 or later to function.
- The SaltStack team is sorry for the inconvenience here, we work hard to make
- sure these sorts of things do not happen, but sometimes hard changes get in.
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