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Benjamin Drung ae899aee64 Fix various spelling mistakes in release notes
There are various spelling mistakes in the git commit messages in the
release notes.

Fix those spelling mistakes. Since each commit is either referenced by
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Signed-off-by: Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung@ionos.com>
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Salt 2015.8.1 Release Notes

Version 2015.8.1 is a bugfix release for 2015.8.0 <release-2015-8-0>.

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Security Fixes

CVE-2015-6941 The Windows user <salt.modules.win_useradd> module and salt-cloud display passwords in log when log level is set to debug or more verbose.

For the Windows user <salt.modules.win_useradd> module, the password is now replaced with the string XXX-REDACTED-XXX.

For salt-cloud, debug logging no longer displays win_password and sudo_password authentication credentials.

CVE-2015-6918 Git state/execution modules log HTTPS auth credentials when log level is set to debug or more verbose.

These credentials are now replaced with REDACTED in the debug output. Thanks to Andreas Stieger <asteiger@suse.com> for bringing this to our attention.

Major Bug Fixes

  • Add support for spm.d/*.conf configuration of SPM (27010)
  • Fix proxy grains breakage for non-proxy minions (27039)
  • Fix global key management for git state
  • Fix passing http auth to util.http from state.file (21917)
  • Fix multiprocessing: True in windows (on by default`)
  • Add pkg.info to pkg modules
  • Fix name of serial grain (this was accidentally renamed in 2015.8.0`)
  • Merge config values from master.d/minion.d conf files (rather than flat update`)
  • Clean grains cache on grains sync (19853)
  • Remove streamed response for fileclient to avoid HTTP redirection problems (27093)
  • Fixed incorrect warning about osrelease grain (27065)
  • Fix authentication via Salt-API with tokens (27270)
  • Fix winrepo downloads from https locations (27081)
  • Fix potential error with salt-call as non-root user (26889)
  • Fix global minion provider overrides (27209)
  • Fix backward compatibility issues for pecl modules
  • Fix Windows uninstaller to only remove ./bin, salt*, nssm.exe, uninst.exe (27383)
  • Fix misc issues with mongo returner.
  • Add sudo option to cloud config files (27398)
  • Fix regression in RunnerClient argument handling (25107)
  • Fix dockerng.running replacing creation hostconfig with runtime hostconfig (27265)
  • Fix dockerng.running replacing creation hostconfig with runtime hostconfig (27265)
  • Increased performance on boto asg/elb states due to __states__ integration
  • Windows minion no longer requires powershell to restart (26629)
  • Fix x509 module to support recent versions of OpenSSL (27326)
  • Some issues with proxy minions were corrected.

Known Issues

  • Proxy minions currently cannot execute a highstate because of the way the proxymodule is being loaded internally. This will be fixed in a future release.

Changelog for v2015.8.0..v2015.8.1

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