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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
the commit has or pull request, fixing those spelling mistakes has no
negative effect on finding those commit.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung@ionos.com>
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Salt 2018.3.1 Release Notes

Version 2018.3.1 is a bugfix release for 2018.3.0 <release-2018-3-0>.

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Warning

If you are using Jinja to dump lists or dictionaries in your SLS files, this will now cause errors in Python 2 since Jinja does not produce YAML-compatible output when strings in the data structures contain unicode types. The dictionary must be passed through a Jinja filter to produce YAML-compatible strings.

The below is an example of invalid SLS:

/etc/foo.conf:
  file.mangaged:
    - source: salt://foo.conf
    - template: jinja
    - defaults: {{ mydict }}

To make it valid, use either one of Salt's own json or yaml filters:

/etc/foo.conf:
  file.mangaged:
    - source: salt://foo.conf
    - template: jinja
    - defaults: {{ mydict | json }}

Tornado 5.0 Support for Python 2 Only

Tornado 5.0 moves to using asyncio for all python3 versions. Because of this and changes in asyncio between python 3.4 and 3.5 to only be able to use one ioloop, which requires some rearchitecting, support for tornado 5.0 and python3 versions of salt has been delayed to a later release.

For now, to use tornado 5.0, the python 2 version of salt must be used.

Changes to Slack Engine pillars

When using groups_pillar_name for the slack engine, the engine should be used as part of a salt-minion process running on the master. This will allow the minion to have pillars assigned to it, and will still allow the engine to create a LocalClient connection to the master ipc sockets to control environments.

Changes to Automatically Updating the Roster File

In 2018.3.0 salt-ssh was configured to automatically update the flat roster file if a minion was not found for salt-ssh. This was decided to be undesirable as a default. The --skip-roster flag has been removed and replaced with --update-roster, which will enable salt-ssh to add minions to the flat roster file. This behavior can also be enabled by setting ssh_update_roster: True in the master config file.

Changes to file.blockreplace <salt.states.file.blockreplace> State

The append_newline argument was added to this state. Additionally, to improve idempotence, if the string represented by marker_end is found in the middle of the line, the content preceding the marker will be removed when the block is replaced. This allows one to remove append_newline: False from the SLS and have the block properly replaced if the end of the content block is immediately followed by the marker_end (i.e. no newline before the marker).

Note

This will require changes to your SLS if your marker_end does not include the very beginning of the content you want to keep.

See the file.blockreplace <salt.states.file.blockreplace> state documentation for further information.

Changelog for v2018.3.0..v2018.3.1

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