Salt was updated to 2017.7.2 and also to fix various bugs and security issues.
See https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2017.7.2.html for full changelog.
Security issues fixed:
- CVE-2017-14695: A directory traversal during minion id validation was fixed. (boo#1062462)
- CVE-2017-14696: A remote denial of service attack with a specially crafted authentication request was fixed. (boo#1062464)
Non security issues fixed:
- Add possibility to generate _version.py at the build time for
raw builds: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/43955
- Fix salt target-type field returns "String" for existing
jids but an empty "Array" for non existing jids. (issue #1711)
- Fixed minion resource exhaustion when many functions are being
executed in parallel (boo#1059758)
- Remove 'TasksTask' attribute from salt-master.service in older
versions of systemd (boo#985112)
- Provide custom SUSE salt-master.service file.
- Fix wrong version reported by Salt (boo#1061407)
- list_pkgs: add parameter for returned attribute selection (boo#1052264)
- Adding the leftover for zypper and yum list_pkgs functionality.
- Use $HOME to get the user home directory instead using '~' char (boo#1042749)
- Submitted by Theo Chatzimichos (tampakrap)