In the Salt Project Community open hour this month, the team talked about the recent Salt 3007.2 STS release, the in-progress work to upgrade current Salt releases to use Python 3.11.x in relenv, and more!
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New Release from Salt Project:
Salt v3007.2 STS is available!
https://saltproject.io/blog/2025-05-14-new-release-salt-3007-2/
🐳🧂 New Release: Salt Chlorine v3007.2 is out! 🎉
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In the Salt Project Community Open Hour this month, the team talked about David Murphy retiring, revival of the Salt Project MacOS Working Group, and more.
A Letter from David Murphy: Retiring from Tech
Serious thanks, to David, for all the work over the years in making Salt awesome and being a hero in the community!
https://saltproject.io/blog/2025-04-02-david-murphy-retires/
Salt Project posted notes from the March 20th, 2025 Open Hour call.
In this month’s open hour, we talked about the completion of Salt Project CI work, the recent release of Salt v3006.10 LTS, and more!
New Release from Salt Project:
Salt v3006.10 LTS is available!
https://saltproject.io/blog/2025-03-19-new-release-salt-3006-10/
Because Broadcom migrated SaltStack over to their legacy IP only infrastructure, the SaltStack team cannot provide IPv6 support for their packages anymore… great.
At least the Salt team did their best, pointed to their air-gapped environment documentation.
Fuck you Broadcom.
@DaleHassinger I know this is a super old post, but I generally use Mastodon to post links to updates around #SaltProject just as an extra channel of info sharing.
New blog post for Salt Project: POP and Idem Projects Will Soon be Archived
POP and Idem projects have been in maintenance mode since the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom. Now the projects are considered unmaintained, and are lined up to be archived. All projects will remain public, read-only OSS repositories available under the Apache v2 licenses for anyone who would like to maintain their own forks.
https://saltproject.io/blog/2025-01-24-idem-pop-projects-archived/
New blog post of the Salt Project Community Open Hour notes from January 16, 2025.
In this month’s open hour, we talked about the state of Salt Project CI, extensions for Salt LTS and STS support, outlook on Salt 3008 LTS, and more.
Rückschritt ist auch Fortschritt: Broadcom-Edition.
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/67051#issuecomment-2593567168
Since Broadcom broke the Salt repositories, you cannot install updates on Debian/Ubuntu anymore unless you have legacy IP connectivity somehow.
The Salt Project is now using packages.broadcom.com to serve their repos which is available over legacy IP only 👌
The Salt Project turned off an important subdomain (repo.saltstack.io), they didn’t announce it properly and now lots of people are complaining that they cannot provision hundreds of servers anymore.
https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/issues/2027
It’s soo on-brand for Salt again…
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For those of you having troubles with the migration of
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Update on Salt Project package repo migration efforts:
The Salt Install Guide has been updated to reflect the Salt package repository migration, and salt-bootstrap is non-functional as fixes to the scripts are underway.
Disruptive changes happening with Salt Project this week, impacting salt-bootstrap, package repository backends, and CI/CD infra.
Blog Post - Salt Project Package Repository (repo.saltproject.io) Migration and Guidance: https://saltproject.io/blog/salt-project-package-repo-migration-and-guidance/
I totally understand why large FOSS projects have issue templates and stuff, but having to take 10 minutes to fill it out for something that's as unambiguous as "mount.fstab_present should add the string 'overlay' to its list of special filesystems and thus match by name instead of device" just led me to not open an issue at all. :(
Maybe I'll get to it later.
Oh wow, after seeing https://saltproject.io/blog/the-great-salt-module-migration/ I just looked through https://github.com/salt-extensions/community-extensions-holding/ . Ouch.
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