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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.

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Open Hour and Q&A 2025-JAN-16

Open hour notes for 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.

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Bootstrap subdomains no longer hosting salt-bootstrap scripts

With the migration of salt-bootstrap script download locations, to GitHub Releases, winbootstrap.saltproject.io and bootstrap.saltproject.io no longer host bootstrap scripts (as of today)

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