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Streamlining CI/CD and Package Distribution in Salt Project

Salt Project will no longer be building packages or running tests in our pipelines for Arch Linux, Amazon Linux, openSUSE, and macOS.

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A Letter from Chunga: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Chunga is leaving Broadcom, but will continue running The Hacks with Tom Hatch, and remain a member of the Salt Project community.

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The Great Salt Module Migration

In Salt 3008 Argon, many states and modules that you might be currently using will be migrated to extensions because of the Great Module Migration.

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