Open Hour and Q&A 2025-AUG-21

by Salt Project Team — Aug 21, 2025

In the open hour this month, the Salt Project Team talked about updated support timelines for both LTS and STS, salt issue templates getting a facelift, and more.

Agenda

Support timelines extended for Salt 3006 LTS and 3007 STS
Updates to Salt issue templates
New #jobs channel in community Discord
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Q&A

Support timelines extended for Salt 3006 LTS and 3007 STS

Salt 3006 LTS and 3007 STS Active Support has been extended from September 2025 to November 2025
Support is contingent on when Salt 3008 LTS is released
Salt 3008 LTS is expected to be released in Fall 2025
When Salt 3008 LTS is released, Salt 3007 STS will no longer be supported for bugfixes or CVE fixes
When Salt 3008 LTS is released, Salt 3006 LTS will be supported for another year when it comes to CVE fixes
Learn more: Salt Install Guide - Salt version support lifecycle

Updates to Salt issue templates

Bug issue templates now have required fields
Feature requests / Q&A now redirect to GitHub Discussions
We will be looking at automatically closing issues in the near future that are in conflict with the issue management policies

New jobs channel in community Discord

Is your company hiring, or do you know of a job opening requiring Salt skills? Then the new #jobs channel in the community Discord is the perfect place to share job postings
The Salt Project Team does not vet any of the job postings here
Links to job postings are followed at your own risk. Please report any that may look to be scam postings in this channel

If you are posting links to job roles:

You MUST provide a direct link to the job posting on the company website, or provide a link to something like an Indeed / job posting aggregator website
A job posting cannot solely be something like a “DM/email me for details” kind of posting

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Q&A

Q: ServiceNow support - will the Salt modules stay in as part of core Salt?

ServiceNow modules are not going to be supported by Core salt, and will be removed from Salt 3008 LTS
ServiceNow modules will be maintained as a salt extensions community repository
Repo: saltext-servicenow

Q: Any news on ARM builds for Windows?

Windows ARM runners are now available in technical preview for public GitHub repositories. Is Salt looking at introducing them?
The Salt Project team will be looking into whether we are able to take advantage of these public preview runners, if they are free for public repository usage
A working version of Salt on Windows ARM would mean being able to run inside of Windows ARM VMs (ex. running on M series MacOS arch, etc.), and Windows 11 ARM OS tablets, computers, etc.
In Windows, running on ARM, there is a compatibility layer to allow executing non-native ARM binaries - but native Salt would provide proper support and functionality

Q: Are there other OS targets on the horizon for introducing into Salt CI?

Debian 13, Rocky Linux 10, and Fedora 42 are currently being evaluated as fixes go into Salt to properly support test against those operating systems in CI

Q: AWS boto/boto3 support - will the Salt modules stay in as part of core Salt?

AWS boto/boto3 modules are not going to be supported by Core salt, and will be removed from Salt 3008 LTS
AWS boto/boto3 modules will be maintained as a salt extensions community repository
Currently, an official community extension doesn’t exist. We recommend joining discussions in the #salt-extensions channel of the community Discord, where users may already be looking into creating an extension from modules inside of the community-extensions-holding repo

Q: PostgreSQL support - will the Salt modules stay in as part of core Salt?

The PostgreSQL modules are being kept in Core salt as officially supported