[{"content":"You may have noticed things look a little different around here. The Salt Project website has had a facelift, as part of a broader effort to unify the look and feel across the Salt Project website and documentation.\nWhat\u0026amp;rsquo;s changed The biggest change is under the hood: the blog now has a single, unified feed. Previously, security announcements were split out into their own separate feed from the rest of the blog. Now every post — release notes, community updates, and security advisories …","summary":"The Salt Project website has a new look as part of a broader theme unification across the Salt Project website and documentation, bringing a single unified blog feed, local search, and tag-based filtering. These updates also include updates to how the RSS feeds work, such as the security feed.","tags":["Announcement","Community","Security"],"title":"The Salt Project Website Has a New Look","url":"/blog/2026-07-10-website-facelift/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.27 LTS bugfix version of Salt.\nRelease Notes: View the release notes on GitHub Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.27/CHANGELOG.md The Tag: Check out the official v3006.27 tag on GitHub Installation \u0026amp;amp; Upgrade Notes Users can install Salt 3006.27 via PyPI or through our official package repositories.\nPackage Repo: Packages are available here: deb rpm mac win onedir Install Guide: Refer to our official instructions for Installing …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released 3006.27 (LTS Release).","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.27 LTS Now Available","url":"/blog/2026-07-01-salt-3006-27-available/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released the 3008.2 LTS bugfix version of Salt.\nRelease Notes: View the release notes on GitHub Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3008.2/CHANGELOG.md The Tag: Check out the official v3008.2 tag on GitHub Installation \u0026amp;amp; Upgrade Notes Users can install Salt 3008.2 via PyPI or through our official package repositories.\nPackage Repo: Packages are available here: deb rpm mac win onedir Install Guide: Refer to our official instructions for Installing …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released 3008.2 (LTS Release).","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3008.2 LTS Now Available","url":"/blog/2026-07-01-salt-3008-2-available/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.26 LTS bugfix version of Salt.\nRelease Notes: View the release notes on GitHub Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.26/CHANGELOG.md The Tag: Check out the official v3006.26 tag on GitHub Installation \u0026amp;amp; Upgrade Notes Users can install Salt 3006.26 via PyPI or through our official package repositories.\nPackage Repo: Packages are available here: deb rpm mac win onedir Install Guide: Refer to our official instructions for Installing …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released 3006.26 (LTS Release).","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.26 LTS Now Available","url":"/blog/2026-06-24-salt-3006-26-available/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released the 3008.1 LTS bugfix version of Salt.\nRelease Notes: View the release notes on GitHub Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3008.1/CHANGELOG.md The Tag: Check out the official v3008.1 tag on GitHub Installation \u0026amp;amp; Upgrade Notes Users can install Salt 3008.1 via PyPI or through our official package repositories.\nPackage Repo: Packages are available here: deb rpm mac win onedir Install Guide: Refer to our official instructions for Installing …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released 3008.1 (LTS Release).","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3008.1 LTS Now Available","url":"/blog/2026-06-07-salt-3008-1-available/"},{"content":"The Salt Project is thrilled to announce the official general availability (GA) release of Salt 3008.0 LTS.\nThis milestone marks the culmination of extensive development, testing, and invaluable feedback from our community throughout the Release Candidate cycles. Salt 3008.0 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, bringing a hardened foundation, crucial bug fixes, and performance enhancements designed to power your infrastructure with maximum stability.\nWhat\u0026amp;rsquo;s New in Salt 3008.0? Whether you …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released 3008.0 (LTS Release).","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3008.0 LTS Now Generally Available","url":"/blog/2026-05-27-salt-3008-0-available/"},{"content":"The Salt Project is excited to announce the release of Salt 3008 RC4 (Release Candidate).\nWe are moving closer to the final release of Salt 3008 LTS. We invite the community to download and test Release Candidate 4 (RC4) to help us ensure the highest quality for the upcoming LTS.\nSalt 3008 RC4 (Release Candidate) Whether you are prioritizing long-term stability or looking to test the latest upcoming features, we have new builds ready for your environment.\nHow to Test: Install a Release Candidate …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released 3008.0rc4 (Release Candidate 4).","tags":["Release","Release-Candidate"],"title":"Salt 3008 RC4 Now Available","url":"/blog/2026-05-15-salt-3008-rc4-available/"},{"content":"The Salt Project is excited to announce the release of Salt 3006.25 LTS (Bugfix Release) and Salt 3008 RC3 (Release Candidate).\nWhether you are prioritizing long-term stability or looking to test the latest upcoming features, we have new builds ready for your environment.\nSalt 3006.25 LTS (Bugfix Release) This release provides critical bugfixes and stability improvements for the 3006 Long-Term Support branch. We recommend all users on the 3006.x series upgrade to this version.\nInstall Guide: …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released 3006.25 LTS and 3008.0rc3 (Release Candidate 3).","tags":["Release","Release-Candidate"],"title":"Salt 3006.25 LTS \u0026 3008 RC3 Now Available","url":"/blog/2026-05-13-salt-3006-25-3008-rc3-available/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released RC2 (release candidate 2) of the Salt 3008 LTS. To download and test Salt 3008 RC2, see Install a release candidate in the Salt install guide.\nUsers can install via PyPI, packages, or use the Docker containers.\nNote We support differing versions between master and minions, but as always it is recommended to upgrade your master first. The tag: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/tree/v3008.0rc2 The PyPI Source: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3008.0rc2/ If you find …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released RC2 (release candidate 2) of the Salt 3008 LTS.","tags":["Release","Release-Candidate"],"title":"Salt 3008 RC2 is now available ","url":"/blog/salt-3008-rc2-available/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released the 3007.14 STS bugfix release of Salt. To download and install, see the Salt install guide .\nSalt 3007.14 STS\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.14.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3007.14/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3007.14/ Directory repository locations:\nSalt Project Repository: Linux (RPM) : Where Salt rpm packages are …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3007.14 STS bugfix release!","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3007.14 STS is available","url":"/blog/2026-04-29-new-releases-salt-3007-14/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members! We are issuing this notification regarding actions affecting our macOS signing certificates.\nOn or about March 31, 2026, the saltstack/salt repository was affected by the downstream publication of malicious versions of the axios npm package (1.14.1 and 0.30.4).\nOut of an abundance of caution, we have taken the following actions with regard to our macOS DeveloperID Installer Signing Certificate and DeveloperID Application Signing Certificate:\nSecret Rotation: All …","summary":"Due to a supply chain incident, Salt has rotated secrets and initiated the revocation of compromised macOS DeveloperID signing certificates.","tags":["Security"],"title":"Supply Chain Incident - 2026-Apr-29","url":"/blog/2026-04-29-advisory/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released 3006.24 LTS bugfix of Salt. To download and install Salt 3006.24 LTS, see the Salt install guide .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.24.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.24/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.24/ Directory repository locations:\nSalt Project Repository: Linux (RPM) : Where Salt rpm packages are officially …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.24 LTS bugfix of Salt 3006.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.24 LTS is available","url":"/blog/2026-04-23-new-release-salt-3006-24/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released RC1 (release candidate 1) of the Salt 3008 LTS. To download and test Salt 3008 RC1, see Install a release candidate in the Salt install guide.\nUsers can install via PyPI, packages, or use the Docker containers.\nNote We support differing versions between master and minions, but as always it is recommended to upgrade your master first. The tag: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/tree/v3008.0rc1 The PyPI Source: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3008.0rc1/ If you find …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released RC1 (release candidate 1) of the Salt 3008 LTS.","tags":["Release","Release-Candidate"],"title":"Salt 3008 RC1 is now available ","url":"/blog/salt-3008-rc1-available/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released 3006.23 LTS bugfix of Salt. To download and install Salt 3006.23 LTS, see the Salt install guide .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.23.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.23/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.23/ Directory repository locations:\nSalt Project Repository: Linux (RPM) : Where Salt rpm packages are officially …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.23 LTS bugfix of Salt 3006.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.23 LTS is available","url":"/blog/2026-02-23-new-releases-salt-3006-23/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released 3006.22 LTS bugfix of Salt. To download and install Salt 3006.22 LTS, see the Salt install guide .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.22.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.22/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.22/ Directory repository locations:\nSalt Project Repository: Linux (RPM) : Where Salt rpm packages are officially …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.22 LTS bugfix of Salt 3006.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.22 LTS is available","url":"/blog/2026-02-21-new-releases-salt-3006-22/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released the 3006.21 LTS and 3007.13 STS bugfixes of Salt. To download and install, see the Salt install guide .\nSalt 3006.21 LTS\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.21.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.21/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.21/ Salt 3007.13 STS\nRelease notes: …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.21 LTS and 3007.13 STS bugfixes!","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.21 LTS and 3007.13 STS are available","url":"/blog/2026-02-12-new-releases-salt-3006-21-3007-13/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released the 3006.20 LTS and 3007.12 STS bugfixes of Salt. To download and install, see the Salt install guide .\nSalt 3006.20 LTS\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.20.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.20/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.20/ Salt 3007.12 STS\nRelease notes: …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.20 LTS and 3007.12 STS bugfixes!","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.20 LTS and 3007.12 STS are available","url":"/blog/2026-02-05-new-releases-salt-3006-20-3007-12/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released 3006.19 LTS and 3007.11 STS bugfix releases of Salt. To download and install Salt 3006.19 LTS and 3007.11 STS, see the Salt install guide .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.19.html https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.11.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.19/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3007.11/CHANGELOG.md Sources are …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.19 LTS and 3007.11 STS bugfix releases of Salt","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.19 LTS and 3007.11 STS are available","url":"/blog/2026-01-09-salt-release-3006-19-3007-11/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released 3006.18 LTS and 3007.10 STS bugfix releases of Salt. To download and install Salt 3006.18 LTS and 3007.10 STS, see the Salt install guide .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.18.html https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.10.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.18/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3007.10/CHANGELOG.md Sources are …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.18 LTS and 3007.10 STS bugfix releases of Salt","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.18 LTS and 3007.10 STS are available","url":"/blog/2025-12-18-salt-release-3006-18-3007-10/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project is announcing the Salt 3006.17 LTS and 3007.9 STS CVE releases. This release addresses 2 CVEs, ranging from low to medium in severity.\nTo download and install the latest versions of Salt, see the Salt install guide .\nFor more details on the Salt 3006.17 LTS release:\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.17.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/3006.x/CHANGELOG.md For more details on the Salt …","summary":"The Salt Project is announcing the Salt 3006.17 LTS and 3007.9 STS CVE releases. This release addresses 2 CVEs, ranging from low to medium in severity.","tags":["Security","Release"],"title":"Salt security advisory release - 2025-NOV-20","url":"/blog/2025-11-20-advisory-3006-17-3007-9/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released 3006.16 LTS and 3007.8 STS bugfix releases of Salt. To download and install Salt 3006.16 LTS and 3007.8 STS, see the Salt install guide .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.16.html https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.8.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.16/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3007.8/CHANGELOG.md Sources are …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.16 LTS and 3007.8 STS bugfix releases of Salt","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.16 LTS and 3007.8 STS are available","url":"/blog/2025-09-18-new-release-salt-3006-16-3007-8/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released 3006.15 LTS bugfix of Salt. To download and install Salt 3006.15 LTS, see the Salt install guide .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.15.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.15/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.15/ Directory repository locations:\nSalt Project Repository: Linux (RPM) : Where Salt rpm packages are officially …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.15 LTS bugfix of Salt 3006.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.15 LTS is available","url":"/blog/2025-08-28-new-release-salt-3006-15/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released 3007.7 STS bugfix of Salt. To download and install Salt 3007.7 STS, see the Salt install guide .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.7.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3007.7/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3007.7/ Directory repository locations:\nSalt Project Repository: Linux (RPM) : Where Salt rpm packages are officially stored …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3007.7 STS bugfix of Salt 3007.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3007.7 STS is available","url":"/blog/2025-08-28-new-release-salt-3007-7/"},{"content":"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.\nAgenda Support timelines extended for Salt 3006 LTS and 3007 STS Updates to Salt issue templates New #jobs channel in community Discord Join our Discord Server Q\u0026amp;amp;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 …","summary":"Open hour notes for August 21st, 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.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour and Q\u0026A 2025-AUG-21","url":"/blog/2025-08-21-open-hour/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released the 3006.14 LTS and 3007.6 STS bugfixes of Salt. To download and install, see the Salt install guide .\nSalt 3006.14 LTS\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.14.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.14/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.14/ Salt 3007.6 STS\nRelease notes: …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.14 LTS and 3007.6 STS bugfixes!","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.14 LTS and 3007.6 STS are available","url":"/blog/2025-07-10-new-releases-salt-3006-14-3007-6/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released the 3006.13 LTS and 3007.5 STS bugfixes of Salt. To download and install, see the Salt install guide .\nNOTE: These releases include bugfixes to address problems with gitfs and master/minion connectivity issues experiences by users in the previous CVE releases.\nSalt 3006.13 LTS\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.13.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.13/CHANGELOG.md …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.13 LTS and 3007.5 STS bugfixes!","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.13 LTS and 3007.5 STS are available","url":"/blog/2025-06-26-new-releases-salt-3006-13-3007-5/"},{"content":"In the open hour this month, the Salt Project Team talked about the recent Salt 3006.12 LTS and 3007.4 STS CVE fix releases, the extension of Salt 3006 LTS and 3007 STS support timelines, and more.\nAgenda Salt 3006.12 and Salt 3007.4 STS CVE fix releases Support window extended for Salt 3006 LTS and 3007 STS Salt Project Google Calendar fixed Windows Server 2025 and Rocky Linux 10 work is in-progress Join our Discord Server Q\u0026amp;amp;A Salt 3006.12 and Salt 3007.4 STS CVE fix releases Learn more: …","summary":"Open hour notes for June 19th, 2025. In the open hour this month, the Salt Project Team talked about the recent Salt 3006.12 LTS and 3007.4 STS CVE fix releases, the extension of Salt 3006 LTS and 3007 STS support timelines, and more.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour and Q\u0026A 2025-JUN-19","url":"/blog/2025-06-19-open-hour/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project is announcing the Salt 3006.12 LTS and 3007.4 STS CVE releases. This release addresses 11 CVEs, ranging from low to critical in severity.\nTo download and install the latest versions of Salt, see the Salt install guide .\nFor more details on the Salt 3006.12 LTS release:\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/3006.x/CHANGELOG.md For more details on the Salt …","summary":"The Salt Project is announcing the Salt 3006.12 LTS and 3007.4 STS CVE releases. This release addresses 11 CVEs, ranging from low to critical in severity.","tags":["Security","Release"],"title":"Salt security advisory release - 2025-JUN-12","url":"/blog/2025-06-12-advisory-3006-12-3007-4/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released 3007.3 STS bugfix of Salt. To download and install Salt 3007.3 STS, see the Salt install guide .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.3.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3007.3/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3007.3/ Directory repository locations:\nSalt Project Repository: Linux (RPM) : Where Salt rpm packages are officially stored …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3007.3 STS bugfix of Salt 3007.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3007.3 STS is available","url":"/blog/2025-06-05-new-release-salt-3007-3/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released 3006.11 LTS bugfix of Salt. To download and install Salt 3006.11 LTS, see the Salt install guide .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.11.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.11/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.11/ Directory repository locations:\nSalt Project Repository: Linux (RPM) : Where Salt rpm packages are officially …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.11 LTS bugfix of Salt 3006.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.11 LTS is available","url":"/blog/2025-06-02-new-release-salt-3006-11/"},{"content":"In the open hour this month, the Salt Project 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.\nAgenda Salt 3007.2 STS released! Upgrading to Python 3.11.x (WIP) Salt Project Security Working Group Salt Project Google Calendar Unavailable Join our Discord Server Q\u0026amp;amp;A Salt 3007.2 STS released! The latest STS release includes bugfixes addressing 28 issues, in addition to over 60+ updates included …","summary":"Open hour notes for May 15th, 2025. In the open hour this month, the Salt Project 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.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour and Q\u0026A 2025-MAY-15","url":"/blog/2025-05-15-open-hour/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released 3007.2 STS bugfix of Salt. To download and install Salt 3007.2 STS, see the Salt install guide .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.2.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3007.2/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3007.2/ Directory repository locations:\nSalt Project Repository: Linux (RPM) : Where Salt rpm packages are officially stored …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3007.2 STS bugfix of Salt 3007.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3007.2 STS is available","url":"/blog/2025-05-14-new-release-salt-3007-2/"},{"content":"In the open hour this month, the Salt Project Team talked about David Murphy retiring, revival of the MacOS Working Group, and more.\nAgenda David Murphy has sailed away into retirement MacOS Working Group: It’s back! Salt Extensions: New Project Board and WG Captain Salt Formulas: Org member cleanup Salt v3007.2 STS Progress Update Salt 3008 LTS release timeline The Hacks Podcast (Update) Join our Discord Server Q\u0026amp;amp;A David Murphy has sailed away into retirement Special thanks to David Murphy …","summary":"Open hour notes for April 17th, 2025. In the open hour this month, the Salt Project Team talked about David Murphy retiring, revival of the MacOS Working Group, and more.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour and Q\u0026A 2025-APR-17","url":"/blog/2025-04-17-open-hour/"},{"content":"Salt Project friends,\nYesterday was my last day working on the Salt Core Team as I am retiring, having reached the age plus a few years.\nI just want to thank all of the community for their hard work and contributions to Salt over the 10 plus years I have worked on Salt. I have enjoyed working on Salt with all of the Salt Core team and commercial Salt team members over the years and meeting contributors at Salt Confs and PyCons that I have attended. I wish many years of success to the Salt Team …","summary":"David Murphy, a Salt Project maintainer for over 10 years, is retiring from Broadcom and Salt Project.","tags":["Community"],"title":"A Letter from David Murphy: Retiring from Tech","url":"/blog/2025-04-02-david-murphy-retires/"},{"content":"In the open hour last week, the Salt Project Team talked about the completion of Salt Project CI work, the release of Salt v3006.10 LTS, and more.\nAgenda State of Salt Project CI Salt v3006.10 LTS release Temporary RPM signing issue Upcoming Salt v3007.2 STS point release Salt v3008 LTS release timeline Future Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) requirement Join our Discord Server Q\u0026amp;amp;A State of Salt Project CI As a result of the Salt Project AWS account backend deleted in October 2024, the …","summary":"Open hour notes for March 20th, 2025. In this month\u0026rsquo;s open hour, we talked about the completion of Salt Project CI work, the release of Salt v3006.10 LTS, and more.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour and Q\u0026A 2025-MAR-20","url":"/blog/2025-03-26-open-hour/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nThe Salt Project has just released 3006.10 LTS bugfix of Salt. To download and install Salt 3006.10 LTS, see the Salt install guide .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.10.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/3006.x/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.10/ Directory repository locations:\nSalt Project Repository: Linux (RPM) : Where Salt rpm packages are officially …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.10 LTS bugfix of Salt 3006.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.10 LTS is available","url":"/blog/2025-03-19-new-release-salt-3006-10/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\npop and idem projects, Python-based implementations of Plugin Oriented Programming (POP) , have been in maintenance mode since the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom.\nThe projects are now considered unmaintained, and are lined up to be archived. All projects will remain public, read-only OSS repositories available under the Apache v2 licensing for anyone who would like to maintain their own forks.\nGitLab vs. GitHub Project Hosting All actively maintained …","summary":"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.","tags":["Announcement","Community"],"title":"POP and Idem Projects Will Soon be Archived","url":"/blog/2025-01-24-idem-pop-projects-archived/"},{"content":"In this open hour, the Salt Project Team gives updates on the current state of our GitHub pipelines, extending support windows, and plans for upcoming releases in the coming months.\nAgenda State of Salt Project CI Salt 3006 LTS / Salt 3007 STS support Upcoming Salt 3006 LTS / 3007 STS point releases Salt 3008 LTS release timeline Join our Discord server Q\u0026amp;amp;A State of Salt Project CI As a result of the Salt Project AWS account backend deleted in October 2024, the Salt Project CI came to a …","summary":"Open hour notes for January 16, 2025. In this month\u0026rsquo;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.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour and Q\u0026A 2025-JAN-16","url":"/blog/2025-01-16-open-hour/"},{"content":" This is a continuation of several blog post announcements related to infrastructure migration. Can view a recent summary so far at:\nSalt Project Blog - FAQs from Salt Project Repo Migration and Open Hour Salt Project Blog - Upcoming bootstrap subdomain decommission Salt Project Community Members!\nsalt-bootstrap scripts are now exclusively available for download via GitHub Releases. winbootstrap.saltproject.io and bootstrap.saltproject.io will not be hosting the bootstrap scripts moving forward, …","summary":"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)","tags":["Announcement","Community"],"title":"Bootstrap subdomains no longer hosting salt-bootstrap scripts","url":"/blog/bootstrap-hosting-decommission/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nIn 2025, the Salt Project website (saltproject.io) and documentation subdomain (docs.saltproject.io) will be reviewed for potential transformation and content migration.\nThese changes would be done to consolidate and unify Salt Project with Broadcom policies. More details will be shared over the coming months as more is learned.\n","summary":"In 2025, the Salt Project website (\u003ccode\u003esaltproject.io\u003c/code\u003e) and documentation subdomain (\u003ccode\u003edocs.saltproject.io\u003c/code\u003e) will be reviewed for potential transformation and content migration","tags":["Community"],"title":"Website and Docs: Looking forward in 2025","url":"/blog/2025-website-and-docs-review/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nIn continued efforts to improve automation, docs publishing will experience an update on 2024-12-18. Downtime is expected to be minimal as the Salt Project documentation subdomain (docs.saltproject.io) will be maintained by a new GitHub repository, without any disruption or changes to DNS.\nMigrating the domain between different GitHub repositories will be done around 10AM MST.\n","summary":"In continued efforts to improve automation, docs publishing will experience an update on 2024-12-18. Downtime is expected to be minimal.","tags":["Announcement","Community"],"title":"Upcoming Update to Salt Project Docs GitHub Pages Backend","url":"/blog/2024-12-17-upcoming-update-to-salt-project-docs-github-pages/"},{"content":" This is a continuation of several blog post announcements related to infrastructure migration. Can view a recent summary so far at:\nSalt Project Blog - FAQs from Salt Project Repo Migration and Open Hour Salt Project Community Members!\nSince salt-bootstrap scripts have been available for download via GitHub Releases, this is a reminder that winbootstrap.saltproject.io and bootstrap.saltproject.io will not be hosting the bootstrap scripts in the near future.\nThe original notice was for scripts …","summary":"With the migration of salt-bootstrap script download locations, to GitHub Releases, winbootstrap.saltproject.io and bootstrap.saltproject.io will be decommissioned on 2025-01-06","tags":["Announcement","Community"],"title":"Upcoming bootstrap subdomain decommission","url":"/blog/upcoming-bootstrap-decommission/"},{"content":" This is a continuation of several blog post announcements related to infrastructure migration:\nSalt Project Blog - Upcoming Salt Project Docs and Repo Migrations Salt Project Blog - Salt Project Package Repository (repo.saltproject.io) Migration and Guidance Salt Project Blog - salt-bootstrap Breakage and Next Steps: New Updates Salt Project Blog - Salt Install Guide Overhaul and salt-bootstrap updates Salt Project Blog - New salt-bootstrap release: v2024.11.07 Salt Project Blog - New …","summary":"With the Salt Project repo migration, in October, there have been several questions from community members. The Salt Project Team addresses many of them here.","tags":["Community"],"title":"FAQs from Salt Project Repo Migration and Open Hour","url":"/blog/post-migration-salt-project-faqs/"},{"content":" This is a continuation of several blog post announcements related to infrastructure migration:\nSalt Project Blog - Upcoming Salt Project Docs and Repo Migrations Salt Project Blog - Salt Project Package Repository (repo.saltproject.io) Migration and Guidance Salt Project Blog - salt-bootstrap Breakage and Next Steps: New Updates Salt Project Blog - Salt Install Guide Overhaul and salt-bootstrap updates Salt Project Blog - New salt-bootstrap release: v2024.11.07 Salt Project Community Members!\nA …","summary":"The new salt-bootstrap release includes support for minor-version installs on Linux via packages.broadcom.com endpoint.","tags":["Release","Community"],"title":"New salt-bootstrap release: v2024.11.21","url":"/blog/new-salt-bootstrap-release-2024-11-21/"},{"content":" This is a continuation of several blog post announcements related to infrastructure migration:\nSalt Project Blog - Upcoming Salt Project Docs and Repo Migrations Salt Project Blog - Salt Project Package Repository (repo.saltproject.io) Migration and Guidance Salt Project Blog - salt-bootstrap Breakage and Next Steps: New Updates Salt Project Blog - Salt Install Guide Overhaul and salt-bootstrap updates Salt Project Community Members!\nToday, a new version of salt-bootstrap has been released, …","summary":"The new salt-bootstrap release includes support for the new packages.broadcom.com endpoint.","tags":["Release","Community"],"title":"New salt-bootstrap release: v2024.11.07","url":"/blog/new-salt-bootstrap-release-2024-11-07/"},{"content":" This is a continuation of several blog post announcements related to infrastructure migration:\nSalt Project Blog - Upcoming Salt Project Docs and Repo Migrations Salt Project Blog - Salt Project Package Repository (repo.saltproject.io) Migration and Guidance Salt Project Blog - salt-bootstrap Breakage and Next Steps: New Updates Salt Install Guide The Salt Install Guide has had a gigantic overhaul in order to accurately work with packages.broadcom.com hosted Salt repositories, including quite a …","summary":"The Salt Install Guide has been updated to reflect the Salt package repository migration to packages.broadcom.com, and salt-bootstrap is non-functional as fixes to the scripts are underway.","tags":["Announcement","Community"],"title":"Salt Install Guide Overhaul and salt-bootstrap updates","url":"/blog/salt-install-guide-overhaul/"},{"content":" UPDATE (2024-10-31): This article details how to download the salt-bootstrap scripts from a new location, but the salt-bootstrap scripts themselves don\u0026amp;rsquo;t currently work with the new packages.broadcom.com repositories. For more details: Salt Install Guide Overhaul and salt-bootstrap updates UPDATE (2024-11-07): A new version of salt-bootstrap has been released, making use of the packages.broadcom.com repositories. For more details: Salt Project Blog - New salt-bootstrap release: …","summary":"salt-bootstrap downloads via curl will need to be modified, as salt-bootstrap scripts will need to be downloaded from GitHub Releases instead. Read for details on how to resolve this issue.","tags":["Announcement","Community"],"title":"salt-bootstrap Breakage and Next Steps: New Updates","url":"/blog/salt-bootstrap-breakage-part-2/"},{"content":" UPDATE (2024-10-31): The Salt Install Guide has since been updated with directions that users should reference, going forward. For more details: Salt Project Blog - Salt Install Guide Overhaul and salt-bootstrap updates UPDATE (2024-11-07): A new version of salt-bootstrap has been released, making use of the packages.broadcom.com repositories. For more details: Salt Project Blog - New salt-bootstrap release: v2024.11.07 Salt Project Community Members!\nThis week, packages from …","summary":"This week, packages from \u003ccode\u003erepo.saltproject.io\u003c/code\u003e will be migrated to \u003ccode\u003epackages.broadcom.com\u003c/code\u003e. This means a variety of disruptive changes are being implemented around installing, upgrading, and pinning/locking Salt.","tags":["Announcement","Community"],"title":"Salt Project Package Repository (repo.saltproject.io) Migration and Guidance","url":"/blog/salt-project-package-repo-migration-and-guidance/"},{"content":" UPDATE (2024-10-29): By end of November 2024, we will no longer be using the bootstrap.saltproject.io and winbootstrap.saltproject.io subdomains. Instead, users will be downloading bootstrap scripts directly from GitHub Releases. For more details: salt-bootstrap Breakage and Next Steps: Part 2 UPDATE (2024-10-31): The salt-bootstrap scripts themselves don\u0026amp;rsquo;t currently work with the new packages.broadcom.com repositories. For more details: Salt Install Guide Overhaul and salt-bootstrap …","summary":"salt-bootstrap downloads via curl will need to be modified, as existing curl calls against bootstrap.saltproject.io and winbootstrap.saltproject.io no longer work. Read for details on how to resolve this issue.","tags":["Announcement","Community"],"title":"salt-bootstrap Breakage and Next Steps","url":"/blog/salt-bootstrap-breakage/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nWe\u0026amp;rsquo;ve been working on migrating and simplifying the infrastructure behind Salt Project, which we have mentioned in the previous Salt Project Open Hour. Over the next two weeks, some major changes will be implemented.\nSalt Project: Blog and Docs We will be migrating our backend to GitHub Pages for hosting Salt Project documentation and the main blog website. This change will affect the following websites:\nhttps://saltproject.io https://docs.saltproject.io The …","summary":"Salt Project is migrating off of the current backends used for hosting saltproject.io, docs.saltproject.io, and repo.saltproject.io","tags":["Announcement","Community"],"title":"Upcoming Salt Project Docs and Repo Migrations","url":"/blog/upcoming-salt-project-docs-and-repo-migration/"},{"content":"Salt Project Community Members!\nAs we focus on what\u0026amp;rsquo;s most important within the Tanzu platform, we will not be building packages or running tests in our pipelines for Arch Linux, Amazon Linux, openSUSE, and macOS. This decision helps us concentrate our efforts where they can make the most impact.\nWe truly appreciate your understanding and ongoing support! If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out.\n\u0026amp;ndash; Salt Project Team\n","summary":"Salt Project will no longer be building packages or running tests in our pipelines for Arch Linux, Amazon Linux, openSUSE, and macOS.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Streamlining CI/CD and Package Distribution in Salt Project","url":"/blog/streamlining-cicd-package-distribution/"},{"content":"Salt Project friends,\nIt’s with mixed emotions to announce that I have decided to vacate my position at Broadcom and will also be stepping down as the Head of Community for Salt Project. After much thought and discussion with my family, I’ve decided to go back into show business and return to my career in voice acting. I’ll also be working on a few additional tech projects, as well!\nSince starting this journey at SaltStack, I’ve had the honor and privilege of getting to know many of you not only …","summary":"Chunga is leaving Broadcom, but will continue running The Hacks with Tom Hatch, and remain a member of the Salt Project community.","tags":["Community"],"title":"A Letter from Chunga: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish","url":"/blog/a-letter-from-chunga/"},{"content":"In Salt 3008 Argon, many states and modules that you might be currently using will be gone:\nSalt 3008 release is currently scheduled for the autumn of 2024 Around 750 modules will no longer be shipped with Salt Only ~100 of them (as of the time of the writing) were migrated to various Salt extensions Other modules are stored in a separate holding repository To check whether a module was migrated, type its name into the search box (on the Salt Tips blog version of this post) Salt extensions …","summary":"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.","tags":["Community"],"title":"The Great Salt Module Migration","url":"/blog/the-great-salt-module-migration/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released 3006.9 LTS bugfix of Salt.\nNOTE: This bugfix release includes at least one CVE fix (low to medium risk). See release notes below for details.\nTo download and install Salt 3006.9 LTS, see the Salt install guide . To access the 3006.9 packages directly, go to the Salt Project Package Repository .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.9.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/3006.x/CHANGELOG.md Sources are …","summary":"The Salt Project is announcing the Salt 3006.9 LTS bugfix release. This bugfix release includes at least one CVE fix (low to medium risk).","tags":["Security","Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.9 LTS is available","url":"/blog/salt-release-3006-9-is-now-available/"},{"content":"This year, a variety of operating systems have reached EOL and newly released. When it comes to Salt support, this means several updates have happened.\nDocumentation for both LTS and STS:\n3006.x LTS: Supported Operating Systems 3007.x STS: Supported Operating Systems NOTE: 3007.x STS supported operating systems documentation will update with the next 3007.2 release to reflect the content of this blog post.\nDeprecated Operating Systems (no longer supported) Photon OS 3 RHEL 7 CentOS 7 CentOS …","summary":"CentOS 7 and Debian 10, among others, will no longer be supported in future releases of Salt","tags":["Announcement"],"title":"Supported Operating Systems: From freshly deprecated, to newly supported","url":"/blog/update-to-supported-operating-systems/"},{"content":"From its very beginning, Salt Project has had one of the largest, friendliest, and most loyal open source communities on earth! This vibrant and diverse community has been an integral part of what makes Salt so powerful. From its acquisition by VMware in late 2020, to joining Broadcom late last year, Salt has become an essential software component of many VMware by Broadcom products within its Tanzu and VCF divisions. Today, Salt is stronger, and more powerful than it has ever been, at any point …","summary":"Salt Project announces a new program to further strengthen and secure the future of Salt Project by increasing the involvement and contributions of select members of the community.","tags":["Announcement","Community"],"title":"Salt Project Launches Community Core Maintainer Program!","url":"/blog/community-maintainers-wanted/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com In this open hour, Nick Aronne talks about the recent news that Bitnami added the Salt minion into Bitnami images available in the Bitnami Application Catalog.\nAgenda General updates and announcements Join our Discord server Versions going EOL Thank you Salt Project Community Core Maintainers Bitnami\u0026amp;rsquo;s game changing Salt innovation Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and announcements Open Hours are held every 3rd …","summary":"Open hour notes for June 20, 2024. In this open hour, Nick Aronne talks about the recent news that Bitnami added the Salt minion into Bitnami images available in the Bitnami Application Catalog.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2024-JUN-20","url":"/blog/open-hour-2024-jun-20/"},{"content":"Nicholas Aronne and Michael Poore recently posted a fascinating blog entry on the VMware Tanzu blog entitled Elevating Enterprise Compliance: Bitnami\u0026amp;rsquo;s Game-Changing Salt Integration Unveiled . It contains some news that members of the Salt Project community might find interesting.\nThe blog entry announces that Bitnami embedded the Salt Minion into Bitnami images available in the Bitnami Application Catalog:\nQuietly, and without too much fanfare until now, Bitnami have embedded the Salt …","summary":"The VMWare Tanzu blog recently announced that Bitnami added the Salt Minion into Bitnami images available in the Bitnami Application Catalog.","tags":["Enterprise"],"title":"Elevating Enterprise Compliance: Bitnami's Game-Changing Salt Integration Unveiled","url":"/blog/elevating-enterprise-compliance/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released 3007.1 STS bugfix of Salt. To download and install Salt 3007.1 STS, see the Salt install guide . To access the 3007.1 packages directly, go to the Salt Project Package Repository .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/releases/3007.1.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/3007.x/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3007.1/ Thank you all for your contributions!\n","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3007.1 STS bugfix of Salt 3007.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3007.1 STS is available","url":"/blog/salt-release-3007-1-is-now-available/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com In this open hour, Tom gives a big announcement about his decision to leave Broadcom and Chunga unveils a new community maintainer program.\nAgenda General updates and announcements Discord events Extensions working group report Salt Project Community Core Maintainers A word from Tom Hatch Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and announcements Open Hours are held every 3rd Thursday from 10a.m. to 11a.m. Pacific. Our next …","summary":"Open hour notes for May 16, 2024. In this open hour, Tom gives a big announcement about his decision to leave Broadcom and Chunga unveils a new community maintainer program.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2024-MAY-16","url":"/blog/open-hour-2024-may-16/"},{"content":"It seems like a long time ago, and feels like yesterday, all at the same time. In October of 2020, The pandemic was raging, businesses in every industry were scrambling to survive, and SaltStack was no different. Ultimately, SaltStack leadership, myself included, made a choice to be acquired by VMware. I had pushed hard for the acquisition of SaltStack, and felt that it would not only ensure the future of the open source Salt Project, but also the future of so many of the technologies I had …","summary":"Tom Hatch is leaving Broadcom, but will remain actively involved in Salt Project forever.","tags":["Community"],"title":"I'm exiting Broadcom - Staying with Salt Project forever","url":"/blog/tom-exits-broadcom-stays-with-salt/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released 3006.8 bugfix of Salt. To download and install Salt 3006.8, see the Salt install guide . To access the 3006.8 packages directly, go to the Salt Project Package Repository .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.8.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/3006.x/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.8/ Thank you all for your contributions!\n","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.8 bugfix of Salt 3006 (LTS).","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.8 (LTS) is available","url":"/blog/salt-release-3006-8-is-now-available/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com In today\u0026amp;rsquo;s open hour, Chunga showcases how Salt Project is using Discord Events and Alyssa announces that active support for the 3006 LTS release has been extended.\nAgenda General updates and announcements Discord events Community forum updates LTS extended deadline Thank you, Pedro Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and announcements Open Hours are held every 3rd Thursday from 10a.m. to 11a.m. Pacific. Our next …","summary":"Open hour notes for April 18, 2024. In today\u0026rsquo;s open hour, Chunga showcases how Salt Project is using Discord Events and Alyssa announces that active support for the 3006 LTS release has been extended.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2024-APR-18","url":"/blog/open-hour-2024-apr-24/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com In this open hour, the core team announced the migration from Slack to Discord.\nAgenda General updates and announcements Important news about Salt Project Slack Here\u0026amp;rsquo;s what you need to know–with Derek Ardolf New Salt Project Code of Conduct–with Alyssa Rock Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and announcements Open Hours are held every 3rd Thursday from 10a.m. to 11a.m. Pacific. Our next Open Hour will be April 18. …","summary":"Open hour notes for March 21, 2024. In this open hour, the core team announced the migration from Slack to Discord.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2024-MAR-21","url":"/blog/open-hour-2024-mar-21/"},{"content":"We\u0026amp;rsquo;ve all heard the cliches: \u0026amp;ldquo;The only thing constant in life is change\u0026amp;rdquo;, \u0026amp;ldquo;Change is the law of life\u0026amp;rdquo;, \u0026amp;ldquo;Our only security is our ability to change\u0026amp;rdquo;. I could go on for days. The truth is, these quotes, and quotes like them, are used and abused by all of us because they\u0026amp;rsquo;re true. No matter how you rationalize it, change is, in a word, uncomfortable. Even when it brings about incredible growth and realized potential, change kind of sucks. As Salt …","summary":"Salt Project is switching from Slack to Discord, effective immediately. While this will be disruptive in the short term, we feel this transition will be fantastic for the Salt Project Community in the long run.","tags":["Announcement","Community"],"title":"Goodbye Slack, Hello Discord!","url":"/blog/goodbye-slack-hello-discord/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released 3007 STS of Salt. To download and install Salt 3007.0, see the Salt install guide . To access the 3007.0 packages directly, go to the Salt Project Package Repository .\nRelease notes can be found here: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/releases/3007.0.html Changelogs can be found here: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3007.0/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI here: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3007.0/ Master cluster ability This …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released Salt 3007 STS.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3007.0 STS is available","url":"/blog/salt-release-3007-is-now-available/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released 3006.7 bugfix of Salt. To download and install Salt 3006.7, see the Salt install guide . To access the 3006.7 packages directly, go to the Salt Project Package Repository .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/releases/3006.7.html Changelogs: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.7/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.7/ Thank you all for your contributions!\n","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.7 bugfix of Salt 3006.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.7 is available","url":"/blog/salt-release-3006-7-is-now-available/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com In this open hour, Alyssa talks about who is using Salt and Derek gives some updates Salt releases.\nAgenda General updates and announcements Who is using Salt? Salt releases Salt 3005 enters extended life support soon Salt Extensions working group update Community forum updates Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and announcements Open Hours are held every 3rd Thursday from 10a.m. to 11a.m. Pacific. Our next Open Hour will …","summary":"Open hour notes for February 15, 2024. In this open hour, Alyssa talks about who is using Salt and Derek gives some updates Salt releases.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2024-FEB-15","url":"/blog/open-hour-2024-feb-15/"},{"content":"The saltdocker repo, which historically published saltstack/salt container images, has been archived.\nIn March 2023 of last year, the core Salt team updated the README to state that we do not officially support it. Prior to that time, we released new containers only if the pipeline functioned well enough. So the README was updated to reflect the official policy:\nWARNING These containers are not officially supported, they were initially created by the community for testing purposes and the core …","summary":"The Salt Project will no longer publish new containers of salt to dockerhub, and has archived the saltdocker repository. Community members can access and fork the repository if they wish to create or maintain similar containers.","tags":["Announcement"],"title":"saltdocker Repository Now Archived","url":"/blog/saltdocker-archival/"},{"content":"The Salt Project released a security update to Salt to address 2 vulnerabilities with severity rating of High and Medium. We recommend prioritizing this update. This is a security advisory release. This release includes fixing the following vulnerability:\nCVE Details CVE-2024-22231 Description: Syndic cache directory creation is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack. Impact: An arbitrary directory can be created on a Salt master. Solution: Validate directory creation path. How to Mitigate: …","summary":"The Salt Project released a security update to Salt to address 2 vulnerabilities with a severity rating of High and Medium. We strongly recommend prioritizing this update. This is a security advisory release.","tags":["Security"],"title":"Salt security advisory release - 2024-JAN-31","url":"/blog/2024-01-31-advisory/"},{"content":"Dear Salt users and Salt Project community members,\nSome High and Medium rated vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt versions 3006.5 and earlier.\nThe vulnerabilities have a High and Medium rating based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). We are preparing a CVE release that will be available on Wednesday, January 31.\nThe CVE packages will be available for 3006.5 and 3005.4. The releases will contain the fix available to resolve and remediate the identified vulnerability. We …","summary":"Some High and Medium severity vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt versions 3006.5 and earlier. The vulnerabilities are high and medium severity based on the common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).","tags":["Security"],"title":"ATTENTION! Some High and Medium severity vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt versions 3006.5 and earlier","url":"/blog/2024-01-30-advisory/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com In this month\u0026amp;rsquo;s open hour, we unveil a new Salt extensions working group and Tom discusses maintenance policy changes.\nAgenda General updates and announcements Community forum updates New Salt extensions working group Salt Project policy changes with Tom Hatch Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and announcements Open Hours have a new schedule. Instead of meeting twice a month, we are shifting to meeting once a …","summary":"Open hour notes for January 18, 2024. In this month\u0026rsquo;s open hour, we unveil a new Salt extensions working group and Tom discusses maintenance policy changes.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2024-JAN-18","url":"/blog/open-hour-2024-jan-18/"},{"content":"Back in February of 2011, I made the first commits to the Salt Project. At that time I had no idea that Salt would evolve into what it has become, and I could never have imagined that Salt would end up under the umbrella of Broadcom.\nSince I started Salt in 2011, I have learned a great deal. It has been almost 13 years of my life that has been dedicated to the Salt Project. In that time my views on many things have changed and evolved as I have come to better understand how open source works, …","summary":"A message from Tom Hatch about upcoming changes to the Salt Project to make the project more sustainable and easier to maintain.","tags":["Announcement","Community"],"title":"Salt Project changes in policy","url":"/blog/salt-project-policy-changes/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released RC1 (release candidate 1) of the Salt 3007 STS. To download and test Salt 3007 RC1, see Install a release candidate in the Salt install guide. To access the release candidate packages directly, go to the Salt Project Package Repository .\nUsers can install via PyPI, packages, or use the Docker containers.\nNote We support differing versions between master and minions, but as always it is recommended to upgrade your master first. The tag: …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released RC1 (release candidate 1) of the Salt 3007 STS.","tags":["Release","Release-Candidate"],"title":"Salt 3007 RC1 is now available ","url":"/blog/salt-3007-rc1-available/"},{"content":"","summary":"Upcoming Salt Project community events.","tags":[],"title":"Event Calendar","url":"/community/event-calendar/"},{"content":"What are RSS Feeds? RSS feeds (Really Simple Syndication) are an easy way to keep up with Salt Project news and information. An RSS feed contains headlines, summaries, and links to full content. RSS is written in XML (eXtensible Markup Language).\nYou can view feeds with an RSS reader or aggregator. Some browsers, such as current versions of Firefox and Safari, have built-in RSS readers. If your browser doesn\u0026amp;rsquo;t support RSS, there are many RSS readers available on the web.\nSalt Blog Stay up …","summary":"Subscribe to Salt Project RSS feeds to stay up to date.","tags":[],"title":"RSS Feeds","url":"/community/rss-feeds/"},{"content":"Community members join in collaboration with the Salt Core Team to decide on objectives and goals to propel the overall project forward while working on specific projects. The members of each group also have some autonomy in guiding the technical aspects of each project.\nThe following working groups are available for you to join:\n","summary":"Salt Project working groups and how to get involved.","tags":[],"title":"Working Groups","url":"/community/working-groups/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com Watch the video recording of the Salt Community Open Hour for December 21, 2023. In this open hour, Tom discusses the Broadcom acquisition and Nick Hughes talks about his new blog entry.\nAgenda General updates and announcements Thank you to the core Salt team New supported operating systems New security disclosure email address Nick Hughes discusses his new blog entry Community forums update Broadcom acquisition and Salt …","summary":"Open hour notes for December 21, 2023. In this open hour, Tom discusses the Broadcom acquisition and Nick Hughes talks about his new blog entry.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-DEC-21","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-dec-12/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.5 bugfix of the Salt 3006 LTS. To download and install Salt 3006.5, see the Salt install guide .\nThis release also includes support for the following new versions of these operating systems:\nDebian 12 Amazon 2023 MacOS arm Photon 5 To access the 3006.5 packages directly, go to the Salt Project Package Repository .\nRelease notes: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/releases/3006.5.html Changelogs: …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.5 bugfix of the Salt 3006 LTS.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.5 is available","url":"/blog/salt-3006-5-release-is-now-available/"},{"content":"Salt Project is a useful tool for DevOps. It has functionality for days (as the kids say), and Runner modules stand out as powerful utilities that allow for the execution of tasks directly on the master. Runners are typically executed from the command line using the salt-run command, with their output displayed in stdout. However, a deeper exploration into the Salt Project\u0026amp;rsquo;s code base reveals an undocumented feature that adds a layer of flexibility and security to the execution of Runner …","summary":"Runner modules have an undocumented configuration parameter that allows for enhanced control over the output of the Runner modules.","tags":["Guest-Post","Community"],"title":"Undocumented Features: Salt Runner Silence","url":"/blog/salt-runner-silence/"},{"content":"To Salt Project community members:\nWe\u0026amp;rsquo;re pleased to report that the Salt Project Community Slack workspace is back online. You may need to re-open the workspace and re-authenticate. Thank you again for your patience.\n","summary":"We\u0026rsquo;re pleased to report that the Salt Project Community Slack workspace is back online. You may need to re-open the workspace and re-authenticate.","tags":["Announcement","Community"],"title":"Salt community Slack is now restored","url":"/blog/slack-restored/"},{"content":"To Salt Project community members:\nAs many of you have noticed, the Salt Project Community Slack workspace was taken offline overnight. We are currently working to rectify this issue, and restore the workspace to its original state. Thank you for your patience.\nUPDATE: The Salt Community Slack is now restored.\n","summary":"We are currently working to rectify this issue, and restore the workspace to its original state. Thank you for your patience.","tags":["Announcement","Community"],"title":"Salt community Slack is temporarily down","url":"/blog/temporary-slack-outage/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com In this open hour, Alyssa demos the latest updates to the quickstart tutorial and Chunga expresses his gratitude to the community..\nAgenda General updates and announcements Salt Project THING update Quickstart tutorial update This Thanksgiving we\u0026amp;rsquo;re thankful for our community! Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and announcements Open Hours are held every 1st and 3rd Thursday from 10a.m. to 11a.m. Pacific. Our next …","summary":"Open hour notes for July 20, 2023. In this open hour, Alyssa demos the latest updates to the quickstart tutorial and Chunga expresses his gratitude to the community.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-NOV-16","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-nov-16/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com In today\u0026amp;rsquo;s open hour, Alyssa reports on the research findings from our recent community listening tour.\nAgenda General updates and announcements The VMware/Broadcom acquisition and Salt Project Salt Project community listening tour report Community forum updates Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and announcements Open Hours are held every 1st and 3rd Thursday from 10a.m. to 11a.m. Pacific. Our next Open Hour will …","summary":"Open hour notes for November 2, 2023. In today\u0026rsquo;s open hour, Alyssa reports on the research findings from our recent community listening tour.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-NOV-2","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-nov-2/"},{"content":"The Salt Project released a security update to Salt to address 1 vulnerability with severity rating Medium. We recommend prioritizing this update. This is a security advisory release. This release includes fixing the following vulnerability:\nCVE Details CVE-2023-34049 Description: The Salt-SSH pre-flight option copies the script to the target at a predictable path, which allows an attacker to force Salt-SSH to run their script. Impact: If an attacker has access to the target VM and knows the …","summary":"The Salt Project released a security update to Salt to address 1 vulnerability with a severity rating of Medium. We strongly recommend prioritizing this update. This is a security advisory release.","tags":["Security"],"title":"Salt security advisory release - 2023-OCT-27","url":"/blog/2023-10-27-advisory/"},{"content":"Dear Salt users and Salt Project Community members,\nA Medium rated vulnerability has been discovered in Salt versions 3006.3 and earlier.\nThe vulnerability is a Medium rating based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). We are preparing a CVE release that will be available on Friday, October 27.\nThe CVE packages will be available for 3005.4 and 3006.4. The releases will contain the fix available to resolve and remediate the identified vulnerability. We advise all users to quickly …","summary":"A Medium severity vulnerability has been discovered in Salt versions 3006.3 and earlier. The vulnerability is Medium severity based on the common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).","tags":["Security"],"title":"ATTENTION! A Medium severity vulnerability has been discovered in Salt versions 3006.3 and earlier","url":"/blog/2023-10-26-advisory/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com In this open hour, Thomas talks about how to use Jinja with statements and Derek mentions some important announcements about Slack and open source packages.\nAgenda General updates and announcements Check out Salty Stream #1 We need YOU for RC testing Community forum updates Open source salt-pi-pkg scripts Slack invite links Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and announcements Open Hours are held every 1st and 3rd Thursday …","summary":"Open hour notes for July 20, 2023. This week, Thomas talks about how to use Jinja with statements and Derek mentions some important announcements about Slack and open source packages.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-OCT-5","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-oct-5/"},{"content":"When SaltStack was founded in 2011, it was built to be a pioneer in intelligent, event-driven configuration automation that controls and secures IT infrastructure and is still doing that today. Salt Project, as it is now called, still solves for what other open-source solutions are lacking: a need for high-speed configuration and security management at massive scale.\nHere’s a brief timeline of how SaltStack, now Salt Project, has evolved through the years from when it was founded to VMware …","summary":"When SaltStack was founded in 2011, it was built to be a pioneer in intelligent, event-driven configuration automation that controls and secures IT infrastructure and it is still doing that today.","tags":["Guest-Post","Enterprise"],"title":"Aria Automation Config and Salt Project — Leader in Configuration Management","url":"/blog/aria-automation-config-and-salt/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com In this open hour, we announced a new release of Salt and Gareth demoed the new quickstart guide.\nAgenda General updates and announcements Check out Salty Stream #1 Salt Project \u0026amp;ldquo;Thing\u0026amp;rdquo; coming soon Demo: New quickstart guide Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and announcements Open Hours are held every 1st and 3rd Thursday from 10a.m. to 11a.m. Pacific. Our next Open Hour will be {month date}. Join a Salt …","summary":"Open hour notes for September 21, 2023. In this open hour, we announced a new release of Salt and Gareth demoed the new quickstart guide.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-SEP-21","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-sep-21/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released the 3005.3 bugfix of Salt 3005. To download and install Salt 3005.3, see the Salt install guide . To access the 3005.3 packages directly, go to the Salt Project Package Repository .\nRelease notes can be found here: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3005/topics/releases/3005.3.html Changelogs can be found here: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3005.3/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI here: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3005.3/ ","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3005.3 bugfix of Salt 3005.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3005.3 is available","url":"/blog/salt-3005-3-release-is-now-available/"},{"content":"Salt Project is open sourcing salt-pi-pkg build script examples for classic packages on Raspberry Pi.\nWhat is salt-pi-pkg? Salt Project / VMware has ended active development of salt builds for armhf architecture (pre-arm64/aarch64 builds of salt), and will receive no future updates.\nsalt-pi-pkg is an unsupported, unmaintained repository of example scripts for building \u0026amp;ldquo;classic\u0026amp;rdquo; (non-Tiamat, non-onedir, pre-3006.x) packages for armhf Raspberry Pi systems.\nScripts exist for the …","summary":"Salt Project is open sourcing salt-pi-pkg build script examples for classic packages on Raspberry Pi.","tags":["Announcement"],"title":"Salt Project is Open Sourcing salt-pi-pkg","url":"/blog/salt-pi-pkg-open-source/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.3 bugfix of the Salt 3006 LTS. To download and install Salt 3006.3, see the Salt install guide . To access the 3006.3 packages directly, go to the Salt Project Package Repository .\nRelease notes can be found here: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/releases/3006.3.html Changelogs can be found here: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.3/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI here: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.3/ IMPORTANT …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released the 3006.3 bugfix of the Salt 3006 LTS.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.3 is available","url":"/blog/salt-3006-3-release-is-now-available/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com In this open hour, Gareth explained why the Salt team has been closing out old issues.\nAgenda General updates and announcements Closing outdated pull requests and issues Salt Project has moved to a GitHub enterprise platform Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and announcements Open Hours are held every 1st and 3rd Thursday from 10a.m. to 11a.m. Pacific. Our next Open Hour will be September 21. Join a Salt Project working …","summary":"Open hour notes for September 7, 2023. In this open hour, Gareth explained why the Salt team has been closing out old pull requests and issues.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-SEP-07","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-sep-07/"},{"content":"Watch the video recording of the Salt Community Open Hour for August 17, 2023. This week, the core Salt team discusses the recent CVE release of Salt and Nick Hughes demos the Prometheus Salt extension.\n","summary":"Open hour notes for August 17, 2023. In this open hour, the core Salt team discusses the recent CVE release of Salt and Nick Hughes demos the Prometheus Salt extension.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-AUG-17","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-aug-17/"},{"content":"The Salt Project released a security update to Salt to address 2 vulnerabilities with severity rating Medium. We recommend prioritizing this update. This is a security advisory release. This release includes fixes the following vulnerabilities:\nCVE Details CVE-2023-20897 Description: DOS in minion return. Impact: After receiving several bad packets on the request server equal to the number of worker threads, the master will become unresponsive to return requests until restarted. Solution: …","summary":"The Salt Project released a security update to Salt to address 2 vulnerabilities with a severity rating of Medium. We strongly recommend prioritizing this update. This is a security advisory release.","tags":["Security"],"title":"Salt security advisory release - 2023-AUG-10","url":"/blog/2023-08-10-advisory/"},{"content":"Dear Salt users and Salt Project Community members,\nSome medium rated vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt versions 3006.1 and earlier.\nThe vulnerabilities are a Medium rating based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). We are preparing a CVE release to be available on Thursday, August 10th.\nThe CVE packages will be available for 3005.2 and 3006.2. The releases will contain the fixes available to resolve and remediate the identified vulnerabilities. We advise all users to …","summary":"Some medium severity vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt versions 3006.1 and earlier. The vulnerabilities are medium severity based on the common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).","tags":["Security"],"title":"ATTENTION! Some medium severity vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt versions 3006.1 and earlier","url":"/blog/2023-08-09-advisory/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com In this open hour, Chunga announces the Salt Project \u0026amp;ldquo;THING\u0026amp;rdquo;! We also discuss the new Linux Foundation report which showcases Salt Project. We\u0026amp;rsquo;ve launched the new Salt Project Community Calendar designed by Alyssa Rock.\nAgenda General updates and announcements The Linux Foundation showcases Salt Project Salt Project community calendar What is the Salt Project \u0026amp;ldquo;THING\u0026amp;rdquo;? Docs working group update …","summary":"Open hour notes for August 3, 2023. In this open hour, Chunga announces the Salt Project THING!  We also discuss the new Linux Foundation report which showcases Salt Project.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-AUG-03","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-august-03/"},{"content":"Here at the Salt Project, we enjoyed reading this recent report from our friends at the Linux Foundation: Open Source Maintainers .\nWe\u0026amp;rsquo;d like to invite you to go and read the full report for yourself. Also, we want to give a big shout out to Salt Project Core team members Gareth Greenaway, Pedro Algarvio, Megan Wilhite, Anil Sharma and Salt creator, Tom Hatch for their contribution to this report. Here are a few of our favorite highlights:\nOpen Source Powers the World Open source software …","summary":"Here at the Salt Project, we enjoyed reading this recent report about the power of Open Source from our friends at the Linux Foundation.","tags":["Announcement","Community"],"title":"Linux Foundation Showcases Salt Project","url":"/blog/Linux-Foundation-Showcases-Salt-Project/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com In this open hour, Gareth talks about and demos Salt extensions, Thomas explains everything you wanted to know about ports, and Alyssa talks about the docs working group.\nWatch the video:\nAgenda General updates and announcements Salt Project user group meetups New Salt Project website Salt docs working group updates on major milestones Community forum updates Salt extensions Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and …","summary":"Open hour notes for July 20, 2023. In this open hour, Gareth talks about and demos Salt extensions, Thomas explains everything you wanted to know about ports, and Alyssa talks about the docs working group.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-JULY-20","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-july-20/"},{"content":"Here at the Salt Project, we enjoyed reading this recent blog post from LinkedIn Engineering: Scaling Salt for Remote Execution to support LinkedIn Infra growth We recommend that you go and read the full blog entry for yourself, but here\u0026amp;rsquo;s some highlights:\nAt LinkedIn, site engineers like to automate operational tasks at various infrastructure layers to minimize manual interventions, which can scale well and be easy to operate. Certain automations are performed via onDemand job executions. …","summary":"Here at the Salt Project, we enjoyed reading this recent blog post from LinkedIn Engineering about how their engineering team uses Salt to support their infrastructure growth.","tags":["Case-Study"],"title":"How LinkedIn uses Salt to support infrastructure growth","url":"/blog/linkedin-uses-salt-to-support-infrastructure-growth/"},{"content":"Watch the video recording of the Salt Community Open Hour for June 15, 2023. This week featured a demo about using a shell script and Dockerfile for Salt from community member Erik Johnson:\n","summary":"Open hour notes for June 15, 2023. This week featured a demo about using a shell script and Dockerfile for Salt from community member Erik Johnson.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-JUNE-15","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-june-15/"},{"content":"Watch the video recording of the Salt Community Open Hour for June 1, 2023. We had two demos this week: Shane demoed LGPO Reg for Windows and community member Hunter Matthews demoed his grains workflow.\n","summary":"Open hour notes for June 1, 2023. We had two demos this week: Shane demoed LGPO Reg for Windows and community member Hunter Matthews demoed his grains workflow.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-JUNE-01","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-june-01/"},{"content":"Watch the video recording of the Salt Community Open Hour for May 18, 2023. This week featured three demos: new release of Heist, how to scale a single job across multiple Salt masters, and how to run machine learning models with Salt analytics.\n","summary":"Open hour notes for May 18, 2023. This week featured three demos: new release of Heist, how to scale a single job across multiple Salt masters, and how to run machine learning models with Salt analytics.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-MAY-18","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-may-18/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released 3006.1 bugfix of Salt. To download and install Salt 3006.1, see the Salt install guide . To access the 3006.1 packages directly, go to the Salt Project Package Repository .\nRelease notes can be found here: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/releases/3006.1.html Changelogs can be found here: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/v3006.1/CHANGELOG.md Sources are available on PyPI here: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.1/ Thank you all for your …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released 3006.1 bugfix of the Salt 3006 LTS.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006.1 is available","url":"/blog/salt-3006-1-release-is-now-available/"},{"content":"Watch the video recording of the Salt Community Open Hour for May 4, 2023. This week featured a demo of Salt test labels with Chad McMarrow:\n","summary":"Open hour notes for May 4, 2023. This week featured a demo of Salt test labels with Chad McMarrow.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-MAY-04","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-may-04/"},{"content":"The Salt Project team is releasing salt-analytics-framework, a new Salt extension, to allow users to run data processing pipelines alongside Salt.\nThese pipelines are managed by Salt as an engine and consist of the following steps:\nCollecting (logs, run salt modules, etc\u0026amp;hellip;) Processing (masking, etc\u0026amp;hellip;) Forwarding (disk, etc\u0026amp;hellip;) Each of these steps is plugable, meaning you can write your own collectors, processors, and forwarders to suit whatever specific use cases that may arise. …","summary":"The Salt Project team is releasing salt-analytics-framework, a new Salt extension, to allow users to run data processing pipelines alongside Salt.","tags":["Release","Salt-Extensions"],"title":"New Salt Extension: Salt Analytics (Salt managed data processing pipelines)","url":"/blog/new-salt-extension-salt-analytics/"},{"content":"The Salt project team is releasing a new salt extension salt-describe to create templates for Salt by fetching the settings of remote salt minions. It can create templates for:\nusers files packages services timezone data iptables data cron sysctl etc. It will help anyone get a starter template from a system they already own with a salt minion on it. The generated templates can be used as is or edited to better suit your environment. They make a great starting place to develop formulas for your …","summary":"The Salt project team is releasing a new salt extension salt-describe to create templates for Salt by fetching the settings of remote salt minions.","tags":["Release","Salt-Extensions"],"title":"New Salt Extension: Salt Describe (Automate generating SLS files)","url":"/blog/new-salt-extension-salt-describe/"},{"content":"Watch the video recording of the Salt Community Open Hour for April 20, 2023. This week, Anil Sharma discusses the new Salt release.\n","summary":"Open hour notes for April 20, 2023. This week, Anil Sharma discusses the new Salt release.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-APR-20","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-apr-20/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released 3006.0 of the Salt 3006 LTS. To download and install Salt 3006, see the Salt install guide . To access the 3006.0 packages directly, go to the Salt Project Package Repository .\nNote on upgrades The GPG key for the 3006.0 release is now named: SALT-PROJECT-GPG-PUBKEY-2023. You must download the new GPG key before upgrading or your upgrade will fail. New LTS/STS release strategy 3006 is the first LTS release of Salt based on a new release strategy as defined in …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released 3006.0 of the Salt 3006 LTS.","tags":["Release"],"title":"Salt 3006 LTS is available","url":"/blog/salt-3006-release-is-now-available/"},{"content":"Watch the video recording of the Salt Community Open Hour for April 6, 2023. In this open hour, Shane demos how to install a Salt release candidate:\n","summary":"Open hour notes for April 6, 2023. In this open hour, Shane demos how to install a Salt release candiate.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-APR-6","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-apr-6/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released RC3 (release candidate 3) of the Salt 3006 LTS. To download and test Salt 3006 RC3, see Install a release candidate in the Salt install guide.\nUsers can install via PyPI, packages, or use the Docker containers.\nNote We support differing versions between master and minions, but as always it is recommended to upgrade your master first. The tag: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/tree/v3006.0rc3 The PyPI Source: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.0rc3/ Docker …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released RC3 (release candidate 3) of the Salt 3006 LTS.","tags":["Release","Release-Candidate"],"title":"Salt 3006 RC3 is now available ","url":"/blog/salt-3006-rc3-available/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released RC2 (release candidate 2) of the Salt 3006 LTS. To download and test Salt 3006 RC2, see Install a release candidate in the Salt install guide.\nUsers can install via PyPI, packages, or use the Docker containers.\nNote We support differing versions between master and minions, but as always it is recommended to upgrade your master first. The tag: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/tree/v3006.0rc2 The PyPI Source: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.0rc2/ Docker …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released RC2 (release candidate 2) of the Salt 3006 LTS.","tags":["Release","Release-Candidate"],"title":"Salt 3006 RC2 is now available ","url":"/blog/salt-3006-rc2-available/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com Agenda General updates and announcements RC1 testing Salt Project user group meetups Demos for Salt Open Hour Salt-describe demo Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and announcements Open Hours are held every 1st and 3rd Thursday from 10a.m. to 11a.m. Pacific. Our next Open Hour will be April 6. Join a Salt Project working group! RC1 testing The RC1 release is out!\nWe need RC testing. This means you! If you find some bugs, …","summary":"Open hour notes for March 16, 2023. This week, Gareth demoed how to use salt-describe to automatically generate SLS files.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-MAR-16","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-mar-16/"},{"content":"Watch the video recording of the Salt Community Open Hour for March 2, 2023. In this open hour, Chunga gives an update on the Idem Project:\n","summary":"Open hour notes for March 2, 2023. In this open hour, Chunga gives an update on the Idem Project.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-MAR-2","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-mar-2/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has just released RC1 (release candidate 1) of the Salt 3006 LTS. To download and test Salt 3006 RC1, see Install a release candidate in the Salt install guide. To access the release candidate packages directly, go to the Salt Project Package Repository .\nUsers can install via PyPI, packages, or use the Docker containers.\nNote We support differing versions between master and minions, but as always it is recommended to upgrade your master first. The tag: …","summary":"The Salt Project has just released RC1 (release candidate 1) of the Salt 3006 LTS.","tags":["Release","Release-Candidate"],"title":"Salt 3006 RC1 is now available ","url":"/blog/salt-3006-rc1-available/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com Watch the video recording of the Salt Community Open Hour for February 16, 2023. In this open hour, Thomas explains how fail hard works in Salt:\nAgenda General updates and announcements Salt Project user group meetups Community forum updates Salt docs working group update Overview of the GitHub Actions pipeline Updated Salt LTS/STS release plan Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and announcements Open Hours are held every …","summary":"Open hour notes for February 16, 2023. In this open hour, Thomas explains how fail hard works in Salt.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-FEB-16","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-feb-16/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com Watch the video recording of the Salt Community Open Hour for February 2, 2023. In this open hour, Pedro explains how the new GitHub Actions pipelines work and we explain the new release strategy.\nAgenda General updates and announcements Salt Project user group meetups Community forum updates Salt docs working group update Overview of the GitHub Actions pipeline Updated Salt LTS/STS release plan Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General …","summary":"Open hour notes for February 2, 2023. In this open hour, Pedro explains how the new GitHub Actions pipelines work and we explain the new release strategy.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-FEB-2","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-feb-2/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com Watch the video recording of the Salt Community Open Hour for January 19, 2023. This week, Thomas explains how to use the wheel more effectively:\nAgenda General updates and announcements Salt Project user group meetups Check out Idem Project Community forum updates Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and announcements Open Hours are held every 1st and 3rd Thursday from 10a.m. to 11a.m. Pacific. Our next Open Hour will be …","summary":"Open hour notes for January 19, 2023. This week, Thomas explains how to use the wheel more effectively.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-JAN-19","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-jan-19/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has released v3005.1-4 packages. This release only impacts the onedir packages and the classic Windows and Mac packages. The package updates include the following:\nUpdate gitpython to 3.1.30 (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hcpj-qp55-gfph ) Update wheel to 0.38.4 (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qwmp-2cf2-g9g6 ) Note The Windows classic package version is 3005.1-5 for the new update. These are CVE fixes for the upstream projects listed above. We recommend you update if you …","summary":"The Salt Project has released v3005.1-4 packages. This release only impacts the onedir packages and the classic Windows and Mac packages.","tags":["Release","Security"],"title":"Salt 3005.1-4 Security Package Update","url":"/blog/salt-3005-1-4-security-package-update/"},{"content":"Open Hour YouTube playlist | Contact us! saltproject.pdl@broadcom.com Watch the video recording of the Salt Community Open Hour for January 5, 2023. In this open hour, Wayne demoed the improvements he\u0026amp;rsquo;s made to syndics:\nAgenda General updates and announcements Salt Project user group meetups New Salt Project website \u0026amp;amp; e-store Community forum updates Demo: syndic Salt LTS plan preview Community help with RC testing Q\u0026amp;amp;A plus discussion General updates and announcements Open Hours are …","summary":"Open hour notes for January 5, 2023. In this open hour, Wayne demoed the improvements he\u0026rsquo;s made to syndics.","tags":["Community"],"title":"Open Hour 2023-JAN-5","url":"/blog/open-hour-2023-jan-5/"},{"content":"Salt Project is happy to announce the open sourcing of several SaltStack native minions to the Salt Project. We will continue to support these and all our other native minions for our enterprise customers using SaltStack Config and SaltStack SecOps. Salt has always been a strong, passionate community of contributors and we believe it is best for the project, our community, and users that these be handed over to the community for the next phase of development.\nNative minions:\nAIX: …","summary":"Salt Project is happy to announce the open sourcing of several SaltStack native minions to the Salt Project.","tags":["Announcement"],"title":"Salt Project Announces the Open Sourcing of Several SaltStack Native Minions","url":"/blog/salt-project-announces-the-open-sourcing-of-several-saltstack-native-minions/"},{"content":"The Salt Project released a security update to Salt to address 1 vulnerability with severity rating High. If you are using PAM authentication from within Salt, we strongly recommend prioritizing this update. This is a security advisory release. This release includes fixes to the vulnerability and bug fixes from the previous CVE release.\nThe following CVE was fixed as part of this release:\nCVE Details CVE-2022-22967 Description: PAM auth fails to reject locked accounts. Impact: A previously …","summary":"The Salt Project released a security update to Salt to address 1 vulnerability with severity rating High. If you are using PAM authentication from within Salt, we strongly recommend prioritizing this update. This is a security advisory release. This release includes fixes to the vulnerability and bug fixes from the previous CVE release.","tags":["Security"],"title":"Salt security advisory release - 2022-JUNE-21","url":"/blog/2022-06-21-advisory/"},{"content":"Dear Community,\nA critical vulnerability has been discovered in Salt versions 3004.1 and earlier. The vulnerability rating is high based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).\nWe are preparing a CVE release to be available on June 21st at 10 AM MST. The CVE packages will be available for 3002.9, 3003.5, and 3004.2. The releases will contain fixes to resolve and remediate the identified vulnerability and bug fixes found in the previous CVE release. We advise all users to quickly apply …","summary":"A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Salt versions 3004.1 and earlier. The vulnerability rating is high based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).","tags":["Security"],"title":"Attention! A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Salt versions 3004.1 and earlier","url":"/blog/2022-06-13-advisory/"},{"content":"The Salt Project released a security update to Salt to address 4 vulnerabilities with a severity rating of Medium to High. We strongly recommend prioritizing this update. This is a security advisory release.\nThe following CVEs were fixed as part of this release:\nCVE Details CVE-2022-22934 Description: Salt Masters do not sign pillar data with the minion’s public key. Impact: Attackers can substitute arbitrary pillar data. Solution: Salt masters include the minion’s id in pillar data responses …","summary":"The Salt Project released a security update to Salt to address 4 vulnerabilities with a severity rating of Medium to High. We strongly recommend prioritizing this update. This is a security advisory release.","tags":["Security"],"title":"Salt security advisory release - 2022-MAR-28","url":"/blog/2022-03-28-advisory/"},{"content":"Dear Salt users and Salt Project Community members,\nSome critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt versions 3004 and earlier.\nThe vulnerabilities range in rating from Medium to High based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). We are preparing a CVE release to be available on Monday, March 28th.\nThe CVE packages will be available for 3002.8, 3003.4, and 3004.1. The releases will only contain the fixes available to resolve and remediate the identified vulnerabilities. We …","summary":"Some critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt versions 3004 and earlier. The vulnerabilities range in rating from Medium to High based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). We are preparing a CVE release to be available on Monday, March 28th.","tags":["Security"],"title":"ATTENTION! Some critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt versions 3004 and earlier","url":"/blog/2022-03-22-advisory/"},{"content":"The Salt Project released a security update to Salt to address 3 vulnerabilities with severity rating Medium to High. We strongly recommend prioritizing this update. This is a security advisory release.\nThe following CVEs were fixed as part of this release:\nCVE Details NOTE: The CVSS ratings listed below use Access Complexity “High” in case the issue cannot be exploited in a default configuration. See the CVSS Calculator for more information.\nCVE-2021-21996 Impact: This requires a malicious user …","summary":"The Salt Project released a security update to Salt to address 3 vulnerabilities with severity rating Medium to High. We strongly recommend prioritizing this update. This is a security advisory release.","tags":["Security"],"title":"Salt security advisory release - 2021-SEPT-2","url":"/blog/2021-09-21-advisory/"},{"content":"The Salt Project has released a security update to address 10 vulnerabilities with severity rating Medium to High. We strongly recommend prioritizing this update.\nThis is a security release. In the recent past, we have gone above and beyond our lifecycle policy in good faith to fix critical issues in versions no longer supported. Going forward, this will be the exception and not standard practice. We will follow our stated lifecycle policy found on the Salt Project Lifecycle Support page.\nThe …","summary":"The Salt Project has released a security update to address 10 vulnerabilities with severity rating Medium to High. We strongly recommend prioritizing this update.","tags":["Security"],"title":"Active Salt CVE Release 2021-FEB-25","url":"/blog/2021-02-25-advisory-02/"},{"content":"Today the 2021-FEB-25 CVE Release is on-going and we are working through tasks. However, it is taking longer than expected. At this time we estimate a release time as 6 PM MST and 1 AM UTC. We apologize for the delay.\n","summary":"Today the 2021-FEB-25 CVE Release is on-going and we are working through tasks. However, it is taking longer than expected. At this time we estimate a release time as 6 PM MST and 1 AM UTC. We apologize for the delay.","tags":["Security"],"title":"UPDATE 2021-FEB-25 CVE Release Time Delay","url":"/blog/2021-02-25-advisory-01/"},{"content":"Today’s scheduled CVE Release is delayed due to a bug found late in the release cycle. This CVE Release is now set for Thursday, February 25th, 2021 by noon MST and 7:00 PM UTC. We apologize for the inconvenience this delay causes.\n","summary":"Today’s scheduled CVE Release is delayed due to a bug found late in the release cycle. This CVE Release is now set for Thursday, February 25th, 2021 by noon MST and 7:00 PM UTC. We apologize for the inconvenience this delay causes.","tags":["Security"],"title":"Salt Feb 4th CVE Release Delayed","url":"/blog/2021-02-04-advisory/"},{"content":"Several critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt. These affect versions 3002 and earlier.\nMost of these, we expect the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) rating to be high or critical. We quickly took actions to remediate once made aware of the vulnerabilities.\nWe are preparing a CVE release to be generally available on Thursday, February 4th around noon MST. The CVE packages will be available for 3002.3, 3001.5, and 3000.7 and patches for older versions.\nThe release will …","summary":"Several critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt. These affect versions 3002 and earlier.Most of these, we expect the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) rating to be high or critical. We quickly took actions to remediate once made aware of the vulnerabilities.","tags":["Security"],"title":"Active Salt CVE Announcement - 2021-JAN-21","url":"/blog/2021-01-29-advisory/"},{"content":"SaltStack has released a security update to Salt to address three critical vulnerabilities. We strongly recommend that you prioritize this update.\nThis is a security release. The following CVE’s were fixed as part of this release:\nCVE Details CVE-2020-16846 Impact: This CVE affects any users running the Salt API. An unauthenticated user with network access to the Salt API can use shell injections to run code on the Salt-API using the SSH client. Description: A user could use shell injections …","summary":"SaltStack has released a security update to Salt to address three critical vulnerabilities. We strongly recommend that you prioritize this update.","tags":["Security"],"title":"Active Salt CVE Release 2020-NOV-03","url":"/blog/2020-11-02-advisory/"},{"content":"Three related critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt versions 3002 and earlier.\nTwo of these vulnerabilities are expected to be rated as high/critical and the other is expected to be low based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). Once SaltStack became aware of the vulnerabilities, we quickly took actions to remediate them.\nWe are preparing a CVE release to be available on Tuesday, November 3rd at 10:00 MST. The CVE packages will be available for 3002.1, 3001.3, and …","summary":"Three related critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt versions 3002 and earlier.","tags":["Security"],"title":"Active Salt CVE Announcement - 2020-OCT-30","url":"/blog/2020-10-30-advisory/"},{"content":"Salt is ending a journey that started 3 years ago with the first pull request to add support for PyTest . In the upcoming weeks, Salt will finally switch to PyTest as its sole test runner, and the previous, and heavily customized unittest runner, runtests.py , finally reaches EOL.\nWhy? runtests.py served us well, but every time the Salt test suite got a new sub-directory, runtests.py had to be updated in order to pick up those new tests. Often enough, those tests, or sub-directories, would be …","summary":"Salt is ending a journey that started 3 years ago with the first pull request to add support for PyTest. In the upcoming weeks, Salt will finally switch to PyTest as its sole test runner, and the previous, and heavily customized unittest runner, runtests.py, finally reaches EOL.","tags":["Community"],"title":"PyTest: A Journey of 3 Years","url":"/blog/pytest-a-journey-of-3-years/"},{"content":"Thank you all for your continued support, collaboration and camaraderie as we work together to address these critical CVEs (CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652,) and ensure your Salt environments are secure. Our combined efforts to get all Salt users patched quickly are making a difference.\nThis communication provides clarity on a number of key updates. Please take note and act quickly.\nWe have created and made patches available for a number of Salt releases. Some patches are specific to certain …","summary":"We have created and made patches available for a number of Salt releases. Some patches are specific to certain Salt versions and, as noted, some will patch multiple versions. To ensure the patch is effective, verify installation of your version prior to installing any patches.","tags":["Security"],"title":"Active Salt CVE Update - CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652","url":"/blog/2020-05-06-advisory/"},{"content":"Last week a critical vulnerability was discovered affecting Salt Master versions 2019.2.3 and 3000.1 and earlier. SaltStack customers and Salt users who have followed fundamental internet security guidelines and best practices are not affected by this vulnerability. The vulnerability is easily exploitable if a Salt Master is exposed to the open internet.\nA scan by the security firm that identified the vulnerability found approximately 6000 Salt Masters exposed to the Internet and vulnerable. …","summary":"Last week a critical vulnerability was discovered affecting Salt Master versions 2019.2.3 and 3000.1 and earlier. SaltStack customers and Salt users who have followed fundamental internet security guidelines and best practices are not affected by this vulnerability. The vulnerability is easily exploitable if a Salt Master is exposed to the open internet.","tags":["Security"],"title":"Active Salt CVE Update for CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652","url":"/blog/2020-05-04-advisory/"},{"content":"Thank you all for your continued support, collaboration and camaraderie as we work together to address these critical CVEs (CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652) and ensure your Salt environments are secure. Our combined efforts to get all Salt users patched quickly are making a difference.\nThis communication provides clarity on a number of key updates. Please take note and act quickly.\nWe have created and made patches available for a number of Salt releases. Please note, some patches are specific …","summary":"We have decided to proceed with release packages for 2019.2.5 and 3000.3 that contain fixes to these new these critical CVEs (CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652). The packages will be available Wednesday, May 13, or potentially sooner.","tags":["Security"],"title":"Salt CVE Critical Updates - 2020-APR-21","url":"/blog/2020-04-21-advisory/"},{"content":"","summary":"","tags":[],"title":"Search","url":"/search/"}]