Announcement
The Salt Project Website Has a New Look
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.
POP and Idem Projects Will Soon be Archived
POP and Idem projects have been in maintenance mode since the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom. Now the projects are considered unmaintained, and are lined up to be archived. All projects will remain public, read-only OSS repositories available under the Apache v2 licenses for anyone who would like to maintain their own forks.
Bootstrap subdomains no longer hosting salt-bootstrap scripts
With the migration of salt-bootstrap script download locations, to GitHub Releases, winbootstrap.saltproject.io and bootstrap.saltproject.io no longer host bootstrap scripts (as of today)
Upcoming Update to Salt Project Docs GitHub Pages Backend
In continued efforts to improve automation, docs publishing will experience an update on 2024-12-18. Downtime is expected to be minimal.
Upcoming bootstrap subdomain decommission
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
Salt Install Guide Overhaul and salt-bootstrap updates
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.
salt-bootstrap Breakage and Next Steps: New Updates
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.
Salt Project Package Repository (repo.saltproject.io) Migration and Guidance
This week, packages from repo.saltproject.io will be migrated to packages.broadcom.com. This means a variety of disruptive changes are being implemented around installing, upgrading, and pinning/locking Salt.
salt-bootstrap Breakage and Next Steps
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.
Upcoming Salt Project Docs and Repo Migrations
Salt Project is migrating off of the current backends used for hosting saltproject.io, docs.saltproject.io, and repo.saltproject.io
Supported Operating Systems: From freshly deprecated, to newly supported
CentOS 7 and Debian 10, among others, will no longer be supported in future releases of Salt
Salt Project Launches Community Core Maintainer Program!
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.
Goodbye Slack, Hello Discord!
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.
saltdocker Repository Now Archived
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.
Salt Project changes in policy
A message from Tom Hatch about upcoming changes to the Salt Project to make the project more sustainable and easier to maintain.
Salt community Slack is now restored
We’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.
Salt community Slack is temporarily down
We are currently working to rectify this issue, and restore the workspace to its original state. Thank you for your patience.
Salt Project is Open Sourcing salt-pi-pkg
Salt Project is open sourcing salt-pi-pkg build script examples for classic packages on Raspberry Pi.
Linux Foundation Showcases Salt Project
Here at the Salt Project, we enjoyed reading this recent report about the power of Open Source from our friends at the Linux Foundation.
Salt Project Announces the Open Sourcing of Several SaltStack Native Minions
Salt Project is happy to announce the open sourcing of several SaltStack native minions to the Salt Project.