Announcement on Salt Project

The Salt Project Website Has a New Look

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

CentOS 7 and Debian 10, among others, will no longer be supported in future releases of Salt

Salt Project Launches Community Core Maintainer Program!

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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!

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000

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

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Salt Project is open sourcing salt-pi-pkg build script examples for classic packages on Raspberry Pi.

Linux Foundation Showcases Salt Project

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Salt Project is happy to announce the open sourcing of several SaltStack native minions to the Salt Project.