SUSE-RU-2025:20005-1: important: Recommended update for salt

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# Recommended update for salt

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2025:20005-1  
Release Date: 2025-02-03T08:47:39Z  
Rating: important  
References:

  * bsc#1211649
  * bsc#1211888
  * bsc#1216063
  * bsc#1219001
  * bsc#1222684

  
Affected Products:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.0

  
  
An update that has five fixes can now be installed.

## Description:

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

  * Fix rich rule comparison in firewalld module (bsc#1222684)
  * test_vultrpy: adjust test expectation to prevent failure after Debian 10 EOL
  * Make auth.pam more robust with Salt Bundle and fix tests
  * Fix performance of user.list_groups with many remote groups
  * Fix "status.diskusage" function and exclude some tests for Salt Bundle
  * Skip certain tests if necessary for some OSes and set flaky ones
  * Add a timer to delete old env post update for venv-minion
  * Several fixes for tests to avoid errors and failures in some OSes
  * Speed up salt.matcher.confirm_top by using **context**
  * Do not call the async wrapper calls with the separate thread
  * Prevent OOM with high amount of batch async calls (bsc#1216063)
  * Add missing contextvars dependency in salt.version
  * Skip tests for unsupported algorithm on old OpenSSL version
  * Remove redundant `_file_find` call to the master
  * Prevent possible exception in tornado.concurrent.Future._set_done
  * Make reactor engine less blocking the EventPublisher
  * Make salt-master self recoverable on killing EventPublisher
  * Improve broken events catching and reporting
  * Make logging calls lighter
  * Remove unused import causing delays on starting salt-master
  * Mark python3-CherryPy as recommended package for the testsuite
  * Make "man" a recommended package instead of required
  * Convert oscap output to UTF-8
  * Make Salt compatible with Python 3.11
  * Ignore non-ascii chars in oscap output (bsc#1219001)
  * Fix detected issues in Salt tests when running on VMs
  * Make importing seco.range thread safe (bsc#1211649)
  * Fix problematic tests and allow smooth tests executions on containers
  * Discover Ansible playbook files as " _.yml " or "_.yaml" files (bsc#1211888)
  * Provide user(salt)/group(salt) capabilities for RPM 4.19
  * Extend dependencies for python3-salt-testsuite and python3-salt packages
  * Improve Salt and testsuite packages multibuild
  * Enable multibuilld and create test flavor

## Special Instructions and Notes:

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like
YaST online_update or "zypper patch".  
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.0  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-39=1

## Package List:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    * salt-minion-3006.0-6.8
    * salt-3006.0-6.8
    * salt-master-3006.0-6.8
    * salt-transactional-update-3006.0-6.8

## References:

  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211649
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211888
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216063
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219001
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222684

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