Salt 3006.0 LTS Released!

[Gareth Greenaway]

The Salt Core Team is happy to announce that the next major release is available!

The 3006 release is the first LTS release of Salt based on a new release strategy. Using this new release strategy, Salt Project will release one LTS (long-term support) release of Salt per year and one STS (short-term support) release each year. The LTS release will receive bug fix releases for a longer period of time than STS releases.

With the release of Salt v3006, the Salt Project will no longer build the packages for the AIX, Arista, Juniper, Solaris platforms also known as native minions. The current state of these native minion repositories is for the Salt v3005.1 release and currently leverage the Tiamat-backend architecture.

The Salt Project is extending an invitation to the community to become co-maintainers for these GitHub repositories, and for the community to further develop the Native Minions, noting that some platforms such as Solaris 10 should be reaching end-of-life this year. To volunteer to be a co-maintainer, contact Chunga on the Salt Community Slack Workspace.

The 3006 release includes improvements to the Deltaproxy proxy minion, which now allows the sub proxy initialization in parallel.  This will dramatically reduce the startup time.  Due to a bug related to this new parallel functionality, we advise users to limit the number of sub proxies to 20 to avoid hitting a limit with ThreadPoolExecutor.

In the 3006 release, the Salt Project made several improvements to the test suite that will speed up the testing process for new PRs, including changes to test decorations and the process for running local tests with Nox. These improvements will allow the core Salt team to selectively choose to run and re-run certain tests based on which tests are applicable to the pull request. These changes will speed up the contributing and pull request review process. See the Contributing guide for more information about the new test decorators and Nox changes.

More information about this release can be found here:

https://saltproject.io/salt-3006/

The tag: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/tree/v3006.0

The PyPI Source: https://pypi.org/project/salt/3006.0/

Docker Containers: https://hub.docker.com/r/saltstack/salt

If you find any issues with Salt or the packaging, please open an issue here: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues