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Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.

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Merged PRs (30d): 80

Dominant language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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[Bug]: file.serialize dataset_pillar values are masked Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

saltstack/salt#70300 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
[Bug]: gitfs with pygit2 fails to initialize Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

saltstack/salt#70298 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
[Bug]: postgres_privileges.present with object_name `ALL` is never idempotent Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

saltstack/salt#70291 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
[Bug]: cached Salt-SSH thin archive ignores extension and thin_extra_mods changes Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

saltstack/salt#70287 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 16, 2026
[Bug]: DeprecationWarning messages with 3006.27 Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

saltstack/salt#70271 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
[Bug]: 3008.x missing saltclass ext_pillar module Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

saltstack/salt#70263 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
[Bug]: SyncClientMixin.low() masks all early failures with UnboundLocalError: proc_fn Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

saltstack/salt#70252 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 9, 2026
[Bug]: saltutil.runner drops privileges to the salt-api eauth user during orchestration Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

saltstack/salt#70251 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
[Bug]: TCP transport logs client cert common name at ERROR level on every request Open

bug needs-triage

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saltstack/salt#70249 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 8, 2026
[Bug]: We observed inconsistent OpenTelemetry metric exports in Salt master deployments using multiple MWorkers. Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

saltstack/salt#70248 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
[Bug]: ext_pillar with gitfs and gitcli returns empty response. Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

saltstack/salt#70247 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2026
[Bug]: OptsDict.mutate_key()'s clear() is a no-op (DictProxy has no clear override) -- removed grains/pillar keys never actually clear Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

saltstack/salt#70242 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 5, 2026
[DOCS] Include sitemap creation in the docs HTML bundle asset uploads for releases, and ensure last update timestamps present Open

documentation

saltstack/salt#70241 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 5, 2026
[Bug]: yumpkg.py - list_upgrades should also set get_extra_options like upgrade Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

saltstack/salt#70235 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
[Bug]: await_lock masks exceptions as FileLockError; minion job_queue requeues forever ("Failed to acquire job_queue lock" log flood) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

saltstack/salt#70229 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
[Bug]: proxy minions log "Error during asyncio shutdown: The future belongs to a different loop" on Python 3.14 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

saltstack/salt#70226 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
salt-ssh: Single.run_wfunc() never dispatches to the existing _run_wfunc_relenv() method (dead code) Open

saltstack/salt#70225 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[Bug]: deltaproxy ignores proxy_merge_pillar_in_opts, and drops a proxymodule module_executors declaration for sub-proxies Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

saltstack/salt#70223 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[Bug]: deltaproxy never tears down its sub-proxies, abandoning their channels, schedules and beacons on every stop Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

saltstack/salt#70221 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[Bug]: deltaproxy leaks one sub-proxy's return configuration onto its siblings via the shared publish load Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

saltstack/salt#70219 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[Bug]: salt-proxy never completes a graceful shutdown: it exits before stop_async runs, and a thread entry aborts the teardown Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

saltstack/salt#70217 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[Bug]: deltaproxy double-forks every job out of the proxy tree, and both metaproxies pollute the process title when multiprocessing is disabled Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

saltstack/salt#70215 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[Bug]: deltaproxy parallel_startup is not equivalent to serial startup: one bad sub-proxy kills the daemon, and no sub-proxy schedule/beacon ever fires Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

saltstack/salt#70213 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[Bug]: apt doesn't detect installed package with native architecture in name in install list Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

saltstack/salt#70209 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[TECH DEBT] Update links to broadcom Open

tech-debt

saltstack/salt#70202 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2026
[Feature]: Isolate salt daemon writable state under /var/lib/salt/<daemon>/, keep the onedir tree read-only Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

saltstack/salt#70198 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
[Bug]: Minion crashes with `RuntimeError: Event loop is closed` after failed master-failover restart in classic daemon mode (-d) Open

bug

saltstack/salt#70178 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 28, 2026
[Bug]: Ctrl+C throws stacktrace on state.event Open

bug

saltstack/salt#70176 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 28, 2026
[Bug]: Minion is warning about unclosed object/SyncWrapper/publisher client Open

bug

saltstack/salt#70175 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 28, 2026
[Bug]: runners throw a warning at the end Open

bug

saltstack/salt#70174 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 28, 2026
test_mem_leak_in_event_listener flakes because job_not_running leaks tag_map entries Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

saltstack/salt#70152 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
[Bug]: deltaproxy: targeting two sub-proxies in one job makes them render the same SLS identity, and it persists Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

saltstack/salt#70144 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
[Bug]: salt-call causes ~60s hangs on minions due to ZMQ identity collision with running salt-minion daemon (3006.27 regression) Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

saltstack/salt#70127 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 24, 2026
[Bug]: gitcli applies gitfs_root twice when resolving files Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

saltstack/salt#70112 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 22, 2026
[Bug]: win_wua.install does not install patch when the patch was previously uninstalled Open

bug

saltstack/salt#70101 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 20, 2026
[Bug]: Intermittent ext_pillar failure: 'Pygit2' object has no attribute 'repo' Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

saltstack/salt#70081 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
# [BUG] deltaproxy: sub-proxy init failures are logged at INFO and invisible at default log level Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

saltstack/salt#70072 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 17, 2026
# [BUG] deltaproxy: sub-proxies raise AttributeError 'tok' when dispatching events (3008 asyncio port) Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

saltstack/salt#70071 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Minion should optionally resume in-flight jobs on restart, capped by a retry count Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

saltstack/salt#70050 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
[Bug]: `salt.utils.x509.load_pubkey` param `get_encoding` is a no-op Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

saltstack/salt#70046 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
[Bug]: `x509_v2` `basicConstraints` does not validate `pathlen` against issuer cert Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

saltstack/salt#70042 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
[Bug]: `x509_v2` mishandles some GeneralNames Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

saltstack/salt#70041 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
[Bug]: network_settings beacon leaks a pyroute2 NDB instance per loader refresh — unbounded thread growth and steadily rising minion CPU Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

saltstack/salt#70036 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 13, 2026
[Bug]: SaltClass duplicate entries in merged list Open

bug needs-triage

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saltstack/salt#70022 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
[Bug]: cmd.run environment inconsistent between local and remote execution Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

saltstack/salt#70021 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 12, 2026
[Bug]: Multiple error messages about loading modules in salt-api 3006.27 Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

saltstack/salt#70020 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 12, 2026
[BUG] Synchronous batch releases slots while jobs are still running Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

saltstack/salt#70018 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
[Bug]: Importlib is throwing warnings about naclimporter during test runs Open

bug needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

saltstack/salt#70010 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
[DOCS] Install Guide: Release Candidate Open

documentation needs-triage

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saltstack/salt#70004 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
[Bug]: `HAS_WINRM` always `False` in salt-cloud due to wrong distribution name in `importlib.metadata` lookup Open

bug

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saltstack/salt#69976 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 8, 2026

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