salt-lint 0.7.0

A command-line utility that checks for best practices in SaltStack.

salt-lint

salt-lint checks Salt State files (SLS) for best practices and behavior that could potentially be improved.
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Acknowledgement

The project is heavily based on ansible-lint, with the modified work by Warpnet B.V.. ansible-lint was created by Will Thames and is now maintained as part of the Ansible by Red Hat project.

Changelog

All notable changes in salt-lint are documented below.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

0.7.0 (2021-11-01)

Added

• Add Python 3.10 support (#265).
• Add initial man page (#270).

Fixed

• Close temporary file after writing to STDIN (#263).

0.6.1 (2021-06-01)

Removed

• Remove rule 218 because of a false positive

0.6.0 (2021-06-01)

Deprecated

• Drop Python 2.7 support (#239).

Added

• Rule 216, 217 and 218 for catching common typographical errors (#249).

0.5.2 (2021-01-29)

Fixed

• Append the contents of the CHANGELOG.md file to the long description of the package instead of the duplicate README.md contents (#234).
• Ignore Jinja specific rules in Jinja escaped blocks (#236).

0.5.1 (2021-01-19)

Fixed

• Ensure all excluded paths from both the CLI and configuration are passed to the runner (#231).

0.5.0 (2021-01-17)

Added

• Rule 213 to recommend using cmd.run together with onchanges (#207).
• Rule 214 to check SLS file with a period in the name (besides the suffix period) as they can not be referenced by Salt (#209).
• Rules 901-915 to check for deprecated states and state options (#214).
• This CHANGELOG.md file to be able to list all notable changes for each version of salt-lint (#223).