This is big release, many bugs have been fixed and many features have been greatly improved. Salt States have also moved from experimental to viable in this release thanks to a lot of testing!
More documentation to help people get Salt States going has been posted:
http://saltstack.org/topics/tutorials/states_pt1.html
And the state system reference (the state system “api” page):
http://saltstack.org/ref/states/states.html
The big highlights for 0.9.3 are:
States are ready for prime time – Salt is now a fully armed and operational central configuration management system
WAN support added
FreeBSD support
To read about all of the changes in 0.9.3 the release notes can be found here:
http://saltstack.org/topics/releases/0.9.3.html
Some other big changes have also been put into place, check out the new homepage:
And the documentation has been compiled into a single pdf for easy access:
https://github.com/thatch45/salt/downloads/salt-0.9.3.pdf
The new salt source can be downloaded from github as usual:
https://github.com/downloads/thatch45/salt/salt-0.9.3.tar.gz
-Thomas S Hatch
